The Newport miner. [volume] (Newport, Wash.) 1899-current, 1908-10-29
JUST AMONG OURSELVES


Election next Tuesday, Nov. 3.
Frank D. Crandall, expert watch
maker.
Buy your fruit trees Of w. L. Richard.
the nursery man. 20-1O
Masquerade at Kelly's Hall Oct. 80.
Everybody invited.
Special sale in pictures and frames at
Miller's old stand.
For high grade mems and boys shoes
60 to Gust Anderson's store
A. l.. Refs was at Spokane last week
last week where he had minor surgical
operation performed.
Attorney Henley, of Spokane, one of
the large stockholders in the Conquest.
was a Newport visitor Wednesday.
G. B. Vandewater, of the Fidelity
Lumber Co.'s force, has gone to Spo-
kane to take position in the retail
yards of the company in that city.
FOR SALE-1O acres of irrigated land
on the sunny side of the Pend Oreille;
frost free, rich and sheltered; S miles
from town. Hal f. Fremming 23-4
The Great Northern steel gang is now
working in the Newport Yards, and the
ties are laid for the new main line track
through the big cut made just east of
town.
Great Northern train No. / was held
just east of Newport for four hours Sat-
urday morning by wrecked freight
train, four cars of which were derailed
while rounding curve.
Engineer Taylor's force of I. & W. N.
surveyors is still working in the neigh
borhood of Usk. while Engineer Floyd's
crew is working along the east side of
the liver below Box Canyon.
Thos. R. Major, Democratic candidate
for auditor, and S. c. Sturman, Demo-
cratic candidate for state representative,
returned Wednesday afternoon from
trip through the down river country.
will sell my entire herd of thorough
bred Shorthorn cattle; also ten head of
horses, including colts from one year
up; prices will be right and terms to
suit yourselves. Geo. Fl. Jones, Usk,
| Wash.
R. F. Blackwell, general manager of
the l. & W. n, was in town Monday,
slightly crippled 8 p as a result of back
explosion of his automobile engine, the
crank striking him severe blow on his
shins.
The new $50 horse power Corliss en-
CINE for the Newport electric light plant
is expected to arrive tomorrow. The
foundations for the engine and dynamo
are completed and the new equipment
will be ready for use by the 9Th of next
month.
The Shillalah Club has issued invita-
tfons to novel Halloween party to be
held Friday evening. Those invited are
summoned to come to the Seeley home,
but the rest of the proceedings are
shrouded in mystery and the ladies are
keeping the secret.
R. S. Anderson, manager of the New
port Telephone Co., is endeavoring to
make arrangements for the securing of
election returns next Tuesday evening.
A canvas of the town for funds for that
purpose will be made. The Western
Union reports would be secured and
teleghoned about town.
Don't forget the masquerade given at
Kelly's Hall Friday evening Of this
week by the Knights and Ladies of Sc
curlty, the new fraternal order. They
are doing all in their power to make
their first public entertainment sue
cess, and will doubtless succeed in pro-
viding fine evenings entertainment.
George Beaton came to town Friday
night from Newport, Washington, hav-
ing stopped at Cedar Rapids en- route,
and was given the glad hand by every
body. He went back to the Rapids
Monday. but will see the old friends in
Fayette county again in few days. He
will not return to Newport till Noy L.
West Union, Iowa, Gazette.
Work on the Fidelity plant across the
river was Stacked up for few days. but
will again be resumed, and the putting
in of foundations for the mill will start
this week. Messrs. Wilson. Torreson
and Jacobson, of the Fidelity, went over
the ground for the Great Northern spur
from Albeni Falls this week. The Great
Northern is said to be ready to start the
construction of the spur soon and agrees
to have it ready for use by Jan. 1.
i General Manager Gruber, of the Great
Northern, while on his trip over the
west end of the road, was quoted as
saying that none of the towns in need
of new depots could get them this year,