The Newport miner. [volume] (Newport, Wash.) 1899-current, 1908-01-23
WASHINGTON, IDAHO, OREGON
and MONTANA items.
A Few Interesting Items Gathered
From Our Exchanges OF the Sur
rounding country-Numerous Acei-
dents and Personal Events Take
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attic has resigned as commissioner OF
the general land Office at Washington
D. c., and will return to this state SO
that he may make the race for the re-
publican nomination for governor.
A full grown cougar has made us
appearance in the vicinity OF the Lew
is Cochran farm, six miles northeast
of Colfax, and is terrorizing the people
of that community.
After celebrating about two hours
the Jury in the Gertie Griffin murder
trial at Ritzville returned verdict OF
not guilty.
The Spokane high school debating
team Friday night outpointed the
Wenatchee high school team in the
state interschofastic contest.
Graduates of the Spokane high
school who have completed the four
years course satisfactorily will in the
future be permitted to enter the Ar
mour Institute of Technology without
first taking the examinations.
John Half of the cruiser ST. Louis
is dead at Vallejo, CAL, from the eff
fects of drinking wood alcohol. Half
is the third sailor to succumb, two 9th
ers are totally blind, and five others
will never again be fit for active SER
vice.
AS result of the tong war being
Waged in San Francisco, Lung Chow
was fatally shot recently. Two assas-
sins attempted to kill jung Dang,
whose life was sought, but the bullets
went wild and killed Lung Chow.
The new cruiser California went to
her final trial. The navy trial board
was on board and it is intended to
keep the cruiser at hard work for two
days before an official opinion is
formed.
J. J. O'Connor of Wenatchee drove
the first team and rig across the big
Columbia river bridge at Wenatchee.
1t consisted of sleighload of people,
among whom was Judge R. S. Steiner
of Waterville
George Lucas, well known pioneer
of central Washington, died at Cheney
Saturday night. He located on Cow
creek, southeast of Ritzville, SO years
ago, and resided there until four years
ago.
Richard David Harrington, aged 81,
died at the hospital at Fort Stella
COON recently, where he had been
since his health failed some two years
ago. Mr.. Harrington had lived 81
years of his life on the Pacific coast
At the annual meeting of the State
Bee Keepers association at North
Yakima recently, H. H. Cole was elect
ed president; l.. R. Freeman, secre-
tary; August Sipp, treasurer, and
Jesse w. Thornton, vice president.
The recent assessors convention
was the most important gathering of
assessors in the history of the state
1t records the first determined step
toward a uniform taxation system for
the entire state.
An increase in the jobbing business
of Walla Walla for the year 1907 ovc1
1906 amounting to Is or 80 per cent is
reported.
The plant of the suspended morning
edition of the Seattle Times has been
bought by r. F. Radebaugh of Tacoma,
who will take it to that place.
The body of Lillian Pratt, aged %,
who mysteriously disappeared from
her home in Tacoma on May 81 last,
was found in dense thicket on the
outskirts of the city recently by a sur
veying crew
China has just placed an important
rush order for quick firing guns in
Paris
John I. Handley, supreme vice presi-
dent of the Fraternal Union of Amer
lea, died Friday. at his home in Den
yer, Co., of appendicitis.
Police Inspector Edward S. Whit
aker of New Orleans, who, accom-
panied by five men, recently attempted
to kill the editor of the World, has
been suspended, together with the
men who accompanied him to the
newspaper Office.
Work has been started on the new
steel bridge crossing the Methow
river at Pateros, 80 miles below
Twisp.
Rev. Herbert S. Bigelow, in a SER
mon in the Congregational church at
Cincinnati last Sunday, aIs"ed that it
was not wicked to play ball on Sun
day. and stated that if he were mayor
he would not try to enforce the law
against Sunday ball playing.
The New York police and private
detectives have been asked to look
for Horace w. Randall, vice president
OF the Hoquiam Lumber company of
Hoquiam, Wash, who went there sew
eral weeks ago to visit friends, and
seems to have mysteriously disap-
peared.
Henry Brook, Spokane pioneer.
died on the steamship Roanoke on the
Columbia river, January 16, while on
his way to California
First chloroforming A. c. Finley
who was asleep in his room upstairs
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