The Newport miner. [volume] (Newport, Wash.) 1899-current, 1909-10-07
EVENTS IN OUR STATE
OF MINOR IMPORTANCE

misplaced switch caused the wreck
Walla Walla-Peat, the first ever
found in this part of the country,
has been discovered in large quanti-
ties on the ranch of A. Haberstok,
three miles southeast of this city.
Colfax-Otto Hoffman, a young
German, has been committed to the
Medical Lake insane asylum. He is
obsessed with the idea that the mem
bers of secret orders are persecut-
ing him.
Walla Walla-The Walla Walla
county fair opened Monday. A fea-
ture of the fair will be relay race
lasting six days, the riders chang
ing horses every half mile and run
ming two miles a day
Bellingham - Thirteen persons
were seriously injured and a smOk-
ing car on the Great Northern was
badly wrecked five miles south of
here when a giant cedar tree fell
from the mountain side above the
track directly across the coach.
North Yakima-The excitement of
seeing President Taft and of shak-
ing hands with him was too much
for Muriel Vose, a 6-year-old child,
who has been in frail health. She
died the evening after the President
had departed
Spokane-Marching to familiar
gospel tunes 10000 boys and girls
paraded through the principal
streets of Spokane. They represent
ed the Sunday schools of Spokane,
the demonstration being the begin
ming of Il campaign to increase this
work
Harring ton-The car shortage is
| being felt here by grain companies,
| but is more binding with the flour
mill owners, who find it hard to Sc
cure enough cars to handle their ex-
| port trade. WarehOusemen have
loaded wheat into refrigerator cars
and gondolas.
Stevenson-That Skamania coun-
ty is making good the advertisement
Of the Board of Trade of Stevenson.
that it grows anything under the
sun, and grows it welI' has been
proven by Mrs. R. NJ. Wright in
raising cotton. The seeds were
found in an empty box car by some
boys and given to Mrs. Wright, who
planted and cultivated them. The
bolls are beginning to open now,
showing well-ripened cotton.
Spokane-"Joe Cannon will never
again be speaker Of the house OF
representatives Congressman Miles
| Poindexter is destined to be one OF
the foremost leaders in the lower
house of congress within the next
three or four years. Inside of four
years the insurgents will be in con-
troll Of the house and the autocracy
of Joe Cannon will be at an end
This is the expressed opinion OF
Congressman Lenroot, of Wisconsin
who was in Spokane recently.
Walla Walla-Written complaint
to the state railroad commission has
been made by G.. J. Freese of this
city setting forth alleged unsanitary
conditions on the sleeping cars Of
the Northern Pacific railway a
Pasco, where passengers from Spo
kane for Walla Walla are com
PEELED. to lie over from a. m. til
midforenoon in cars in which SAM
tary provisions are denied by locked
doors.
Wenatchee-The purchase of thu
Wenatchee bridge by the state will
be taken up by representatives o
central Washington with a view o
having the deal consummated. Prom
inent men not associated with pro
, moters or builders of the structur
are planning to go to Olympia to dis
cuss the bridge question with GOV
ernor Hay and members of the stat
highway commission.
Seattle-A dispatch from Wash
ington announces that the censu
bureau has set November as tn
, date on which examinations will b
held in Bellingham, North Yakima
, Port Townsend, Pullman, Seattle
Spokane, Tacoma, Vancouver an
Walla Walla for appointment of spe
cial agents for collection OF stats
tics of manufactures, mines an
ouarries in the state for the thir
teenth census.
\ North misunderstanding Of tn
! Interior R. A. Ballinger is cred1te
+ with saying while here last wee
that the reclamation work in thl
valley, as we'll as in general, WI
now depend upon the amount
: money that congress will raise by is
, suing bonds, in accordance with tn
Presidents recommendation a
made in his Spokane speech. He