The Newport miner. [volume] (Newport, Wash.) 1899-current, 1909-10-28
EVENTS IN OUR STATE
OF MINOR IMPORTANCE

Los Angeles on charges OF oDtaininS
money under false pretenses, was ar
rested here by the police.
Asotin-Picking and packing OF ap-
plies is now in progress and packers
and pickers are in great demand with
good prices.
Bellingham-The Elks of this city
have launched plans for the erection
of a building to cost not less than
$4,000
MISUNDERSTANDING of the corner
stone of the new $125,0O0 ST. Joseph's
Hospital, a Catholic institution, will
be celebrated Sunday, November 7.
Walla Walla-Trinity lodge build
ing, l. O. O. F., was damaged TO the
extent of $1,000 ana the stock of the
David Kaser department store $25,-
600 by fire.
Spokane-Sunday blue laws were
vigorously enforced Sunday in Spo-
kane. Real estate criers were pro-
hibited on street cars and laborers
in different parts of the city were Or
dered to quit work.
North Yakima-A campaign pro-
hibiting splitting of sidewalks has
been started. The police have been
ordered to make arrests of all who
violate the anticipating ordinance.
Seattle-Imposition of fines aggre-
eating $4,000 upon II butchers who
sold putrid meat made odorless by
sodium sulphite was followed by the
arrest of seven other butchers who
sold doctored meat
Spokane-A whirlwind campaign of
ten days duration has been launched
by the advocates of local option in
Spokane county During this time
1850 signatures of qualified voters are
to be taken.
Harring ton-Luther P. Turner, the
largest wheat grower in the Harring-
ton grain belt, received for his 1909
crop $49,599. He sold in one day
$4,000 bushels of wheat
Spokane-Sullivan lake, the second
largest in Eastern Washington, is to
be made ten feet deeper A big dam
is to be thrown across it's outlet, pre-
paratory to building a 100000 &C.
ment plant.
Pullman-Field peas yielded $74
per acre at the state college this year.
The college farm had IS acres, sown
broadcast, which gave an average
yield of 81 bushels per acre and sold
at So per bushel.
Seatt' e-Before the eyes of several
of her pupils whom she had dismissed
less than an hour before, Miss Geor-
gia M. Robbins, a school teacher
about 80 years old, living at the Otis,
was instantly killed by an intcrurban
train at Foster
Falling down an elevator
shaft at the Crescent store, R. H.
White, manager of the picture and
wall paper department and. a nephew
of A. L. White, of the Spokane & In
land railroad, was instantly killed.
Olympia-Wm R. King, of Port
land, has filed with the state land Of
fee an application for a right of way
for an irrigation and power ditch
across state lands in Yakima county,
about Is miles northerly from Glen
wood, Klickitat county.
Spokane-Deputy Prosecuting At
torney Donovan has been dismissed
by Prosecuting Attorney Pugh. Don
ovan was really dismissed September
8, following certain alleged indiscre-
tons committed in Olympia during
the Schively impeachment proceed
ings
Newport-Firing with 80 auto
matte revolver from behind the bar,
after being made the target for a
rifle bullet fired by the leader of the
gang of three hold-up men, James
Wilcox, one of the proprietors,
brought down the robber leader, who
is now dying in the Newport Hotel
Bellingham-W. R. Moultray, pres
ident of the Chamber of Commerce,
has announced that business men and
merchants of this city will join Seat
tie, Tacoma and Portland in their
suits before the Interstate Commerce
Commission against the Hartman
and Hill lines for lower rates to all
Eastern points and from the coast to
points in Washington and Oregon.
Seatt1e-The board of regents of
the University of Washington has
authorized the registrar of the uni
versity to provide labor and material
and commence the work of improve
ment of the Educational, Oriental
and Good Roads buildings for uni-
versity purposes. The Educational
building will house the school Of
journalism; the Oriental building Is
designed for an armory to be used in
drilling and instructing the student