The Newport miner. [volume] (Newport, Wash.) 1899-current, 1909-07-08
WASHINGTON STATE NEWS
OF THE WEEK IN BRIEF


has accepted the presidency OF the
National Apple Show, offered to MIN
by the board OF trustees. The sno"
will be held In Spokane December &.
Stevenson-This city will be neat
ed in the future with hot mineral
water piped from spring. Steven
son. it is said, is the second city III
the United States having natural not
mineral water piped to private Datns.
The plant will cost about $60,00o.
Walla Walla-Professor Ander-
son, acting president OF Whitman
college, purchased a large part OF
the townsite Of Two Rivers and has
obtained an option on the remaln-
der
Olympia-Gov. Hay has appolnted
G.. j. Munger, of Seattle, hotel IN
spector under the new law. He also
appointed R. ID. Shut, OF Tacoma,
and Nels Anderson, OF Bow, on the
commission to select a site in Skag1t
county for the proposed farm for
harmless insane.
Olympia The state supreme
court has reversed Judge Black, OF
the SnOhomfsh county superior
court, and ordered an injunction to
issue to restrain SnOhomish county
from collecting more than $4O,6OS
tax for 1906 on the Great Northern
tracks in that county.
Spokane-At meeting OF the
Spokane County Medical Society 1t
was decided that for the remainder
of 1909, all those presenting them
selves for physical examination as
qualification for the taking out OF
marriage license, should be ac-
commodated by the members of the
society free of charge.
Seattle-Within the past two
weeks, contracts for 100000 feet
Of lumber have been placed with
Washington mills by the Isthmian
Canal Commission. Approximately
100000 feet will be manufactured
by Grays Harbor mills. Tacoma
mills secured the balance of the
business.
Seattle-Five hundred chauffeurs
in 105 automobiles Friday afternoon
accompanied to the cemetery the
body of Carl H. Schott, the victim
of the accident of June 20, when a
heavily loaded auto crashed into a
freight train near Georgetown, kill
ing Schott and wounding three
others. The floral offerings filled
three cars
Olympia-Fire which broke out at
O'Clock Saturday evening in the
plant of the National Wood Pipe
Company, completely destroyed the
building and storage yards as we'll
as four residences and a grocery
store The loss, which is practically
Wood Pipe Company, is estimated
at 100000
Everett-James Haven, Of Airing
ton, was attacked by a mad stallion
as he was driving the horse to a
pillow and would have been trampled
to death had it not been for the
timely arrival of two neighbours
Ravens arm was broken and his
body painfully cut and bruised. The
stallion was afterwards shot.
Tacoma-To the devotion and
self-sacrifice Of his sister George
Moore owes his life. Following an
operation for pleurisy a hemorrhage
developed and in order to arrest it
and restore his strength TRANSMISSION
was resorted to, his sister conserving
to part with her own blood for his
sake. An incision was made in her
left wrist, which was bound to his
left arm, in which an incision was
made near the elbow.
North Yakima-It remained for
the japanese colony here to call
North Yakima to patriotic order.
Having planned a carnival this fall,
the business men decided to make
no special observance of Indepen-
dence day Japanese residents, how
ever, believe in celebrations and Of
fered to the city the display of 5000
worth OF fireworks, some to be the
new daylight fireworks. The display
consisted of so pieces.
Olympia-The State Commission
announces that an order is to be en-
tered in the near future requiring
the railroads, the Northern Pacific
particularly, to make general
changes in it's passenger train seed
ule. Under the present train scheule
the passenger trains are operated al
most exclusively for the benefit Of
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