The Newport miner. [volume] (Newport, Wash.) 1899-current, 1909-04-15
WASHINGTON NOTES

Seattle" Grandma Myers. who
celebrated her Tooth birthday in this
city Angus s. 1908, died here Fri
day
kent-To An Indian and his sauay
of the Qninaue reservation has heen
entrusted the care and custody of
white child by adoption
Vanc0uverThe North Bank off
Gals have announced that the recent
~ completed portion of the line run
ming from Paseo 10 Marshall juno
ton, Wash, will be opened TO traffic
May 3, and commencing on that date
trains between Portland and Spo-
kane viii De operated over that line.
Spokane = The Great Northern
Railroad Company has commenced a
fight On salary loan sharks by refus-
ing TO pay an assignment of wages
made by an employe. The railroad
in answer TO suit filed by the loan
company declares that the claim is
based on usury and demands a rul-
ing from the superior court.
+Spangle-C. E. Harvey, farmer
living near here, plans 10 take up the
matter Of fighting city hunters with
the state grange. He will inaugu-
rate campaign thar he believes will
result in all the hunters from the
city being kept out Of the wheat
fields, as means of protecting game
IS we'll az livestock
Tacoma-After duping Fred Sci
cert, a Seattle chauffeur, b. getting
lin TO leave him in the car alone
mi deliver sealed envelope con-
aiming blank paper, prisoner re-
eased from the King county jail un-
Ter $500 bonds for attempted muir
Ter, stole the machine and drove
Tacoma, where he disappeared
Ellensbrrg- Cascade canal.
ne newest irrigation ditch in the
Nttitas Valley, is being repaired and
Jut in condition for the year. Con-
.iderable new land in the Badger
Pocket district will be cultivated this
year The construction Of the ditch
carried water TO about 5000 acres of
and in that section of the valley.
Tacoma-Friction which has been
growing between the students, fac
ufty members and members Of the
board of trustees and President Lee
L. Benbow, of the University of Pu-
get Sound, viii come TO a head at
the next meeting of the board of
trustees April %, when either over
half of the faculty viii be disposed
OF Or President Benbow will be re-
quested to resign.
Pullman-At the A.-Y.-P EXPOSE
+. ton in Seattle the State College Of
| Washington will make exhibits rep
resentins every department of the
college. A display Of the rodent
pests of the northwest is being pre-
pared. The college has space in the
agricultural building 100x17 feet.
| The exhibits are TO be ready for
| shipment on May Z, so as to give
! plenty of time TO have them in place
| before the opening Of the fair.
Tacoma-Following trail Of
| bloodstains along an abandoned path
short distance from the Frace
! home, detectives and neighbors of
| J. A Frace, prominent Tacoma
| contractor, found the bullet-riddled
a.! corpse of Frace. who has been miss
! Ing from his home since Wednesday
/ evening. Frace. it Is believed, had
| been murdered by some person in
| spired with motives of revenge, and
| his body had been dragged along the
| path and concealed beneath heavy
Dir tree
Seattle-Ernest DeKoven Letting
| well, who will spend three years in
| Northern Alaska, making geologic
| and geographical survey, is here to
superintend the building of his yawl
| which will take him north. A crew
/ of three sailors will be carried and
| the expedition will leave about May
| /. Mr.. Lefdngwell will make no at
! tempt to discover an Arctic CONT
nent, but will confne his explora-
tons to the interior of the coast OF
Alaska His headquarters will be es-
| tabIished on Flaxman Island.
Raymond-At a joint meeting of
| the Pacific County A.-Y.-P. Commits
| sioners, the Good Roads Association
and the County Commissioners, it
was decided TO Immediately take
steps under the management of H.
/ J. Huber, of South Bend, TO assem-
BILE a comprehensive exhibit Of the
eounty's products. A prominent fea-
ture of the exhibit will be an arti-
fetal oyster bed immersed in sea