The Newport miner. [volume] (Newport, Wash.) 1899-current, 1909-09-02
WASHINGTON STATE NEWS
OF TIE WEEK lN BRIEF

DuSnelS or the grain crop OF the
Touchet Valley and Columbia County
will have TO be piled in the open this
grain dealers at Dayton, Waitsburg,
Turner. Alto, Milestone, Starbuck
and Meniken. Warehouse facilities
are absolutely inadequate.
TACOHA.-Fire last Saturday de-
the yards of the Independent Lum-
Der and Fuel Company. at South
Fortieth and II streets, causing q
loss of about $4,000; insurance.
$4,000.
urday afternoon in large ware
house belonging to the Northwest
Lumber company. 1t spread rapidly
to the Offices Of the Hoquiam Lum-
Der Z Single company, destroying
both places The formers loss is
$500, the latter's $4,000 The flames
then leaped to some frame buildings
occupied by the Corner Grocery COM
pany. completely destroying it, to-
gether with the storehouse and barn
containing a horse The loss is about
$4,000
OLYMPIA.-Governor Hay has ap-
pointed Kate Turner Holmes. Seat
tie; Senator J. d. Bassett, RitZville:
W. E. Henry, Seattle, and F. F. Hop
per, Tacoma, members of the Ad-.
visory Board of the State Library
mission. Their terms will all
expire on August 81, 1913. Kate
Turner Holmes Is reappointed
DAYTON.-As the result of a
smut explosion, fire destroyed the big
separator of John Rose, together
with a setting of grain and several
acres of stubble. The loss is prob
ably about $4,000. The machine was
working on the John Blessinger
ranch, six miles east of Dayton.
When the explosion occurred. the
crew, in attempting to save the ma
chine and setting, allowed the flames
to spread to another setting of
stacked grain, which was burned. 1t
is probable the machine will pull
in for the season
OLYMPIA.-A complaint has been
filed with the State Railroad Com
MISSION by the Milwaukee Terminal
Railroad, the stock of which is
owned by the Chicago, Milwaukee &
Puget Sound Railroad, asking that
the Great Northern Railroad be
forced to make physical connections
with its tracks at Ballard. This Is
one of the most important cases ever
brought before the Railroad Com
mission, as it involves the question
of one railroad using the terminals
of another road and having access
to itsz.spnr tracks.
CHEHALIS.-Wor on the sani-
tary dairy barn at the Washington
State Training School is now we'll
along. The walls are up and the
roof will soon be on. Provision will
be made for 200 tons of hay in the
loft The building will be &c by 100
feet in size.
OLYMPIA.-The Supreme Court
has affirmed the judgment of the
Spokane superior court in disbarring
permanently Attorney James Hop
kins, of Spokane. Attorney Hopkins
was convicted in the Eastern Wash
ington Federal Court Of affixing his
notarial seal to the applications of
certain persons for pensions and
their witnesses who never appeared
before him in person.
SEATTLE.-Kil by an electric
shock and practically dead for Is
seconds, then restored to life by an
ether shock was the uncanny expe-
rience of Scott Allen, who lies on
cot at the Seattle General Hospital.
Physicians declare positively that
Allen was dead for at least 1 5 Sec
onds. The accident occurred at the
power plant of the Snoqualmte
Power Company. Allen was working
at one of the switches when he closed
the circuit Thirty thousand volts
passed through his body and he was
instantly killed. At the same time
the shock passed through the body
there was a reaction and his body
was hurled through the air and
struck the cement walls of the switch
room. The impact started the heart
action again.
SPOKANE.-Mayor Pratt has ap-
pointed a committee Of Ave promi-
nent citizens to investigate the Panta
Pantois' secret political society, al
legged to have been organized to
serve personal and special interests
by securing the appointment of its