The Newport miner. [volume] (Newport, Wash.) 1899-current, 1909-07-29
WASHINGTON STATE NEWS
OF THE WEEK IN BRIEF


taries have been appointed in Spo-
kane to take applications for land
registration.
Everett-Before ending the work
OF their state convention Friday, the
Good Templars passed a resolution
endorsing woman suffrage.
Tacoma-Stanley Klovberg, a 16-
year-old boy, was electrocuted Fri
day by wire attached to kite he
was flying coming in contact with
high-tension electric power wire.
Bellingham-Clarence Eddleman,
the dwarf who some time ago fed
mule strychnine because the animal
kicked him, will have to serve two
months in the county Jail for his act.
Spokane-WOrk of pickpockets
who focked to Spokane to catch
land seekers and delegates to the
national irrigation congress is going
on steadily, despite the best efforts
of the police to stop it.
ollet w dIId-W OIh was COu-
menced Monday on an artesian well
at the state penitentiary. Water will
enable large body of land to be ~ir-
rigated. The work is to be done by
cOnvicts.
Spokane-For saving the life of
Corporal Thompson at Fort George
Wright last December, Corporal
Mike Sommis, has been awarded
certificate of merit from the war de-
partment at Washington, D. G.
Goldendale-TheM Minnesota Fruit
Lands Company, of Minneapolis, has
secured another quarter section of
fruit land which will be improved
and planted to trees this fall. This
makes a total of $50 acres held by
this company in Klickitat county.
Walla Walla-Two and half
million grain bags have been sold at
the state penitentiary, according to
statement made by superintendent
Reed. The daily output is about
1000 and some $4,000 a day has
been turned into the treasury for
month past. The manufacture of
bags will continue until August Is.
Seattle-The Oregon & Washing
ton railway, which is the corporate
name of the Union Pacific in this
state, is expediting work on its grade
between this city and Black River,
and it is expected that the roadbed
will be ready for the rails in so
days.
Seattle-During sham battle in
the A.-Y.-P. exposition stadium last
week between 100 members of the
Improved Order of Red Men and an
equal number of state militiamen,
Joseph Hemingway, of Everett,
Wash, one of the Red Men, was
shot and almost instantly killed.
Everetr-;3eNton JONES'. mayor of
Everett is confined in a hospital, suf-
fering from an aggravated case of
kidney disorder. The mayor is not
in immediate danger, but physicians
are reticent concerning his ultimate
recovery. His wife died two weeks
ago from a long illness from general
breakdown.
North Yakima-Estimates of the
pear crop from the Yakima Valley
this season furnished the Northern
Pacific Railroad Company, in order
that they may have cars here for the
fruit shipments, have it that from
rs to 100 carloads will be the yield.
This crop will equal the one picked
last season.
Spokane-Paralyzed o and hope
lessly crippled for life by bullet
which went through his brain, Theo.
Adams was carried into court on a
stretcher and pleaded guilty to hav-
ing tried to hold up a streetcar on
the night of January 1. Judge
-Hueneke sentenced him to 1 to IA
years in prison.
Colfax-More proof of an organ
lied gang of horse-rustlers which is
thought to be operating from Oregon
to British Columbia is being brought
to light each day on the ranges OF
parts of Whitman, Franklin, Car
field and Adams counties. To date
eight alleged horsethieves are under
arrest out of band thought to num-
Der at least l5.
Spokane - Plunging into Loon
lake and risking his own life, Otto
Warn, aged Is years, saved the life
of his cousin, Miss Anna Brown, or
Lewiston, Idaho, and then dove into
the lake and, taking Guy Young, OF
Spokane, by the arm, carried him 10
the floating dock about SO feet from
the pavilion.
Seattle-Unsuccess in his en-
beavers to have his wife forget the
mast. Burt Rumsey, of Butte, Mont,
made his way into his wife's room
in a local lodginghouse and shot her
twice as she lay asleep, killing her
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