The Newport miner. [volume] (Newport, Wash.) 1899-current, 1909-03-11
WASHING TON NOTES

|. Seattle-FredericN Browne, OF
Minneapolis, nov Judge IN that
city, is 10 succeed l.. c. Gilman as
counsel for the Great Northern Rail.
way Company in Seattle. Mr.. Gill
man has been appointed assistant to
President Louis w. Hill.
Monies anO - Harry Cooper, an
Oakyille merchant, went to Seattle
last week, and as he was expecting
some money by express left orders
for his bookkeeper, J. J. McVeigh,
to get the money, something over
$500. Now Cooper is looking for
his CLERK
Ephrata-G Grant county was or
ganized Saturday by Commissioners
John Erickson and Richard Heath
man, and NJ. F. McAnnelly, chair
man. The commissioners appointed
officers to FIJI the various county Of
fees
Colville-The board of county
commissioners have entered upon
their minutes resolution opposing
the passage by the legislature of the
bill which creates the Office of state
game commissioner, because, as the
commissioners put it, it is believed
that the county officers can as eff1c-
iently serve the purpose of such an
officer and save large expense.
South Bend-Although February
was the shortest month of the win
ter, there were Is cargoes of lum-
Der shipped out of this harbor dur
ing that month, which aggregated a
total of 13,575,0OO feet of lumber.
December showed the largest ship
ments Of lumber of any month for
more than year. The shipments
for, December were 20 cargoes ag-
gregating 17,050,000 feet.
Olympia-Lieutenant c. M. Davis
of the national guard company Of
Hoquiam, has been discharged from
the service by order of Acting Gov
ernor Hay, for being absent from
duty 80 days without leave. This is
said to be the first case in the his
tory of the guard of the state where
an officer has been dismissed for
such reason. The discharge was
made on the recommendation of the
acknowledgement.
Spokane -Attempting to commit
suicide is the strange charge placed
against George Tebo, a Canadian.
who was chained to his cot in the
Emergency hospital. This is the first
case of it's kind to come before the
police court. Thinking Tebo de-
served punishment, the prosecuting
attorney has ordered the man held
for trial and an endeavor will be
made to convict and punish him on
this charge.
Seattle-Judge G. H. Hanford, of
the United States circuit court of
this district, emphatically denounced
the prevailing system of locking up
juries in criminal trials during re-
cesses and adjournments of the
court, declaring that it was not nee
essary, to be fair to person &C
cused of crime, to imprison jurors as
il they were culprits, and to insult
their intelligence by excluding them
from the courtroom during all argu-
ments.
SpOkane-The richest find of gold
ore ever reported in Washington has
just been made on the New Repub-
tic mine at Republic, samples assay
ing as high as $4,000 ton. The
find was made on the second slopes
between No. and No. 3 levels Suf-
flcient work has not yet been done
to show the extent OF the ledge.
Some Of the ore taken from the
ledge was so rich that it was locked
up in the vault of the bank at Re-
public
Seattle-George H. Elliott, of Du-
vanish, is a prisoner in the county
jail, suspected as the man who last
Friday night assaulted Mrs. Blanche
Roseburg, choked her into insensi-
bility and then placed her head on
the tracks of the Columbia & Puget
Sound railway in such a position as
to infer that it was the intention of
the assailant to allow some passing
train to blot out the evidence of his
CIlmc. MIS-. 1eOSSuuIS AS III pre-
carious condition.
Port Observation-Disclosures with a
wireless telegraph system and fire.
control apparatus, both Of which
were installed by Captain w. K.
Moore OF the United States signal
service corps Of Seattle, Fort Wor-
den, a military post. of this city, now
takes it's place as one of the four
thoroughly modern military posts of
the United States. Ranking with
Fort Worden are the posts at Port
land, Me-, Boston and New York.
The work was accomplished at cost
of 100000.
North Yakima--The reclamation
service has issued warnings to set
tiers seeking lands under the Tie
ton irrigation project, cautioning
them to beware of certain people IN
North Yakima who are Offering for
$50 to locate settlers on this govern
ment irrigation project. These To-
Gators ask an additional $500 in case
the person located gets title from the
government The whole scheme is
branded as a fraud, as the locators
are powerless to secure homesteads