The Newport miner. [volume] (Newport, Wash.) 1899-current, 1909-11-18
WASHINGTON SIDELIGHTs.

ington Political Equality League will
be education" May Arkwright Hat
ton is the leagues president
Seattle-A grand jury has been
called by Judge Mitchell Gillian Of
the Criminal Court to meet Novem-
Der p to investigate the city and
county governments.
Wenatchee-We will have
company of militia in the national
guard of Washington if suitable
building for barracks can be OBJ
tanned in the city
Chelan-Isenhart brothers are set
ting out the largest apple orchard
in the Lake Chelan country Over
5000 trees of commercial varieties
| will be this fall set out on land ad-
jacent to town. The ground was
formerly dry sage brush land
Olympia Prosecution of the Ma
tional Hospital Association, of Port
land, Or, for unlawfully writing in
surance in this state may result
from the opinion rendered by the
Acknowledgement to the Insurance
| Department. =.
Tacoma-About 90 delegates at
| tended the meeting at the CONNER
cial Club, representing Tacoma, Sc
attic, Everett, Belhngham3 and Wal
la Walla, and organized the Wash
ington Humane Society Headquar-
tiers will be located in Tacoma.
North Yakima-A= laboring, man,
whose mind appears to be a COM
plete blank, was picked up at Naches
City and brought to North Yakima
for examination as to his sanity All
he appears to know is that his name
is w. E. Mosette and his home is
Boise, Idaho.
Bellingham-John F. Logan, held
in Jail at Colville, Wash, charged
with the murder of his housekeeper
and the cremation of her body, has
been positively identified as Frank
Romandorf, wanted here for the
murder of John F. Logan at Maple
Falls in the Autumn of 1906.
Chehalis-The Oranges of Lewis
County have employed Forney &
Ponder, of Chehalis, to fight the re-
classification of this county, which
was made several months ago,
whereby the class was raised. Under
the advance in classification, the
salaries of all the county officers
was materially increased 10
Spokane-Enraged because Flor
ence Pierce, his steady company"
refused to marry him, refusing to
have anything more to do with him,
James Lenox shot the girl and then
turned the pistol on himself and
| fell dying on the floor of the girls
room in a hotel 1t was found that
the girls wound was not dangerous
Tacoma-Attracted by the run of
salmon, black and brown bears have
| gathered in great numbers along the
Cascade and Skagit rivers, and they
are invading orchards in the dis
trict, demolishing the trees in ef-
forts to get the fruit. A. B. Con-
rad, chief forester for that district
says ten bears completely demolishz
ed the orchard of neighbor on the
! Cascade River in one day
l
| Tacoma-N Kafuku, traffic man
ager of Osaka Shosen Kaisha, with
his principal Office in Osaka, has
announced that, beginning November
rs, the division of steamship and
| railroad rates on east-bound car
goes would be the same as those
of the other conference lines This,
it is believed, has averted trans
Pacific war.
Seattle A case of 500 Alaska
ptarmigan shipped from Nome to
w. H. Metcalfe,- of the Bohemian
| Club, San Francisco, was seized on
the steamship Senator by the County
| Game Warden 1t is against the
law to ship the birds out of Alaska
and the shipper and the steamer
are liable to prosecution. The case
is in the hands of the Federal au-
thorities.
Hoquiam-With the unprecedented
run of silversides undated and all
the Chinese cannery employees work
ing 10 hours a day, the Hoquiam
Packing Company is hard, put to
care for all the fish rendered. Five
thousand to 5000 fish are being re-
ceived daily and the cannery and
warehouses are filled to OVERLOOKING.
The company has been forced to
put a can-making crew to work both
day and night owing to shortage
of cans for the product
Seattle-Placing the responsibility
for the killing of 5-year-old Freddie
Bestman by 8-yearold Sammie Stew
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