The Newport miner. [volume] (Newport, Wash.) 1899-current, 1909-04-01
WASHINGTON NOTES

committed suicide Saturday IN a To-
cal hotel, by drinking carbolic acid.
He leaves a wife and baby on
farm - miles east Of Colfax.
Olympia-The legislative investl-
cation to have been started mere
Tuesday has been postponed by
Chairman p. Allen for one week or
more on account of the death OF
Governor Cosgrove.
Seattle. l.. Cannon, the con-
tractor who erected the big Catholic.
cathedral, and one Of the best known
builders in this city, is reported TO
have left for parts unknown, leaving
unsatisfied notes and debts behlnd
him agsregating between S30,oOo
and $4,000.
Centralia-Complain that the
food set before them was unit TO
eat. $50 miners employed at the
Wilson mine at Kopia laid down
their picks and declared strike.
The sanitary conditions at the eat
ing house are said to be repulsive in
the extreme.
Spokane = That Paul Clein, a
suspect under arrest pending further
investigation into the foul murder
of Paul LewandOwski, whose partial
ly burned body was recently found
on the Fort Wright military reserva-
ton, carried his victim to his death
in a yellow, rubber-tired buggy, is
the theory Of police officials.
Seattle-For the first time, on this
coast at least, a general officer of
the state militia was given the hon.
or of his relative rank in the United
States army when Fort Worden sa-
luted with II guns as Brigadier-
General Ortis Hamilton, ,adjutant-
general of the Washington national
guard entered its gates.
Spokane-Philip Duval, who after
protested regeneration at the Billy
Sunday revival turned in his star
and baton to Police Chief Rice, say
ing that one could not be a Chris
tan and a policeman at the same
time, landed in the county Jail on
the charge of impersonating an Off
Ger last week.
Colfax - The Washington State
College, Of Pullman, and the Uni-
versity of Idaho, at Moscow, demon
Tuesday and Wednesday evenings,
the first lectures and demonstrations
being given under arc lights at the
Inland depot. The train left Colfax
Thursday for a three-days'' trip on
the Inland system.
Walla Walla-By reason of his
alleged failure to comply with the
law, which says that he shall report
every contagious disease to the
county health office not later than a
week after discovery, DR.. Fales, city
health officer, was arrested Friday.
The arrest is the elimination of a
bitter doctors war that has been
waged in the city since the present
incumbent accepted the position.
Olympia DETERMINATIONS for state
teachers certificates Will be held
Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday,
May 10, II and -, at the county
seat of the following counties: What
com, King, Clark, Spokane, Walla
Walla and Yakima. The examina-
lions will be held under the provis-
ions of the present law and not I'M
der the provisions of the new code
of public Instruction, which does not
go into effect until June H.
Walla Walla-With a deficit of
$12 to make up between them, the
six heirs to the estate of Letitia
Mckibben, deceased, are now Won
dering what all their squabbles were
about and are asking themselves
where they come in on the general
distribution; for out of the original
property, amounting to $626.24,
formerly deposited in one of the To-
cal banks, it has been discovered
that after all legitimate expenses
are covered nothing remains but a.
bill Of $12.
ColfaX-Miriam Walters, the IA
year-old daughter of Rev. and Mrs.
T. w. Walters, to save whose life a
special car made record time over
the Spokane & Inland to Colfax. and
for whom Postmaster Harrison of
Spokane, searched two mails for
precious serum, died Saturday even
ing, the serum arriving before the
girl died, but too late to stop the
inroads of the disease, cerebro spinal
meningitis. Record time was made
between Spokane and Colfax, a mile
minute being common on the
straight stretches.
Olympia-The full bench of nine
judges of the supreme court was in