The Newport miner. [volume] (Newport, Wash.) 1899-current, 1909-08-05
WASHINGTON STATE NEWS
OF The WEEK IN BRIEF


ding, Mrs. Guy Hudgins. of thi,
city, was drowned Saturday.
Ritzville-Fire, caused by a man
smoking a pipe while hauling straw.
destroyed Is acres of standing grain
on Rattlesnake Flats.
Tacoma-Bids for the construc-
ton of the first skyscraper building
in Tacoma have been advertised. The
structure will be 6 stories high.
Seattle-It is announced that Ar
thur F. Slater, former secretary to
Senator Ankeny, is to be appointed
supervising agent for the treasury
department.
Olympia-John H. Powell, of Sc
attic, has resigned as regent of the
State University and Gov. Hay has
announced the appointment of Alex.
McEwan of Ballard as his successor.
Spokane-John Gray, who has re-
turned from Paris, reports that he
has sold the Crystal mine, near the
mouth of the Spoakne river, to
French syndicate for 100000.
Ellensburg-W. T. Alverson has
been found, dead. The body of the
missing lodge man of this city who,
in delirium, wandered from the Nc
Lehman sheep camp two weeks ago,
was discovered in the Nahum creek
canyon Friday.
Spokane-Recause of the fact that
the National Irrigation Congress will
bring hundreds of visitors to the city
who will have no knowledge of the
anti-cigarette law, the police depart
ment will not be strict about arrest
ing people for smoking cigarettes.
acknowledgements are work
ing on the big irrigation canal from
the Klickitat river to the Horse
Heaven country. Surveys have just
been completed for the storing of
water in the Rock creek canyon to
be used for irrigation in the Goodnoe
hills.
Walla Walla-Although farmers
of this community have been expect
ing a reduction in warehouse rates
from the Pacific Coast and Puget
Sound companies, it has been
learned that their charges this year
will be the highest ever maintained
by them.
Olympia-Gov. Hay has granted
a reprieve until September II to
Charles Umphrey Fillpot, who was
sentenced by the Spokane superior
court to be hanged August 2, at the
state penitentiary, for the murder
of Mes Cole, Spokane county plon-
eer.
Spokane-Hundreds of kilograms
from old soldiers in all parts of the
nation are being received by officials
and citizens authorizing them to act
as agents to enter soldiers applica-
tons for Indian reservation lands.
All these applications must be reject
ed, as the government cannot accept
proxies by wire.
Walla Walla-While digging a
well in the city of Athena, a group
of laborers encountered a ledge 80
feet in thickness bearing copper and
gold quartz. Samples of the ore were
Immediately sent away for assaying
and in the meantime claims are be-
ing staked out by the residents of
that city and the surrounding COM
munity.
Spokane-While struggling fran
tically in the waters of Lake Kelso
to save her two sons from drowning,
Mrs Frank H. Spaulding, wife of
Rev. Spaulding, Sunday school mis-
sionary of the Columbia River con-
ference of the Methodist Episcopal
Church, Sunday drowned with her
children.
Pullman-The first election in
Whitman county under the new local
option law will be held November 2.
Every precinct in the county will
vote on the question, II sufficient
voters sign the petitions asking that
an election be held. The Grange
and the Farmers Educational and
Cooperative union have declared re-
peatedly for local option.
Tacoma-News has been received
of the death at San Diego, Cal, of
Clinton P. Ferry. Mr.. Ferry was
brother of the late e. P. Ferry, who
was a Governor of Washington in
territorial days and was the first
Governor of the state. He was
known as 1.-The Duke of Tacoma"
was a large property-owner and was
formerly a leader in the city's ad
vancement
Seattle-Peter Miller, held by the
police On suspicion of having muir
dered and robbed Hugh Mcmahon, a
bartender, in this city November 26,
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