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


they were rat-ridden
Spokane-October 8 to October 8
1910, is the time recommended fo1
the next National Dry Farming
Congress, which will meet in Spo-
kane. 1t is proposed to hold the
Interstate Fair on the same date
Spokane-A vein of coal IA feet
in depth was tapped on the farm
of Ellsworth Bishop, near Garfield
Wash, by we'll diggers who were
sinking we'll on the farm. Seattle
experts have examined the coal and
pronounce is of good quality.
Aberdeen-It is reported from the
Quiniault and Humptulips country
north Of here, that many cougars
bears and wildcats have already
come down from the foothills for
the winter. AS there is larger
bounty on these animals than pre-
viously, hunters who have dogs are
making good wages, besides the
sport of going after the big game
Walla Walla-Co-operating with
the state organization of the Farm
ers' Union and other associations
interested in shipping wheat, the
Walla Walla local of the union has
taken up the matter of opposing
the movement of the Seattle Marine
League that ships coming to the
Pacific laden with coal return in
ballast instead of with cargoes OF
wheat.
Colfax = Because her husband
William Skeen farmer living near
Palouse, seems to have prOnOun-
ced antipathy for soap and water
going some times for as long as a
year without bathing. and is other
wise addicted to lilthy and unclean
habits, according to 3 co~,r,::1t fled
in the superior court, Ills H:fe. LII
cinda refuses to longe. ii wIjl
him, and asks the court to free her
from the bonds Of matrimony that
she assumed in Colfax or February
p, 1906
Seattle-The Alaska Yukon Pacific
exposition filed suit in the superior
court against w. H. Bard, we'll
known lawyer, asking judgment for
$1,000 alleged to- be due on stock
subscription for the fair. The COM
plant states that on October 3,
1906, Bard signed a subscription
contract for 100 shares of stock,
agreeing to pay $1,000 for the same
in two installments of $500 each,
neither of which he had paid. Bard
was formerly lawyer at Nome and
is prominent in the north.
Spokane-M burners of the dead
buried in the little cemetery at
Gibbonsville, Lemhi county, Idaho,
are fighting to save the resting
places of the beloved departed from
being torn to pieces by the hy-
draulic giants of the placer miners.
The cemetery is in the national tor
est reserve and has been located
as a mining claim by placer miner.
Gibbonsville is an unlncorporated
village in the foothills and, accord
ing to the cemetery law, which is a
federal statute, only incorporated
towns have the right to purchase
government ground for cemetery
purposes. Residents of the village
have appealed to the national forest
board at Washington, with the re-
suit that decision was given that
the forestry bureau had no autho-
rity to act.
Tacoma-Miss Mitsu, a pretty
japanese maiden, who arrived on
the Tacoma Maru, is waiting for
her fiance, a Mr. Ota, said to be d
wealthy Japanese merchant at Sc
bastopol, Cal, but so far in vain.
All efforts of the Japanese asso-
citation to locate him have been of
no avail Miss Mitsu came to this
country first cabin, in keeping with
her. frances station in the business
world. Should her fiance not ap-
pear the day when the Tacoma
Maru sails for the Orient, it will
be necessary for the immigration
officials to transfer her to the de-
tention station and she will be kept
there possibly until the sailing OF
the next steamer of the Osaka
Shosen Kaisha line, when, If her
husband does not claim her, she
will probably be sent back to Japan
at the expense of the steamship line
Walla Walla-With fingers for
forks, and eating meat ground in a
sausage mill because they had no
knives, the girls of Reynolds. hall,
one of the Whitman college dor
mitories, had a hard time eating
for four days after Halloween. On
Halloween night the girls thought
it would be good one on the dean
to steal all the silver. They gave
it to the Billings hall boys, who hid