The Newport miner. [volume] (Newport, Wash.) 1899-current, 1909-02-18
WASHINGTON NOTES

HOOAuCCA--I uc HSW Hall VI tu0
Order Of Eagles, costing $4,000,
has been dedicated. B. H. Schiveley,
OF Olympia, former insurance COM
missioner, delivered the principal adj
dress. The building is one of the
finest in the state
North Yakima--The annual report
of the Horticultural Union shows
that 264 500 packages of fruit were
handled by it last season, an in
crease of 10000 over the previous
year The resources of the union
are over $4,000.
notwithstanding to figures CIV
en- our from the 0. r. & n. station,
wheat shipments from Dayton and
the Turner extension for the past
week aggregate 100000 bushels, all
wheat consigned TO Portland for ex-
port. Less than 10 per cent OF the
wheat crop Of Columbia county re-
mains in the warehouses here.
Colville-It is believed here that
William Kahl, a German brewer, has
been murdered at the lonely cabin
on his homestead in the mountains.
He left Colville Christmas with
winters supplies. A big splotch of
blood was found in front OF the
cabin door and all of the supplies
are missing. 4 search party is be-
ing organized.
Washougal-- The Clark County
Bank of this city was entered by two
cracksmen Friday night. who with
two shots Of nitro-glycerine blew the
outer door Of the safe open, but
made SO much noise that they wax
ened half the town and promptly de-
camped before anyone saw them.
There is no clew to The robbers.
They secured nothing.
ABERDEEN BY the accidental dis
charge Of a shotgun the baby OF Mr..
and Mrs. Fred Pope was killed and
Mrs. Pope and TWO other children
wounded, the children seriously,
while family OF Indians were go
ing up the Qninault river. Pope is
one Of The best known Indians Of
the Quinault reservation and is edu-
Gated and well-to-do.
Colville-One hundred pairs of
Hungarian pheasants from Pennsyl
vania have reached county Auditor
Joseph and are being given out to
farmers interested in stocking the
country with game. They were paid
for from propagation fund. Large
numbers of Colorado trout are also
being brought in to stock various
streams of the country.
Montesano-The case of J. NJ.
Gould, OF Satsop. against the Hewitt
Logging Company. for $27 900 for
the death OF his little 11-year-old
daughter, who was crushed to death
beneath the wheels Of logging
train, has been non-suited in the
superior court. The accident oc-
CURED abouI eight months ago. The
case was nOn-suiled on the grounds
of contributory negligence.
Seattle - The Michigan Pacific
Lumber Company, with a capital of
$1,500,000, was organized in De-
troit last week, the bulk of the stock
being held by Michigan and Seattle
men. The company undertakes TO
log and market 2,517, 900, 900 feet
of pine. spruce, cedar and hemlock
in district located 80 miles west
of Vancouver and II miles from Sc
attic.
Seattle --Representative Jones is
preparing for war with the forest
service unless that branch Of the
government gives the people Of the
Methow Valley square deal" Ever
since the Washington Forest reserve
was extended TO include this well
known and heretofore quiet valley,
the settlers owning farms within it's
confines have endeavored to have the
valley eliminated from the reserve,
but so far without success
Everett. W. Ellsworth, who
disappeared from Everett last Sep
TENDER and who had been given up
for dead by his family, has returned
home with the report that he was
drugged on Everett waterfront,
shanghaied on board the lumber
schooner MoraIde and forced to
LID he tAc Trip 10 - uStfdlld. re
worked his way back to San Fran
cisco.
Seattle--karl Armstrong, Nome
operator, and two other wealthy
Alaskans. have announced that they
will hang up purse of $4,000 for
a Marathon race between the great
runners now before the public, in
Guiding Dorando, Longboat. Shrubb
and Hayes. The race, according to
their plans, will be pulled off here
in May. Seattle is to witness It's
first Marathon on Februry %, when
amateur runners OF the Northwest
and California will contest on half
mile racetrack
demonstrating immense timber
holdings to assure future business
and also to look after valuable tide
lands for terminals On the Tacoma
waterfront, a party of officers of the
Chicago & Northwestern Railroad
Company, together with prominent
lumbermen of Chicago, are in this
city. A conference has been held
with local lumbermen, and it Is un-
deratood the railroad will take over