The Newport miner. [volume] (Newport, Wash.) 1899-current, 1909-07-01
WASHINGTON STATE NEWS
OF THE WEEK IN BRIEF

ance tax on the estate Of Babette
Gatzert, of King county
Seattle-Fire Saturday night de-
stroyed the cooperage plant of the
Seattle Mating & Brewing Com
pany. The loss is about $4,000.
Walla Walla-Three saloon men,
convicted by juries of maintaining
distractions in front of their places
of business, were fined 500 each
Saturday.
Notwithstanding to arrange
ments recently completed, the U. S.
immigration Office In Aberdeen will
be moved to Hoquiam, the transfer
taking place about July l.
North Yakima-Six tramps who
stole, killed and roasted pet pig
belonging to a rancher near Wapato,
are working out their penalty at the
county Jail.
Bristol-As a memorial to her
late husband, who was for 80 years
a missionary in Alaska, Mrs. NJ. G.
Mcfarland has donate an acre at
the northwest corner of her ranch
for a non-denominational church
Tacoma-After making very bust
nesslike arrangements for the dis
posal of her effects, Mrs. Mary F.
Weber shot herself through the tenn
pie in her room in clearinghouse,
Saturday, dying almost instantly.
Spokane-Cigar dealers and Gig
arctic smokers are clubbing together
| with cash to carry the cases of three
men caught smoking cigarettes to
the supreme court, in an attempt to
knock out the law.
Hoquiam-A goose, raised in this
city and killed at local hotel,
proved a. gold mine for the hotel.
In the birds gizzard was found three
| nuggets the size of pea. Several
! fowls have been killed recently in
the city in whose gixzards was found
gold.
Spokane mustard, general
ly known as Jim Hill" mustard, is
menacing the crop in the Inland
Empire, and many farmers through
central and eastern Washington de-
clare they will harvest only about a
third of crop of wheat because of
| the thick stand OF mustard.
Tacoma-The officers and crew of
| the warship Tennessee were hosts
| Friday night, at a military ball at
the armory to 1900 Tacomans. More
| than $4,000 was expended in max
ing the event success, and it prob
| ably establishes the high water
mark here of brilliant military social
events.
| Olympia -Attorney-Gener Bell
has rendered an opinion that when
| money is collected by the state land
commissioner, as rental for an ex-
tension of time for the removal of
| timber, when the timber is sold sep
arate from the land, that the money
paid for the extension is to go into
the same fund as the purchase price.
Spokane-Heavily in debt, judg-
| ments of considerable amount and
| $4,000 or Whereabouts in unpaid
mortgages hanging over it, the
| Union Laundry, the first co-opera-
tive venture in speculative fields by
Spokane labor unions, has changed
hands and practically failed.
| Olympia-The encouragement in
| opinions to the state auditor, holds
that heirs of Indian War Veterans
| should not be paid under the ap-
| preparation made by the last legis-
| lature for the veterans, and holds
| that the new Accountancy Board has
| jurisdiction over all public offices,
including those in township organi-
| cations, but none over cities.
Seattle-A man arrested in this
/ county as member of the gang OF
! robbers who held up three saloons
| and a store in Gle Elum, last week,
| when one of the robbers was killed
by an officer, has been identified as
VIM. r. Bell, former United States
Secret Service operative and son OF
the late Captain B. w. Bell, for
many years chief OF the Northwest
| division of the service.
Olympia $4,000 Washing
ton corporations will be wiped on
the records of the ONCE of the secre-
tary of state, and such OF them as
are not already dead Will no longer
be permitted to do business In TINS
state. Under law of 1905, all cor
! porations which are delinquent two
wars or more in payment OF annual
license must be taken from the list.
Seattle-The secretary OF the in
| terror has suspended the contract OF
| the Standard Building Company OF
San Francisco for the construction
-&~