The Newport miner. [volume] (Newport, Wash.) 1899-current, 1909-08-19
WASHINGTON STATE NEWS
OF THE WEEK IN BRIEF

CACHdllS-ln ne I-year-OId some OF
MI. and Mrs. j. P. Emmett, Of Ad-
Ran, Wash, was killed in an auto
mobile accident near this city Sun
day afternoon.
kennewick-Miss Marian Griffith
and Miss Florine Bonn, two 14-year-
old girls of White Bluffs, dubbed
to death a large coyote and carried
their trophy home
Chehalis-The Citizens Club is
trying to have a state experimental
demonstration farm esta blished here
in connection with the state training
school
Bell1ngham-His throat cut from
side to side by barbed wire stretch
ed across his fathers gateway to
keep out stray horses, 1O-year-Old
Leo Kelly almost met his death.
Spokane-The Farmers Educa-
tional and Cooperative Union has
incorporated at Penewawa under the
name Of the Snake River Warehouse
Company, and has built a warehouse
and will handle grain there.
Walla Walla-The state executive
board of the Farmers Union, at it's
recent meeting in Spokane, placed
the total yield of wheat for the
state of Washington this year at
over 100000 bushels.
observation-disclosures from the
lower salmon banks, which were
bare Of sockeyes a few days ago,
tell of the appearance of the second
immense school of salmon, the head
of the school already crowding the
banks and Cutting the traps.
Spokane-Four Italians, recently
from Portland, were sentenced to 80
days in Jail and fined 500 and costs
on charges of vagrcncy. The police
have letters and papers indicating
that the men are Black Hand men,
bers.
Seattle-Sidney Johnson, an from
molder, who came here from San
Francisco, committed suicide in the
presence of hundreds of people by
jumping off the Flyer dock, just as
that steamer was about to leave for
Tacoma.
Dayton-Mrs. Emma Southwell,
Oregon pioneer of 1851, and surviv-
or of one of the bloodiest Indian
massacres in the history of the
West, died here at the home of her
daughter
Seattle-Wendall A. Odlum, aged
3S, was fatally injured when an au-
tomobile in which he was riding ran
backward down a steep hill, running
into the curb and turning turtle. He
diedIa
Spokane-Two young high school
students of this city have been mar
ried for over a year and the secret
has only leaked out. The bride, Miss
Alice Bungay, is II years old, and
her husband, Bernard Lid, a year
her senior. They were married July
II, 1908, in Occur d'Alene, Idaho.
Bellingham-A big American flag,
made of bandanna handkerchiefs
sewed together by the women in the
party, is waving on the tOpmost peak
of unit Baker. planted there by 80
Nj. ..mas who climbed the great
snow dome in record time.
Olympia-The Milwaukee road
will build into Spokane. Papers
have been filed with the secretary of
state authorizing the construction OF
a branch beginning at Melden, in
Whitman cohnty, thence in a general
northerly direction through the same
county and into Spokane. The es-
timated length of the branch is IS
miles
Seattle-The acting secretary of
the interior vacated the former order
of withdrawal under the reclama-
ton act in connection with the Yak
ina (Tieton) project, and has re-
stored to the public domain where
not otherwise withdrawing, reserved
or appropriated, about $4,000 acres
of land in the North Yakima dis
trict. the same to}beconne subject to
settlement on and after November
9 and to entry, fling or selection
December 9.
Tacoma-Deelaring that he Is
through with the "bossism" OF Rev.
M. A. Matthews, OF Seattle, and that
DR.. D. ID. Mckay, member OF the
faculty, is incompetent and has In
trigued to the disadvantage OF the
institution, DR.. B. H. Kroeze, presi-
dent of Whitworth College, has ten
dered his resignation to the board OF
trustees. and insists that 1t be &C
cepted. Twice before he resigned.
but the board poured oil on the
troubled waters. This time the pres
ident declares he is in earnest.
Tacoma-With the arrest by de-