The Newport miner. [volume] (Newport, Wash.) 1899-current, 1910-11-10
srDELIGHTs FROM OTHER
CITIES IN WASHINGTON

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Walla Walla November 10 to IL.
Suit for $4,000 for six violations OF
the law requiring railways to guard
switches has been brought by the
state railway con mission against the
Tacoma & Eastern railway.
Several Walla Walla Chinese have
removed their queues as the result
OF royal edict recently promulgated
that the faithful may hereafter dis
pense with the characteristic Mongol
appendage.
A man using the names of Hugh
Waldron, w. H. Norton, Adolph
Steiner and S. r. Rowley succeeded
IN bllk1ng five banks of the Inland
Empire out of several thousand dol
lars, and there is little likelihood
that he will be captured.
The Carsten Packing company OF
Tacoma has complained to the inter
state commerce commission that the
oregon and Washington roads charge
excessively to transport live stock
from Portland and other Oregon
points to Tacoma.
Eight young women of the state
college who will graduate from the do
mestic economy department in June
have been selected by the head of
the department to attend the Nation
al Apple Show at Spokane as demon
strators.
The state superintendent of public
instruction has awarded the final GER.
tificates earned by the teachers at
the August examination. This was
the largest examination ever held in
the state, 1888 applicants, gain of
" over the May list. OF this number
1882 were successful.
The Washington Bankers associa-
ton has offered prize of $25 for
the best essay written by a member
OF the Whitman senior class on
prescribed economic subject The
same offer has also been made to
Washington State College and Uni
Vers1ty of Washington.
Memorial services in honor of the
late Ex-Governor John McGraw will
be held in Whitman college chapel
Tuesday evening, November Is. And
at this occasion some of the best
known men of the Northwest will be
speakers. Among them will be ex-
Senator George Turner, now member
OF the United States international ar
bltration board, and C. H. Hanford.
Puzzl1ng a force Of attending ply
siclans with his wonderful vitality,
William Emsley, a Spokane carpen.
ter Is still alive in spite of a frac-
tured skull and a severed spinal COL
umn, sustained in a fall from the
third floor of new packing plant in
course of construction.
According to General Marion p.
Maus, commander of the department
OF the Columbia, with Headquarters
at vancouver barracks, there has
been remarkable decrease in the
number OF assertions in the western
posts OF the regular army this wear
Last year $50 soldiers were listed az
deserters. This year the number is
but 227.
Officers of the Spokane Fish Pro-
tectlve association have perfected
plans to remove the carp and suckers
from the bass lakes in Spokane coun-
ty and will then extend their onera.
tons to other parts of Washington
This is the first organized ATTEMPT to
DO this kind of work in the North
west, and it is expected that lake
fishing will be greatly improved as
result.
Some idea of how assessed yalua.
tlon OF the railroads was fixed at
about real and personal, in the state
OF Washington has increased since
1881 may be gained from the state
ment issued by the state tax commits
sion which shows that in 1891 the to-
tai valuation was only a little more
than $12,0OO,O00, while in 1910, it was
over $10O,OOO,OOO.
The forest fire loss in Western
Washington in 1910 was the lowest of
any year of which there is a record
Chief Forester Simons of the Wash.
ington Forest Fire Association. re.
ports that the virgin timber de.
stroyed was valued at 100000. Of
$4,000 acres of green timber attack
ed only one-eighth was DESTROYED
The small loss was due to the effec.
tlveness of the associations fighting
force.
Alaskan gold to the amount of So
353,145.77 has been received at the