The Newport miner. [volume] (Newport, Wash.) 1899-current, 1910-07-07
SYDELIGHTs FROM OTHER
CITIES IN WASHINGTON

July Is.
A subagency and model farm will
be established on the Colville Indian
reservation near Omak
Representative Poindexter went to
Oyster Bay Tuesday to see Colonel
Roosevelt.
The Pacific & Eastern railway has
decided to connect its western termi-
nal. which is just above Willapa, with
the Northern Pacific at Willapa
The United States assay Office at
Seattle received $4,000 in gold from
Nome and Fairbanks. nearly $780,
600 OF it coming by mail.
While attempting to cross the Ska
git river Mrs John Jones, wife of a
Waterman in the Great Northern ter
minals At Rockport. was drowned in
sight Of her husband. They had been
married only few months.
The state has received notice that
its bid is accepted for $4,000 in
bonds. which were recently issued by
Pacific County to finance the construc-
ton OF a new court house in South
Bend.
It Is reported that petition is being
circulated throughout Ferry county
asking Judge E. W. Taylor of the SUI
perior court to call grand jury. If
done It will be the frat called since
the county was organized
w. B. Hill. United States engineer
in tho Indian department, ts in Okla
hogan investigating the proposition Of
installing power plant to pump wa
ter from the Okanogan river to irri-
gate Indian lands.
A total OF 176.662,717 pieces of mail,
in the shape of letters and papers, was
handled by the Seattle postofflce dur
ing the fiscal year ending June 80. OF
this number, 16.5S5,3es were letters
mailed and distributed in the city.
Extensions made this year on the
Roslyn branch Of the Northern Pacific
have brought that line to Jonesville,
| within a mile and half OF Lake Clea-
lum. Further extensions are planned
which will make the lake readily &C.
cessible.
The Fern Hill residents, in their
light with the Tacoma street-car COM
pany, have raised fund to oppose the
| application of the company for an in
| junction in the federal court. At a
mass meeting $4,000 was asked by the
leaders for the contest and in few
minutes $512.50 was raised.
Mrs. Mary Lehan, a full-blooded
Cherokee Indian woman, with a fam
lily OF great proportions. arrived in
North Yakima and presented to the
police authorities credentials from
all over the country. Mrs. Lehan's
family OF twenty-one children accom-
panier her, and she sells charms and
tells fortunes for their support.
The quarrel over the estate of the
late Senator Walter J. Reed Is ended.
After some months of determinations
and litigation between the widow,
brother and sister OF the dead man,
the settlement of the estate will be
concluded without legal action. The
| matter has been of special interest
owing to the prominence OF the par
ties concerned.
Fruit growers in conference at
North Yakima appointed a committee
OF Ave men to represent the various
| fruit districts OF tho Yakima valley
in procuring information as to crop
and market conditions so that the
growers may be able TO meet the buy.
ers on an equal footing when selling
their peaches and other crops.
Two hours after he had made appli-
cation for job and received it, Ed
ward Mas, laborer, was a corpse in
the Walla Walla morgue. He was put
to work with gang Of men employeE
putting an elevator in the Denny
building and the centerweixht dropped
from tho top Of the building, striking
the man In the neck
That the various communities in the
state interested In developing rivers
and harbors may benefit by the gov
ernment's appropriation for such pur-
poses. DR.. N. G. Blalock, OF Walla
/ Walla. state director of the National
River and Harbors Congress. plans to
meet with the citizens interested In
this work for the purpose Of organic
ing state committee
A strike Of the metal crafts which
already involves thirty-flve machinists.
blacksmtths and boilermakers at the
Union Iron Works at Spokane, has
been declared on refusal OF the com.
pany to discharge nonunion black
smith. 1t is expected that when the
matter Is taken up by the central Ia