The Newport miner. [volume] (Newport, Wash.) 1899-current, 1910-10-06
SIDELIGHTS FROM OTHER
CITIES IN WASHINGTON


co Reclamation company will be ceie'
brated October Ii.
For the first time since its incep'
ton the Washington state fair closed
with a cash balance as result OF the
big event.
Two trees of Bellflower apples IN
the famous Pomona archard near Day.
ton. this year yielded 120 boxes OF
first grade fruit, which Melted the own
er $125.
The best exhibit of cattle ever made
west of the Rockies is the statement
concerning the livestock exhibit at
the state fair made by the judges in
the department.
At the fall term of the state supreme
court, which opens Monday, October
10. a total of 228 cases will be argued
and the term will extend over period
of eleven weeks, or until the week be-
fore the Christmas holidays.
What is claimed to be the finest
pipe organ in the Inland Empire has
been established in the auditorium OF
Washington State College. The organ
cost $500 and occupied two cars in
shipment from Chicago.
Oscar Cain, Federal district attor-
new for eastern Washington, can
draw no salary until winter. Comp
troller of the Treasury Tracewell has
ordered Gains pay held up until the
senate confirms his appointment.
A new trotting record for the State
OF Washington was made at the state
Fair races when the Canadian horse
Daybreak, driven by Joe Mcclure, won
the second heat of the 2:1O trot IN
2:O8. The previous record was 2:09A.
Interstate Commerce Commissioner
Prouty, who has been taking final tes-
ttmony in the Pacific Coast backhaul
and Spokane rate cases, has voiced
and opinion that some OF the rates
fixed by the commission in these
cases will be put in effect January l.
The Puget Sound Navigation COM
pany,s new steel steamship Kulshan,
bound from Seattle to Bellingham with
passengers, went aground at the east
end of Deception Pass, between Fidal-
go and WILDLY islands, 70 miles north
of Seattle. None of the passengers
were injured.
Sixty barrels of catsup shipped to
Seattle from a San Francisco plant,
was seized and condemned by the fed
eral authorities at Seattle. 1t is al
legged by the government that the cat
SUD contained large quantities of glu-
cose and harmful coloring matter, al
though it was labeled pure.
The fight is on in the Wenatchee
valley between the fruit growers and
the fruit buyers, and it is expected
that the result of the battle Of this
year will be the foremath of fruit
growers association, which will in
clude the present association and all
prominent growers of the valley.
Charles D. Howell, charged with
the robbery of a United States mail
car attached to Great Northern
train between Boomers Ferry, Idaho,
and Spokane, March Is, 1908, was
found guilty by jury in the federal
court at Spokane after an hours dellb
Grafton. The verdict means from rs
years to life imprisonment.
The surety company which furn-
ished to the state $4,000 bond for
AdjutantGeneral Ortis Hamilton.
now serving a term in the Walla
Walla penitentiary for embezzlement
of state funds, denies that it Is liable
to the state to make good any part
of General Hamilon's shortage.
At conference between President
Taft and General Wood, chief Of staff,
changes of general officers of the army
was discussed and it practically was
decided to relieve General M. F. Maus
of the command of the Department OF
the Columbia, with station at Van
couver Barracks, and transfer him to
the command of the Department OF
the Visayas, in the Philippines.
The department of journalism in
the University of Washington is at.
tracing a widespread interest in the
state From every section students
with journalistic aspirations are en-
tering under direction of Professors
Thrope and Percy. These men, who
have had wide experience in news
paper work, are building large de-
partment The enrolment has al
ready reached 80.
Declaring that it's assessed valua
ton had been raised to more than $27,-
100000 by the state board of equalixa.