The Newport miner. [volume] (Newport, Wash.) 1899-current, 1910-12-01
SIDELIGHTS FROM OTHER
CITIES IN WASHINGTON

80 enS POiSOA VI 4ueO-
dore Adamson. wanted at Elma,
WASH, for family desertion.
A close fight on county unit local
option is expected by Boyd P. Doty,
state superintendent OF the Anti-sa-
loon League for Washington. In can
vassing the lower house of the next
legislature his poll is 46 right" and
81 wrong" on the unit question, with
IL members doubtful.
Secretary Ballinger awarded to Mel
son Rich, Of Prosser, contract for
constructing 40 miles of laterals on
the Wide Hollow branch of the Yak
ina irrigation project. Smaller con-
tracts on the Prosser division and
Sunnyside project were also awarded
local bidders.
Although a man lives in the same
house with his wife, provides with
food, heat, light and all other neces-
sites of life, but declines to talk to
her or to buy her clothes fitting for
her station in life, he is guilty of de-
sertion and non-support, holds the SUI
preme court.
A dozen apparently carelessly
drawn pencil marks in the form of a
diagram on scrap of paper have
solved one of the most bold, daring
and successful robberies ever COM
united in Seattle-the holdup of three
men in the Tourist hotel bar, on the
night of September 81, last.
Leaving untouched valuable jewels
and watches which lay on her dres.
ser, a miscreant whose identity is
unknown to the police entered the
room of Miss Bertha M. Parks, 10
years old, at her home, Seattle, and
while she was sleeping, with her SIS
ter, cut from head long tresses OF
deep auburn hair and escaped with
his plumber.
Eluding scores of pursuers for two
years, "Old Sleuth," the big, bold out
law couger, which has killed scores
of horses, cows, hogs and sheep in
the Blue Mountains, is still at large
Settlers have offered a handsome re-
ward for the animal and hunters,
trappers and forest rangers have
tracked "Old Sleuth" in vain. 1t is
estimated he has killed over $4,000
worth of live stock in the past year.
After over 20 years of separation,
Pete Sandergrath, a pioneer black
smith and owner of the proposed city
hal site at Spokane, and his brother,
John Sandergrath, retired army Of
ficec, have been brought in commute
cation with each other, and within
the next month will probably be
united. The missing brother of the
Spokane pioneer is now residing at
the old family home, Elversburg, Ger
many, on the Rhine river.
When the report of A. p. Gillette,
]. j. Donovan and E. e. Beard, the
committee of engineers appointed by
Governor M. e. Hay to Investigate
conditions in the Office of H. l..
Bowlby, state highway commissioner,
was read at the Washington Good
Roads Association convention, held in
Walla Walla, November 20, 80 and
December L, it showed that the pres
ent highway commissioner has made
an excellent record
! An explosion in the Northern Pa
| cific roundhouse at Tacoma resulted
| in Charles H. Mann, a young engine
man, being burned SO badly that he
| died few hours later in the North
| ern Pacific hospital. There were no
witnesses to the accident, but it is
| believed to have resulted from an ex-
| plosion of oil on an oil-burn1ng
switching engine which has recently
been installed by the company.
Matthew Dow and others, doing
business as Matthew Dow & Co., who
| built the Seattle armory, are not re-
| sponsible for the accident on the
night of May 6, 1909, when scores
were hurt at an athletic meet, holds
the supreme court, in reversing the
King county superior court, which
| granted a new trial in the. case of
| Cecil Thornton, who sued the con-
| tractors through his guardian.
The Pullman college is to have a
| new complete ur-target rifle range.
A communication has been received
from the war department by Lieuten-
ant Peter ]. Hennessey, commandant
at the college, that his request for
materials for this range have been
granted and are now on their way to
the college This range, when COM
| pleted, will be one of the best in the
Northwest, being 500 yards in length.
with a pit and disappearing targets.
Among the equipment will be targets,