The Newport miner. [volume] (Newport, Wash.) 1899-current, 1910-09-01
SIDELIGHTS FROM OTHER
CITIES IN WASHINGTON


season will be, according to present
estimates, between 1000 and 10000
bales.
Governor Hay has appointed dele
gates to the Eighteenth National Irri-
cation Congress, meeting in Pueblo,
Colo, September q to 30.
That forest fires in Clark County
have destroyed more than 100000
worth of property, made 800 persons
homeless and thrown 1000 men out of
work is estimated by timbermen.
| Shipping figures received from aTur
ner, Alto, Huntsville, Longs and other
shipping points in Columbia County
show that new grain is going to Port
land at the rate of Is cars, or 10000
bushels, week.
Believed to be backed by English
capitalists. the Upper Columbia River
Land Company has spent 100000
in the vicinity of Marble in the pur-
chase of more than $4,000 acres and
in water rights.
State Fire Warden ]. R. Welty has
ordered all deputy wardens to issue
no permits to burn slashings near
standing timber and to see that all
fires are under the personal supervi-
sion of the fire wardens.
Thousands upon thousands of
pounds of prunes in the Walla Walla
valley will be wasted unless help is
soon obtained to pick the fruit
Peaches and other fruit are also af.
fected.
Hundreds of automobiles from the
different cities on the Pacific coast
are expected to attend the meeting in
Seattle September for the purpose
of organizing the Western Automobile
Association.
The tour of the Washington State
College Northern Pacific farming dem
onstration train commenced at Ia
coma August 81, ending at Seattle
September 8, and during this time
will include. all the towns of Western
Washington located on the Northern
Pacific Railway.
The moving pictures of the Jeffries-
Johnson fight at Reno on July will
not be shown in Spokane. This decis
lon was made by Mayor n S. Pratt
some time ago and he was upheld by
the superior court.
E. P. Hall, of Everett, is asking the
City of South Bend to grant him a
franchise, extending over a period of
46 years, to furnish an abundant sup
ply Of water for domestic, manufactur
| ing and fire protection purposes
| Assessor O. P. HALEY OF Franklin
| County refuses to maintain an office
at Pasco, the county seat, and de-
| clares that under the law he is privi-
! legged to. establish that Office, if he de-
sires, in a haystack on his farm, Is
miles from Pasco
The new life-saving station at Neah
Bay, erected on the model of the sta
ton at the A.-Y.-P. Exposition at Seat
tie, will be ready for occupancy soon,
and is probably one of the best equip
ped institutions of it's kind in the
United States.
The $30.000,000 recently secured by
the Electric Bond and Share Company
Is to be expended in the next 20 years
in the development of electric, gas
and traction plants in the northwest
| Two hundred miles of transmission
line are to be built soon to tie to-
gether all the power owned by the
company.
For the first time as a unit Spo-
kane county will be represented at
the third National Apple show in No.
vember, and under the auspices of the
Spokane County Horticultural Society
a complete exhibit will be entered, at
an estimated cost of $4,000. One-half
of this amount will be paid by the
county.
| By unanimous vote the Spokane
council. rejected the proposed anti
picketing ordinance, modelled after an
ordinance introduced in Los Angeles,
forbidding union men to talk with
strikebreakers or to urge them to
leave their jobs and join unions.
The board Of control appointed Ed
Rogers, of Olympia, travelling guard
and parole officer of the reformatory
at Monroe. He will take prisoners to
the reformatory from the county seats
and keep track Of prisoners on parole.
Mr.. Rogers was formerly chief of po-
lice of Olympia
Although clawed by a cougar and
i'll with his injuries, Sandy McPher-
son, of SQuaw River, in the Olympics