The Newport miner. [volume] (Newport, Wash.) 1899-current, 1910-12-29
s1DELIGHTs FROM OTHER
CITIES IN WASHINGTON

A package containing Eve sticks OF
dynamite was found on the front
steps of the Seattle First Methodist
church.
Eighteen hundred acres Of undevel-
oped land lying in one body nine
miles north of White Salmon has
been purchased by the White Salmon
Orchard Development Company for a
consideration OF $4,000.
Thirty-three divorces granted in
three nours set new records both Tor
continuity of performance and for
speed in the superior court at Sc
attic.
Pretending to be agents, but in
reality pair of clever swindlers, w.
P. Clark and Roy Wilson, who are
said to have forged checks amounting
to $2O0 in Walla Walla, are being
sought by the officers of that city.
The Secretary of the Treasury has
directed the supervising architect to
prepare plans Immediately for pub.
lie building at Olympia, that being
States that now has no federal build
ing.
of trade the trustees of the Walla
Walla commercial club passed reso-
luton asking Congress to make ap-
preparations for the Notifications of
the Pacific coast and especially Puget
Sound.
One man Is dead. another is in the
city hospital and four others are Sc
riously Ill with beri bert, a peculiar
dieease which broke out on the Brit
ish steamship Beachy at Seattle The
disease came to the attention of the
health department when Arsai Ali,
Hindu sailor on the steamer, died.
By a vote of II to 1, the Seattle
council voted to revoke the franchise
Of the Seattle-Renton and Southern
Railroad Company, which operates
the suburban line into the Rainier
valley, commonly known as the Craw-
ford lines.
Frank B. Westling, for 20 years an
attorney in Seattle, has been ordered
disbarred by the grievance committee
of the Seattle Bar Association, and
action will be taken at once. One OF
several counts against Westling is
that he endeavored to browbeat and
coerce men into voting for him as
prosecuting attorney and for other
men he was working for.
]. P. Hubrick, who threatened the
life Of his daughter, must return to
the state penitentiary whence he was
paroled. Hubrick was sentenced to
IA years for stealing coal.- but was
pardoned on condition that he follow
the narrow path and support his fam
lily. Governor Hay revoked the par
don and Hubrick was returned to
prison without trial
The first local option election in
Richland will be held December 81.
There has been no saloon in the town
since its establishment, although the
sentiment has never been tested.
Should Richland vote "dry" only one
county town will have saloons. Ken
newick The remainder of the
county is "dry" through local option
votes.
Approximately $4,000 carloads of
shingles were shipped from the state
OF Washington during 1910, or about
1000 more cars than were shipped
last year, according to a manufacture
ers statement given out here. AL
though the single departments were
in excess of those of the previous
year, the sales We're nearly 10000
carloads less than sent out during the
banner years of the industry.
Twenty-one Spokane residents are
rated as owning property valued at
100000 or more: % are credited
with possessions worth 100000 to
$1,000, 900, and 81 are listed at $780,
600 to 100000. 1t Is estimated that
1873 Spokane people own an aggregate
OF $58,000,000. The total assessed
valuation of the entire city figured on
a so per cent basis is $S3.30O,000.
The regents of the University OF
Washington announce their accept
ance of the $4,000 bequest left by the
late Abraham and Sigmund Schwa-
bacher of San Francisco The money
Is to be devoted to the establishment
of A. child welfare bureau In the de-