The Newport miner. [volume] (Newport, Wash.) 1899-current, 1910-11-03
SIDELIGHTS FROM OTHER
CITIES IN WASHINGTON

The city of Toppenish has decided
70 allow the present officials to hold
over until year from January.
Colonel Chauncey Wright Griggs,
pioneer lumber man and former bust.
ness associate of James J.. Hill, died
at Tacoma, of paralysis aged 7S years.
The supreme court has decided that
five cent fare is all that the Taco
ma Railway and Power company can
collect from the travelling public to
any point within the corporate limits
OF the city of Tacoma.
The voters of Goldendale will again
decide whether the town shall be
wet or "dry" at this coming cleo
ton. There will probably be close
vote, as the town has been alternately
wet" and "dry" several times.
Suffragists of Dayton are distribut-
ing dainty cards, calling attention of
voters and the wives of voters to the
question of woman's rights, which is
to be voted upon at the general cleo
ton November 8.
| According to General Marion p
Maus, commander of the Department
OF the Columbia, there has been a
decrease of over so per cent in deser-
tons during the past year-a total
OF 277 this year against $50 last year.
Whatever may be the outcome of
the Spokane rate cases, the order OF
the Interstate Commerce Commission
will not become effective before May
| 1. Arguments in this and cognate
cases will be held early in March.
The citizens of Tacoma voted for
the construction of a municipal dock,
for new bridge to the tideflats at
Eleventh street, and for a new bridge
across the Puyallup river. The city
will bond itself for these improve
n4ents to the extent of $94S,00O.
A prominent fruit grower predicts
that within three years the apple pro-
duction of the White Salmon valley
will be nearly 100000 boxes. He bases
his prediction on the number of apple
orchards being developed containing
from 10 to 60 acres each.
For the purpose OF constructing a
drainage system to reclaim about
1000 acres which will be transformed
from worthless swamp to valuable
meadow, a drainage district is to be
formed by about twenty owners to
the south and west of Cheney.
The Pacific Coast Lumber Manufac-
turers' Association at it's meeting at
Tacoma, voted to spend $4,000 in
| advertising cedar products of the
| Northwest and also adopted resolu-
| tions to petition trans-continental rail
roads to equalize the rates on cedar.
Although North Yakima is in the
center of dairy and poultry section,
local grocers reported that there is
famine for both butter and eggs.
Moulting season is blamed for short
age of eggs, now selling at SO cents
| dozen retail.
The proposition of the Aberdeen
| Chamber of Commerce that Hoquaim,
| Cosmopolis and Aberdeen unite un.
der one municipality by 1915, or in
time for an appropriate celebration
in connection with the opening of the
Panama canal, received decided set
back when the Hoquiam Commercial
Club rejected the resolutions.
Former Governor Miles C. Moore
and his sons have bought the 1880
| acre ranch of Frank Hoskins, near
Walla Walla, for $4,000, the largest
transaction of the kind ever recorded
| in this section of the state The
Moores paid 100000 cash and traded
1000 acres of Franklin county land
for the $4,000 balance.
| A hydraulic nozzle cutting away an
ancient gravel bank on the Kougarok
river, 120 miles from Nome, to wash
| out gold, uncovered Is mastadon teeth
which must have been grinders OF
eight of the huge elephants that roam.
ed over Seward Peninsula when that
now frozen country was covered with
| abundant vegetation. Other bones
| were found, and the miners hope to
come upon the remainder of the skele.
| tons.
| The delegates from Tacoma which
| went to Washington, D. c., to ask for
| a new census, appealed to the war de-
| partment to have Tacoma selected as
| the place for the International Mill.
| tary Tournament to be held this year.
| Major General Wood, chief of staff
| of the army, told the delegation that
| it had not been decided whether such
| a tournament would be held, but that
Tacoma's application would be con.