The Newport miner. [volume] (Newport, Wash.) 1899-current, 1910-06-16
s1DEL1GHTs FROM OTHER
CITIES IN WAsH1NGTON

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issued an address in support o. ne
candidacy for United States Sena'o1
and setting forth his platform.
The thirtieth annual session OF tne
1ruper Columbia conference OF the
Seventh Day Adventists. comprising
eastern washington and Northern
Idaho. are in session at Portland.
The Pioneer Association OF Wash
ington has adopted new membership
qualifications based on residence IN
Washington for 40 years or more
prior to the date of the application.
Washington winter wheat was re-
ported as 80 on June l, the same as
June / last year. while the condition
Nav / was 95, the ten-year average
for that state.
]. K. Weatherspoon. OF Seattle. was
chosen department commander OF the
Spanish War Veterans, Department
of Washington and Alaska. at its an
nual convention in North Yakima.
The cities of Chehalis and Centralia
are to be connected by an asphalt
boulevard, constructed at a cost OF
$4,000. The commercial bodies and
councils of the two cities have COM
bined to do the work
Representatives of the Armour
packing house are closing a deal for
the purchase of the Yakima Meat
company plant, including the packing
house and retail markets in Mort
Yakima and vicinity.
The Senate public building commit
tee favorably reported Senator Jones
bills increasing the limit to the cost
Of the North Yakima public building
from $4,000 to 100000 and Belling.
ham building from $4,000 to $685..
600.
President Bryan, Of Washington
State College, will go abroad after
action has been taken upon his resig.
nation, and will devote himself to
economic and literary investigations
in which he Is interested. The trip
will be partly for the benefit Of the
health Of his wife.
Crop prospects are not the best
throughout the Walla Walla valley.
Hot, dry weather has damaged wheat
to some extent, but it Is too early in
the season to determine how much
short the crop will be. The inch and
half excess in rainfall recorded in
the early spring has been reduced to
quarter Of an inch.
Because all the land around Walla
Walla is under cultivation and no
place for d rifle range can be found,
Company X, second regiment, w. N.
G., will do Its target work at the
army range in the Blue mountains.
Arrangements have been made to take
attachments there in automobiles.
The Pullman auditorium, the larg-
est frame theatre in the northwest,
burned to the ground Saturday night
just after fair sized audience had
left the building at the close of an
entertainment given for the members
of the state grange, in session here,
by members of the graduating class
of the state college.
Her mind partial blank as the
result Of fall down a fight of steps
onto a cement sidewalk. Willena
Fouts, IL years old. may develop a
dual personality. The child has re-
covered consciousness but remembers
only part Of the incidents leading
up to the accident. which caused. con-
| cussion Of the brain. Physicians have
not determined whether the fall will
prove fatal.
With no lives lost, and property,
now valued at 100000. destroyed,
Seattle has already begun her work
of restoration Of burned district Of
six blocks along the waterfront, which
were swept by fire late Friday night.
For a time it appeared that property
valued at $1.000,oO0 or over would be
destroyed before the fire could be ex.
tinguished.
The labor situation has reached a
critical stage in Charleston and along
the Snake river, and it is estimated
that 200 fruit packers could find en-
ployment at good wages for the next
80 to 80 days. Every packing house
has sign out bearing the legend.
'Laborers Wanted" and in the orch.
ards there is even a greater demand.
, Arthur w. George, sentenced to
hang for the murder OF his divorced
wife. Elizabeth George, in Seattle.
May 10. 1907, will have a new trial.
the supreme court having granted The