The Newport miner. [volume] (Newport, Wash.) 1899-current, 1910-10-20
SIDELIGHTS FROM OTHER
CITIES IN WASHINGTON

she county seat of Cowlitz County
from Kalama to Castle Rock
Six persons were hurt at the Puyal-
lup Valley fair grounds when one OF
the race horses hurdled 4-foot fence
and dashed into crowd of spectators.
County Prosecutor McMurray has
Instituted proceedings against all per.
sons in Pierce county who are practic-
ing medicine in any form without IL
cense.
Improvements to the amount of ST.
100000. including four big steel roll
ing mills. WHY be added to the West
ern Steel corporations plant at Iron
dale, and other costly additions to the
plant are to be made at once.
That man cannot escape the pay
ment of alimony due his divorced
wife because he has been declared
bankrupt in the federal court, is the
decision of Judge Mitchell Gillian, OF
Seattle.
Following a chemical analysis of
meat purchased in three Tacoma
butcher shops, in which large guam
titles of sodium s,llphite were said to
have been found, warrants were issued
for four butchers.
Philip Miller, pioneer rancher at
Millerdale in Wenatchee valley, CEN
trail Washington, has just harvested
60 boxes, or 5000 pounds of high
grade commercial apples from single
tree in an orchard planted thirty
years ago.
Gust Olson, laborer of Valdez,
Alaska, recently found on the beach
near that town a lump of ambergis
weighing 220 pounds, and valued at
$4,000. Whaling men say this is the
largest piece of the precious substance
ever found.
State officials of the Farmers I'm
ion will meet with officials of the
Northern Pacific and O. r. & N. in an
effort to adjust the wheat rates east
satisfactorily President L. C. Grove
of the Tri-State Farmers Union, has
charge of the conference.
Rowing for women at the University
OF Washington will be abolished &C.
cord1ng to statement given out by
DR.. Hall, physical director Of the insti-
tuition. One of the reasons set forth
is the great sacrifice that must be
made in order that a regatta of wom-
en- be secured.
A network of feeders north and
south through the Inland Empire, con-
meeting at various points with the
main line, which will exceed the mill
cage between Spokane and Seattle,
and which will traverse some of the
most fertile country in Washington.
is to be built by the North Coast rail-
road.
Less than Is per cent OF the apple
crop of the northwest has been sold,
according to estimates of Walla Walla
commission men. Orchardists are
holding their fruit at present about
Is to Is cents box higher than the
buyers are willing to pay, and as re.
suit little trading is being done.
Katak, a Point Barrow Eskimo,
has sent to Seattle by q ship 100 fox
skins to be sold for $1,000 and the
money used to purchase goods. He
wishes rifles, flour, tea, cooking
range and score of articles that he
has never seen, but whose pictures in
the advertising sections OF the maya
zines and newspapers have attracted
him.
Warrants have been issued for the
indictments returned by the Chshalis
County grand jury. They are for
County Treasure G. J. Taylor, Tor
malfeasance in office; for Wilson
Buttner, for grand larceny; for r. c.
Moxley, for dynamiting a home, and
for c. Minkler and F. Moe, for kill
ing steer.
Alleged waste of state highway
funds by the state highway commits
sion has led to the appointment of
committee of disinterested parties by
Governor Hay to conduct an investi-
cation. 1t is charged that the new
state highway commissioner, J. H.
Bowlby, has expended a. high as 80
per cent of the revenue raised for
highway purposes, for engineering ex-
penses and in the operation Of the
state convict rock crushers.
Seven informations against John
Riplinger, ex-city controller and de-
feated republican candidate for mayor
of Seattle in 1906, charging larceny by
embezzlement of $500. were dismiss
ed by Prosecuting Attorney George F.
M III a.