The Newport miner. [volume] (Newport, Wash.) 1899-current, 1910-11-24
SIDELIGHTS FROM OTHER
CITIES IN WASHINGTON

The Washington Association for the
Prevention and Relief Of Tuberculosis,
through the courtesy Of the American
Red Cross Association. will shsrtly In
augurate campaign through tins. state
to raise funds for the work ly the
sale Of red cross seals.
The students Of the state unis ersity
are considering the establishment OF
university hospital The plan will
require every student to pay a hospi-
tai fee. It will include room and care
by trained nurse. Physicians SER
vice will be additional.
| Shot by man, who attempted, sim
gle-handed, to hold up crowded sa-
loon at South Bellingham, Frank Dix,
is dying in a hospital with a bullet
through his breast. The police are
without a clew to the identity of the
man who fired the shot.
The military department of the Uni
versity of Washington, has received
nearly 300 uniforms for cadets at Sc
attic, as well as the necessary equip
ment for the year. Captain Patten
will enforce rigidly the rule that all
students must wear their uniforms at
drill.
| A still to make 500 gallons of de-
natured alcohol daily from waste fruit,
prunes, apples and potatoes has been
built in Clark county at a cost of $751;
600. by the Patrons of Husbandry
Light & Fuel company, and operation
will begain about December for
short run. Next year a longer run
will be made The waste prunes have
now been exhausted.
Forty thousand rats have been de-
stroyed by the Seattle health depart
ment and examined by the United
States public health and marine hos
pital psychologists in the last eight
months, without trace of bubonic
plague germ having been discovered,
DR.. J. E. Crichton, health commission
er, has fourteen men on his staff,
whose sole duty is catching and pois-
oning rats.
Nineteen million dollars is the neat
little profit that was made in a coal
deal entered into few months ago by
| number of Seattle and Vancouver
capitalists, who took an option on IS
square miles of bituminous coal lands
in British Columbia, put up a little
money, expended 100000 in develop
ment work, and then sold the project
to an English syndicate headed by Sir
Arthur Pearson, principal stockholder
in Pearson's Magazine for $20,000,000.
A big mass meeting of all the or
chard interests of the section of the
country near White Salmon, has been
called for December 5, the plan being
to embrace in union all the fruit1
growers from Underwood to Lyle. The
White Salmon Fruit Growers associa7
ton handled $4,000 of strawberries
last spring at a profit of 1888 a crate
to the grower, the highest price real
lied along the Columbia. The associa]
ton believes that union could make
as good a showing with apples.
The University of Washington is
planning for the third annual short
course in forestry. Together with a
course for rangers, the work includes
lumbermen's course and instruction
for timber cruisers, logging foremen
and ranch land owners. The course
| will continue from January to
March 4. Applicants will not need to-
take the regular entrance examina-
tons, as regular students, but they
must be at least - years old and have
ability to carry on the work of this
department.
Farmers of Washington will more
than likely dominate the Good Roads
convention which meets in Wa1la
Walla the last of this month, and If
they do the convention will go on
record against state aid road law. Ac-
cording to the bylaws Of the State
Good Roads Association the Farmers
Unions of the state are entitled to
one delegate for every ten members.
This will give the local union IS votes
on the floor of the convention and
the others in proportion. a strength
that cannot be equaled by any other
one faction and that it will be hard
for all to defeat.
Dick Hart, of Toppenish. carried
off the big event in the mixed carload
lots at the National Apple Show at
Spokane, with White Winter Pear
mains and Delicious. He received $3.50
and the gold medal banner. The
judges, after testing his exhibit. gave
him a percentage Of 95.27. c. c.
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