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


celery this fall, many Of the Chinese
growers reporting yields as high as
sc, 900 punches an acre.
Eight apples to be sent by the
Walla Walla Commercial club to the
Chicago Land show measure just one
yard and their total weight is IL
pounds three ounces.
Edward N. Whitson, Judge Of the
United States circuit court OF the
Eastern District of Washington, died
at his home in Spokane following an
attack of paralysis.
Estimates of the actual value of the
Yakima valley fruit crop being ship
ped in 1910 vary from $3,9O0,00O to
$4,675,OO0 among fruit shippers in
North Yakima The figures include
only the shipments In Yakima and
Benton counties.
Many of the state departments have
about exhausted their printing appro-
priations and some pf them will have
to do close figuring to avoid defici-
encies. There are six months to pass
before more money will be available.
Application for a permit to erect a
History building at Seattle has been
filed by L. C. Smith of Syracuse, N.
Y. The building, which will be ex-
ceeded in height by only one build
ing in the world, will cost 100000
John H. McGraw, former governor
of Washington. and a pioneer in the
Pacific northwest, who died last sum-
mer, left an estate valued at $685.
900, according to the report of the ap-
praisers just filed.
c. D. Hillman, the Seattle real es-
tate dealer, with four of his employees,
R. o. Smith, S. B. Smith, J. E. Loren
man and Samuel s. Suffer, were ar
raigned before Federal Judge Down
worth on charges of conspiracy to use
the government mails to defraud, and
entered pleas OF not guilty.
Another railroad will connect Port
land with Tacoma, running by way OF
Willapa Harbor, if the Wllapa Har-
Dor & Coast Line railroad builds the
railroad outlined in its articles sub
mitted to the secretary of state for
filing. The capital stock of the road
is placed at $10,000,o0o.
Thos. J. Riggs, Jr., a government
engineer who has been at work ON
the Alaska boundary survey, reports
the discovery far north of the Arctic
Circle OF what he believes to be the
highest mountain on the continent,
exceeding Mount Mckinley, the fam,
Gus. Alaska peak, by 1000 feet.
Stevens county commissioners have
appropriated $500 for the purchase of
grass seed to be distributed among
fire sufferers in the vicinity of New
port. The seed will be sown on the
ashes of forest fires which swept the
region, including the Kaniksu re-
serve last summer.
An attempt was made to dynamite
fourteen Japanese laborers at Gate
City. The men were sleeping in a
clubhouse when the explosion took
place. The building was partly de-
molished, but the Japs escaped un-
hurt. Only part of the dynamite
exploded, although there was enough
under the shack to- blow the men to
pieces.
Having squandered $4,000 in two
years and having brought climax to
his celebration by signing check for
$25 when he had only 81 left in the
bank, Isaac Cathcart, of Cathcart,
Wash. is behind the bars in Tacoma.
The young man was left a fortune
two years ago by his father, who
built and was the leading citizen OF
the town of Cathcart.
When the Washington State Good
Roads association meets at WaAa
Walla late in November, reliable and
accurate data relating to the cost of
road construction will be presented
and for the first time it will be shown
just what relation to the total cost
the engineering and superintendent
should be. This is phase Of good
road building that causes more trou-
BILE than any other. In Washington
highways have BEEN built by the state,
by the counties and by township Or
CARNATIONS. Statistics are now being
gathered from the three forms of gov
eminent to determine just how much
each is paying for engineering.
An order restraining Mayor Hiram
c. Gill, Chief of Police w. Wappen-
stein and the City Health Department.
from recognizing and protecting dis
trict inhabited by degraded women
and issuing certificates of health to