The Newport miner. [volume] (Newport, Wash.) 1899-current, 1910-09-22
SIDELIGHTS FROM OTHER
CITIES IN WASHINGTON

whose age is believed to be more than
100 years, is near deaths door at st.
Elizabeth's hospital, North Yakima.
State Fire Warden Welty in a state
ment declares that timber fires were
more general and widespread this sea-
son than ever before known in this
state.
The Spokane health department has
called on the State Board of Health
for assistance in compelling the en-.
forcement Of the compulsory vacciha-
ton law in the Spokane city schools.
The state board of control has
awarded contracts for granulated SUI
gar for the state institutions for six
months. The bids aggregate 10000
pounds.
In order that work may at once be
begun in securing new charter for
the city, the city officials of Walla
Walla and of the local commercial
club wired Census Director Durand for
the figures of the population.
Every crossing of the North Coast
railroad in Benton and Yakimx coun-
ties, including those for pedestrians,
wagons and railroads, Is being In
spected by the state railroad commits.
sion.
Suit has been filed in the Superior
Court by N d. Jameson, on behalf Of
the "drys" of Puyallup, asking an in.
junction to prevent City Clerk Lap.
lante ealing special local option
election.
Despite the curtailment of an an.
nual revenue of $500 from saloons
since Dayton became a t'dry" town
two years ago, the council will make
this years tax levy one mill below
what it was when the saloons went
| out of business.
Judge E. E. Cushrnan, one Of the
federal judges in1Aiaska, who has just
returned to Tacoma AFTER season OF
holding court in the north, brings news
of rich gold strike in the Valdez re.
| gion.
The question of local option for
Elma will be voted on at the next
general election. Elma will be the
first city in Chehalis county to vote
on this question, and its action will
be looked forward to with interest.
Candidates for the office of mayor
| of Wenatchee are still scarce, and
while several prominent men nave
been approached by committees to So.
| cure their acceptance OF the nomina.
ton, every attempt has been unsuc-
cessful.
Jack Tyberg, a Norwegian laborer,
is locked up in the King county Jail
and will be taken back to Nome, Alas
ka, to answer the charge of stealing
nearly $4,000 in gold dust from sluice
boxes of the Pioneer Mining company,
where he was employed.
Insurgent Republican leaders from
every county in the state will rhold" q
conference in Tacoma, September rs,
and on the following day will confer
with Democratic leaders over fusion
on the supreme court justice candi-
dates to be nominated by tho Demo
cratic state convention on that day.
The Chicago. Miiwankee T. st. Paul
railroad is believed to have concluded
arrangements with the Northern Pa.
| cific whereby the Milwaukee will op-
crate west from Spokane to Lind over
the Northern Pacific tracks in ex-
change for the use of the Milwaukee
tracks between Lind and Ellensburg
by the Northern Pacific.
Judge George Turner, who repre-
scented the United States as counsel in
the fisheries cases before the tribunal
at The Hague, will sail from Liverpool
on September "a, arriving in new
York on October 2. He VIII 20 thence
to Washington, D. c., to make his Of
ficial report to President Taft and the
secretary of state, and arrive in Spo-
kane about October 10.
Growing more alarming daily, the
typhoid epidemic in Columbia county
now numbers from rs to IS victims.
Thus far only one death has occurred,
although many Of the cases exist in
malignant and dangerous form. The
number OF cases in Dayton probably
numbers twenty now, and new flags
are going up daily almost. 1t may be
found necessary to close the schools
it conditions become worse.
Unconscious Of the loss OF his right
foot. after being run over by q passing
train. Louis La Jambe. Of Wapato,
was found On the Northern Pacific
station platform at North Yakima in
an intoxicated condition and complain.
| inc If a roiu In hfo foot The 1a~ ,,oo