The Newport miner. [volume] (Newport, Wash.) 1899-current, 1910-09-29
SIDELIGHTS FROM OTHER
CITIES IN WASHINGTON

were Quarantlned with blue cara IN
Tacoma by the health inspectors.
For the purpose of creating fund
for an Ellensburg bureau Of associated
charities, the Ellensburg commandery
of Knights Templar will give char
ity ball on the evening of October 26.
AS a means of securing plans for
the building of the municipal dock,
Mayor A. v. Fawcett, of Tacoma, will
inaugurate a contest scheme whereby
the architect producing the best plan
will be awarded prize.
The Tacoma Commercial Club will
extend an invitation to Secretary OF
the Navy Meyer to visit Tacoma dur
ing his visit to the Puget Sound naval
station and to the cities of Washing
ton.
General Marion P Maus, commander
of the Department of the Columbia,
has issued an order directing the CO.
operation of all concerned in the
maintenance Of the telegraph lines
throughout Alaska.
The International Portland Cement
company, Linn, with stated capital
ization OF $3.O00,0O0, half Of which is
in preferred stock. has been incorpor.
ated under the laws of the state OF
Washington, to erect an extensive
plant near Spokane.
Asking that $50 soldiers of Vancou-
yer post be reimbursed for clothing
destroyed and worn out when the
troops were fighting forest fires, Col
onel George K. McGunnegle, COM
manding officer, has sent a request
to the auditor of the war department.
When the University of Washing
ton opened its doors all previous
records in student registration were
broken. On that day 1853 students
were booked at Registrar Herbert T.
Condon's office. Last year at the
same period the registration reached
the 800 mark on the initial day.
John Klingenberg, who murdered
Charles Hadberg, for which crime
William Gohl, former agent of the
sailors union in Aberdeen was con-
victed and is now serving life SEN
tence at Walla Walla for planning the
murder, has asked members Of the
Chehalis county grand jury for an
other attorney.
Four thousand Indians representing
all the tribes in the northwest, will
gather in a national convention at
Toppenish, October to II. The Fed
eral government has sanctioned the
pow-wow,' at which the spectacular
features will be the sun and religious
dances of the frontier days and a
series of races with Indian riders on
ponies.
Eight travelling representatives OF
eastern business houses have organ
lied the Acme Orchard company I'm.
der the laws of New Jersey and Wash
ington. Their capital stock is $685.
900 and their holdings is 800 acres in
the Major creek section of White Sal
mon.
The office of game warden will be
eliminated in Columbia county, and
the revenue from the sale of hunting
licenses, amounting to oyer $500 a
year, will be used in the future to
introduce new varieties Of game birds,
according to a decision reached by the
board of county commissioners.
The Seattle Public Welfare League
has perfected its plans for the GUST
ing of Mayor Hiram c. Gill by the
recall, and the form of the recall Pc
ton has been drafted. It will request
the removal OF the mayor on the
ground that he is violating the law
and is guilty of malfeasance in office
in permitting the existence OF a dis
trict inhabited by disorderly houses
and gambling resorts.
With the explanation that exploit
alton is more valuable to Wenatchee
than competition" Wenatchee,
through Secretary Coburn. OF the
Wenatchee Chamber of Commerce,
declined to enter exhibits at the
Washington state fair.
The Occidental mine No. 3, owned
by Patrick Gibbon, at Palmer, thirty
miles southeast OF Seattle. on the
Northern Pacific, was flooded last
Tuesday by the escape of q large
body of water released by a miners
pick, the miner being drowned and his
seventeen comrades being compelled
to flee for their lives.