The Newport miner. [volume] (Newport, Wash.) 1899-current, 1910-05-05
B.DELIGHTS FROM OTHER
CITIES IN WASHINGTON

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been organized here.
SPOKANE-Dean B. F. Westmore
Of Spokane College, has established
An employment bureau for the sbene-
fit of students wishing to work during
the vacation months and the coming
school year.
SNOHOMISH-The nineteenth an
nual meeting of the Northwestern As.
ISOLATION of Congregational Churches
and Ministers met at Snohomisn
Tuesday and Wednesday, May and I.
NORTH YAKIMA = Local option
workers at Granger are planning for
a special election at which the saloon
question will be submitted. Granger
has one saloon, the only saloon in the
Sunnyside irrigated district.
SEATTLE+The Great Northern
railroad has just ordered the tsle-
phone train dispatching apparatus to
be installed on six more divisions.
This road is already using telephones
for this purpose on approximately
2100 miles of line.
OLYMPIA-In affirming the $4,000
judgment recovered by w. w. Cathey
against the Seattle Electric Company
for personal injuries, the Supreme
Court upheld the validity Of the trtai
by a jury last June drawn under the
old law.
ALMIRA-The fruit crop along the
Columbia River north Of Almira il the
best for years, being unaffected by
recent frosts. One man. who con-
trolls a number of acres of peaches,
offered to contract 1000 boxes to the
local merchants at so cents per box.
WASHOUGAL-Wh is thought to
be the largest deal completed by any
firm in the southwestern part OF
Washington has been closed success
fully by the Washougal Dairy and
Land Company. The transaction in
wolves SCI 800 and I'LL acres Of land.
SPOKANE-J. S. Boone. q rancher
living in the extreme southeastern
part of the county, was shot and in
stantly killed by unknown persons at
night on Friday. The shots were
fired from ambush. At the same time
Arthur Rollen, hired man, Was
wounded
OLYMPIA-The Supreme Court
heard arguments in the test case Of
the Puget Sound Warehouse Com
pany against the Northern Pacific
railroad, which will determine wheth-
or or not an individual or nrm that
consigns grain to himself or itself has
to pay for inspection under the state
grain and hay inspection law.
J. SEATTLE-Ex-State Representative
L. e. RAIDER, who, on the advice Of
woman physician has eaten NO food
for four weeks, and whose death Is
looked for soon. has been located at
the home Of a friend on Broadway,
whittier he had been taken to slpde
the lunacy commission appointed to
examine him.
ABERDEEN-At . meeting OF the
Southwestern Washington Develop
ment League, to be held in Centralia,
May 27-28, plans for a through road
from Raymond to Grays Harbor will
be discussed. Surveys are being
made. The road. il built. will bring
Raymond and Grays Harbor within
two hours of each other by autouo-
bile.
ELLENSBURG-Cha Mason one
of the wealthiest Indians In the valley
and we'll known to all OF the old set
tiers as staunch friend OF white
men, died at his ranch near the mouth
of the Nahum Canyon. He was Is
years old. He irrigated the plaes, &c
quired a big herd Of stock ana His
fortune is estimated ct from vi. 200
to $4,000.
SEATTLE-The census Of Japausse
in Seattle, nearly completed, will
show a population OF more than 1000
people of that race. or more than
twice as many as any other Ameri-
can city has. Adding the truck farm
ers in the surrounding country, there
are 10000 Japanese in and near Seat
tie. In the state Of Washington the
census is expected to show 10000
Japanese, as against 10000 in Cali.
fornia !.
PASCO-Pasco is going to start an
advertising campaign at the Union
Depot, and the plan adopted Is unique.
Through the efforts Of the Pasco Com.
mercial Club, Leslie Reed. the tallest
man in the country has been em.
ployed to stay at the Union Depot
and distribute literature. telling about
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