The Newport miner. [volume] (Newport, Wash.) 1899-current, 1910-05-19
SIDELIGHTS FROM OTHER
CITIES IN WASHINGTON


rested here for selling obscene pic.
lures, has been sentenced by Judge.
Mason Irwin, Of the Superior Court
to nine months in the penitsntiary.
ABERDEEN-All big logging camps
and many small ones will close June
for 80 days. One hundred and twenty
million feet Of logs are now available
giving an ample supply to the mill for
a month.
NORTH Notwithstanding O..
Inmates Of the population Of North
Yakima place the figures at 1850.
The population Of the city. according
to the census Of 1900. was 1ss.
OLYMP1A-The Supreme Court has
decided that the state law. which sx-
acts 81 per cent tai on sstatss Of
$4,000 or over. must be upheld when
the heirs are aliens and Of the third
degree OF relationship.
STEVENSON-At the last meeting
Of the Skamania County commission.
ers, $500 was voted towards the
county fair to be held at this place
some time during the months Of DC.
tober.
TACOMA-A logging train ran
away on the Buckley branch Of the
Northern Pacific smashing the station
building at MacMillen and fatally In.
Turing George Mitlich, whs was In the
depot.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS because
her child had been taken from her,
following charges Of cruel treatment
that had resulted in her husbands
being fined $50. Mrs. Harvey Basslin
committed suicide BY drinking two
ounces of laudanum.
WALLA WALLA-Ths great de-
mand for convicts to work on the
roads and at rock crushsrs has, re-
duced the number in the peniteut iary
here until there are hardly more than
600 within the walls. OF this number
296 work IN the jute mill.
SEATTLE-The woman's DEBATING
team Of the University Of Washington
defeated the women Of the University
Of Oregon in debate on the postal
savings bank question. The Washing.
ton team had the affirmative side.
This is the first woman's intercolls.
giate debate to be held in the Pacific
Northwest.
TACOMA-Antons Elicit and Pat.
rick Macklin. brakemen employed BY
the DUPONT Powder Company At tn
plant near this city. were instantly
killed by an explosion Of more than
q ton OF dynamite. Their bodies wsrs
blown to atoms. the fragments being
scattered for hundreds OF feet from
where the explosion occurred.
sEATTLE-There appears to BE- q
substantial basis for q report that \.
L. Mccormick. Of Tacoma. Rspublieaa
National Committeeman and caadL
date for the United States Senate.
may withdraw from active politics b.
for the close Of tho Summer. The
cause is attributed to Judge MeCor-
mick's health. which has been slowly
on the down grade for several weeks.
SEATTLE - Tho State Medical
Board filed notice of appeal to the
Supreme Court from the decision Of
the King County Superior Court or.
dering the board to grant q physi-
clans license to Mrs. Linda BurfielA
Hazard. popularity known ~ = starva,
ton doctor. two of whose patients
have died Of starvation recently.
SEATTLE-R. M. Faulkner. who re-
Gently secreted his baby daughter II
Spokane in order to prevent her bsinx
turned over to his wife under . esurt
order, broke into the room occupied
by Bert Hardin, and stabbed him q
death as he lay in his bed. Faulkner
was arrested later BY the polies. swhs
believe he intended to kill his wife,
but got into the wrong house ana
murdered Hardin instead.
WALLA WALLA-With valuable
cash prizes in sight the 3oth annual
shoot of the sportsmsn's Associatiea
of the Northwest opened ct Walla
Walla Tuesday afternoon for thrss
days. Fifteen prizes value at 39eee
and $1,000 in cash prizes were cem-
peted for by the expert wielde1s Of
the scatter gun. The best marksMsn
from all points in Oregon. Washing-
ton and Idaho attend this content.
WOODLAND-The contract for TIN.
first work on state road No. -, az
thorized by the last session Of til.
State Legislature, was lot Z few days
ago and the work will b done the