The Newport miner. [volume] (Newport, Wash.) 1899-current, 1910-04-14
EIDELIGHTS FROM OTHER
CITIES IN WASHINGTON

IACOMA,-Ile NOrCnefn Pacific
Railroad is about to begin series OF
experiments with gasoline motor pro-
PEELED cars for suburban service in
the Northwest
OLYMP1A.-Because its workmen
left explosives in an clubhouse where
children found it, the Gill Home In
yestment Company, of Tacoma, must
pay $4,000, according to unanimous
decision of the Gtate Supreme Court.
VANCOUVER-Not since vancou-
yer was first established, more than
half century ago, has such a boom
in building been inaugurated. Build
ings aggregating nearly 100000 are
in course of construction.
STEvENsON-Rob Brown, who
killed Isador st. Martin, was released
on $4,000 cash bail furnished by
Brown himself He left for Spokane.
EVERETT. = The statement is
made here that the Monte Cristo
mines are to reopen this summer
and that camp will again be the ter
minus of the Monte Cristo branch of
the Northern Pacific.
CASTLE ROCK.-A box car in the
yards here was broken into and sew
eral cases of shoes and 1000 cigars
were taken. The thieves were so ex-
pert in opening and closing the seal
that the theft was not discovered
until a cache was found containing
most of the shoes There is no clue.
VANCOUVER. - Carshops to cost
$4,000 will be built in Vancouver this
year by the Spokane, Portland 4
Seattle Railroad. These shops will
be used chiefly for repairing cars.
The present shops are unable to cope
with the work piled up ahead of them.
WALLA WALLA.-Judge M. NJ.
Goodman, of Seattle, stated here that
the Democrats would put a candidate
in the field for United States Senator
this year. The party, he said, would
make a strong effort to control the
next legislature.
WALLA >WALLA.-Rural mail de-
livery out of Walla Walla is seriously
threatened by the small remuneration
given the employees Of Uncle Sam,
and unless there is an increase in
salary soon it looks as if there would
be a Instrumentation OF several of the
routes leading out from the city.
OLYMPIA.-Estates on which the
state has collected inheritance tax
since October l., 1908, aggregate
| $15,042,49S, according to the figures
compiled by Secretary Koors, OF the
ton aggregated $141,361.
DAYTON.-In an effort to stop
'bootlegging, which it is assured is
| being carried on extensively in dry"
Dayton, the council may adopt unique
and drastic measures. At meeting
the council agitated the proposal OF
offering a reward Of $50 or more for
| evidence leading to the arrest and
conviction of the bootleggers.
OLYMPIA-The first complaint so
| far made in the state for violation Of
| the provisions of the local option law
| in shipping liquors into dry territory
resulted here in warrant being is
sued against the Northern Pacific.
| The complaint was made at Rainier,
| this county, because of the shipment
to that place of barrel of beer.
LYLE.-Old prospectors in the vi
cinity of Yyle have been awakened to
JOY over the prospect of capital and
developed modern energy supplying
! the key to unlock the treasury vault
of the western slope of the Bitter
Root Divide, much of which is yet I'M
explored, drained by the Salmon and
| Clearwater rivers in Idaho.
CATHLAMET. - Through the in
| strumentality of J. H. Walker, OF the
| Willamette Pulp and Paper Company,
| the United States Fisheries Commits
| sion will make a shipment of $4,000
Eastern brook trout fry to be placed
| in one of the tributaries of Gray's
| River, this county. They will be
looked after and fed by the caretaker
of the paper company's property as
long as they need such attention.
| SPOKANE. - The Federal grand
Jury indicted Charles D. Howell and
Thomas Gordon, his alleged accom-
plice, on the charges of conspiracy to
commit a crime against the United
States. Howell, it is charged, boarded
Great Northern train on March Is.
| 1908, at Boomers Ferry, and while the
train was running entered the mail
| car and assaulted the railway mail
clerks, John F. Nystum and Benjamin
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