The Newport miner. [volume] (Newport, Wash.) 1899-current, 1911-09-21
WASHINGTON BRIEFLETS

ferent branches in the Northwest,
landed all the contracts for the but
ter and cheese for state institutions
for the next six months at 20 cents
for butter and 1914 cents for cheese.
When Acknowledgement w. V. Tan
ner informed the state highway board
that it had no legal right to dispose
Of a state road, and that such ques-
tons were properly matters for his
department to settle, he disposed OF
The state supreme court at Olympia
handed down a decision sustaining
and affirming the order of the State
Railroad Commission directing the
SeattleTacoma Interurban Railroad to
reduce passenger rates to points not
reached by other carriers.
Suit against Walla Walla and the
Walla Walla Irrigation Company was
fled, asking permanent Injunction
to restrain the latter defendant from
emptying the sewage from the city
into the Walla Walla River. No dam
ages, aside from costs. are asked.
q question that has bothered state
officials for some time. The point
was raised by reason of the applica-
ton of the Great Northern railroad to
purchase part Of the state highway
from Wenatchee to Pateros along the
west bank of the Columbia River.
H. B. Dewey, state superintendent
of public instruction, has completed
the gathering Of statistics which
show that during the last year in
Washington the school districts of the
state have reduced the warrant in
debtedness from $2,873,4O9 to $780,
375, or by more than $4,000.
Asking first for the presence Of a
priest, but later conserving to tell his
weird tale to Chief of Police Temple
man, Joseph WALTON, the cook who
attempted to murder Mrs. Archie
Castor and her mother, Mrs. A. Par
ras, at their home at Aberdeen, con-
fessed to the murder of Archie Cas-
tor. The confession, though at times
1ncoherent, Is complete.
With the death of Ianzi Luigi, an
Italian section hand, who was shot
in the leg at Wilson Creek, lack Fin
ney, a well-known farmer of that
town, and his hired man, George How
ard, may have to answer to a charge
OF manslaughter. Finney and How
ard admit shooting Luigi, but claim
he and some fellow-countrymen were
stealing fruit in Finney's orchard.
George T. Reid, division counsel of
the Northern Pacific Railroad, an
nounced that negotiations with the
town of Ruston had progressed far
enough to justify him in saying there
seemed to be no obstacle in the way
of building the water grade line from
Tacoma to Portland by way of Point
Defiance. Delay has been caused by
the inability Of the railway company
and the town to agree on the terms of
a franchise.
To make Of all the public school
buildings in the city "civic centerss
so-called, is the project launched by
several men and women in Tacoma
who are eager to do something for the
social uplift Of the people They
would make Of the school buildings,
when not in use for school purposes,
a place where improvement club
meetings may be held and where may
also be held any gathering of the peo-
pie of the immediate district sur
rounding the school.
If the city commissioners put
through the budget as outlined at
present the municipal government for
the year 1911-1912 will be under CD.
Grating and other expenses that will
run some 100000 more than for
191O-1911 and a dream of the citizens
that the new charter would be
worked out in such a manner that the
expenses would be greatly reduced
will be shattered A recapitulatton of
all the wants of the commission
shows that the budget will total more
than s1,5OO,O0O, while last years ex-
penses were '$1,O95,653.
Attorney Frank H. Kelley, of Ia
coma, who returned from San Fran
cisco with Marjorie Rieman, aged 16,
and her mother, Mrs Porter Magnu-
son, to whom the custody of the
daughter had been given by the SUI
perior court in San Francisco, said
that suit would be filed charging Fa-
Their c. G. Van Goethem, the mother
superior Of the Academy of the visi-
tation and Sister Aloysius of that in
stitution, and Attorney Louis I. Le-
febvre. all of Tacoma, with abduction
and DEMANDING COX nm 5or.ros