The Newport miner. [volume] (Newport, Wash.) 1899-current, 1911-09-07
WASHINGTON BRIEFLETS

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was held September to discuss the
commission form of government.
In a fire which destroyed the home
of r. M. Morgan In Spokane, Mrs.
Morgan lost her life in an effort to
rescue her two little children.
The shipments of hay from Toppen-
ish have been averaging over 30 car
loads a day, being shipped princi-
pally to Tacoma and Seattle markets.
C. M. Voight and W. w. Payne of
the state bureau Of supervision and
inspection of public officers are check
ing records in the county treasurer's
Office at Colfax
| The forest fire in the green timber
at the head of the Satsop River is
working havoc with big game, which
| Is being driven from the woods in
great numbers.
Lively interest in the coming Che
halls city election to vote on the adop-
ton or rejection of the proposed COM
mission form of government plan has
manifested itself.
Despondent because his white
sweetheart threw him down for a
white man, Frank Yamamota, Jap
anese, shot himself through the head,
dying instantly, at Walla WalIa.
The first official statement of the
Waterville Railway Company shows
| the net earnings to be $1,999.S2 since
the beginning of operations in Aug
ust. The road is six miles long.
William Schmulbach, alias Harry
Nye, who was arrested at Seattle, on
charge of having killed Policeman
William G. Smith in Joplin, Mo-, in
1909, admitted to the police that he
is the man wanted by the Missouri
authorities.
In readjusting the distribution rates
| for the jobbing centers of Washing
| ton, the Public Service Commission
will take into consideration only the
VI tnC IdLCOJ LAC u6lAtS
| between various sections being disre-
garded
That well-known college character.
the loafer, will find his days numbered
and filed with tribulation when he re-
turns to the University of Washington
this fall, If a new handbook of Rules
and Regulation" just issued, is any
criterion
Chehalis and Centralia business and
professional men to the number of 81
met at Chehalis and put under way
plan to build a joint gravity water
system that is to supply the two
places with water direct from the
headwaters of the Newaukum River
north fork
Within a short time the contract
between the State Capitol Commits
sion and w. R. Wilder, of the firm of
Wilder & White, New York archi-
tects, will be signed up, as all the
main points in the agreement for the
construction of the new Temple OF
Justice have been agreed upon by
both parties.
The value of real property in
Yakima County as turned in by the
assessor was cut down $4,000 as a
result of the sessions Of the board
of equalization, the most important
item in the reduction being a blanket
cut of Is per cent on plowed and
young orchard lands in the Yakima
reservation
That the adoption of manual train
ing in the rural schools of Washing
ton Is but a question of a short time
and that each teacher, whether man
or woman, within five years, will be
required to handle tools in a practi-
cal manner, as well as instruct the
children in practical agriculture, Is
the announcement made by Henry B.
Dewey, state superintendent.
Upon wireless message received
at Seattle the cruising launch Taz-
lima, owned by Littleton & McCully.
OF Seattle, was apprehended and
TAKEN into custody by the sheriff of
Jefferson County, and its occupants,
six young men from the University
of Washington, held on a charge of
stealing a rowboat from the summer
home of Robert Moran at New Hall.
Orcas Island.
Five cents for q ride on any por-
ton OF its line within the corporate
limits of Seattle, together with a
transfer to the lines of the Seattle
Electric Company, is the rule On the
Seattle, Renton & Southern Railway,
and the people of Rainier Valley, vic
torious after years of bitter fighting
against poor service and alleged ex-
tortionate demands by w. r. Craw-
ford, head of the system, are jubi-