The Newport miner. [volume] (Newport, Wash.) 1899-current, 1911-04-20
SIDELIGHTs FROM OTHER
CITIES In WASHINGTON


Valley other than in North Yakima
will be formally opened very soon.
Indicted by the grand jury for the
shooting of Joe Curry. of Astoria, last
June, Lee Downey has been acquitted
at Spokane in the superior court on
a charge of second degree assault
A special election was he'd in Mon
tesano on Tuesday for the purpose OF
deciding on issuing bonds to purchase
the plant of the Montesano Water &
Light Company The bond issue calls
for $125,OOO.
Paul Klein, twice convicted of the
murder of John Saudowski, once by a
superior court jury and again by a
federal jury at Spokane, was SEN
fenced to the federal penitentiary at
McNeilps Island for life.
Student politics at the University
OF Washington will be run on far
different basis than it has been pre-
viously conducted. The direct pri-
mary will take the place of the much
heated nominating convention.
1t is officially given out from Gov
ernor Hays Office that no extra ses-
sion of the Washington Legislature
will be held, the governor saying he
has found no popular demand for it,
The extra session was desired in
some quarters to pass road legisla
tion
Indicating that Yakima Valley irri-
cation plants have passed their ex-
perimental stages and that permanent
work is being installed, $4,000 feet Of
concrete pipe is being manufactured
and Installed in the Yakima Valley
this year by the Cement Products
Company.
Charged with murder in the first
degree on statements of two children,
one of them his own son and the
other son of the victim, Roy More
head, rancher of GIG Harbor, was
arraigned in the Pierce County court
for the death of Mrs James G. Bu-
chanan, wife of a well-known lum
herman at Gig Harbor.
1t was announced by the state
board Of control that although there
are two cement plants located near
the new Northern Hospital for the in.
sane at Sedro-W oolley, the board will
probably move the brick plant from
the penitentiary at Walla Walla to
Sedro-Woolley, install a convict camp
and make the brick necessary for the
new buildings.
The Lake Washington canal pro.
Ject, urged for many years as a
means of wing Seattle great fresh
water harbor, faces another obstacle
Trial has started of a suit brough,
by E. E. Blaine and others, to knock
out a $1,750,000 bond issue, voted last
OF actual construction on the canal.
The work being done at the Spo
kane rapids on the Columbia River,
just above the mouth of the Spokane
River, has been completed as far as
the Washington appropriation is con-
cerned. The most dangerous point
in running the Columbia River was
found at the Spokane rapids and over
a month has been spent in improving
this point.
Declaring that he is being held in
jail without warrant, that he has
never been given an examination be,
fore any judge or court. that he has
not been informed for what he is be-
ing held, and that he has asked and
been refused this information, w. H.
Thompson, alias Jack O'Keefe. al
legged to be implicated in white slay.
cry addressed petition to the SUI
perior court asking a writ of habeas
corpus against Sheriff Michael Toner
of Walla Walla.
A lynching is being discussed at
Granger in the Yakima Valley. where
feeling runs high because of an at
tack made by an Indian named John
son on Mr.. and Mrs William Lusby.
an aged couple, who have been occu
pying leased Indian lands near AL
falfa. Some time in the night John
son and another Indian entered the
Lusby house, and with a club started
to beat the old man and then attacked
his wife, who went to aid him. Both
were found unconscious by their son
The ole man will die and Mrs. Lusby
will never recover fully from her in.
1uries. They are now at the Top
penish hospital
man and horse clashed in Seat.
tie and both were killed in one of the
most peculiar accidents ever record.