The Newport miner. [volume] (Newport, Wash.) 1899-current, 1911-05-18
SIDELIGHTS FROM OTHER
CITIES IN WASHINGTON

soeidllon Will hold its annual shoot
at Walla Walla.
| With manw thousands Of salmon
entering the Quinialt River, the In.
dams of that reservation are roaming
harvest.
The contract for furnishing stone
Tor the Grays Harbor jetties has been
let TO the Hercules Stone Quarry OF
Tenino.
Extensive road work in various
parts of Lewis county is being
planned and will be pushed to com
pietlon at the earliest possible date.
According to crop reports of the
department of agriculture, the farm
value of wheat in Washington, Nav /.
was IA cents as against SO cents one
year ago.
Daniel z. Benzenhofer, retired
building contractor, who lived in Sc
attic many years. shot and killed
himself. He was worth $4,000, was
bachelor, had no relatives near and
was i'll and Respondent.
The use of Fort George Wright SOL
olers as fire patrols in the national
forests of northern Idaho and eastern
washington is sought Immediately by
the Western Forestry Conservation
Association from Secretary of War
Stimson
One woman, Lulu J. Shakespeare,
OF Everett, was admitted to practice
law. Thirty-two men, IA from Seattle.
SIX from Tacoma, four from Spokane,
and others from smaller towns. also
got certificates, following the bar ex-
animation at Olympia.
The largest Judgment ever entered
In the superior court of Pacific county
was by John w. Kleeb and others to
satisfy judgment obtained by the
Nlcomen Boom Company against the
North Shore Boom & Driving Com
pany. It amounted to S20,915.16.
Already motorists are commencins
to make the summer trip over the
route of the Pacific highway In
qulrles are coming In almost daily to
the Pacific Highway Association as
to whether or not the trip Is practical
to be made so early in the season.
hI
censes issued in Washington for the
fiscal year 1901 expire on May 81,
and on June 1, l. M. Howell, secre-
tary of state, will send men into all
sections of the country to find own
ers of machines of all kinds who are
operating without licenses.
According to the new directory be-
ing compiled by R. L. Polk & Co.,
Aberdeen has population of 1915,
against 1860, given it by the federal
census Of 1910. 1t was felt at the
time of the federal census that an in
justice was done the city, but the
protest sent to Washington had no
effect
Centralia has positive assurance
from an official, but private source,
that s750,0O0 will be expended this
year in improvements planned by the
Northern Pacific, the Great Northern
and the Oregon-Wa shington Railroad
& Navigation companies. The pans
provide for freight sheds, passen-
ger depot, extensive yards, a large
roundhouse, repair shops, trackage
and a warehouse.
Announcement that the navy de-
plans for a torpedo repair and prac-
tice station at Keyport Peninsula,
Puget Sound, has caused great disap-
pointment, especially among the own
ers of land who were expecting to
dispose of their holdings at fabulous
prices The department gives as it's
reason the decision to do all this
work at the Puget Sound navy yard.
Following the investigation of food
which resulted in the declaration that
ten Spokane bakeries were unfit for
the preparation of bread and that
many restaurants were unsanitary,
Dr. Anderson, city health officer, pro-
posed that the city license restau-
rants and cafes, compelling certain
sanitary standard before issuing the
license and FORGETTING the license OF
any place falling below the standard.
In an attempt to ride the raging
waters of the Spokane River on log
raft destined for the sawmill at the
junction of the Spokane and Columbia
rivers, so miles from Spokane, John
Snide, formerly of Marshal, Mich,
and Alexander Fleet, a Quarter-breed
Sank, were lost in the mad swirl or
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