The Newport miner. [volume] (Newport, Wash.) 1899-current, 1911-02-09
NEWS PARAGRAPHS FROM
CITIES IN WASHINGTON

a measure limiting the state highway
tax to one-half mill.
The Northern Pacific right-of-Way at
Mirror Lake, near Bellingham, piled
to a depth of 100 feet to secure firm
foundation, gave way and as result
the earth will have to be timbered to
great depth or the route OF the road
changed.
Officials of the Northern Pacific.
Great Northern and O.-W. r. & N. Co.
will meet with the Washington state
railroad commission February Is for
the purpose of discussing the estab-
fishing Of an interchangeable ticket
between Portland and Tacoma.
The rabbit drive near the Harry
Gray ranch was well attended. These
drives are Kidding the country of a
pest besides furnishing sport to a
great many people. The rabbits are
shipped to Spokane and Seattle.
State school land in Clark County
amounts to about $4,000 acres and Is
estimated to be worth between
s2,0oO,OOO and 100000, according to
a party of surveyors who have just
completed thorough cruise Of all Of
the state school holdings in that
county.
BY order of Mayor Weinberg, is
sued through Marshal Daley to sa-
looms in Colfax, all screens must be
removed from the places Of business
by March l. A strict ordinance ap-
plying to the saloons and regulating
the liquor traffic In the city was
passed a year ago.
Senator Piles announces that he
has joined with Senator Jones in rec
ommending the appointment of w. A.
Halleman of Spokane as United
States marshal for eastern Washing
ton, having abandoned George H.
Baker, incumbent, because the Presi.
dent refuses to appoint him.
The state railroad commission has
completed its findings in the causes
Of the wreck of the Northern Pacific
train at Cheney last January when
five persons were killed by the col.
lision between two trains. The COM
mission holds the railroad officials
were negligent and responsible for
the wreck.
"Old Sleuth," the cougar that has
attracted much attention in the
country around Walla Walla, through
his depredations on cattle and horses
belonging to farmers in the Blue
Mountain districts, and which was
supposed to have been killed. is still
olive and thriving.
The financial statement of the city
of Montesano for the year ended De-
cember 81. 1910, SLOWS that the total
receipts from all sources for 1910
$40,721.08. The disbursements were
$20,936.72 leaving a cash balance
with the city treasurer of $19,78436
The total outstanding indebtedness of
this city January l, 1911, was $751;
1879.
The 100000 bond issue voted by
Pacific County at the last general cleo
ton was taken by the state of Wash
ington and the bonds have just been
returned from Olympia for registra-
ton and signing up by the county
commissioners. The bonds bear per
cent interest and run for Is years.
They were issued for road and bridge
purposes
The people of Pullman will exert
every effort to have the proposed
state trunk road pass through that
city. The board of trustees Of the
Pullman Chamber of Commerce
passed resolutions to the effect that
II the proposed state road from Walla
w d4Id W OpOhduC is W SO
Whitman County it should go by way
of Pullman
The ordinance granting the Chica
go, Milwaukee & Puget Sound Rail-
road Company the exclusive right to
use portion OF Front avenue in Spo-
kane has been held invalid by the de-
cision OF the supreme court handed
down in the case of the state ex rel
B. Schade Brewing Company w. the
superior court of Spokane County and
the Chicago, Milwaukee & Puget
Sound Railroad.
e. F. Benson, chairman of the legis-
latlve committee of the Washington
State Horticultural Association, sent
the presid ng officers of the legisla-
lures of Montana, Idaho, Utah, Colo
RADIO and Oregon a circular letter ask
ing for law making the standard ap-
pie and pear boxes the same az