The Newport miner. [volume] (Newport, Wash.) 1899-current, 1911-05-04
sIDELIGHrs FROM OTHER
CITIES IN WASHINGTON

kane, Will go to the east Tor 1911.
Tacoma's big water supply system.
in course of construction on Green
River, is being seriously menaced by
high water.
Teams from the high schools OF
southwestern Washington will have
field meet on the state fairgrounds
near Chehalis Friday. May 5.
Edward E. Brehm. the lumberman
who committed suicide at Seattle be-
cause of fancied business troubles,
left an estate worth $4,000. accord
ing to business associates
DR.. T. r. Wilbur. OF the State
Board of Health, is spending a few
days in Pasco in conference with City
Physician J. p Driscoll and others In
regard to the scarlet-fever situation
there.
In an opinion given to the secre-
tary of state by Assistant Attorney
General Lyle, II is held that automo-
bile fire wagons and police patrols do
not have to have licenses in Wash
tngton.
Ex-Chief of the Fire Department
John H. Boyle, who was removed by
Mayor George W. Dilling, appealed to
the civil service from the mayors &C
ton. Boyle is one Of the recalled
Mayor Gill's closest friends. and was
appointed to ONCE by him.
Eight hundred convicts gathered in
the yards at the Washington state
penitentiary at Walla Walla to see
Willard and Brookins. who flew over
the prison. Warden Reed gave Or
ders to have work discontinued that
the prisoners might see the airships.
Carrying at their head a big banner
advertising Olympia. John R. Grid
ley Camp, Standardization War
Veterans. will march from Olympia
to Vancouver on the Columbia River
in June to attend the big encamp-
ment Of the organization at Vancou.
yer June 6, and 8.
Charles w. Wappenstein, former
chief Of police Of Seattle. indicted by
q grand jury on four different counts,
will be placed on trial on the first
charge of asking and receiving a
bride from Clarence Gerald and Cid
Upper as protection for running a
gambling house. on May a.
H. H. Croxton. John Burns. H. M.
McRae and j. H. Pierce, four freight
men on the O.-W. r. & N. working out
OF Tekoa, were arrested and brought
to Colfax by Special Agent Joe Plo-
yer and Deputy Sheriff Cole, charged
with having robbed freight cars and
selling and using stolen goods.
The annual track meet OF the asso-
ciated Cowlitz county schools took
place at Woodland. Upwards of 1000
people were in attendance and wit
messed an interesting program in
which Woodland carried of all the
honors. winning 16 medals out Of %
and all eight OF the cups in the yari-
GUS events.
Settlement Of logged-off lands by
practical farmers and development of
coal areas in Lewis and Thurston
counties to much greater extent and
for wider market are the chief top
les to be discussed at the next meet
ing Of the Southwestern Washington
Development Association to be held
at Centralia June /. 2 and 8.
While there is law against sell
Ing liquor to an Indian. there is no
law against an Indian selling liquor,
50 II an Indian can get liquor he can
run saloon, but the person selling
him the intoxicants is liable to prose
cution. So holds w. v. Tanner, at
torney-general, in an opinion given to
John M. Wilson, prosecuting attorney
of Thurston county
That the Lake Washington canal.
the Duwamish River. Ced,r River
and the acquiring Of do rs and
wharves are so correlated an to form
but one general project for .ae I'M
provement OF the harbor at Seattle is
the conclusion arrived at by Judge
Dykeman. In an opinion he sus.
tains the bonds. aggregatins $780,
900. for these four divisions Of the
harbor work.
Former State Senator Will Graves.
representing the Spokane & Inland
Railroad. and Harold Preston, a se-
attic attorney, leaders on opposinr
sides, will test the constitutionality
OF Washington's new employers lia-
bility law before the supreme court
during the coming fall. The Spo-
kane & Inland and lumhermen over