The Newport miner. [volume] (Newport, Wash.) 1899-current, 1911-08-10
SIDELIGHTS FROM OTHER
CITIES IN WASHINGTON

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Doty's new Y. NJ G. A. building
was dedicated and thrown open to the
public Monday night. It was com
pleted at cost Of about $1,000.
Immediate steps to Grad cate apple
and pear blight in the Walla Walla
Valley must be taken. declares viii.
liam Johnson, an expert orchardist.
Governor Hay said there would be
no extra session of the legislature
called in view of the rapport onment
which gives this state two additional
representatives in Congress.
The 95th annual convention of tho
Washington Press Association con-
GUIDED one of its most successful
gatherings at Pac fic Beach, selecting
Mount Vernon as the next place of
meeting.
+ An impend .ng fight between Stand
ard Oil and it's foreign rival, Asiatic
oll, is foreshadowed by the haste
both concerns are showing In build ng
large storage plants at Richmond
Beach, near Seattle.
A definite program for consolidat-
ing the Seattle Chamber of Commerce
and Commercial Club has been
reached by the committees from the
two organizations and from the busi-
ness men of the city.
Notices were sent out to the MEM
bers of the Seattle Chamber of Com
merce announcing a special train and
boat excursion to the mouth of the
Columbia River and the Astoria Cen
tennlal pageant, August 20 to "a.
Congressman William E. Humphrey
advised the Seattle Chamber of Com.
merce and the Commerc al Club that
Admiral Togo will make a visit to
Seattle en- route to Japan. The date
OF his arrival will be August ~ or %.
That the plans of the executive COM
m'ttee of the Southwest Washington
Development Assoc alton to secure
the development of the logged-off
lands of that section of Washington
will prove success is practically as
sured.
The single tax on land values will
be submitted to the voters of Seattle
next March for approval or rejection
In the form of charter amendment,
either at the inst cation of the city
council or by referendum. This was
decided upon at meeting of the ju-
dietary committee of the council.
Customs authorities at Seattle de-
stroyed in the city incinerators more
than 5000 cans of condensed milk
which had been exported to Shang-
hal, rejected by the cons.gnee as un-
fit for food, and returned to Seattle
on the same ship. On arrival of the
milk at Seattle it was condemned by
federal pure food inspectors.
County Superintendent of Schools
McKillip of Chehalis county says that
he must have positive assurance
from the county commissioners that
all bills will be paid before he will
hold teachers institute. Mr.. Nc.
Killip and the commiss .oners had
trouble over the bills of the last
institute, the controversy being de-
cded by the court in Mr.. McKillip's
favor
Property holders of White Salmon
are pledg ng themselves in various
amounts in an attempt to raise 500.
600 that will enable them TO com.
mence within 80 days the building OF
a railway from the North Bank road
up per cent grade along the cliff
side to the town of White Salmon on
the bluff overlooking the Columbia
River, a distance of little over two
miles of trackage.
The Tacoma Commercial Club has
just completed for the Navy Depart.
ment an elaborate report of Tacoma's
facilities for handling coal, compiled
formation is thought to be desired
with the aim of establish ing coaling
station at Tacoma in case the report
of the tests of western Goals now be-
ing made on the United States steam
ship Colorado and United States
steamship West Virginia are favor
able
If the various county authorities
enforce the license law covering the
sale of intoxicating liquors as they
are allowed to do under the decision
of the supreme court in affirming the
cow: ction, in the Kitsap county SUI
perior court, of Morris Falkenstine.
purser on board the steamer Kennedy
running between Seattle and Bremen