The Newport miner. [volume] (Newport, Wash.) 1899-current, 1911-12-14

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summer.
Rowing was so popular with Wash
ington University women last year
that faculty ruling forbidding it has
been annulled and the girls will again
go out on the water as soon as quar-
tiers may be arranged for them.
Every woman juror who has served
Spokane county was asked to join a
committee which waited upon the
county commissioners Monday to de-
mand a public retraction of the state
ment that they stole the county's tow
els.
The Tacoma Club in the Northwest
baseball league is to be taken over
by Dugdale of Seattle and McCredie
of Portland at the coming meeting, it
S announced, and Fielder Jones, the
former White Sox leader, will be
elected president of the league.
The heirs of Mrs. Elizabeth Bell, Of
Harrodsburg, KY, obtained a verdict
for $4,000 against the Seattle, Renton
& Southern Railway for injuries sus-
tanned by Mrs. Bell on April 80, 1910,
in a collision, when her husband,
Judge w. c. Bell, was killed beside
her.
Walter e. Lyman, the Seattle expo
liceman arrested charged with pass
ing worthless bills of state banks.
confessed to a secret service officer
that he had cleared up nearly $4,000
in the past two months by setting
afoat the currency in Seattle and Ia
coma.
Washington lumbermen have de-
cided to consolidate the four informa-
ton bureaus which have been in op-
Grafton In Washington for about two
years. The Centralia, Seattle and
Everett Offices will be closed. The
work will all be done through the Ia
coma office
The official report Of the National
Lumbermen's Association for October,
just issued by Manager Leonard
Bronson, Of Tacoma, shows q slight
Improvement in the general lumber
demand and a slight excess of ship
ments over the cut In Washington and
Oregon, 80 far as the Nails reporting
are concerned
So extensive IL the work before the
state supreme court for the October
term that each Of the nine Justices
will be required to hear nine argu-
ments every three days, read nine
briefs, take part in other discussions
and write one opinion himself. in Or
der that the calendar may be cleared
by the close Of the present session.
Because Of the fact that rates ga
all railroads IN the state must be re-
adjusted to conform to the order Of
the Interstate Commerce Commission,
the state public service commission
has requested the Interstate Com
merce Commission to postpone until
March 1, 1912, its order on east-bound
rates from Pacific Coast terminals,
commonly known as the back-haul
rates.
After less than four months of
welded life, Anthony w. Presley.
civil war veteran at the Orting Sol
diers' Home. Ia mere than ready to
quit. He sued for q divorce. An
thony is 80. his wife so. They were
married August IL after q long-dts-
lance courtship. Presley's son in Colo
RADIO being the matchmaker. Presley
vows his son Is DANCED poor Judge
Of women"
Attacking the ruling Of the indus
trial insurance commission that girls
are to be considered minors until thew
are Il years of age; claiming that the
commission has no right to impose a
sne upon any company, contending
enat when the parents Of a minor rem
resent that the child Is cid enough to
work and the child appears to be old
enough to be employed, that the en-
ployer cannot be held responsible, the
imperial Powder Company, of Cbeha-
lis, filed suit in the superior court
contesting the awards made IN tha
cases OF seven at the eight victims
VINO lost their lives In the big powder
Ere at Chehalis November /.