The Newport miner. [volume] (Newport, Wash.) 1899-current, 1911-09-14

according to word received at the
state prison.
Hop-picking is in full blast in the
Chehalis district. Pickers are plen-
tiful and growers expect to find no
trouble to secure the crop at the
usual price of 81 a box.
Walla Walla is to have a poultry
contest next year, in which birds from
all over the world will compete, it
plans of the commercial club meet
with the support of poultrymen.
Plans are now ready for the con-
struction of union depots for the
Northern Pacific, Oregon Washington
Railroad & Navigation Company, and
the Chicago. Milwaukee & Puget
Sound Railroad, in Aberdeen.
Dairymen of Goldendale have sub
scribed about $4,000 to a fund being
raised to purchase a number of regis
tered Jersey cattle to be shipped to
the section and distributed among the
different herds of dairy cattle.
J. L. Brown, a travelling salesman,
was arrested at Seattle by federal Of
ficials and 81 fve-tael cans of opium,
valued at $1120, were seized Brown
was about to send the opium to Port
land for delivery, the officials say.
Mrs. Samuel Gueprier, mother of
the mayor of Centralia, owns a Bible
that is 300 years old. According to
the books title page, it was printed
in 1902 by Robert Barker, printer to
her most excellent majestic" Queen
Elizabeth.
Though he sued for $4,000 for the
injuries he sustained in an interurban
wreck last December, Tommy Burns,
the former heavyweight pugilist, has
accepted $500 from the Puget Sound
Electric Railway Company in settle
ment Of his claim.
Short weight loaves of bread are
sold by virtually every bakery in Ia
coma, Mayor Seymour has found The
mayor has weights and measures Or
dinance in course Of preparation and
in its behalf has been making a quiet
investigation of the sale of bread.
In preparation for the completion of
Cello locks and looking to the resump-
ton of river traffic on the upper Co
lumbia, the City of Pasco has in
structed Architect H. H. Gould, Of
Seattle, to prepare plans for $4,000
two-tier municipal dock at that place.
Charles Hines, aged 45, brother of
George H. Hines, secretary of the
Oregon Historical Society, and mem
Der of prominent pioneer family of
the Northwest, committed suicide at
Elma, where he lived for the past Fl
years. Ill-health is said to have been
the cause.
Lewis County is threatened with
fight against the saloons in all pre-
cincts lying outside the incorporated
towns if the board of county commits
sioners insist on granting any more
liquor licenses in the unineorporated
towns, according to statements made
by officers Of the Anti-Saloon League.
Frank H. Kimball, who is alleged
by the police to have a long criminal
record in Colorado, Oregon and else
where, was sentenced at Seattle to
hard labor from three to twenty
years In prison for swindling Clarence
Dayton Hillman, the multi-millionaire
real estate dealer, and three banks
out of $4,000
In order not to interfere with the
attendance at the state fair in Salem,
the opening of the Grays Harbor
branch Of the O.-W. r. & NJ, marking
the entrance into Aberdeen of two
transcontinental lines and making the
contiguous territory tributary to coast
lines generally, was postponed from
September 16 to September %.
Race suicide is not to be feared
In the state of Washington" said H.
b. Dewey, state superintendent Of
public instruction of Olympia. while
the school census of some of the
counties in Washington shows a de-
crease, notably Pierce, I think this
can be accounted for by the shifting
OF population, instead of a decrease
IN the birth rate. I am we'll pleased
with the increase during the last year,
which is about 5000 school children in
this state