The Newport miner. [volume] (Newport, Wash.) 1899-current, 1911-10-05
WASHINGTON BRIEFLETs


laro, was destroyed by fire.
}. Z. Pearce, negro hotelkeeper Of
Rochester. was shot in the leg and
fatally wounded at Rochester by
George Dougherty.
The large warehouse belonging to
the Columbia River Packers Asso-
citation at Ilwaco burned here. The
entire building and contents were CON.
sumed
1t is believed that Spokane In In
danger OF losing It's franchise Ia the
northwestern League, the cause of
the threatened rupture being the To-
cation of the ball park in Spokane.
The excellence Of fruit can be fur
Their developed by carefully selecting
the stock from which orchards are
propagated, just as fine herds of cat
tie, horses and sheep have been de-
Veloped by the same methods" says
H. NJ. Lichty, of Sunnyside.
With $4,000 In hand to act rs a
nest egg, the Tacoma Commercial
Club and Chamber of Commerce has
launched seven projects in the inter
ests OF a Greater Tacoma, and the
members are working with might and
main to put them through.
Vigorously welding two long hat
pins, torn from her hat, Bessie Ged-
des, aged II, drove of an armed,
masked stranger who accosted her on
lonely timbered road three miles
southeast OF Spokane. thus frustrat-
ing an evident attempt at kidnapping.
Cruising of the timber Of Chehalis
County for assessment purposes will
be completed In six weeks by the
cruisers at work under the direction
OF ]. 4. McGillicuddy. Nothing more
will then be done until spring, when
the cruise Of logged-of lands will be
taken up.
Women In Walla walla County DO
not want to serve on juries and there
will be no women Jurors at the pres
ent term of court, although II had
been drawn on the venire list The
law in the state OF Washington gives
women the privilege of refusing jury
duty If they wish, although the wom-
ans suffrage amendment makes them
eligible.
Having an anti-treating law which
Is more or less Of dead letter these
days, Tacoma is now going to have a
Public Morals Commission. The
municipal commission passed an ordi-
nance creating the commission, to
consist of II members-six men and
six wonderland to include the mayor
and the commissioner OF public
safety. The social service board In
to be its official title.
1t liz announced that 500 divorce de-
crees granted in Seattle since 1909
are void and ineffective and that many
men and women, divorced by these
illegal DEGREES, have remarked In
blissful ignorance that they are
not even legally freed from their prior
mates. State bureau inspectors dis
covered that the DEGREES In question
were not duly recorded and are conse-
ouently without effect or legal stand
ing.
For the first time since his inaugu-
ration as mayor of Pasco, Captain w.
P. Gray will veto an ordinance
passed by the city council The or
dinance is one announcing the inten-
ton of the city to purchase the city
water works from the Pacific Power
& Light Company by condemnation
proceedings. II was passed by vote
of five to two and will undoubtedly
be passed over the mayors veto at
the next meeting.
1t has been adopted as rule OF the
public service commission that when
a rival steamboat goes on the route
of regular steamboat, that 1t shall
carry passengers and freight for al
least 80 days at the same rate as does
the regular boat. The commission re-
fuses to let any cut rates go into ef-
feet without a 30-day notice, when the
same is done merely to take business
away from a steamboat that IL run
ming regularly on a given route.
According to statehouse officials,
WASHINGTON saw history made when
the state supreme court handed down
its decision sustaining the constftu-
tionality Of the workmen's eompensa-
ton bill which resulted In the crea-
ton of the industrial Insurance. COM
mission. It IL contended that this
one act OF the Legislature and the
decision of the supreme court holding
the law valid sets a new mark In the
handling of economic questions ana
that Washington will now secure