The Newport miner. [volume] (Newport, Wash.) 1899-current, 1911-06-22
sIDELIGHTS FROM OTHER
CITIES IN WASHINGTON

the OOuSulAf OOIpS Oh tue racine
Northwest, attended the annual reun.
ion in Tacoma.
Alfalfa hay raised in the Touchet
district near Walla Walla is being
contracted at SO q ton. the best
price that has been received in the
valley for some years.
A. J. Earring, president of the Chi
cago. Milwaukee & st. Paul Railway,
accompanied by a number of eastern
business men. Is in Seattle on a tour
Of inspection over the Milwaukee's
lines.
BY unanimous vote the Masonic
grand lodge of Washington has de-
cided to locate the Masonic home for
aged members, widows and orphans
at Puyallup, where a $4,000 site has
been donated.
s. e. Peterson, Of Princeton. ILL.,,
has purchased the 2S0-acre farm OF
D. w. Boone 13 miles southeast If
Chehalis, and will engage extensively
in the dairy business The price paid
for the place was $4,000.
Policeman w. H. Cunliffe, shot at
Summit avenue and Columbia streets,
Seattle. in a pistol duel with two men
supposed to be highwaymen. died soon
after being taken to the city hospital.
and never regained consciousness.
Captain James R. Pourie Keen has
been assigned to take charge of con-
struction work at Forts Flagler. Wor-
den. Lawton, Ward and Casey on
Puget Sound. relieving Captain Long.
who is ordered to the Philippines.
When the Tacoma Maru arrived at
Tacoma from the Orient, the non
union warehousemen at the Milwau
kee dock struck for an increase in
wages Of from Is cents to 80 cents an
hour. There are about so warehouse
men out.
A fill which for height will break
all western engineering records is to
be built by the North Coast railroad
over Fields gulch near Aver juno
ton, Aver, Wash. The fill Is to be
1856 feet high and 1900 feet long, re-
curing 100000 cubic yards of earth.
The city of Raymond is to have an
other census taken. Not however, by
the government, but by the Methodist,
Presbyterian and Baptist churches,
through their pastors, Rev. Weaver,
Rev. Connell and Rev. Wightman,
aided by the business interests of the
city.
City Commissioner C. NJ Fassett If
Spokane has determined to assess the
cost Of the proposed $4,000 high
pressure fre-fighting system for the
business district to downtown prop
erty owners, instead of paying for it
out Of the water extension or general
fund
In an attempt to restrain the state
from enforcing the law passed recent
ly requiring full train crews on all
freight trains, the Northern Pacific
Railroad Company has asked an in
junction in the third division of the
circuit court of the United States for
the Western division.
Centralia bars transient merchants
and bargain sale people who do not
intend to settle permanently, by j
new ordinance demanding license Of
5000. By way of encouraging new
corners to stay, this sum Is refunded,
of a year. The ord finance was put
into effect to protect merchants from
the competition of firms visiting the
city with salvage sales at cut prices.
Representatives of 45 logg ng
companies at a. meeting in Seattle
decided to suspend operations during
July in an effort to, save the large sur
plus of logs now in the water which,
the loggers declare, will be total loss
If the supply is not curtailed. In
stead of the usual two weeks shut
down the first of the month, the
camps will be kept closed until Au-
gust l. BY that time the loggers nope
the supply will have been used and
logging operations can be resumed.
Eight Pacific northwest records
were smashed, another equaled and a
worlds record for 200 yards was
broken at Madison park in Seattle
when athletes from Washington, Ore
gon, Idaho and British Columbia COM
peted in the sixth annual track and
field meet of the Pacific Northwest
Association of the A. A u. The Sc
attic Athletic Club took first place
with 70 points; Multnomah Amateur
Athletic Club of Portland and the
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