The Newport miner. [volume] (Newport, Wash.) 1899-current, 1911-11-09
WASHINGTON BRIEFLETS

pioneers Oh MOnlcSdAOS OiOO a. S~
home of her daughter at the age OF
sc years.
The Imperial Powder Company will
rebuild it's factory at Chehalis at an
early date and the new plant is to have
double the capacity Of the one burned
Every schoolhouse in Clark County
will fly "Old Glory" from this time
forth, according to an edict OF Jay v
Fike, county superintendent OF
schools.
The supreme court upholds the
Thurston County superior court In de-
claring valid the 1909 law creating
the state bureau of inspection and SUI
pervision of public Offices.
Petitions were filed with Mayor
Harris for the adoption of the COM
mission form of government in Olym-
pia. They bear 1874 names, although
less than 800 are required.
Governor Hay Is opposed to the
movement for the calling OF a special
session of the Legislature to enact a
law providing for the direct election
of delegates to national conventions.
The North Pacific Rifle Association
was formed at meeting held in Walla
Walla recently and teams represent
ing towns in Oregon, Idaho and Wash
ington will be represented in the as
ISOLATION.
Professor George A. Olsen, of the
Pullman State College, has made def
mite arrangements for holding the an
nual gathering of the Farmers Insti-
tute at Dayton on November ~
and Fl.
Superior Judge Boyd J. Tallman has
issued decree giving 70 Mrs. Sarah
V. Phipps title to one-half OF $780,
900 property in Seattle owned by Lu-
Their H. Phipps, from whom she was
divorced in Chicago II years ago.
Practically no desirable homestead
land will be left for white settlers in
the Colville reservation, when the al
otments to Indians are made, accord
ing TO information given out by Uni
ted States Alloting Agent Clair Hunt.
The secretary of interior has
Weber of Sunnyside, for the enlarge
ment of structures for the Snipes
Mountain lateral of the Sunnyside ir-
rigation project at the contract price
nf $4,000.
Isaac Trusty, of Chehalis, has filed
suit for $40 900 damages for personal
injuries, against F. w. Conrad of Mon
tesano The latter ran into Trusty,
a negro bootblack, on Market street,
in Chehalis, September II, with an
automobile.
Chester Thompson, who shot and
killed Judge George Meade Emory in
Seattle in July. 1905, because Emory
refused to permit him to call upon the
judges niece, Miss Charlotte Whit
tiesey, was ordered committed to the
The 1911 salmon pack is the largest
on record, exceeding by $50 900 cases
the output of any previous year. The
| total pack of canned salmon this year
| for Alaska, British Columbia, Puget
Sound, Grays Harbor and the Column
! bia River, is estimated at 5,850,000
| cases.
The secretary of the interior has
formally approved the transfer to the
United States of the irrigation system
of the Prosser Falls Land & Power
Company, in Benton County, Wash,
together with "a second cubic feet Of
water The property is to be incor-
porated into the SunHyside unit of the
Yakima project.
Aberdeen representatives of the
w. c. T. U. have requested that
woman of judgment and force of char
acter be appointed on the police force
to care for the young women of the
city, enforce the laws, and be on hand
W meet young WOMEN from OLn0r Gilt
les who come there and have no
friends to meet and care for them
A warm welcome was extended by a
special reception committee from the
new Seattle Chamber Of Commerce to
the large and representative delega-
ton from Southwestern Washington
which arrived at Seattle to participate
in a conference ON Panama Canal tolls
with Seattle, Tacoma, Everett, Olym-
pia, Bellingham, Port Townsend and
Port Angeles
Governor Hay has announced the
appointment of George "A. Lee, chair
man OF the state industrial insurance
commission, to membership on the
public service commission to fill the
vacancy caused by the death of Chair
man Harry A. Fairchild. Hamilton
Higday, of Seattle, assistant Industrial
insurance commissioner. was appoint
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