The Newport miner. [volume] (Newport, Wash.) 1899-current, 1911-08-03
SIDELIGHTS FROM OTHER
CITIES IN WASHINGTON

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at Spokane. The structure will be
used as warehouse.
The Northern Pacific, Great North
ern and O.-W. r. & N. made the first
move on the $4,000 improvements
which are planned for Centralia,
when they purchased n.ne acres OF
land DIT that place.
Aaron Eaton was so badly burned
that he died and James O'Neill and
Jackson Ryan were dangerously in
jured when they came in contact with
a high-power wire while stringing
signal wire through Cascade tunnel
ON the Great Northern Railway.
3. c. Truesdell, representing the
Southwestern Washington Fair. has
completed his tour of Thurston county
and announces that the country sur
rounding Olympia is to be well repre-
scented with a stock exhibit at the
fair, VIII CHI will be held September
11-16 at the grounds between Cheha-
lis and Centralia.
Eghty-two blackberries raised on
the F. w. Redfield place near Walla
Walla filed regulation sized box.
The berries were an inch end a quar-
ter long and in add ton to being large
were of delicious flavor. The contents
of the box will be used by the Com.
mercial Club of Walla Walla for ex-
hibition purposes.
Accord ng to ruling made by r.
E. Campbell, assistant attorney-gen-
eral, the legislatures of 1909 and 1911,
in tampering with the game laws, did
not affect in any manner the law
which permits the hunting of deer on
the Puget Sound islands only during
October each year, and which prohib-
it's the use of dogs on the islands.
The contract for the construction of
two submarines for the Chilean gov
eminent has been let to the Moran
Company of Seattle. This Is the first
Pacific Coast firm. AS Is usual in
such work, the construction of the de-
stroyers will be secret They will be
kept from public view and only
trusted mechanics will be allowed to
work on them.
The attorney-general's office holds
that birth and death statistics are
matters of public record, s. H. KEEL
leran, assistant attorney-general, hav-
ing advised the State Board of Health
and Bureau of Vital Statistics to that
effect. But he also says that matters
concerning sanitation are not public
records and that the department does
not have to make certified copies OF
the same or permit it's records to be
examined.
Give the child back to its mother,
was the decision of three women
judges who advised with Superior
Judge yesterday in the divorce case
at Tacoma of Mollie Tropser against
Harper P. Tropser. But neither the
wife nor the husband, whose fight for
their 19-months-old baby has won
much prominence, was granted a legal
separation. The four Judges were
unanimous in the opinion that their
troubles could be reconciled.
During the past fortnight Seattle
millers have booked record break: rg
oriental flour export orders, Septem-
ber-October delivery. The statement
was made that the fall shipments
would be the largest ever made by
Puget Sound. One mill has Chinese
orders for 100000 sacks of bluestem
cut off on books, and several other
plants on tidewater and in the inter
Tor have so much business they are
not anxious to take additional orders
for September delivery.
Owing to the fact that the work
done by the sub-contractor having
the contract to do the stone work on
the new high school build ing in Cen
tralia was below the standard as re-
quired in the specifications, g. large
part of the completed construction is
being torn out and VIII have to be
| done over in compliance with the
plans. 1t will cause a delay of about
month in the completion of the
building and will mean loss of sew
eral thousand dollars to the contract
ing firm.
Bids for deepening and widening
the channel of the south fork of the
Willapa River, just above the govern
ment works, when opened at the last
regular meeting of the Raymond City
Council, were found to carry prices
absolutely prohibitive and were all
held over The most reasonable bid
submitted was that of the Internar
tional Dredg ng Company, but as their