The Newport miner. [volume] (Newport, Wash.) 1899-current, 1911-08-17
WASHINGTON BRIEFLETs

various districts to complete it before
the fall rains begin.
To take up government irrigation
land claim near, Twin Falls, in south
ern Idaho, S. B. L. Penrose, president
of Whitman College, has departed for
Twin Falls.
The state Of Washington had ST.
921, 666 cash on hand at the begin
ming of business Saturday, according
to the regular weekly statement OF
Treasurer John G.. Lewis.
After laboring six months under
the delusion that food offered by his
family and friends was poisoned, John
Plunkett, a prominent Spokane trans
fer man, died of starvation.
Steven " Carey, assistant attorney
general, has left for Two Rivers,
Walla Walla county. where he will
investigate the complaint lodged
against an irrigation company at that
place
Lewis county commissioners have
employed Forney & Ponder, of Cheha-
lis, to sue several county officials for
excess salaries collected under an al
legged illegal Redistribution of the
county.
E. E. Lille, superintendent of car
service and telegraph of the Hill lines
in Oregon, has been appointed super
intendent for the Inland Empire sys-
tenn at Spokane
AS the result of concerted move
ment on the part of all the physicians
in Bellingham to collect bills for med
ical services, more than 100 lawsuits
were filed and rs garnishment pro-
ceedings were instituted.
Governor Hay Is planning a trip
through the southwestern part of the
state, and he will be away from Olym
pia till August II, his tour extending
from points in Klickitat county out
to the ocean and from Castle Rock
to Vancouver and into Portland.
Figures given out by e. j. KoOrs,
secretary of the state tax commission,
show that the IA logging roads doing
business in Washington have been
given an actual value of $1,822,017, as
compared with a value of $4,740,741
in 1910, or an increase of $S1,276
pTnn rot nirC mo q
by the State Land Office for the next
big sale of state lands, which will be
held in November. when several thou
sands of acres of land are to be sold
at public auction, applications for the
sale of the same having been filed.
Max Hinrichs, the pioneer grass
man" of the Palouse country, Is har-
vesting his grass seeds, and will have
many tons for sale this fall He will
and fresque seed for sale, and the re-
ceipts will excel those from any wheat
farm of similar acreage in the North
west
Two big blasts were fired on the
North Coast division of the O.-W. r.
e N near Lyons Ferry. on Snake
River, Saturday. The powder used
aggregated IA carloads, and the blasts
in the main were successful The
first, 10 cars, was entirely successful,
but the last blast blew rock all over
the neighborhood.
Captured by the Indians and held
prisoner for months. ransomed by his
white companions for 40 blankets, thus
receiving the soubriquet of Blanket
BILL William Jarman, the first white
man to settle on Bellingham Bay, in
1S48, was the Oldest pioneer attend
ing the annual reunion Of the What
com County Pioneers Association
Orders have been placed with the
Northern Pacific Railroad by Traffic
Manager Miller, of the Walla Walla
Valley Railroad Company, for be-
tween five and ten cars daily. begin
are needed to handle the large fruit
shipments which are expected to start
at that time over the interurban line
to Northern Pacific destinations.
Charles F. Hubbard. state labor
commissioner, has prosecuted and
won his first case since the law went
into effect, six years ago, under the
statute which provides that a mill
company or other concern which has
machinery must have the same pro.
tected by adequate safeguards. The
CoggshalltM etzker Mill Company, of
Sedro- Woolley, Skagit county. was
the offender
That the $4,000 to be contributed
by Cowlitz and Clark counties. or
$4,000 from each, should come from
the general fund of the counties and
not from any special fund, is the
onipiaa Ciuon hu ASSiSfant Affnrp0v