The Newport miner. [volume] (Newport, Wash.) 1899-current, 1911-12-28
WASHINGTON BRIEFLETS

who shot R. T. Seal, a Port Orchard
Everyman, December Z.
The following fourth-class post
offices in Washington will become
presidential appointments January 1:
Grandview, $1400; Ridgefeld, $1100;
Sultan $1,000.
F. A. Wyman, a Tacoma census
enumerator, indicted last May in the
federal court on five counts, has dis
appeared and it is thought has sought
refuge in a foreign country.
n. w. Durham of Spokane, who re-
Gently announced his candidacy for
congress from the Third district, is
one of the oldest and best known
newspaper men in the northwest.
An increase Of II per cent in the
number of high school teachers in
Washington in the past three years
is shown by the report Of H. B.
Dewey, state superintendent Of pub
lie instruction.
Judge Hartford, in United States
circuit court at Seattle, sentenced
Walter E. Layman, youth charged
with circulating more than $4,000
worth of bad banknotes in Seattle, to
three years in the federal penitenti-
airy on McNeirs Island.
| In view of the likelihood Of the
new passenger station in Centralia
being completed early in the summer,
that city is trying to secure the mid
summer meeting of the Southwest
| Washington Development Association
and at the same time dedicate the
new station.
Rumors that Prosecuting Attorney
W. e. Campbell intends to close up
every disorderly place in Chehalis
county were set at rest when that
officer declared that he would not
take such action himself, but would
| force the heads of municipal govern
ments to do so.
The senate has confirmed the fol-
lowing postmasters in Washington:
Alfonzo F. Learned, Port Townsend;
Edison S. Phillips, Mount Vernon;
Carey W. Stewart, Quincy; Maude
Volz, Washtucna; Lewis G. Weik,
| Odessa; Anna Arnold, Waitsburg,
and John L. Gruber, Winlock.
Notices of a petition for the con-
| demnation of a right-of-way for its
| canal were filed in the superior court
at North Yakima by the Yakima
Highlands Irrigation & Land Com
pany. The petition states the COM
pany has located and partially con-
structed a canal eleven miles long
with it's intake on Wenas creek.
The indictments against Colonel
Alden Blethen, c.. B. Blethen, the
Times Printing Company and Captain
of Police Michael Powers, charged
with conspiring to shield gambling
and the maintenance of disorderly
houses in Seattle, were dismissed in
the criminal division of the superior
| court, on the motion Of the prosecut-
ing attorney.
Among the guests at the conven-
ton of the Southwestern Washington
Development Association and the
| Olympic Peninsula Development
League, to be held in Olympia JAN
uary 25-27, may be Governor West
of Oregon, Governor Hawley Of Ida
no, and Governor Norris of Montana
Personal invitations have been sent
to them by Governor Hay.
In it's report on the condition of
Kalama, Cowlitz county, from jan
uary 1, 1909, to November IA, 1911,
the state bureau of inspection says
that all receipts prior to 1909 have
been lost and that it was impossible
to make an audit of the accounts be-
fore that time. The report shows
that Kalama has assets Of $8,44765,
and liabilities of only S2S9.89.
To avoid an S0-mile trip by stage
through the snow and prevent a Brit
ish Columbia official from Selling
him as a prisoner from Oroville to
Spokane for safekeeping, w. E. Alex
ander, charged with robbery in Can
ada, was sealed in an express car
with Deputy United States Marshall
Pugh until after he had passed
through the dominion territory
A decision has been handed down
by the state supreme court that will
affect proposed improvements in con-
solidated school districts in all parts
of Washington. The court holds that
under the constitution of the state
no consolidated district, composed Of
smaller districts, can create an in
| debtedness which would mean a
greater Indebtedness in any constitu-
ent district than per cent of the
taxable property in that particular
unit
The Great Northern railroad has
| filed its reply to the suit of the gov