The Newport miner. [volume] (Newport, Wash.) 1899-current, 1911-07-20
sIpELIGHTs FROM OTHER
CITIES IN WASHINGTON

Morton, Lewis county, Is to have
bank, the first concern of the kind
n the eastern part Of the county.
Fifty-eight carloads Of eastern seed
oysters, imported at cost Of $4,000,
Is the record for Willapa Harbor for
the present season.
Pullman grain dealers are guessing
On the opening price OF grain at that
point, and the one getting nearest the
mark is to receive IS hat.
Northwest millers plan Immediately
10 take steps to enlarge the demand
for Northwest -four. A COMMITTEES
named at Tacoma is expected shortly
to make some recommendations.
Deputy Sheriff James M. Bennett
was instantly killed at Chelan by
the accidental discharge Of his revolt
YER He was STOPPING over spring
to drink, when the weapon was dis
charged.
L. M. Guyton, aged 81, single. SON
Of John Guyton. Of Sullengent, Ala,
acting as relief operator on the Spo-
kane Inland Electric line at Cakes
dale, was found electrocuted at his
keyboard.
Reports from all parts Of Stevens
county say the hay crop this year Is
the heaviest ever known. Many val
ley fields yield as high as four tons
of timothy to the acre and in other
regions three tons.
It cost Aberdeen just 315 to bring
Richard A. Ballinger. ex-secretary Of
the interior, to that city to deliver
the Fourth of July address. That L.
all Mr.. Ballinger says he spent and
that IS all he would accept.
That the famed freak anti-treating
ordinance is not yet dead letter in
Tacoma became known when it was
announced that within a week war
rants are to be sworn out for 80 sa-
loonkeepers accused of violating the
law.
A convention of officials eff cities OF
the first class in Washington, to be
held in Spokane, to frame measures
for passage by the Legislature which
will lead to Home Rule for cities,
is a project of the city commissioners
of Spokane.
What purports to be an affidavit
signed by John L. Dryer, admitting
perjury In the recent trial Of C.. e.
Mitchell, the Spokane mining promo
ter. was filed in the federal court at
Spokane In support Of the motion OF
Mitchell for a new trial.
+ The Seattle police department as
well as the sheriff's Office are looking
for Finn Frolich, sculptor and former
resident of New York City, who Is
charged with kidnapping his three
months-old daughter from the home OF
it's mother. Mrs. Helen M. Frolich, on
Alki avenue, West Seattle.
Captain J. e. Guptil. master Of the
wrecked steamer Spokane, was cited
to appear before United States
Steamboat Inspectors, Captains Whit
ney and Turner, at Seattle and an
swer charges of unskilled navigation.
Should he be convicted his license
may be suspended or revoked.
Fifty thousand dollars will be ex-
pended by the city Of Seattle in, con-
structing a railroad three miles in
length from the Chicago, Milwaukee
& Puget Sound station at Raglan to
the vicinity Of Cedar Lake. where the
municipality owns approximately
100 100000 feet of standing timber.
Everett G. Griggs. president OF the
National Lumbermen's Association.
has been notified from Washington
that the government wants the books
Of the association thrown open to in
spection. and has agreed to turn the
books over to the governments rep
resentattve and to assist in every way
possible the investigation which has
been started.
Unless the receiver concludes to
undertake It with the courts permits
sion there will be no more annual
events given by the Western Wash
ington Fair Association. Upon the
representations Of Oliver G. McGilyra
and Charles L. Denny, as executors
OF the lMcGilvra estate. Loren Grin
stead was appointed receiver Of the
fair association.
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In a decision handed down Friday
the supreme court aff1rms the King
county superior court in the case Of
the State ex rel. J. A, Dennison,
against the Seattle, Renton & South
ern Railway, in which the lower court
issued a writ of mandate directing