The Newport miner. [volume] (Newport, Wash.) 1899-current, 1911-07-06
sIDELIGHTS FROM OTHER
CITIES IN WASHINGTON

Attempt TO get the 4S1S COuVeutlOA
of the National Coal Mems Associar
ton is the latest effort OF the Spo-
kane Chamber of Commerce.
The United States government has
decided to put In telephone line
from the lighthouse and lifesaving
station at North Cove to South Bend.
At depth of 5S5 feet. artesian wa
ter has been struck on the Walla
Walla county poor farm. making some
IS wells of the kind in the valley at
present.
Admiral Togo. hero of the late war,
has notified the chamber OF Com
merce of Seattle 1t will be impossible
for him to visit Seattle on his return
home from the coronation.
The Goldendale Fruit & Produce As
ISOLATION has established free in
formation and employment bureau for
the benefit of the farmers and fruit
growers of the Klickitat Valley.
The new state industrial insurance
commission, which will administer the
employers liability law. will 60 on a
statewide trip next week to explain
the working of the law and invite CO.
operation of employers.
Rains which have been general
throughout the eastern Washington
wheat belt have improved the crop
prospects 20 per cent, say grain deal
ers and millers in close touch with
conditions throughout the Northwest.
Based on carefully compiled re-
ports by all of the agents of the
Northern Pacific Railway in eastern
Washington, J. c. Roth, superintend-
ent of transportation of the Northern
Pacific, predicted that tie wheat crop
of Washington will be 28.6 per cent
larger than that of 1910.
Harry Osdiek, captain of the Spo-
kane ball team, after playing at the
game of love for two years, has
knocked home run, and within few
weeks will enter the "Bened. ct
League" with Mabel Bender, a we'll
known and popular Spokane girl OF
the younger social set, as his playing
partner.
The decision of the Interstate
Commerce Commission in the Spo
kane rate case and all allied cases
affecting rates to and from inter-
mountain and Pacific Coast points,
which was to have been announced
before the commission adjourned for
the summer on Saturday, probably
will be delayed until September.
That the jury system OF the Ameri
can courts Is q failure is the stated
opinion Of Judge Boyd ]. Tallman. Of
the King county superior court. who
recommends in its place jury sys-
tenn in which two Judges shall appoint
four competent, capable and broadly
educated men. the six to hear all jury
cases and decide the merits by a ma
jority vote.
Washington will have a total Of %
postal savings banks open for busi-
ness July Is, as follows: Aberdeen,
Anacortes. Brsmerton. Centralia. Che
halls, Colfax, Colville. Ellensburg,
Hoquiam. Montesano. Mount Vernon.
Olympia. Port Townsend, Prosser.
Pullman, Puyallup. Ritzville. sedro-
Woolley, Snohomish. South Bend, Sun
nyside, Vancouver and Wenatchee.
Out of the three hundred and some
odd teachers now In attendance at
the summer session for teachers ut
the state college, there are about 30
high school principals and superin-
tendants whose especial purpose
seems to be to acquire a. much In
formation upon subjects pertaining ts
agriculture, horticulture. domestic art,
manual art and kindred subjects, AZ
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John Johnson. whe has tied up tYaf-
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get Sound Railroad spur In Cherry
Valley by tearing up the rails. remov-
ing culvert and threatening to an
initiate the company's employees r
they attempt to put the track in place
and reopen traffic to gravel pit, was
enj0ned by Judge Bell from interfsr-
Ing in any way with the company's
| line or track.
The Seattle Publicity Club, rsooe-
nizing that Seattle's once boosted
civic spirit had sadly fallen by the
wayside, arranged a unique celebrar
ton for the public destruction OF the
hammer" typifying the average
mans tendency to knock" The idea
caught and the affair took place
Saturday night in the presence
OF a big crowd which wildly
cheered the burning Of the Knockers
weapon. The handle OF the tool meas-