The Newport miner. [volume] (Newport, Wash.) 1899-current, 1911-02-16
SIDELICHTS FROM OTHER
CITIES IN WASHINGTON

OF the Chinook dance that Is taking
place this week.
Two little sons of Mr. and Mrs. Ed
ward Hansen. 3 and years old. were
burned to death in their home on the
Stillaguamish River, four miles north
OF Granite Falls.
The Wenatchee horticultural AS.
ISOLATION will hold annual meeting on
February Is. at which time officers
for the coming year will be elected
and the general business OF the as.
ISOLATION transacted.
To cut hundreds OF acres of foot.
hill farms into small acreage tracts
business men of Walla Walla are
forming an organization, and they
Will in the spring plat nearly 1000
acres of new orchard.
The contract for the erection of a
commercial club building at South
Bend has been awarded to Townsend
& Gilbert. the contract price being
$3.50. Six bids were submitted. al
ranging from $6.45O to 1920.
Fifteen more convicts have arrived
at the state rock quarry at Meskill.
1t is stated that there are now So
men at Meskill This state Quarry is
the most successful of any that the
State OF Washington has undertaken
to operate.
May % has been officially set as
the date for the Inauguration of the
Seattle Chicago through passenger
service OF. the Chicago. Milwaukee &
Puget Sound Railway. according to an
announcement made by General Pas.
senger Agent Hubbard.
Chelan County paid the Great Nor.
thern Railway approximately $1,000
900 during the last year for freight
on nearly $500 cars Of fruits. Ship.
ments Of lumber and merchandise
make the total freight bill of the
county about $1,600,000.
Convincing proof of the age of this
part of the globe was unearthed when
e. NJ. Hubbard, superintendent for the
Coweeman Driving & Rafting Com
pany, discovered the tooth Of mas
todon jutting from the bank OF the
Coweeman a few miles above Kelso.
Fred Lozier,, alive and we'll, walked
in upon his mourning mother. Mrs.
H. L. Smyser. The. tears which had
fallen since the body OF drawned
man had been positively identified"
as that of Loziler at Bellinghan. Sun.
day. were replaced by glad rejoicings
Under the auspices of the Develop
ment League, an apple-packing school
has been started in the old school
house at White Salmon, with an en-
rollment Of Is. w. C.. Seton. who
packed Walla Walla's prize winners
at the National Apple Show, is in
charge.
That Preston Durbin, brought back
to Spokane from the coast to stand
trial as an accomplice of e. H. Har-
rison and son in the robbery of three
men at the points Of guns at Harri-
sons poolroom. Is the descendant Of
the notorious Durbin boys. partners
OF Jesse James, Is an assertion Of the
police.
The county commissioners have ap-
propriated $4,000 to be applied On
the construction Of a steel bridge
across Lewis River at Woodland.
Cowlitz County, through its board of
commissioners. appropriated a like
sum. Either through the state or
through private subscription another
$4,000 will be raised until the estt-
mated $4,000 has been secured.
Whether an undertaking establish
ment is a general nuisance or not
Is the question that will be determined
In the superior court when the case
just filed by property owners in the
exclusive residential districts at Sc
attic is heard. The suit seeks to GUST
two undertaking. firms from a two
story building in the residential dis
trtct for use as an undertaking 60.
Enlistment. The complaint filed de.
clares that such an enterprise is
nuisance and must be abated.
1t was all because tried to spank
my boy" said Albert Darling, OF
White Salmon. as he placed his arm
under the X-ray and then submitted
to an operation which laid open the
wrist to the bone. AS he swung on
the lad the boy instinctive,y thrsw
his hand behind for protection. and
the indelible pencil he held penetrat.
ed the fathers wrist and the point
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