The Newport miner. [volume] (Newport, Wash.) 1899-current, 1911-08-31
WASHINGTON BRIEFLETS

expected THIS winter.
Prices on the 1911 pack of canned
salmon were named Monday morning
and were the highest ever asked in
the history of the industry.
Scott c. Bone, up to six months ago
editor and manager of the Washing
ton Cd. Co. Herald, has been made
editor Of the Seattle Post-Inteln
gencer.
Nearly 100000 in gold bullion was
received at Seattle from Nome.
Alaska, on the steamship Victoria.
The gold Is consigned to banks and
mining companies
County commissioners of Klickitat
have granted the petition presented
by the land owners residing in the
Vicinity of Glenwood asking for the
formation of an irrigation district
During the year ending June 80. M.
S. Kribs, state hospital inspector, and
his deputies, investigated conditions
in 1880 hotels in Washington, accord
ing to his report filed with Governor
Hay.
New machinery that is being in
stalled at the plant of the Chehalis
Coal Company at Chehalis will make
it possible to increase the output at
the plant to 100 tons daily. beginning
September 1.
Three hundred or more physicians
and surgeons from various parts OF
the Northwest are expected at the an
nual convention of the Washington
State Medical Association in Spokane,
September to T.
Having had one roundup" with
"twister" insurance agents, which
means agents who say unkind and
frequently untruthful things about
rival companies, tne state insurance
companies.
The plant of the O'Connell Lumber
| Company, which was destroyed by
| fire at Winlock some time ago, will be
rebuilt Immediately. The new mill
will be electrically operated through
out and will have capacity OF 1907
600 feet of lumber per day.
Admiral Togo arrived at Seattle
Monday for a farewell visit to the
United States before sailing for Japan
He arrived early in the morning and
until his departure Tuesday he was
kept busy receiving visitors and at
tending receptions and banquets.
Frederick Meeker Templeton, aged
3S, grandson of Ezra Meeker. the
Washington pioneer, who drove his
OK team over the old Oregon trail In
the early days, and who acquired a
national reputation by driving his OK
team attached to a prairie schooner
to New York and return a few years
ago, died at the home OF his father,
W. A. Templeton, in Bellevue.
A three-cornered war between Hill
lines, the Hartman system and the
Canadian Pacific for possession of
northern Washington Is believed to
| be impending Behind the efforts OF
the Spokane & British Columbia Rail-
road to GUST the Great Northern from
possession of the San Poll River
route from Republic to the Colum.
bia, is said to be the great Canadian
system.
Asserting that the recent ruling OF
the University of Washington, which
has warned them that they cannot
live in their costly new fraternity and
sorority houses, built this summer,
because they are next door to each
other, Is unjust and unreasonable,
members of the societies involved
have virtually decided to appeal from
the decision Of the dean Of women,
Isabella Austen, and in the meantime
to use the structures.
No longer does the blushing bride
and the bashful bridegroom have to
| give their ages to an inquisitive mar.
riage license clerk when they apply
for the necessary document which en-
titles them to share one another's
| joys and sorrows. The new Washing
| ton law simply requires that afYidav-
| its be filed setting forth that the
bridegroom is over Fl and the bride
| past 10. OF course, II they are under
that their ages must be given, SO that
the parents consent can be recorded.
Commencing Monday morning the
| shingle mills of Western Washington,
| which have been idle for several
weeks, resumed operations. The cur
tailment campaign inaugurated early
in August came to an end Single
manufacturers declare the curtail-
ment movement was one OF the most
successful ever undertaken In the Pa
cific Northwest. and that no less than