The Newport miner. [volume] (Newport, Wash.) 1899-current, 1911-11-30
WASHINGTON BRIEFLETS

service, owing to floods in the Stila-
guamish Valley south of the city.
Little Falls, the lively manufacture
ing town in southern Lewis county, is
to have bank with $4,000 capital
More than $50 farmers attended the
farmers institute gwen by the Wash
lngton State College at Walla Walla.
Hens will net the poultryraiser
from So to 81 a year, if properly cared
Tor, according to Lillian Blanchard,
who has charge of the poultry depart
ment OF the Washington State College
at Pullman.
Victor Marion, a private detective,
formerly a special agent in the prose
cutting attorneys Office, was found
guilty at Seattle of offering to pro
cure the dismissal of a criminal case
against J. w. Dalton, Jr., if paid $500,
Spokane shippers have joined with
the Department of Justice and the In
terstate Commerce Commission in an
appeal to the supreme court of the
United States from the recent adverse
decision of the commerce court in the
Spokane rate case.
The state convention of county au-
ditors adjourned at Walla Walla after
adopting resolutions indorsing the
state highway department and the
public service and the state tax COM
missions. Everett was chosen as the
next place of meeting.
More than 100000 apples of COM
mercial varieties have been entered
In the numerous contests, ranging
from a full carload to a single plate
Of five apples, in the apple show at
Spokane, in which $4,000 in cash
prizes and premiums will be awarded.
The state industrial commission is
deeply impressed with the number of
indu trial accidents which have taken
place since the commission began its
work. Washington has a larger ratio
Of working men killed than any other
political division of the earth where
vital statistics are gathered.
Annie Wanassay, said to have been
the oldest Indian woman in the state,
who died at the home of her son,
Frank Wanassay. at Kelso, recently,
has a son. Charles, living at Ahtanum.
She was 107 years old, chiefs daugh-
ter and rather remarkable woman. OF
IA children, only these two sons are
left
Three hundred pounds of turkey
formed one feature Of the great ban
Quet gwen jointly by the Scottish Rite
and SINNERS at Masonic temple at
Tacoma closing the reunion of the
former and the ceremonial of the lat
ter. Sinners were present from Port
land, Seattle and other cites of the
state. Between IS and 100 novitiates
joined the caravan
The Reclamation Service is making
an investigation Of the feasibility OF
extending the Okanogan project in
Washington by the addition of two
units. Both will be irrigated by
pumps. One unit includes HOO acres
IN the present project limits, known
as the Robinson fat, and requires q
lift Of $50 feet. The other will take
nds in the Colville Indian reser-
vation.
-.-orts are to be made by the Grays
Harbor cites to secure federal aid for
road through the Olympic National
forest reserve, from Hoquiam to Port
Townsend, on the Straits of Juan de
Fuca, and the first steps toward a
campaign to this end have already
been taken. The campaign will be
carried on by the use of a mass of
facts and statistics, which are now
being gathered.
The Spokane Mining Mems Club Is
making plans for big northwestern
mining meeting to be held in Spokane
Ill Cu. al ILLS HtSlluS all OF the
men interested in mines in Montana,
Idaho, Oregon, Washington and Brit
ish Columbia will be invited A big
mineral exhibit will be displayed at
the time of the meeting and it is
planned to give the mining industry
a more thorough exploitation than it
has ever had IN this section of the
country.
Caught on a goat trail 80 miles east
of Bellingham, near the summit of the
Cascades, in the Washington forest,
by the blizzard which ragged through
the mountains for three days last
week, Forest Rangers Ridley, Nc
CURE Monahan and Soil, accompanied
by Mrs. Soil and a babe in arms,
reached Bellingham in pitiable con-
dition from exposure and exhaustion.
Four DAYS were passed in coming