The Newport miner. [volume] (Newport, Wash.) 1899-current, 1911-01-19
sIDELIGHTs FROM OTHER
CITIES IN WASHINGTON


the convention of Inland Empire
teachers to be. held in Spokane the
first week in April.
Plans are under way to raise
fund of $4,000 to send representa-
tive east to work for factories to be
established in the Grays Harbor
country.
Reclamation plans for Washington
during 1911 are being made by Chief
Engineer Davis of the reclamation
service and engineers OF the service
in the Northwest.
Mrs. Edna w. Edings, editor OF
the State Capital Record. has been ap-
pointed deputy sheriff of Thurston
County by Sheriff CASTOR. She is
said to be the first woman deputy in
the state She will serve papers on
women.
To Doty, Lewis County, village
of 500 people, is entitled the credit
for being the first sawmill town west
OF the Mississippi River to secure
Y. M. G. A. of the industrial type.
Former Chief KalosRi of the San
PollIndians, has gone to Washington,
D. c., to try to induce the government
to allot more than 80 acres each to
the Indians on the south half OF the
Colville reservation.
The trial OF Ernest Winkley, ac-
cused of having slain his wife by
shooting her through the head several
| months ago in Everett, drags slowly
| on toward completion. The case will
cost Snohomish County $4,000, it in
estimated.
Statements just published by WaIla
Walla banks show that the five insti-
buttons are in good shape, the total
deposits being 100000 up to the
close of business January Z. The to-
tai loans and discounts at that time
were $3.6S2,OOO.
Senator Jones has proposed an
amendment to the Indian appropria-
ton, providing 100000 for construct
ing roads on the Yakima Indian reser-
+ walton. The government will be re-
/ imbursed from receipts Of sales OF
Yakima lands when the reservation
is opened.
The treasury of the state will need
a careful and judicious guard, for
with even the enormous increase in
|, population and taxable property, the
state auditor figures that it will take
$7,404445 to run the state for the en-
suing biennium and the auditor esti-
mates the income of the state will be
stretched to the limit to cover the
necessary appropriations.
This is the first time the people of
the state have been governed by an
executive of wealth, Governor Hay be-
ing reputed to be worth not one but
several millions of dollars Although
Ex-Governor McGraw died a rich man,
his term of administration was dur
ing the hard times Of the early '90s,
and he, in common with all the state,
was hard up.
The state treasury made slight
gain last week as the receipts ran up
to $4,000 and the disbursements
only s12s,000, leaving more than
$1.000,000 cash on hand. Next week
the legislators will begin drawing pay
and then there will be shrinkage
1t is said that unless the present leg
islature makes deficiency appropria-
ton for the militia that armories will
have to be closed . $50. =,
The abolition of all state boards,
such as BARRIERS, medical, dentistry,
embalming and similar boards will
probably be made to the legislature
shortly. as the encouragement has
been asked to solve the problem. The
boards will either have to send all
their money through the state treas
ury and check it out in regular form
Or else be put under one commission.
It has been found that money running
into the thousands has been handled,
on which the state has no check.
The report of the board OF army en-
gineers reviews in great detail the
situation in the Yakima valley in
eastern Washington, discussing each
of the units of the Yakima project, IA
voring some and adversely reporting
on others While the board Is i'm
pressed with the favorable prospects
in this state, the fact that most of the
land is In private ownership led the
board to recommend appointments
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