The Newport miner. [volume] (Newport, Wash.) 1899-current, 1911-10-26
WASHINGTON BRIEFLETS


olympia may yet have a woman can
oldate for mayor There is now a.
woman candidate for city treasurer
on the Citizens ticket
Fire destroyed the sawmill plant of
the Cheha,is Lumber Company at Lit
tell, four miles west of Chehalis on
the South Bend branch.
A relic of pioneer opium smuggling
days came to light when E. Olson was
clearing land between Port Townsend
and Port Discovery and unearthed q
cache of opium valued at $500.
The residents of Castle Rock are
living in daily state of perturbation
over the fact that many Italian labor
efs working on the Northern Pacific
improvements at that place are
| armed.
Effective November 1, the Great
Northern will remove the Offices ard
! force Of General Superintendent E.
L. Brown from Spokane to Seattle,
and complete the consolidation of all
It's general Offices in this city.
In an effort to sell Snohomish mer-
chants goods, Isaac w Soils, a travel
ing man, dislocated his jaw and it
took the combined efforts of his
friends and acquaintance to restore
him to his usual working capacity.
]. D. Laidlaw, banker of Waitsburg,
was crushed to death beneath his
heavy automobile, when the machine
refused to respond to the slow-speed
clutch on a steep hill near Prescott
and turned over against an embank-
ment.
Puget Sound made a great gain in
flour exports, increasing from 749,804
barrels in the nine months ended Sep
TENDER, 1910, to 1,364,62S barrels in
is the second heaviest exporter OF
-four thus far this year.
dIld w dild Is 10 nave d S&Vo,OVu
hospital. The hospital will be erected
by the Sisters of Charity Of the House
of Providence, the same Roman Cath
Ollie organization that owns and oper-
ates a majority of the hospitals of that
denomination on the Pacific Coast
Plans are being completed by New
York landscape gardeners for the re-
arrangement and identification of the
University of Washington campus.
One of the biggest items will be a
100000 administration building, to
be erected in the most central loca-
ton on the campus.
The lumber trade in the Pacific
Northwest shows marked improv ement
according to reports from mills gath
cred by the West Coast Lumber Man
ufacturers' Association, which in
cludes virtually all the large rail and
cargo mills in Western Washington
and Oregon, as well as many in Brit
ish Columbia.
The annual report Of the Great
Northern railroad, just filed with the
public service commission, setting
forth the business done in Washing
ton in the year ending June so, 1911,
shows that in that period the total
operating revenues of the entire line
in this state, including interstate
business, amounted to s9,50s,SS1.
A third drydock at the Puget Sound
navy yard virtually is assured by
letter from George Won L. Meyer, sec
rotary of the navy, received by Rep
resentative Humphrey. The second
drydock, declared to be the largest IT,
the world, is nearing completion and
third dock 1000 feet long will equip
this yard as the largest one the Pa
c1fc Coast.
There arrived in London last week
a first consignment Of 1000 cases OF
peaches from the. Wenatchee country,
attached to the mail train, and sent
to New York, whence they were
shipped for England. They were de-
1ivered at Vovent Garden within Is
days from the date Of dispatch, which
constitutes a record for American
fruit
John H. Giblin, a well known gro
Ger, and A. E. Judd, q prominent real
estate and insurance agent, have nled
their petitions as candidates for city
commissioners of Chehalis, under the
proposed commission form OF govern
ment. There are three candidates Tor
mayor, DIR. John T. Coleman, w. Z
Green and H. Gabel. There are seven
candidates for two places as commits
sioners, as follows: A. e. Judd, Jonn
H. Giblin, William Brunswig, Edward
Deggeller, S. F. Townsend, ]. A. Baker
and William Cohee. The primary cleo