The Newport miner. [volume] (Newport, Wash.) 1899-current, 1911-06-08
sIDELIGHTS FROM OTHER
CITIES IN WASHINGTON


sociation.
The eighth annual convention of
the Washington Grand Chapter Of the
P. 3. @. Sisterhood was held at Mount
Vernon.
More than 100 delegates were in
attendance at the oath annual con-
vention of the State Dental Associa-
ton at Tacoma.
John c. Carey, formerly of Roslyn,
but now of Seattle, has been APP
ed assistant state mine inspector by
D. c. Bottling, state mine inspector.
The Old Settlers Association Of
Chelan county has announced that It
will hold it's annual picnic at the pic
mic grounds at Monitor on June 16,
II and 18.
According to statement given out
by John L. Riseland, state fish COM
missioner, the 1911 salmon pack will
be the largest ever put up in Wash
ington during an off year.
Back to the farm" is a cry that
has real meaning in Walla Walla.
More than two dozen families have
left the city for their abandoned farms
within the last two weeks.
A 200-acre deposit of Fuller's earth
has been found at the headwaters of
Squaw creek, in the southeastern
part Of Kittitas county by James
Hewitt, a rancher living in that sec
ton.
The state board has requested from
the United States Marine Hospital
corps the services of DIR. L. L. Lams-
den to take charge OF the office for
the investigation into causes of ty-
phoid in North Yakima
According to advices the employers
liability commission will not establish
branch Offices at Spokane. Seattle and
Tacoma, for the present, at least, but
will attempt to handle all business
from the central Offices at Olympia
Miss Janet Moore, of Olympia, pres
ident of the State Federation Of Won
ems Clubs, announces that plans are
almost completed for the annual con-
vention of that body, which Is to
meet in Olympia June 81, %, 20.
R. c. Coates, city commissioner OF
Spokane, has declined to attend the
banquet of the Rotary Club, composed
of Spokane's most prominent business
men, because "open shop prevails at
the restaurant where the dinner is to
take place.
A mortgage for 100000, 900, the
largest ever fled in Snohomish county,
was recorded in the auditors office
from the Great Northern Railway
Company to the Bankers Trust Com
pany, of New York. The immense
mortgage carries 5 per cent interest.
To forestall the increasing senti-
ment in favor of dry city, the city
council of Port TOWNSEND at a recent
session voted to increase the retail
liquor license fee from $500 to $3.50
and to limit the number of saloons to
10 until the population numbers
5000.
Having failed by correspondence to
induce about so Seattle liquor dealers
to pay the annual $25 license fee de-
manded by the state, Secretary e. j.
KoOrs, of the State Tax Commission,
went to Seattle and threatened to ar
rest the delinquents, with the result
that all secured licenses.
Hermann Schneider, modern Ro
meo, who, after stealing away his
bride-to-be in an automobile, welded
her, then sued his father-in-law and
mother-in-law for damages because
they had him arrested, failed to win
any financial balm when the case was
heard in Judge Sullivan's court at
Spokane.
Putting the ban on the dealers Of
Tacoma, the Diamond Match Com
pany, known as the trust, has served
notice that they will not be allowed
to handle its product If they sell the
Tacoma-made match now being
turned out at the new factory on
Chambers Creek by the Pacific Coast
Match Company
1t is held by the State Tax Commits
sion in formal opinion to the as
SCISSOR of Pierce county that wheat Or
grain actually en- route to a foreign
port does not have to pay taxes even
If in the state on March /, provided
it has never been mixed with the
property holdings of the owner or
person having it in charge.
Few states, according to the Census
Bureau, will show greater relative ag-
rin f1ro e. Al