The Newport miner. [volume] (Newport, Wash.) 1899-current, 1911-12-21
WASHINGTON BRIEFLETs

Seattle Press Club.
Forty three Australian boys, prz
students from western Austral az
provinces, are in Seattle on their tour
Charles Butts was awarded the cen
tract for building the new pcstoffice
building in Centralia. It will cost
about $1,000
Tuesday the state pubic servic
commiss sion held "A final conference at
Olympia on distributing freight rates
in this state.
Edward Brown, the cow ct escaped
from the MeskiT quarry is still at
large although a determined hunt has
been made for him.
The Puget Sound salmon pack for
1911 established a new record, a total
of 1925 900 cases having been packed
according to figures compiled by Sec
rotary Crawford of the Puget Sound
Gamers Association.
After being out more than 20 hours
the jury in the trial at Seattle OF
Frank L mbardo, charged with muir
der in the first Gpg"ee for the death
of Frank Bressi, was discharged. The
jury failed to agree on a verdict.
With a capital stock OF $12,5OO,0O
the Colonial Oil Company, of Seattle,
has filed articles of incorporation with
the secretary of state. The company
purposes to acquire and develop coal
mines, manufacture lime and cement,
generate gas and electricity.
Baseball as an intercol egiate sport
has been abolished by Whitman Col
lege and unless the right arrange
ments can be made, basketball will
go as well. This decision was reached
by the assoc;at students of Whit
man College at a meeting held for this
purpose.
''The present somewhat lenient pol
icy may develop into an abuse in the
hands of less scrupulous officials in a
growing city" says the bureau of in
spection in its report on the condition
Of South Bend, in Pacific county, after
praisng the present Officials for their
honesty.
Henry j. Pierce, of Spokane, who
plans a merger of cargo mills in Ore
gon and Washington, having a capa-
city of more than so per cent of the
ota, output of sawmills at tidewater,
mas announced that he will finance
the consolidation scheme through a
large New York banking house.
The Spokane, Portland & Seattle
Plantation Company, with offices at
Spokane, has filed articles of incor-
poratfon with the secretary of state.
TIE objects are to handle real estate
in Washington, establish plantations,
acquire townsites, etc. The capital
stock of the company is $1,5000O0.
w. V. Tanner, attorney-gen is
in Washington, D. c., to argue before
the United States supreme court the
case of the Washington railroad com
mission against the O-W R. & N,
the Northern Pacific and the Spokane
& Inland Empire road, the commits
sion having directed the roads to es-
tablish physical connections to facili-
tate the interchange of business.
Material is being assembled for the
estab .ishment at North Head of the
most powerful wireless plant on the
Pacific Coast, If not in the United
States On it's completion it will be
possible to receive and send aerial
messages for a distance of 5000 miles,
bring ng this section of the Coast
within easy cOmmun cation of the
Orient Alaska, the Panama Canal
zone and the west coast of South
America.
Loose methods of handling local i'm
provements are charged against the
city Of Vancouver by the state bureau
of inspection. The bureaus report,
covering the period between January
1, 1908 and October /, 1911, indicates
that no comprehensive or methodical
scheme of making improvements and
keeping check upon the m has been
Followed and that property-oWners
who are overcharged have difficulty in
getting redress.
Believing he is st. Paul and anil
mated by a desire to smash furniture,
S. Bidman, of Tacoma, laborer, who
says he has been attending the Gypsy
Smith revival, became insane from re-
ligious hysteria chased his chill
dren out of the house, broke up
he greater part of it's fixtures, in
yaded the home of .neighbor, turned
it's interior into a wreck and then,
with the police hard on his heels,
charged into a grocery store and
Aurled its stack to the floor until he