The Newport miner. [volume] (Newport, Wash.) 1899-current, 1911-03-30
SIDELIGHTS FROM OTHER
CITIES IN WASHINGTON

year in numbering business and every
plant on Grays Harbor is running full
time
By a decision Of the faculty OF Whit
man College the degree of B. L. will
hereafter be discontinued and the col
lege will grant the degrees B. A., B. S.
and B. Mus.
Chehalis has q dog war, with gro.
cerymen. butchers. fruitmen and other
display merchants against the pets
and patrons of the tradesmen in pha,
lanx for the dogs.
More than 1900 acres of non-irri-
gated lands in the Walla Walla val
ley. south Of Spokane, and other parts
OF eastern Washington will be planted
to broom corn this spring.
In obtaining William j. Hurley as
coach of the University of Washing
ton baseball team the varsity won one
Of the best-known and all-around ball
players on the Pacific Coast.
John Eddy. an engineer employed in
the transformer station of the Pacific
Power & Light Company at Topper
ish, was rendered unconscious by a
66.000-volt current. He survived.
In line with the other activities
Planned by the Pasco Commercial
Club. committee has been appointed
by President E. E. White to arrange
for an excursion up the Columbia
River.
Under the recent legislation of the
state Legislature. permitting cities of
$500 and more to adopt commission
form of government, Walla Walla is
soon to try for the new municipal
rule.
The Citizens Club of Chehalis has
made arrangements to ship two tons
OF clay to county in Ohio that 1t
may be given thorough test as to its
adaotability for manufacturing high
grade vitrified brick.
Twenty-four Gloucester fishermen.
the first of 200 coming to man Puget
Sound codfishing boats, arrived at
Anacortes, Wash, and went on the
schooners Joseph Rues and Alice, now
Quitting for Bering Sea.
A coyote that strayed into the town
Of Lostine, Wallowa county, few
days ago and roamed the streets until
finally shot. has been found by Pro
lessor Pernot, state bacteriologist, to
have been affected with rabies
Five hundred mead of sheep and an
experienced herder will be employed
this season in an endeavor to eradi
cate thistles and weeds on the banks
Of the Sunnyside canal, federal gov.
eminent irrigation project in central
Washington.
The water frontage Of Tacoma will
be doubled when the Wapate water
way Is completed. All the prelimi.
naries are being rushed and it is ex.
pected that the work. which will add
II miles to the water front, will be
finished within the year.
United States District Judge George
Donworth took under advisement at
Seattle the motion for a new trial
for Clarence D. Hillman, the million.
aire townsite promoter, recently con.
Victed OF using the mails to defraud.
Judge Donworth will announce his de-
cision next Saturday.
John Strange Waller Reeves, aged
100 years. died at his home in Ia
coma. He was born in Wilkesbarre,
Pa. October Is. 1910, and at the time
Of his death. was said to be the Oldest
locomotive engineer in the United
States. having been the first engineer
on the Hamilton & Dayton Railroad.
Business conditions pertaining to
the lumber industry were discussed
when the Pacific Coast Lumber Manu-
facturers' Association met in monthly
session In Seattle. Several of the
lumbermen urged uniform scale of
prices, saying that cutthroat competi-
ton in western Washington was de-
moralizing the market.
Superintendent Belding, OF the con.
vict rock-crushing plant at Meskill,
II miles west of Chehalis, reports that
he is swamped with orders for the
No. size of rock. He has not been
able thus far to supply the demand
for the fine size, orders for 40 to 50
cars of which have been placed for
use on the road leading north between
Chehalfs and Centralia.
The trustees of the Ellensburg state
normal school have adopted an en-
tirely new plan for the summer
school. and this year the school viii
be divided into two parts and instead