The Newport miner. [volume] (Newport, Wash.) 1899-current, 1911-01-05
SIDELIGHTS FROM OTHER
CITIES IN WASHINGTON

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Governor Hay has denied the re-
quest of the Sunnyside women who
sent him a petition that he recon-
mend to the legislature a bill exempt
ing women from jury duty.
Mayor E. B. Bonn and the caty
council summarily dismissed the Gu
tire Aberdeen police force, consisting
Of Chief of Police Dean and IA men,
on the recommendation of the police
committee
Mrs. A. A. Denny, widow OF one OF
the founders of Seattle, is dead after
a protracted illness Mrs. Denny was
88 years old and was member OF the
first party of overland immigrants
who landed on Alki Point in 1851.
To force the Northern Pacific, Great
Northern, Chicago. Milwaukee & Pu-
get Sound and the DIV r. & N. Com
pany to put into effect joint rate to
South Tacoma, the state railroad COM
mission has filed formal suit before
the Interstate Commerce Commission.
There are $40 male cOnvicts in the
penitentiary, according to the report
of the state board of control, and OF
this number SCI are under the age OF
80 years, $50 are between 20 and 80.
78 are under 20, one being Is years
old.
Archibald Tiderington of Walla
~Walla paid to Mrs. Elsie Van Zante
of Spokane the $500 awarded for her
two kisses he took from her last May
At this rate, the two kisses cost
Tiderington a little more than $3.50
each, for he had $47.S0 costs to pay.
Promptly at II o'clock Saturday
night every saloon in Everett closed
it's doors and passed into history, for
January J., 1911. was the date estab-
lished by the recent local option cleo
ton when the city Of smokestacks
should, for a period of two years. wit
ness a cessation OF the liquor traffic.
The Merchants Protective Associa-
ton Of Walla Walla have decided to
make strong fight against the pro-
posal for the passage of an act by
Congress establishing local rural par
cells post service. Petitions protest
ing against the service are now being
signed by business men.
Determined not to have repetition
of the frightful disaster at Wellington
last winter on the Great Northern
Railway. where two passenger trains
and a freight train were crushed be-
meath thousands of tons of snow, ice
and rocks, and SO lives lost, James ].
Hill Is having constructed at that
point reinforced concrete snow shed.
the first of it's kind in the world
The exclusion of foreign labor on
city contracts is to be asked by the
labor unions of North Yakima. The
clause Is aimed against Greeks and
Italians who when they first come to
the country are willing to work for
the small wages which they are ac-
customed to at home, thus making it
impossible for the American laboring
man to compete with them.
It is not generally known. especially
by many eastern purchasers of Teton
land, that one Of the requirements of
the land department is that owners Of
land and water rights under the gov
eminent irrigation project must reside
on or within so miles of the property.
The result Of the enforcement of this
rule will be the rapid moving to Wash
ington Of a good many people, or the
sale of much of the land
Fearing that Prosser, the meeting
place of the convention of the state
horticultural association, January II
to 10, will not have sufficient hotel
accommodations for the many dele
gates who will attend, fruit growers
from North YAKIMA have hit upon the
plan of hiring several tourist sleeping
cars from the Northern Pacific Rail-
| road to furnish sleeping accommoda-
tons for them.
Though nearly frozen and suffering
from bruises and sprains, ]. c.,
Hutchinson. a telephone lineman, sat
at the top of telephone pole for
three hours while a crew of men slow
| ly worked their way to him by cable.
| He was caught by snowslide and
| carried zoo feet down steep incline
| and buried at the foot of telephone
| pole He managed to work his way
| out. however, and reached the top of
the pole, whence he cut in on the wire
and te'ebhened to Gle Elum for help
The activity in the sale of national
forest mber in Oregon and Washing