The Newport miner. [volume] (Newport, Wash.) 1899-current, 1911-12-07
WASHINGTON BRIEFLETS

Olympia passed upon the question
of whether or not to adopt the COM
mission form of government Deem
Der S.
One million five hundred thousand
apples, representing the chosen few"
were gathered at the Fourth National
Apple Show in Spokane.
The cost of living in Seattle will be
investigated by special committee OF
the progress and prosperity commit
tee of the new Seattle Chamber of
Commerce.
Seated beside his flancee aboard his
yacht Cubrina, William N. Ward, OF
Seattle, % years old, was shot and
almost instantly killed by the acct
dental explosion of shotgun.
AS yet Governor Hay has not con-
sidered the resignation of Chairman
John c. Lawrence, of the public SER
vice commission, and stated upon his
return from Spokane that he had not
given the matter his attention.
Through the aid of friends and SYM
pathizers, $3.50 has been raised to ap-
peal the case of George II. Wilson, of
Rainier, convicted of numbering Mrs.
Archie Coble and her husband as they
were asleep. to the supreme court.
Four gigantic irrigation projects
the Benton, the Palouse and the
Quincy Valley and the opening to
navigation of the Columbia River,
were Endorsed by the newly formed
Inland Empire Federation of CONNER
cial Clubs at it's first meeting at Spo-
kane.
The state board of control is driving
an artesian we'll in Capital Park, op-
posite the state house. The state IS
now paying $500 year for water and
hopes to effect a material saving by
owning and controlling its own water
system. If the gusher Is a success
it will be connected with the capitol.
On account of a personal encoun-
ter in the courthouse at Seattle be-
tween Rev. Arthur Sandahl, Baptist,
and Rev. Joseph Kindred, Presbyte-
rian, rival marrying clergymen who
quarreled over business, County Audi
tor Case has taken steps to exclude
all such clergymen from his office,
where they and their runners have
been in the habit of soliciting couples
who obtained licenses to wed.
County Auditor Buxton at Chehalis
has moved the dismissal of the
charge of murder in the first degree
against L. E. Young. The case was
dismissed without prejudice and II
sufficient evidence can be secured
later to warrant Young's rearrest, this
can be done. The murder charge
against the Adna blacksmith was dis
missed because the state did not have
enough evidence to justify going to
trial
Opium smuggled across the Cana
dian boundary line to Metaline Falls
is being shipped to Spokane snug
glers, according to the suspicious of
government inspectors who are now
working in the vicinity of the border
town. Reports from Metaline Falls
Indicate that number of Cinnamon
who have been making that place their
home during the summer and fall are
suspected of conducting the drug traf-
fic, that one of their number pays a
regular visit to Spokane each week
supposedly with opium
Loose methods of handling the f.
nancial affairs of Ferry County are
charged against the officials of that
county by the state bureau of public
inspection. The commissioners, says
the report of the bureau, have fol-
lowed custom of making large esti-
mates for the needs of certain funds,
making levy which cannot produce
the estimated amounts, and then have
permitted their expenditures to be
governed by the estimates instead of
the levy made. The result Is that
more money is spent than is pro-
duced by the tax levy.
Locating survey work ON the west
side of the Cascades for the extension
of the North Coast, of the Hartman
system, to the Sound has been sux-
pended until spring, because of
heavy SHOWS. The locating survey
crew has returned to Tacoma and the
work will not be resumed until
spring. The crew was at work on
two routes, one by Bear Gap and the
other by Naches Pass. A crew in
still at work on the east side of the
mountains. The road must have COM
plete data as to its route before II
can get a right-of-way through the