The Newport miner. [volume] (Newport, Wash.) 1899-current, 1911-07-27
EIDELIGHTS FROM OTHER
CITIES IN WASHINGTON

''S-y hA4o"A ptoASSI u Tue state OI
Washington, has just celebrated her
18th birthday at Tacoma.
There will be no reduction in wheat
rates to Seattle and Tacoma from
points in the Palouse country on the
Oregon & Washington Railroad lines
this year.
BY a peculiar coincidence, two men
fell from third story windows in diff
ferent parts of Seattle Saturday.
Neither was killed. but both were Sc
verely injured.
Curtailing the lumber output to al
most half of what 1t was in May and
June, single manufacturers on Grays
Harbor are having no difficulty in
marketing their wares.
/. Rural free delivery will be inaugu-
rated September l at the following
points in Washington: Creston, Irby,
Kennewick, Kettle Falls, Nachez,
Odessa two routes), Rice, Wenatchee
and Seattle.
No organization on the Pacific Coast
will possess a handsomer home than
the Tacoma Commercial Club and
Chamber of Commerce upon the COM
pletion in September of the 10 story
Tacoma building.
D. L. Callahan, of Centralia, has in
vented a patent column turning lathe
that is receiving much attention from
machine men in that section of the
state. The lathe can turn out 200
columns, eight inches thick and nine
feet long, in one hour
Following the example set by Cen
tralia, petitions were circulated in
Chehalis asking that commission
form of government be instituted in
that city. Only 80 signatures are re-
quired on the petitions to compel the
mayor to call special election, and
that number was almost reached two
hours after the petitions were on the
street.
Owing to the close race between
Centralia and Chehalis for the State
League baseball pennant, considera-
BILE betting has been going on at the
games played in Centralia. Saturday
a letter was received by the directors
from o. ]. Albers, president of the
state league, placing proSibitive ban
on betting of any form at local ball
games.
Though the county commissioners
of Chehalis county have spent more
than quarter million dollars on the
county court house, $1,000 for bronze
lamps at the entrances of the building
and will spend $40 900 more in mural
painting for it's walls, no money Is
left to kalsomine the walls OF the
county poorhouse, and for this reason
the pioneers of Chehalis county have
entered a demand that conditions be
changed.
In computing how many blanks will
be needed on which to record the &C
cidents of the next two years for the
new Industrial Insurance Comm .ssion,
Secretary Hindley has guessed 10000
as the number. Others declare as
many as 1000 a month will be needed,
for it is believed that once the new
law gets into working order, every
kind of accident, from fatalities to the
MASKING of a toe or finger, will be re-
ported.
After thousands of fish had been
planted in various rivers and lakes OF
Thurston county, the state fish depart
ment had 1000 steelhead fry on hand
and these have been turned loose In
the little lagoon in Capitol Park. d.
rectly in front of the state house.
The addition Of the young salmon
has caused much commotion In gold
fish circles, as the fat, lazy inhabit-
ants of the m mature lake have had
things their own way for years.
Mrs. J. H. Wilson's insisting that
her husband explain why blood stains
were found in the little tent he says
he slept in on the night OF July 10,
resulted in the arrest at Olympia OF
j. H. Wilson, section foreman at Raj
nier, upon suspicion of being impli-
Gated in the murder of Archie COble
and his girl bride at Rainier. Mrs.
Wilson was away from home that
night, and Wilson, instead OF sleeping
at the clubhouse as has been his Gus
tom, declares he stayed in the tent.
Becoming solicitous for the health
of the people of Olympia. the city
council authorized the president OF
the Civic Improvement Club and
| committee of women to inspect all
bakeries, butcher shops and other
places where food Is sold. and then