The Newport miner. [volume] (Newport, Wash.) 1899-current, 1911-07-13
sfDEL1GHTS FROM OTHER
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now has deposits to the amount OF
$575.
Fifty policemen and Ave detectives
will be added to the Seattle force
during the festivities Of Potlatch
week
The State Board OF Control raised
the price of grain bags made at the
penitentiary from 1915 to $3.50 per
hundred.
DR.. Harry F. Alton, quartermaster
at Seattle, is ordered to Fort Doug
las, Utah, to take charge Of construc-
ton work at that post.
During the fiscal year ending June
80, gold to the value OF $10.273.000
was received at the United States
assay office at Seattle, most OF It COM
ing from Alaska.
Many entries received in all the
early closing events insure the great
est harness racing program ever seen
on a track for the Walla Walla
COunIy 4 alT LihS Ldll.
A young man, who registered as E..
II. Cline, of Raymond, was found
dead in his bed in the Albee Hotel
at South Bend with evidence at hand
that he had taken carbolic acid.
Walla Walla voted upon the adop-
ton of a commission form Of govern
ment Monday, as a result OF the de-
cdsion of the state supreme court de-
claring the Allen law constitutional.
By vote of 1928 to FIT Kennewick
voted to retain it's five saloons, the
vets having won victory after one of
the most holly contested political
campaigns in the history of the city.
The first "Umpires Day" known in
history of the world was observed
by Tacoma fans Sunday on the field
of the Tacoma club of the North
western league with Jake Baumgar-
ten as the recipient of honors.
Ephrata, county seat of Grant
voted dry, the drys winning the cleo
ton by the decisive majority of 48,
the vote standing 105 to 81 Total
registration was 1875, 129 men and Sc
women. Fifty-eight women voted, OF
whom the drys claim 40.
The Western Pine Manufacturers
Association at It's semi-annual meet
ing in Spokane August 2 probably
will take steps toward providing an
exhibit of Washington and Idaho tim
Der and timber products at the Pan
anna exposition at San Francisco.
In spite of a sand storm, men and
women faced the gale to vote in the
Pasco option election. The vets cast
51s ballots while those opposed to
saloons could only muster 1874 votes.
Nearly every business man in the
city was opposed to the movement
Archibald Tiderington of Walla
Walla, who last summer paid $500 for
two kisses he stole from Mrs. Elsie
Van Zante. Of Spokane, and then de-
vised a cheaper method of securing
them by marrying Eta McMannis,
was divorced by order OF the superior
court, on complaint Of his wife.
Melvin Mucklestone, star football
player on the University of Washing
ton team and its captain two years
ago, who 10 spending his vacation
working as forest ranger, was ar
rested, accused of attacking a woman
at 2 o'clock in the morning Of July
after a Fourth Of July dance az
Eatonville
Ministers of Wana walla will face
criminal charges in the superior
court unless they are more prompt
with marriage returns than they have
been in the past. The law provides
that the person performing the mar
riage must make returns to the
county clerk within three months or
be liable to fine of from s25 to $500.
Edward Burns must spend from
one to fifteen years at Walla Wala
because he took JOY ride In another
mans buggy at Monroe. Burns had
been celebrating in Monroe, and de-
cfded It would be great joke to take
a horse and buggy belonging TO A. 8.
Tester and ride away into the green
fields. He was overtaken about Ave
miles from town and pleaded that he
had no intention of stealing the rig.
The officers thought otherwise. and
he was held for trial.
This has been military week with
the national guard of Washington.
The assembling Of troops carried the
infantry, cavalry and signal corps to
Camp Fortson, American Lake, for
the annual maneuvers, continuing 10
days; the naval militia, in possession
OF the coast defense monitor Chey.
enne, is busy with a 10-days' cruise
on Puget Sound, and the companies