The Newport miner. [volume] (Newport, Wash.) 1899-current, 1911-11-30
WASHINGTON BRIEFLETS

Inc Aetna Life Insurance Companv
Is barred from doing liability business
Id washington under a ruling on the
new insurance code by Insurance Com
missioner Shively.
Six members of the syndicate which
is alleged to have stolen 100000
pounds OF sugar from Sylvester Bros,
wholesale grocers, of Seattle, are in
the county Jail and two more arrests
are to be made.
Inree hundred and fifty-two thou
SAND pounds of frozen halibut. held at
Seattle in cold storage warehouses.
was seized by State Food Commits
sloner l.. Davies. Mr.. Davies declared
that the fish is unfit for food.
The Loon Lake Irrigation Company
Is closing up the work of selling $500
acres of orchard land included in it's
project at Loon Lake. The company
expects to dispose of every acre re-.
naming unsold within so days.
Presence of diphtheria at Pc Ell has
caused the closing of the schools tenn
porarily No new cases have devel-
oped, but some children have been ex-
posed and the management hopes to
avert further development of the all
ment.
The supreme court reversed the
verdict of King County court which
convicted Axel Mist of murder in the
| second degree for the Staying of Po-
llceman Judson P. Davis in Seattle on
the night of February 23, 1911, and
granted Mist new trial.
Progressive Republicans of Tacoma
are getting down to work, and this
week had their initial meeting of the
| presidential campaign, as q result of
which there is already split in the
ranks over the attempt of Seattle
Progressives to boss the job.
Although active work on the $500, 900
| improvements to be made at Teno by
| the Washington Union Coal Company,
a subsidiary of the O.-W. R. & N. Com
pany, probably will not begin until
early spring, numerous improvements
are under way at the present time.
Fruit shipping from Walla Walla has
been finished for the year. The last
apples have been shipped-most OF
the shipments were sold before con
| signment. The season closed with the
best prices that have been received in
years, but the supply was entirely In
adequate to the demand.
The recent census taken In connec-
ton with the annual crop report of the
Okanogan irrigation project shows
that 1900 additional acres were
brought under cultivation in 1911
bringing the total amount to 6467
acres, which represents IS per cent
of the lands to be reclaimed by this
project.
To discuss ways and means to re-
ieve the congestion in the cities of
the country, to induce people to 60
back to the soil, to offset the high cost
of living and to exploit the fertile re-
gions of Washington, Idaho and Mon
tana, the first National County Life
Congress opened its sessions In Spo-
| kane Thursday.
Several hundred acres of bog lands
| near Ilwaco are cleared and an asso-
citation composed of Astoria capital
| lists will plant cranberry vines after
the land has been prepared by a sand
| ing process at a cost of 5000 per acre.
Reports from previous harvests OF
cranberries show that 100 barrels to
| the acre are produced without any ap-
parent effort.
The value of the lumber cut by
Washington mills in 1910 was approx
mately $42,000000, the value of the
shingles approximately $12,250,00O,
and the value of the lath about $780,
900. Such, at any rate, are the esti-
mates made by F. D. Becker, secre-
tary of the Pacific Coast Shippers A.
ISOLATION, in an analysis Of the federal
report just issued.
In a signed statement Governor Hay
takes exception to the attack made
upon him in Spokane recently by Mrs.
| George A. Smith, of Seattle, president
of the Washington Suffrage League.
Mrs. Smith said in effect that Cover
nor Hay had made statements IN his
recent visit in New York that dis
played an unfriendly feeling toward
woman suffrage.
A mammoth wolf and coyote drive
will be held in the Grand Dalles sec
ton of Klickitat County Sunday, De-
cember 8, by local stockmen, headed
by Leo F. Bruno, owner Of the Iona
Alta ranch. The territory to be Gov
cred will aggregate $4,000 acres, ana
the hunters will follow the quarry on
horseback. The drive will be started