The Newport miner. [volume] (Newport, Wash.) 1899-current, 1912-10-10
WASHINGTON BRlEFLETS

tie Friday.
A Woodrow Wilson" club has been
organized at the state college at Pull
man, and plans for other political
organizations are being made.
The Standard Clay company's tile
plant at Little Falls, the largest in
the northwest, was destroyed by fire
last week. The loss is 100000.
Charles A. Thompson, a logger, was
crushed beyond recognition by fall
ing spruce tree i'll McCaskill's logging
camp on the south fork of the Willapa
river.
The North Fork Logging & Milling
company of Yale, on the north fork OF
Lewis river, has made a sale of it's
railway ties, amounting to about 14O,-
900 pieces.
Esther Thomson, the 7-year-old
daughter of Mr.. and Mrs. Peter Thorn
son, of Washougal, was so severely
burned about the body that she died
the next day
Alex Switzerland of Yacolt paid $40
fine and $100.70 costs in justice court
at Vancouver on conviction of having
shot and killed three China pheasants
out of season.
The fruitgrowers on the Spokane
river that have to haul their fruit to
Davenport, a distance of from Is to
rs miles, are making use of automo-
biles to deliver their crops.
The Great Northern Railroad COM
pany is spending $25O,OOO in laying a
concrete topping three feet thick, 40
feet wide and one mile long over the
railroad tunnel under the city of Seat
tie.
A. P. Gillies, a Tacoma promoter,
has been fined $3.50 and three months
in Jail for an alleged offense against
young girl whom he had enticed
to his office by means of an advertise
ment.
Nearly every single mill in the
state of Washington, which is the
principal cedar single producer Of the
United States, has been closed, as part
of movement to resist a reduction in
the price of shingles.
Fishermen of Grays Harbor are ex-
periencing wonderful run of salmon
The three canneries are working night
and day to care for the pack, which
will not be SO per cent of the pack of
last year, owing to the poor season
earlier in the year.
The mysterious disappearance of
Albert Kleiner, a Tacoma brewer, last
March, has been cleared up by the
finding of his remains in the woods
near that city. A rusted revolver and
bullet hole in the garments clothing
the skeleton lead to the belief that
Kleiner committed suicide
The southwest Washington fair
closed most successful week Satur-
day, both from the standpoint of ex-
hibits and attendance. 1t is estimated
that close to $4,000 passed through the
gates during the week, it being the
first time that the southwest fair has
been favored by good weather.
The supreme court has denied the
application of James A. Moore, pro-
moter of the Western Steel corpora
ton, for writ restraining Superior
Ind ~
retaining jurisdiction of Moore's mil
lion-dollar damage suit against the
Metropolitan Trust company of New
York.
More than 5000 men will be kept
employed during the winter on the
construction line of the new Pateros
extension of the Great Northern rail-
way. The work of construction will
be pushed as rapidly as supplies are
received and it is the intention of
the Great Northern to complete the
line in time to haul off next years
apple crop.
The state canvassing board has an
AAOOASSu IAAc1I CAC Ou1C1d1 count OF the
votes cast at the statewide primary
September 10 shows that James A,
Munday, of Vancouver, was nominated
on the Democratic ticket for congress
man from the second Washington dis
trlct, instead of Charles Drury. With
all counties cor>plete, Munday has a
lead of 70 votes over Drury.
A Greek laborer in the employ of
the Northwestern Electric company
at its dam site on the White Salmon
had half his skull torn off by a de-
scending rock as the result of a blast.
A number of the crew were standing
around the mess house just before
supper when the rock came down.
scattering the brains of their fellow
workman over a number of the men.
The marriage of a couple at the spo-
kane fair in balloon brought forth
resolutions of protest from the Metho-
dist Ministers association, because at
commentaries and cheapens the most