The Newport miner. [volume] (Newport, Wash.) 1899-current, 1912-02-15
WASHINGTON BRIEFLETS

office.
A Chautauqua association has been
organized at Walla Walla. The first
meeting will be in July, lasting 10
days, including the Fourth.
For the first time in the history OF
any Spokane improvement club, wives
of the members of the Mantle Park
club will be allowed to vote for its
officers.
Pasco will grant no more saloon IL
censes until the city has 10000 popu-
lation, except in the case Of hotel
with 80 or more rooms being erected.
Pasco now has 16 saloons.
After facing a bitter fight for two
months and with a recall election
pending against him, Benjamin J.
Weeks, commissioner of light and
water at Tacoma, handed in his resig-
nation.
Fifty years ago Walla Walla held its
first city election at which e. B. Whit
man was elected mayor. To COM
memorate this semi-centennial the
city is preparing fitting celebration
on the first of April.
The new tariff schedule on the Spo-
kane Falls & Northern railroad went
into effect Tuesday. The schedule
contains a big reduction on freight
to and from Spokane. in some cases
amounting to nearly SO per cent.
After legal fight extending over q
period of several months, H. J. Welty,
convicted banker of Whatcom county,
unaccompanied by any officer, arrived
at the Walla Walla penitentiary and
began his indeterminate sentence Of
from 4 to Is years.
The last employment office has left
the city of Aberdeen owing to the $25
weekly license imposed by the city
council. This action was taken fol-
lowing many complaints that men who
paid for jobs were sent to places
where no work was found for them.
The state supreme court affirmed
the conviction and sentence of Mrs.
Della Totten, of Cashmere. The wom-
an was found guilty of shooting to
death James Sutton, who tried to
drive across her mothers property
over road that had been blocked.
Shunted about from place to place
as result of the long government in
vestigation to determine whether he
was a leper or not, John r. Earle,
formerly of Washington, D. c., has
been located at Summit, near Tacoma,
and will be fenced in on an acre of
land.
Mrs. Pearl Henke, aged Is, wife Of
Professor Henry Henke, of the Wash
ington state college at Pullman, while
temporarily insane, jumped from the
second-story window of the DR.. Else
hospital at Pullman, breaking her
reached her
Falcon Joslin, John Schram, w. H.
Parsons, F. E. Barbour and E. L.
Webster, all prominent citizens of
Seattle, have been indicted in connec-
ton with the failure of the Washing
ton-Alaska bank OF Fairbanks, Alaska,
which closed it's doors January 4, 1911,
owing 100000 to depositors.
The Port of Seattle commission has
decided to submit the Harbor Island
Terminal bond issue to the voters of
Seattle on March 8. Three million
dollars Of the issue will be used in
acquiring the necessary land on Har-
Dor Island by condemnation and the
construction of concrete piers.
The Lewis county officials, who
have been ordered by the superior
court to repay to the county more
than $4,000 in excess salaries drawn
by them through blunder of form
er board of commissioners in raising
the classification Of the county, will
appeal their cases to the superior
court
Dog owners of Chehalis will shortly
be up against most stringent ordin-
ance, being obliged to lead their can
ines while in the business section. A
dog catcher will enforce the ordin-
ance, which was passed by the old
council, and which was not made ef-
fective until the newly chosen COM
mission decided to apply it.
The Western Pine Manufacturers
association in annual session at Spo-
kane, has decided to affiliate with the
National Lumber Manufacturers asso-
citation in an. international campaign
against substitutes for wood, namely,
concrete, steel, brick, stone and arti-
fetal materials now being used in
place of timber for building purposes.
Postal savings banks will be opened
March at the following poStoffices
in Washington: Asotin, Camas, Che
lon naor Doll