The Newport miner. [volume] (Newport, Wash.) 1899-current, 1912-10-17
WASHINGTON B2iEFLETS


vember II to II, in the shape OF a
contest of spraying machines.
Thurston Morley was killed, Bert
Snyder's leg broken, Ed Smithpeter's
arm broken and Daniel Lankard rem
dered unconscious as the result of an
automobile accident at Colfax.
At Tacoma Mrs. Early was GRANTEE
divorce from John R. Early, the lep-
er, now at Diamond Point hospital
She was given the custody of the three
children and $55 of Early's salary of
$95 month.
Major-General Leonard Wood, chief
of staff of the United States army, was
a guest of Brigadier-General Marion
P. Maus, commanding officer of tho
department of the Columbia, at Van
couver this week.
Development of a market for north
west apples in China is the plan now
being considered by Wenatchee fruit
growers, and steps are to be taken to
evolve system of consignment to
the Flowery Kingdom.
With temporary offices opened, de-
tailed arrangements for the fifteenth
annual convention of the American
Mining congress that will be held in
Spokane November rs, 26, 27, 20 and
20, are well under way
Guilty as charged was the verdict
of the jury in the case of G. E. Huston
and John H. Bullock, tried in the fed
eral court at Tacoma on charge of,
conspiracy to defraud the government
on coal contracts in Alaska.
One hundred tins of contraband
opium, valued at $500, for Seattle
from Vancouver, were seized at a
Great Northern passenger train at
Blaine. Three persons found in the
coach were arrested on suspicion.
Mrs. Grace Brooks, daughter of
Mr.. and Mrs. w. E. Douglas of Port
land, was shot and killed in her room
at Tacoma. Elmer Fillmore, a sutton
of the woman, was later found dead
in room in another part of the city.
G. J. Lord, president of the Capitol
National bank of Olympia, who is a
candidate for presidential elector on
the Republican ticket, is expected to
resign from the ticket, it having been
decided that the holding of the bank
presidency disqualifies him.
At the quarterly meeting of the
state grange emphatic Endorsement
was given by members to the scheme
of Mayor Seymour of Tacoma for tt e
establishing of a municipal cold stor-
age warehouse to take care of the
farm products raised in that section.
During the month of September "a
vessels loaded at the various mills in
the lower Columbia river district
their combined cargoes amounting to
28,008,869 feet of lumber, in addition
to a raft containing 100000 feet of
piling that was towed to San Francis
CO.
Dressed in deep mourning, an attire
she has worn ever since the death of
her husband on the night of May 81,
Mrs. Anna E. Christensen was placed
on trial for his murder at Pasco
Christensen was poisoned on a train
while travelling between Pasco and
Spokane.
Exceeding by fully Is per cent the
bumper crop of $500 tons harvested
last fall, the Kittitas county potato
output this season is expected to total
at least $3.50 tons, which, at $40
ton, will bring $133,5OO, according to
an estimate made by George Michels,
who owns and operates the largest
potato warehouse in the county,
All commodity rates on grain from
the PalOuse country to Spokane, which
have been in effect for 20 years, have
been eliminated in the new tariffs of
the O.-W. R. & N. and Spokane &
Inland companies, which went into eff
feet as result of the recent com
RAOAuISC lAdQG dL SGaLLlC between the
state commission, the shippers and
the railroads.
Isaac V. Mossman, one of the last
surviving pony express riders of the
Pacific Northwest, Indian War veteran
and at one time business associate of
Joaquin Miller and prominent in po-
litical life In Washington when it was
a territory, died Friday at Roseburg,
Ore. He was 80 years old and a mem
Der Of the Odd Fellows lodge at Olym-
pia. The body was buried at Olympia
Sunday.
Judge Clinton W. Howard in the
cases Of the Washington Orchard, IT.
rigation & Fruit company and the
Columbia River Orchard company, has
entered findings sustaining the action
OF John P. Hoyt, referee in bankrupt
cy The Haven Irrigation & Land
company, which has taken over the
assets of these two companies, an