The Newport miner. [volume] (Newport, Wash.) 1899-current, 1912-08-08
WASHINGTON BRIEFLETS

at the commercial club
The state board of tax commission
ers will be at Goldendale August Is
and II to take testimony regarding
land values in Klickitat county.
A warrant charging embezzlement
of 1904 was issued for the arrest Of
Mrs. Ida M. Simmons, until recently
postmaster at Gettysburg, Clallam
county.
Peter F. Herman, proprietor of
pharmacy, was arrested in Seattle on
a state charge of substituting drugs
in prescriptions for those ordered by
the physician.
The body of Joe Brown, an old and
well-known fisherman, was found float
ing in the Columbia river abreast of
Skamokawa. His empty fish boat was
found near the same place 10 days
ago.
Judge F. A. Belts, former mayor of
Spokane, and whose life covered
long range of prominent service in the
army and in legislative and municipal
affairs, died at Long Beach, Cal, at
the age of rs years.
After considerable discussion in
the Aberdeen council, it has been
decided to include a police ma
iron among the city officers,
according to the state laws as
applied to cities of the first and sec
ond class in Washington.
The production of coal in Washing
ton in 1911 was 3,572,815 short tons,
valued at $S,174,17O, according to the
final returns compiled by Edward w.
Parker, of the United States Geologi-
cal Survey, in cooperation with the
state geological survey of Washington.
Discrepancies between the rates
promised the Spokane shippers and
those set forth in the new tariff will
be discussed and the question probab-
ly settled at conference to be held
this week between the traffic manag-
ers of the roads and the local jobbers.
The resignation of United States
Judge Hanford has not been accepted;
and it is the belief in Washington that
President Taft plans to make the Han
ford case an example, illustrating the
theory that Impeachment proceedings
are as expeditions as the recall of
judges.
The severest penalty permitted by
the law was imposed at Spokane upon
Harry A. Johnston, wife deserter,
when he was sentenced to the state
penitentiary for from one to three
years for deserving his wife and child
and failing to supply them with the
necessities of life.
James Webster is in the county Jail
at Seattle suffering from bullet hole
through his left groin and two shat
tered fingers. He had attempted to
rob the postoffice at Thomas, 10 miles
south of Seattle, and was shot by Post
master Charles Leonard after he had
attempted to kill Leonard.
The body of Charles Johnson, who
disappeared from Spokane week ago,
was found near the Great Northern
track a mile west of Fort George
Wright. Indications pointed to a bru-
tai murder, the body and head being
horribly gashed and his pockets re-
Ieved of all papers and money
A disagreement between the press
men and the publishers of the Spo-
kane Spokesman-Review eliminated in
declaring an open shop in the press
room. The pressmen's union repeat
eddy has been urged to make an ar
bitration agreement with the Spokes-
man-Review, but declined to do so.
Joe Gavia, a Portuguese, was killed
in the logging camp of the Chehalis
Single & Lumber company, four
miles south of Chehalis. Gavia had
overloaded logging car and started
it down grade without setting the
brakes, dL IuS same time r1Olng the
car, which went through trestle at
the foot of hill.
Preparatory to the building of an
immense power plant on Packwood
lake, in the eastern end of Lewis coun-
ty, a force of men is at present engag-
ed in clearing a site. The proposed
plant will be big one, generating
100000 horsepower that will eventu-
ally be used for railroad and other
commercial uses in the sound cities
and Portland.
Suits were filed in the United States
court at Tacoma by the district attor-
ney's office against Sc western Wash
ington corporations who have failed
to file with the internal revenue col
lectors statements of their annual net
incomes, as provided for by the act of
1909, levying tax of per cent on net
income of all corporations whose pro-