The Newport miner. [volume] (Newport, Wash.) 1899-current, 1912-11-21
WASHINGTON BRlEFLETS

large car building companies.
The supreme court has affirmed the
King county superior court in it's ap-
pointment of a receiver for the Seat
tie, Renton & Southern railway.
Walla Walla will send a blind re-
preventative to the legislature this
winter in c. w. Masterson, who was
elected from the Thirteenth district.
Roy, the 16-year-old son of c. F.
Fowler, of Castle Rock, met instant
death by electrocution while in the
performance of his duties as operator
at the telephone exchange.
While Mrs. Arthur Spencer, at OPP
portunity, was giving her 18-months-
old daughter an alcohol rub, the alco-
hol was ignited from a nearby lamp
and the child was burned to death.
All of the commercial clubs in Lewis
county held a joint meeting in the
club room of the Chehalis Citizens
club Monday for the purpose of or
ganizing a Lewis county good roads
association.
The Finnish Farmers association
of Winlock has filed articles of incor-
poration with the Lewis county audi
tor. The purpose of the new organi-
zation is mainly to conduct a general
store at Winlock.
Elmer G. Huff of Wenatchee won
the special Mitchell, Lewis & StaveI
company prize offered to the winner
of the greatest number of first prizes
offered in the plate exhibits at the
apple show at Spokane.
A 100000 logging company was or
ganized at Adna, six miles west OF
Chehalis. The logging railroad of
the company is already under course
of construction and logging operations
will be started by February 1.
The Pittock & Leadbetter Lumber
company of Vancouver is preparing
to start it's mill in that city at an early
day, and will give employment to 200
men, besides furnishing work for an
equal number of men in the logging
camps.
J. T. Trivett, a Seattle street car
conductor, who shot and killed Oliver
Sanford and BIS son, as they were
alighting from his car at the end Of
the Ballard Beach line the night of
August 81, was found guilty of murder
in the second degree.
With hurry-up orders from eastern
buyers and a growing oriental trade,
the salmon market is manifesting q
firmness which, in the opinion of local
dealers, will bring higher prices by
the first of the year. The Alaska pack
is estimated at 100000 cases.
Recommendation for the establish
ment of a UNCONVENTIONAL college with
in the bounds of the Columbia river
conference of the Methodist Episcopal
church is to be made by the education
al board of the conference to all dis
trict meetings during the coming year
as a result of the boards first session
held at Spokane.
Sheriff Payette and posse have re-
turned to Montesano from four days
hunt for John Tornow, alleged slayer
of his nephews, John and Will Bauer
and Deputy Sheriffs Elmer and Nc
Kenzie, bringing with them clothing
and provisions found in the camp of
the wanted outlaw, but no trace of
Tornow was discovered.
A petition containing nearly $4,000
names calling for the recall of Mayor
George F. Cotterill has been filed in
the comptroller's office at Seattle. In
competency, unftness and q lack of
executive ability and moral courage
are among the things alleged in the
petition. Eight thousand names on
the petition were declared fraudulent
Edwin F. Meyer, formerly chief
clerk of the store-keeper Of the Puget
Sound Navy Yard, was acquitted at
Seattle on the charge Of conspiracy to
defraud the government in the pur-
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three weeks. The amount Of the gov
ernment's loss by the alleged frauds
in purchase of supplies is said to have
been $4,000.
In it's forthcoming report to Cover
nor Hay, the public service commits
sion will urge the necessity for legis-
lation which will allow the elimination
of dangerous grade crossings in the
state of Washington existing before
the 1909 Embarrassing law, which al
lows the commission to prescribe
what crossings shall be established
thereafter, was passed.
Five naval prisoners confined in the
disciplinary barracks at the Puget
Sound Navy Yard escaped Saturday
and marines spent the whole day fruit
lessly searching the navy yard towns
and the coast for the fugitives, and it
is apparent they have found hiding
place in the woods of the interior