The Newport miner. [volume] (Newport, Wash.) 1899-current, 1912-12-19
WASHINGTON BRIEFLETS

The twelfth annual convention of
the Washington Federation of Labor
will be held at Olympia, commencing
January 20.
w. P. Olds of Portland was elected
president of the North Pacific Unitar-
ian conference at it's annual meeting
in Spokane.
The German freight steamer Maui
plia, of the Kosmos line from Ham,
burg for Seattle, went ashore at Point
Wilson, near Port Townsend.
Emil Bleedorn, aged 40, a powerful
man of large physique, died of hydro
phobia at Tacoma hospital. He was
bitten by a dog about six weeks ago.
The municipal commission Of Ia
coma has passed an eight-hour ordln-
ance for city employees. The commits
sion also, in one day, boosted salaries
over $4,000.
A. B. Miller, who stabbed and killed
A. C. Rosenbarger at South Gle Elum
September Is last, was found guilty
of manslaughter by jury in the SUI
perior court at Ellensburg.
The body of Ernest Kestner, popu
lar young man who lost his life in the
Satsop river four weeks ago, was
found Friday two miles below the
place where he was drowned.
The plant of the Port Blakeley Mill
company, near Seattle, the largest
lumber mill in the world, appraised at
about $1O,OOO,OOO, has been sold to a
syndicate of San Francisco capitalists.
While resisting a burglar in her
apartments at Seattle, Miss Annie E.
Lang, - years old, was shot and seri-
ously wounded with her own revolver,
which she had hastily grasped to give
battle.
The Tono mines at Centralia are
shipping 1000 tons of coal daily, the
maximum capacity of the mines until
new shafts are sunk. The working
force at the mines has been increased
to 225 men.
At the urgent request Of Seattle
commercial interests, President Taft
has decided to order the removal of
the office of collector of customs for
the Puget Sound district from Port
Townsend to Seattle.
Ten men and two women, cOmpos-
ing jury in Judge Ronald's depart
ment of the superior court at Seattle,
were severely rebuked because they
played cards while considering YER
dict in a minor criminal case.
Bills introduced in the senate at the
request of Secretary Nagel would ap-
propriate many hundreds of thousands
of dollars for the lighthouse service,
including improvements on Puget
Sound and at Henry Island, total Of
$4,000.
Michael Chimient, a laborer 80
years old, of Tacoma, is dead and B.
Fallaneo, a grocer, aged 35, is in the
Seattle city hospital suffering from
knife wounds sustained in a running
fight. The two men Quarreled over a
card game in saloon.
Professor Roswell Sampson, assist
ant professor of metallurgy at Wash
ington State college, was struck by
Northern Pacific passenger train back
ing into the station at Pullman and
instantly killed. He was native of
Boston, Mass, 80 years old
Mrs. Ida Simmons, postmistress at
Gettysburg, pleaded guilty to embez-
element of $500 of postoffice funds
and was sentenced to one hour In pris-
on. Mrs. Simmons had been deserted
! by her husband and took the money
to support her children, hoping to re-
pay it.
The Twentyfifth Infantry, now sta
toned at Fort Lawton and Fort
Wright, will be sent to Honolulu next
January. The regiment to replace it
has not yet been designated. The
headquarters and the First battalion
of the Twenty-fifth are at Lawton and
two battalions are at Spokane.
Spokane police are baffled by the
sudden death of three women, Just
after partaking of whiskey secured
from a saloon by aid of messenger
boy The contents of the bottle were
analysed, but no poison found. The
dead women are Mrs. Jennie Ross.
Mrs. Ralph Scott and Mrs. w. P. Post,
Mrs Amelie Frederick Chittenden,
a resident of Seattle, has come for
ward as a claimant for the half inter-
est in the $1,OOO,OOO estate of Miss
| Octavia Frederick, an eccentric re-
cluse, who was found dead recently in
New York, the only other occupants of
the rooms being a dozen half-starved
cats, pets OF tie dead woman.
That he robbed Is stores in and
about Spokane and the postoffice at
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