The Newport miner. [volume] (Newport, Wash.) 1899-current, 1912-03-28
WASHINGTON BRIEFLETS

A total of $155 in bount1es was palo
by County Auditor Swofford at Cheha-
lis for seven cougar hides and one
timber wolf hide.
Taking the Portland Rose Fair as
their model, 20 prominent Spokane
women met and made plans for an
aster carnival and fair
The back of the strike which has
caused the shutdown Of nine big saw
mills on Grays Harbor in the past
several days is believed to have been
broken.
A law and order league, planned
to make it as easy as possible to do
right and as hard as possible to do
wrong" has been organized in North
Yakima
Three thousand bodies in the pot
ter's field at Seattle will be exhumed
and incinerated in order to prepare
the grounds for manufacturing pur-
poses.
The Northern Pacific intends spend
ing approximately 100000 for inn
provements in Walla Walla the COM
ing summer, among them a new depot
costing $4,000.
Clel gymen of Spokane are up in
arms because they have been barred
from meeting of the associated civic
clubs, the object of which is the pro-
motion of civic improvements.
There will be a public meeting on
the night of March 80 for the purpose
Of forming a good roads association
that will work in conjunction with the
While playing near ditch the little
daughter of G. w. Stewart, a contrac-
tor at Ellensburg, fell into the water
and was drowned. Men dragged the
canal, but were unable t. find the
body.
AS means of overcoming the effect
Of the eight-hour female laws in this
state the Shaver News company, OPP
Grating a string of restaurants on the
Great Northern railroad, has begun to
replace it's women with men.
Grover F. Smith, 2 years old, leaped
through a lavatory window of train
On which he was being brought from
San Francisco to Seattle, to stand
trial on a charge of grand larceny,
but was captured few miles south
of Roy.
Secretary Fisher states there will
be no re-survey of the Palouse irriga-
ton project in eastern Washington.
Previous examinations which have
cost $4,000 show the project to be
enormously expensive and difficult OF
construction.
The indictment against State Insur-
ance Commissioner John H. Shively,
charging ENLIGHTENMENT, which has
hung fire in the courts since April,
1909, formally was dismissed by Su-
perior Judge Hinkle on motion of
Prosecuting Attorney John Wiley.
The candidacy of Professor Elton
Fulmer, state, chemist and chemist for
the state dairy and food department,
to succeed DR.. Harvey Wiley as head
of the bureau of chemistry in the de-
partment of agriculture, has been pre-
sented by the Washington delegation.
What is said to be the largest single
tract of cranberry bog land under cul-
tivation in the world consists of 600
acres, and is located in Pacific county.
The land is owned by H. M. Williams
of Seaview, and Is not for sale at any
price.
Thirty-two claims were turned down
in one day by the industrial insurance
commission of Washington, among
them stenographer who mashed her
fingers while closing her desk, a man
who cut his foot while chopping wood
at home, and a farm hand hurt while
clearing land.
Nearly twice as many men as wo-
men are registered for the coming
municipal election in Tacoma. The
men are 1859 and the women are
SO87 Last year the women numbered
1O,6OO to 1925 men, Women are es-
pecially few in the downtown saloon
wards this year.
At the demands of leaders of Seattle
socialists, Richard Winser has re-
signed from the committee appointed
| by the mayor to consider the estab-
lishment Of municipal bank to han
die city funds. 1t was decided that he
could not accept an appointment at
| the hands of any person other than a
socialist
George S. Matsusaki, an American
born Japanese, aged %, who recently
married Mrs. Mona Mills, aged 10, an
English woman, at Seattle, stabbed
the woman in the neck and then, be-
lieving he had killed her, shot himself
in the throat the bullet lodging in the
spinal cord. The woman will recover
but the Japanese will die.