The Newport miner. [volume] (Newport, Wash.) 1899-current, 1912-06-27
WASHINGTON BRIEFLETS

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By the premature explosion Of a
blast on the Great Northern railway,
northwest of Wenatchee, three men
were killed and a score injured.
The annual reunion and picnic OF
the old settlers Of the Wenatchee
valley was held on the association
grounds, near Monitor last week.
The first spring shipment from the
Yukon territory has just reached Sc
attic. It comprised gold dust valued
at $250,000 and was consigned to the
smelter at San Francisco.
The State Bar association of Wash
ington, expressing confidence in Judge
C.. Fl. Hanford and resenting the at
tacks against him, has appointed a
committee to investigate the charges.
Four year old Norman Bruce, Sc
attic boy, playfully pointed 20 cali
Der rifle at his II year old brother
William. An explosion followed and
William fell with a shot through the
abdomen.
The Vancouver District Puget
Sound conference, just before ad-
journment, adopted a resolution urg-
ing the admission and study Of the
Bible in the public schools of the state
of Washington.
Ten thousand men will be thrown
out of work June 80 by the closing Of
the logging and lumber comps along
the Columbia river. On account Of
fire risk, the plants will remain idle
until September.
The strike at the dam site near
White Salmon, which was forced by
Industrial Workers, has been broken.
Stone & Webster have 800 men at
work now, and others are arriving
daily to take the strikers places.
More than half of the prune trees
in the state of Washington are in Or
chards in Clark county, according to
report Of A. A. Gutenberg, district
horticulture inspector Of Clark, Ska
The wind and dust storm Thursday
caused considerable damage to the
buildings at the Washington state col
~lege and loss of more than $4,000
to orchards on the Snake river. At
the college the wind tore the tin roof
80 feet square, off the auditorium
building.
After 100 precincts had been count
ed, in which Hiram G. Gill had gained
"a votes, the Gill-Cotterill contest for
the Seattle mayoralty was dismissed
by Judge Albertson on motion of Gills
attorney, who stated that the result
of the recount so far had been disap-
pointing.
Citizens of Pasco are warranted in
the belief that in the near future the
city will have free mail delivery with
in the city limits, the receipts Of the
local postoffice having reached the
$4,000 mark required by the govern
ment before a carrier service may be
established.
When the Spokane Flyer, on the
North Bank road, reached a point a
mile west of the paper mill near Cam
as, Daniel Boyd, IS years old, long
shoreman of Portland, threw his body
under the train and was killed instant
ly. The body was taken to Camas,
and Coroner Knapp called.
United States District Judge Cor
nelius H. Hanford, whose conduct Ia
under investigation by the house of
representatives committee on judici-
airy has announced that he would oc-
cupy the bench no more until Septem-
Der Is. A judiciary subcommittee is
expected to begin hearings in Seattle.
Motion to arrest judgment against
George Fl. Wilson, who was sentenced
from 10 to 20 years for the murder of
Archie and Nettie Coble, of Rainier,
was argued before the supreme court,
the stay being sought until Wilson has
been examined as to his sanity. The
Jail, and is making a hard struggle
to avoid the penitentiary.
District Judge Hanford has denied
the motion for rehearing in the case
of Leonard OLSON, the socialist whose
naturalization papers were revoked
on the ground that they had been OBJ
tanned by fraud. Olsson's motion was
supported by orders from Attorney
General Wickersham, but Judge Han
ford ruled that the facts stated in the
petition were not sufficient for a re-
opening of the case.
Praise of the commission form Of
government was the keynote of the
opening session of the national assem-
bly, of civil service commissioners,
which convened at Spokane. Cover
nor Marion e. Hay, who welcomed
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