The Newport miner. [volume] (Newport, Wash.) 1899-current, 1912-09-05
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atory, has resigned his position.
Charles Rose, a 15-year-old Tenin&
boy, fell off the Tenino special near
South Bend and was instantly killed.
Work on the two miles and a quar-
ter of concrete road that is being con-
structed east of Chehalis is proceed
ing satisfactorily.
James Doyle, aged so, a laborer in
the employ of the Parker mill at Dry
Creek, was killed by a 22-foot log
which rolled down upon him while he
was unloading.
Announcement has been made of
the engagement of Miss Zelma Stock
ey, daughter of Mr.. and Mrs. P. e.
Stookey, of Lewiston, Idaho, and Ray
mond Hay, son of Governor and Mrs.
M. E. Hay.
Forest fires this year have been
less than during the last eight years,
according to State Forester and Fire
Warden J. R. Welty, who announces
that there is practically no more dan
ger from destructive fires.
At South Bend, William Henry, age
rs, shot and killed his 11-year-old
brother, Johnnie, then shot himself
through the head, dying instantly. He
had recently been released from the
Steilacoom insane asylum.
Active operations will be resumed
on the Grays Harbor jetty, and pushed
until the end of the season. Tenino
stone to the amount of 1900 tons of
rock daily will be delivered for the
construction of the jetty.'
Oliver w. Sanford, aged so, and his
son, Iris, aged "a, were shot and killed
at the end of the Ballard Beach car
line at Seattle by J. T. Tribett, a
street car conductor, following a scuf-
fle on the car between the conductor
and the men.
Miss Mabel Kelso, the only woman
wireless operator with a government
license, was discharged at Seattle
when R. H. Sawyer, assistant manag-
er of the Marconi Wireless company
at San Francisco, took charge of the
Seattle office, succeeding A. A. Isbell.
The county commissioners at Seat
tie have voted to submit bond issue
at the November election providing
100000 to build trunk highways.
One of the projects is the construc
ton of King county's portion Of an
automobile road over the Cascade
mountains.
That Washington should follow the
progressive states in eliminating exist
ing dangerous grade crossings is urg-
ed by the public service commission.
The commission wants authority to
separate grade crossings established
prior to 1909, over which it has now
no power.
Louis Larson, a trapper, has left
Aberdeen for OK Bow country, on the
Wynoochie river, to search for John
Tornow, the alleged slayer of his twin
nephews, John and Will Bauer, and
of Deputy Sheriffs Colin Mckenzie
and A. V. Elmer. Larson will go
alone. He is a crack marksman and
skilled woodsman.
With the installation Of special
rock crusher designed to grind up
solid rock into sand to be used in the
concrete work on their White Salmon
river dam, the big power project of
the Northwestern Electric company
on that river, which will generate
10000 electrical horsepower, is rapidly
progressing toward completion.
King County Commissioners M. L..
Hamilton and A. R. Rutherford at a
special meeting agreed to demand a
rigid investigation of all graft charges
made against county officers or their
employees by politicians or others, and
to call upon Prosecuting Attorney
Murphy to assume direction OF the
probe and institute it during the COM
ing week.
R. M. Ankeny, a son of Levi Ankeny
of Walla Walla, ex-United States sena-
tor from the state of Washington, has
instituted a suit in the state circuit
court at Albany, Oregon, for divorce
from Helen Brents Ankeny. Mrs. An
keny is a daughter of T. H. Brents,
judge of the superior court of Walla
Walla county. Ankeny alleges cruel
AMI inhuman treatment.
Two national meetings which Will
draw the attention Of every farmer
and fruitgrower in the United States
will be held during the same week In
Spokane this fall During this period
they will have as guests the delega-
ton to the National Grange and vlsltr
ors of the fifth national apple show.
The National Grange opens November
10, and the apple show dates nave
been fixed for November II to IL.