The Newport miner. [volume] (Newport, Wash.) 1899-current, 1912-01-04
WASHINGTON BRIEFLETS

ed to stimulate the industry in Che
halls.
Chehalis county is to be cleared at
once of redlight districts, orders hav-
| ing been issued by the mayors OF
| three cities to the police to close up
all disorderly houses.
Contractor w. J. Murphy Of Taco
ma has begun mandamus proceedings
against the Chehalis city commission
ers to compel an assessment to pay
for a $51 900 sewer job he did for the
city.
A jury awarded Luther Cunningham
$500 in the superior court at Chehalis
| for personal injuries received while
employed logging for the Adna Mill
| company. Cunningham sued for $780,
900.
Secretary Ritz, of the Walla Walla
Fair Association, Is arranging for
meeting of the secretaries of the
Northwestern associations at Walla
Walla February 1, when dates for the
season will be arranged.
F. F. Nader, deputy In the state ed
ucational department, has been ap-
pointed head of the school Of letters
at the state reformatory at Monroe.
| This is position recently created by
the board of reformatory managers.
Federal officials attached to the
United States Bureau Of Fisheries are
now making arrangements to bring
from federal fish hatcheries in Alaska
approximately 100000 salmon fry to
Puget Sound where they will be re-
| leased.
A charter amendment providing for
municipality owned telephone sys-
| tenn will go before the people Of Seat
tie at the March election. If the
amendment is adopted an effort may
be made to purchase the independent
system.
Contracts for excavation of the
| greater part of the Lake Washington
ship canal will be awarded by the
United States engineers Office in Sc
attic on February Is, 1912. The con-
tracts will call for expenditure Of
$550,OOO.
The state industrial insurance COM
mission has begun suit against the
| city of Seattle for $4745, charging
the municipal corporation with having
refused to pay it's assessments for
the industrial insurance fund for
workmen on it's payroll prior to Octo-
Der l.
1t was decided by the state highway
board to sign up the contract with the
Great Northern railroad by which the
railway company is to build a new
highway between Wenatchee and Pa
teros, along the Columbia river, in
exchange for state road No. TO- Over
the latter highway the Great Northern
| proposes to build it's new line into the
Okanogan country
Branding the arrest at Spokane on
suspicion of Elizabeth Weber, the 16-
year-old sister Of the murdered Anna
Weber, as an outrage and a disgrace,
the United German Societies of Spok-
ane interceded in behalf Of the girl
prisoner and demanded that the au-
| thorities show cause for holding her
in custody. The girls defenders
threatened damage suits against the
authorities and the girl was released.
Reports completed by the state tax
commission show that the railroads
of Washington are paying approx
mately 10 per cent Of the taxes of the
state, that they pay 21.25 per cent of
| their net earnings from operation for
taxes and 5.65 per cent of their gross
earnings, and that there has been an
Increase amounting to more than 40
| per cent in the mileage of the steam
railroads, considering main lines only,
since 1904.
Councilman Oliver T. Erickson's
proposed charter amendment putting
into effect In Seattle the single-tax
method Of raising revenue for NUM-
cipal purposes was approved by the
committee of the whole of the city
council for submission to the people
in the March election. A single tax
provision was adopted recently by the
voters of Everett, a town of $4,000
population and the fourth largest city
in the state.
That an option for the purchase of
land can be transferred without in
validating the contract is the effect of
decision given by the supreme court
in upholding the Clark County super
ior court in the case of Alma Katz
against o. r. Hathaway and wife, ap-
pellants. The action was brought by
the latter to enforce the performance
Of contract for the purchase of land.
but the respondent, arguing that the
assignment of the option does not
render it void, is sustained in her