The Newport miner. [volume] (Newport, Wash.) 1899-current, 1912-05-16
WASHINGTON BRIEFLETs

LndC city.
Donald Davis, tramp, was arrested
at Stevenson and is in Jail charged
With stealing a mail pouch from the
local S. P. & S. station.
C. F. Gunther, wealthy candy man
of Chicago, has presented to the state
of Washington an original Gilbert Stu
art portrait of George Washington.
The population of Seattle, according
to Folks 1912 directory, is 2S1,S96.
This estimate was made by the re-
duced multiple of ~, which was
adopted in 1911
Senator Jones has secured favor
able report on his bill authorizing an
increase in the limit of the cost OF
the public building at Olympia, from
$4,000 to $15O,OO0
One week after Adolph Store, q
butcher of Everett, while killing a
chicken, received a slight scratch on
his hand from the spur Of fowl, he
died from lockjaw and blood-poison-
ing.
Rafael Bebastiano, an Italian, re-
Gently acquitted on a murder charge
at Pasco, will be sent back to San
Celino, Italy, to serve a 2O-year sent
ence for shooting his father and other
members of his family.
Plans for cherry festival are
being prepared by the Olympia cham
Der of commerce. 1t is proposed to
hold the festival about the middle of
July, the object being to show the
outside world the beauties of Thurs
ton county cherries.
Washington state farmers raised g.
722,257 chickens, valued at $1,873,6O8,
and produced 16,472,576 dozen eggs,
valued at $4,311.291, in 1909, accord
ing to preliminary statement of Di-
rector Durand of the bureau of CEN
sus. This was on 45,7O3 farms.
For the protection of the standing
timber of Washington from damage
by fire, J. R. Welty, state fire warden,
is making preparations for the COM
ing season, and hopes to make re-
port next fall showing that Washing
ton forests have suffered less from
this source than ever before
Road building in Chelan and Doug
las counties is one of the principal
topics of discussion among the resi-
dents of the counties and encourage
ment is being given the movement by
the Endorsement of the ranchers
through the sections where the pro-
posed improvements are to be made
The Pacific division of the Interna-
tional Longshoremen's union, in ses-
sion at Tacoma, adopted a resolution
compelling workers to choose between
the Longshoremen's union and the
Industrial Workers of the World, de-
claring that no member of one Or
ganization could be also a member
of the other.
President Taft has paroled George
Edward Adams, who, while cashier
Of the Seattle assay office, SUBSTITUTE
ed black sand for gold dust and alb
stracted 100000. Adams was serv-
ing a 10-year sentence at McNeiTs
island. He has now been engaged
as bookkeeper at the institution at
salary of $1,000 a year.
President Earring Of the Chicago.
Milwaukee & st. Paul railway an
nounces that his road will be operating
its trains into Spokane by December
L. contract for the construction of
20 miles of roadway from Plummer,
Idaho, to Bell, Wash, has just been
awarded to a Seattle contractor at
the contract price of $95O,OOO.
The navy department has approved
plans for the erection of giant wireless
masts at the navy wireless station at
Tatoosh island, at the entrance to the
straits of San Juan de Fuca in fur
therance of plan to make that plant
the most powerful on the Pacific coast
nAAu I1AO CCI'tOI VI q Cudlu OIL stations
from Alaska to Panama and west to
Honolulu. The two new masts will
be 300 feet high and of wooden con-
struction.
Fire and life insurance companies
doing business in the state of Wash
lngton collected premiums aggregat-
ing $15,162,5SS during 1911, while
losses for the same period amounted
to $6,572,555, according to the report
Of John H. Schively, state insurance
commissioner. The 100000 remain
ing for the companies is utilized by
them in the payment of taxes, ex-
penses, etc., and the balance is profit
the report says.
The strike of the Industrial Workers
Of the World throughout the Grays
Harbor lumber district, also on the
Canadian Northern, is officially de-
slared to have been called off. The