The Newport miner. [volume] (Newport, Wash.) 1899-current, 1912-08-15
WASHINGTON BRIEFLETS

Mrs. May Arkwright Hutton, the sur
fragist leader of Spokane, has an
nounced her candidacy for state re-
preventative on the democratic ticket.
Because her pet dog was i'll and had
to be taken to a veterinary hospital,
Mrs Helen Brown, a widow, aged 80,
attempted suicide at Tacoma by TAX
ing laudanum.
Indications are that full state pro-
gressive ticket will be put in the field
for the November election, despite the
fact that majority of the progressive
leaders are against such a move.
With a bullet lodged in the lower
part of her back, Mrs. H. c. Jensen
lies in a serious condition at her home
in Spokane, a victim of the accidental
discharge of a 22-caliber rifle in the
hands of her son Paul.
Joseph Tachi, reputed to be one of
the wealthiest Italians in the north
west, was instantly killed on the road
near his home when runaway team
collided with the wagon in which he
was riding, near Walla Walla.
Two young men are in jail and 9TH
ers thought by the police to be as
guilty are under surveillance, as a re-
suit of an attempt the last few days
to flood Vancouver with bad checks.
The question of whether Spokane
electors are to vote on the overthrow
of the commission form of government
now rests with the local courts, with
the probability Of an appeal, which
ever way the decision goes.
Farmers of the reservation at Wa
patio are preparing memorial to re-
personalities in congress, to the Sec
rotary and commissioner of Indian af-
fairs, looking to a longer leasing term
for reservation land.
E. H.. Rollins & Sons, brokers, of
New York and Chicago, best bidders
on the $25O,000 Spokane city hall
bonds, telegraphed Auditor Smith that
they would not accept the issue, plac-
ing the city government in predica-
ment.
Though but 16 years old, Cora e.
Adams, daughter of J. w. Adams, of
Vancouver, who was committed to the
state hospital for the insane at Stella
COON on May 8, was married to Will
liam A. Conklin, soldier from Van.
couver barracks.
William Kelley, 29 years old, was
killed almost instantly and Vincent
Boomer, aged 40, sustained injuries
which caused his death a few hours
later when swinging stage on which
they were working at Seattle, fell rs
feet to the ground.
The twelfth annual convention OF
the Columbia Central Lutheran
League was brought to a successful
close in Chehalis by monster social
rally. There were over 40 delegates
present, covering the territory from
Victoria, B. c., to Astoria, Or.
Ella Moses, a full blooded Kittitas
Indian, said to be q princess of the
tribe, was granted divorce from her
husband, Ed Moses, in Judge Kauff-
mans court at Ellensburg. The com
plant alleged that the husband was
addicted to the excessive use of IL
quor, that he frequently struck her.
Rufus Wilson of Seattle, one of the
prominent progressives of Washing.
ton, leader of the La Toilette move
ment and manager Of the victorious
campaign of Miles Poindexter for the
United States senate two years ago,
it is reported will support Woodrow
Wilson for president and democratic
ticket in the state.
Remey Demeyer, Of Seattle, 80 years
old, was taken to Butte, Mont, where
he must stand trial on a charge OF
forgery alleged to have been commit.
leu uNC yOdI d6O. DClnOy OA . GA C6A
was brought about by woman whose
name the police are withholding and
who charged that he eloped with her
from Butte, stealing $1100 and forging
her husbands signature.
Lying upon bed in the Northern
Pacific hospital, in Tacoma, where he
was taken by a South Bend physician
H. G. Droppleman, Tacoma switch.
man employed by the Northern Paci.
fic railroad, declares his escape from
death, after falling under the cars OF
a passing train, was due to an "acci.
dent prayer" he had made, and which
he repeated while his life was in jeo.
pardy.
With the ground and sagebrush
about it torn and scraped in a frantic
search for water, the body of Edwin
Hart, so years old, railroad laborer,
was found on the desert near White