The Newport miner. [volume] (Newport, Wash.) 1899-current, 1912-07-25
WASHINGTON BRIEFLETS

was rs years old.
Steps are being taken toward the
opening Of bank at Lebam, the hust-
ling town on the South Bend branch
of the Northern Pacific.
Conductor George Johnson, running
from Ellensburg to Seattle, was in
stantly killed while claiming together
some freight cars near Weston.
J. M. Dunn of Sunnyside has been
appointed United States commission
er for the eastern district Of Washing
ton for four years beginning July 10,
1912.
Arthur F. SCHNEIDER, the missing
assistant cashier of the Fidelity State
bank of Uniontown, who it Is alleged
is short $500 in his accounts, is under
arrest in New York.
Tax values in Chehalis county will
exceed 31,5OO,OOO this year over last,
by reason of the cruise of the timber
holdings recently compiled under the
direction of the county.
Ex-senator John L. Wilson is now
sole owner of the Seattle Post-Intelli-
gencer, having purchased the minority
interest of William Wallace Chaplin,
who resigns as general manager.
Con Walsh, formerly of New York,
now a member of the Seattle Athletic
club, broke the worlds record in the
56-pound weight event at Seattle by
throwing the weight Is feet, 2A
inches over bar.
V. E. Palmer, rigging singer in the
employ of Grays Harbor logging
camps on the Wishkah river, was
killed when he was struck by snag,
which other loggers were attempting
to clear out of the way.
Mrs. Anna Christensen, charged
with poisoning her husband, Pasco
banker, who died on a train June 1,
was taken from Walla Walla to Pasco
and her bail fixed at $4,000, which
she was unable to furnish.
According to an announcement
made at Toppenish, the Toppenish,
Fort Simcoe & Western railroad will
be extended this year across the en-
tire irrigated portion of the Yakima
Indian reservation, a distance of II
miles.
Dragged 500 feet in front Of the
forks of hayrake drawn by run
away team, and then to be kicked by
one of the maddened animals, result
ed in the death of Mrs. Henry Knopp,
wife of well to do farmer and sheep
man of Asotin.
The jury in the case of Mrs. Della
Olds, charged with the murder of her
husband, DR.. w. H. Olds, at Spokane,
on May %, returned verdict of not
guilty. Mrs. Odds defense was that
her husband drank heavily and beat
and abused her.
Seattle's second Potlatch closed in
blaze of glory Saturday. Until long
after midnight, merry jewellers, loath
to leave the streets, gay with color
and life, thronged the down town Sec
ton until sheer fatigue compelled
them to seek rest.
The experiment station of the Wash
ington state college is conducting ex-
periments on the relation of soil mois-
ture to crop production. The import
ance of the work is emphasized by
the fact that at no other station in
the United States is a similar expert
ment being conducted.
In a decision handed down at Ia
coma, Judge Champman upheld the
constitutionality of the state plumb
ing law providing for certain sanitary
equipment for hotels and held that
attractions of the law should be pun
ishable by fines or Imprisonment and
are not to be dealt with in civil suits.
J. e. Frost, chairman of the state
tax commission, has rendered his
resignation to Governor Hay, to be
effective at the pleasure of the COVER
nor. In resigning Commissioner
Frost states that he is to be a candi-
date for the Republican nomination
for congressman-at-large in the COM
ing campaign.
Because the city council of Charles
ton granted a fourth saloon license
against the emphatic protest Of Rear
| Admiral Cottman, the admiral has or
dered the Charleston gate of the Pu-
get Sound Navy Yard closed to all
sailors and marines, thus practically
cutting the town of Charleston off
from all trade Of the yard.
The president has paroled George
Il. Parker, fiscal agent of the United
Wireless Telegraph company, who
was alleged in court proceedings to
have cleared $1.315,o00 by his opera,
lions, and was sentenced to serve two
years at McNeil's island. Parker in