The Newport miner. [volume] (Newport, Wash.) 1899-current, 1912-07-04
WASHINGTON BRlEFLETS


the normal at Cheney July Is and 16.
Harvesting is commencing with a
shortage of men and teams in the
vicinity of Warden, and few heading
crews have full crew of men and
teams.
John M. Hunziker, employed as an
enumeration in Seattle in the 1910 CEN
sus, has been found guilty of padding
the census rolls by jury in the fed
eral court
The supreme court of Washington
has held valid the 100000 bond issue
voted by the citizens of Seattle to Sc
sure a municipality owned and operat-
ed street railway.
Nose Hunt lost his life at the log
ging camp of the Coal Creek lumber
company near Chehalis, when he fell
beneath a moving engine which he
attempted to board.
The Mccormick lumber company Of
Chehalis, has placed a mortgage for
100000 and will use the proceeds to
buy more timber and carry on it's very
extensive business.
The disappearance of Paul Worst, a
Spokane druggist, six weeks ago, on
the eve of his intended departure for
Portland, was cleared up when his
body was found in the Spokane river.
Carl E. Harkins, resident of Win
lock, has been awarded $4,000 damages
by the supreme court for the loss of
four fingers sustained while an en-
ploye of the J. A. Veness lumber COM
pany.
A G. Bernard, under arrest at Spo-
kane, has confessed to four hold-ups,
five burglaries and several petty thefts
and states that his arrest prevented
the death of man he had planned to
murder.
The branch line of the Oregon-Wash-
ington railroad into the North River
country south of Grays Harbor is well
on toward completion, and the con
tractor expects to have it ready by
July Is.
Pullman school district, which com
prises the city of Pullman, has TIT
school children between and Fl
years. The school census has just
been completed and it shows 10 more
girls than boys.
The first car over the line of the
Twin City Electric company connect
ing South Bend and Raymond passed
through the business district of South
Bend and landed it's passengers at the
terminus Thursday afternoon.
The extension of the O.-W. R. & N.
from North Yakima to Puget Sound,
which will give a route Al miles short
er thar over the Northern Pacific, will
be under construction before the end
of 1912, according to Chief Engineer
F. l.. Pitman.
Frank Redmond, a marine fireman,
attempted to hold up the office of the
Hotel Norman in Seattle and was shot
down and instantly killed by the clerk,
81 B. Dawson. Redmond, who was 40
years old, had been arrested three
times this year for petty offenses.
The report of the state bureau of in
spection on the town of Metaline Falls,
Pend Oreille county, filed with the at
torney general, shows that the munic-
ipality has assets of $5O55 and liabil-
tiles of $3.50, leaving assets in excess
of liabilities to the extent of $4982.
The Hill road has let a $780, 900
contract to the Butler Construction
company for rebuilding the Great
Northern's main line from Interplay to
Seattle. The same company will build
the sub-structure for the new bridge
crossing the Lake Washington canal.
A thousand persons attended the
formal dedication of the First Pres
byterian church at Vancouver DR..
Mark A. Matthews, moderator of the
General Assembly and pastor of the
largest Presbyterian church in the
United States, delivered the dedicatory
sermon.
R. S. Allison, an O.-W. R. & N. en-
gineer, was fatally injured and Louis
Stifen, car repairer, and G. M. PEI
ferlea, conductor, painfully bruised at
Wallula, when they were hit by box
car top which was blown on them by
one of the hardest windstorms known
in the inland empire for years.
Notice of appeal from the decision
of the state public service commission
making the Tacoma-Spokane freight
rate the same as the Seattle Spokane
rate, has been filed at Olympia by the
Northern Pacific railway. The COM
pany has applied to the Pierce county
superior court for a writ of review.
Residents of the Big Bottom country
have started a movement to secure
government assistance in clearing out
and opening up the channel of the I'D