The Newport miner. [volume] (Newport, Wash.) 1899-current, 1912-04-11
WASHINGTON BRIEFLETS

Ilwaco.
J. T. Harcourt has been sentenced
to Is to 35 years in state prison, after
being convicted of passing forged
checks on Seattle merchants.
Two Rochester boys, Clyde Patton
and Guy Nicely, have started to walk
from Rochester to New York. They
think it will take them about six
months to reach their destination.
Garfield has been selected as the
place for holding the annual field meet
of Whitman county high schools, the
annual debating contest and the quar-
terly meeting of Whitman county
school principals.
The woolgrowers of Klickitat are
exceptionally pleased with the favor
able spring for Landing. From 800
ewes Andrew Brunnell has received
1000 lambs, and other sheep raisers
report like increases.
Efforts are being made to have the
National Rivers and Harbors Congress
meet in Spokane in. the fall, instead
of meeting in Washington in Deem
Der, as they have since the congress
was started eight years ago.
Details of the proposed government
land lottery, by which valuable farms
in the Tieton irrigation project in
Washington will be disposed Of to
settlers, are given in an announce
ment made by the reclamation service.
To enable the poor to aid them
selves in securing a food supply, the
Spokane city council has made ar
rangements for the free blowing Of
back yards and vacant lots for those
who wish to raise vegetables and
grain.
J. E. Chilberg of. Seattle, banker
and former president of the Alaska
Yukon-Paciic exposition, has initiated
a movement to induce the next ses-
sion of the Washington legislature to
submit bond issue of $15,000,000 for
a highway fund to build five trunk
lines through the state.
The strike of the men employed in
the grading gang in Tenino, engaged
in building the new Tenino-Point De-
fiance branch of the Northern Pacific,
which went into effect last week when
the wages of the men were cut down
from $3.50 to So day, has been brok-
en-. Other men have been secured to
take the place of the strikers.
Two sticks of poisoned gum" and a
draft for $4,000 figured prominently
in remarkable tale related to Justice
G.. w. Stocker in police court at Spo-
kane by H. A Brainerd, wealthy
farmer of Garwood, Idaho. Brainard
said he signed the draft while under
the influence of the dope" in the gum
which had been given him by two men
who induced him to bet on a horse
race.
Occur d'Alene Park, the favorite
resort of motorists and horsemen in
Spokane, has been closed to all vehi-
Giles except baby buggies by order Of
the board of park commissioners. The
park is in the center Of fashionable
residence district, which abounds with
children The park commissioners de-
termined to obviate all chance of ac-
cident to the children who will be in
Spokane this summer
D. A Hatfield, convicted forger, who
has left the King county Jail for the
penitentiary at Wal1a Walla to serve
a term of from two to 10 years for at
tempted Jail breaking, cleaned up SILL
900 from one man in the last year
while he was an inmate of the county
prison, according to F. B. Cunning
ham, cashier of the Long Bank, Of
Hanford, California. The swindle was
accomplished by forged deeds
A number of orchardists who made
large purchases of dairy and hay land
in what is known at the Camas prairie
community of Klickitat county, near
Glenwood, are making preparations to
begin the thorough cultivation of their
purchases this year. A great deal Of
the land has been inundated occasion
ally from the waters of a number Of
small streams that flow into the fiat
basin and spread over it, but this will
be drained.
Presiding Judge Webster put q
crimp in the divorce status in Spo-
kane county that will have far-reach-
ing effect and will prevent many nom
residents coming to Spokane to obtain
separations. Not only will wives in
foreign jurisdictions be given an OPP
portunity to be heard in defending ac-
lions for divorces, but husbands will
no longer be permitted to plead power
ty in an effort to avoid payment of
railroad fare to bring their wives here
or to avoid payment of temporary ali
mony and suit money.
In addition to the governors of sew