The Newport miner. [volume] (Newport, Wash.) 1899-current, 1912-06-20
WASHINGTON BRIEFLETS

loss estimated at 100000.
An unwonted amount of rain fell
In the Walla Walla valley this year
and farmers are beginning to VERY
over the outlook.
Late heavy rains have damaged the
first cutting of alfalfa hay in the Hud-
son bay district, and from 5000 to TO-
900 tons of hay will be unsaleable.
Five firemen were severely injured
by the falling walls of two story
frame building in Ballard, suburb OF
Seattle, when the building burned.
Because he started a camp fire that
he was unable to put out, G. Stevens,
a prospector, was fined $500 in the
United States district court at Seattle.
A heavy rain which fell for two
days, extinguished the numerous small
fires throughout western Washington.
No considerable damage had as yet
been done by the fires.
The Toledo lodge Of Eagles dedicat-
ed it's new $4,000 lodge hall with appro-
pirate services Saturday. Visiting del
egations were in attendance from ev-
cry Eagle lodge in Lewis county.
After two sets of checkers had failed
to find any inaccuracies in his books.
Harry A. .Bringolf, teller in the city
treasurer's office at Tacoma, has con-
fessed to populations approximating
$4,000.
Figures just compiled by Postmas-
ter John Benedict show an increase Of
IA per cent in the Centralia postal re-
ceipts for the year just closed over
the previous year. The average yearly
increase for the past Is years has been
"a per cent.
Jack Johnson, aged 30, years, mar
ried, with two children, was instantly
killed in the Creech Brothers plant at
Raymond. Johnson was working on
the carriage and log rolled back,
catching him between lever and cut
ting the top of his head off.
None of the Alaska antitrust cases
in which several transportation COM
panies and their officers are
charged with conspiracy in restraint
of trade in violation of the Sherman
law, will be tried this summer, accord
ing to word received from Washington.
At a meeting at Aberdeen, perma-
nent organization of the Pacific Coast
Loggers' association was effected. The
organization is for the purpose of
keeping it's members posted on mat
tiers pertaining to the logging industry
In the states of Oregon and Washing
ton.
Under the leadership of the Indus
trial Workers of the World, 242 men
employed by the Stone & Webster
company constructing the power dam
on the White Salmon river struck for
an increase of rs cents day and bet
ter accommodations. The men have
been getting 1925.
To give them a chance to manage
the property while he was yet alive
and could help them, Thomas Lyons,
a pioneer of Walla Walla distributed
$500 acres of the finest farming land
in the valley to his six children. The
deeds give the value of each tract and
the total is $4,000 as a conservative
estimate.
Spokane shippers have introduced
before the public service commission
of the state mass of figures in an eff
fort to amend the general freight tar
IFS Of all railroads operating in the
state of Washington. They contend
that the present rates place them at
a disadvantage in shipping to points
in their territory
The Pacific county superior court
was reversed by the supreme court in
the case of Thelma Olson, appellant,
against J. J. Haggerty, Georgiana Hag-
gerty and Florence Swanson, an action
for alleged malicious prosecution. The
supreme court held there was suffici-
ent evidence to warrant trial on the
merits, and remanded the case for
trial
Because of the new and lower
freight rates which went into effect on
all goods shipped from points between
st. Paul and New York to Spokane,
Spokane jobbers on July will issue
new price lists to retail dealers, in
which lower rates will be set on
large number of commodities. Much
of this saving will be handed, in turn,
by the retailers to the consumer.
Her ailment a mystery to 100 of
Spokane's leading physicians, Mrs.
George Martin, of Spokane, is suffer
ing from a disease that is eating her
body away and sapping her life. Slight
" cutting her finger while slicing ham,
the poison spread and her finger was
amputated, then her hand, and after
ward her arm at the shoulder. Now
the ailment is spreading to the unfor-