The Newport miner. [volume] (Newport, Wash.) 1899-current, 1912-10-31
WASHINGTON BRikFLErS

ton at Kent.
The next quarterly congress of the
Southwest Washington Development
association is to be held at Montesa-
no November % and 3d.
Frank S. Baker, recent manager OF
the Boston Traveller and son of E. H.
Baker of the Cleveland Plain Dealer,
has purchased the TacC-la Tribune.
George Cameron lost his life and
three saloons, a barber shop, pool
room and restaurant were destroyed
by fire at Centralia, entailing loss
of $4,000.
The University of Washington de-
feated the University of Idaho in the
opening football game of the inter
collegiate season Denny field, win
ming the game "a D.
Capitalists of Az 'rdeen are prepar-
ing for the erection of pulp mill to
be followed later o. the building of a
paper mill at combined valuation of
and preliminaries arranged.
For the care and treatment Of the
sick and injured on the western dl-
visions of it's system, the Northern
Pacific has prepared plans for the con-
struction in Spokane of large, well
equipped hospital to cost $150,000.
e. H. Stanton & Co. have comment
ed the building in Spokane of the
largest cold storage plant west OF
Minneapolis 1t will be 10 stories
high, 100 feet square, will cost $780,
900, and will have a capacity of 500
carloads.
Henry Goddard, a farmer well
known in Tekoa and vicinity, was ar
rested at Tekoa by Deputy Sheriff
Cole on suspicion of having caused the
burning of grain warehouse at War
ner station on July "a, and the at
tempted burning of a warehouse at
Tekoa on the previous night.
Bitter feeling has been aroused
throughout Douglas county over the
proposal now being agitated to remove
the county seat from Waterville to
Mansfield. While the movement was
started at Mansfield, all of the county
tributary is supporting the proposal
Waterville is bitterly opposing it.
Immense crops, with business condi.
tons getting better every day, is the
report made in Spokane by Carl r.
Gray, president of the Great Northern
railway. President Gray stated that
freight earnings of his road the last
year were between 100000 and Sc,
100000 better that the year before
The jury at Colfax, which tried
George Wesley Brown and Winnie
Brown, his wife, for numbering Al
Neeves, Mrs. Browns stepfather, re
turned verdict of not guilty. The
verdict declared the couple insane and
they will be confined in the insane
ward of the state prison at Walla
Walla.
The city council of Seattle has pass
ed an ordinance appropriating $500
for preparing plans and specifications
for municipal telephone system. An
other ordinance was introduced appro
priating 100000 for the construction
of portion of the municipal railroad
for which 100000 bonds were voted
two years ago.
The recall association at Seattle,
which had planned to file a petition
for the recall of Mayor Cotterill Sat
urday, voted to wait until after the
general election. This was done at
the request of party managers, who
feared the state campaign would be
clouded and complicated by the purely
local issues of the city fight.
Friend Hyde, Is years old, few
months ago superintendent of the Min.
erva Mining company, at Atlanta, Ida.
no, committed suicide at Seattle by
inhaling gas. Incidentally, the two
| story frame house in which Hyde re-
sided, was wrecked, and J. N. Lingen.
felter and George Johnson, neighbors
of Hyde, were seriously injured by an
explosion when they entered his room
The United States supreme court
has advanced for argument to Janu
airy the case of the United States
against the Northern Pacific railroad,
involving title to 160,975 acres of land
in the Yakima Indian reservation The
railroad claims this land as within the
limits of it's grant, while the govern.
ment contends the lands were exclud.
ed from the grant because they are
part of the Indian reservation.
Charging that they had been impris.
oned at the stockade of the Puget
Sound Traction, Light & Power Co.,
at Renton, and threatened with death
by the armed guards if they attempt.
ed to escape and refused to work in
the mines, Carmelo Spezzi has petit
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