The Newport miner. [volume] (Newport, Wash.) 1899-current, 1912-06-13
WASHINGTON BRIEFLETs


now are being constructed between
Wilson Creek and Wenatchee.
The National Retail Credit Mems
association will be formed in Spokane
August %, by representatives OF more
than rs associations representing as
many cities.
Exports of canned salmon from Pu-
get sound in May were nearly 30 times
as large as the corresponding month
last year, being valued at $17,2SS, COM
pared with 1913 in May, 1911.
Tax assessments in Spokane will be
reduced 10 per cent by County Asses
sor Creighton for 1912, and owners of
both real property and improvements
will receive the benefit of lower
scale.
In an attempt to lower the cost Of
living the city council of Spokane has
been asked to appropriate from $780,
900 to 100000 to establish a munich
pal store for furnishing food and cloth
ing to the people at cost.
With capacity Of carrying 30 peo-
pie at 80 miles an hour and running
$50 miles without recharge, the first
Edison electric storage battery car to-
be used west of the Rocky mountains
has arrived at Seattle and will go to
Alaska
At Fifth Avenue and Yesler Way in
Seattle there is hole 40 feet long, 20
feet wide and Is feet deep, occasioned
by a slide in the abandoned tunnel OF
the Oregon & Washington railroad at
that point. Several buildings are en-
dangered.
When the steamship Mariposa,' the
latest of the fleet of the Alaska Steam
ship company, sails from Seattle July
1, she will have as her wireless oper-
ator Miss Mabelle Kelso, the only wo-
man in the world to hold govern
ment wireless certificate.
Chapel Seaman, hotelkeeper of
Index, who on April "a shot and killed
Mrs. o. Johnson in the hotel kitchel.
when she saved Mrs Seaman from her
husbands bullet, has pleaded to Sec
ond degree murder. Seaman also shot
his wife, but she recovered.
College graduates from Washington,
Oregon, Idaho and Montana and the
Canadian provinces met at Spokane
and organized the Association of Col
lege Men of the Northwest. The pur-
pose of the association is to promote
closer relations between college men.
Labor unionists of Spokane have en-
tered into campaign to abolish the
saloon in that city and will also start
a cooperative store to sell goods at
cost. The fight is admitted to be a
blow at the open shop advocates and a
slap at those responsible for the over
throw of the So wage scale.
Declaring the expense is becoming
too great, the board of commissioners
of Chehalis county will call in the
posse of seven men hunting for John
Tornow on June 25th. With the return
of the posse Tornow will be practical
ly free from molestation in the vast
territory north of Aberdeen.
The state supreme court has affirm
ed the conviction in King county of
Victor L. Marion, charged with graft
Marion tried to induce J. w. Dalton to
pay him $500 on promise that Marion
could influence the prosecuting attor-
ney Of King county in a case in which
Dalton was accused of abduction.
The state grange at Puyallup de-
cided for the recall of judges, initia-
tive and referendum and bank guar
anty. In conjunction with the farm
ers' union and state federation of labor
the grange will work for the election
of a progressive legislature this fall
regardless of partizan affiliations.
Colville, Stevens county, was selected
for the next meeting.
President Taft and Acknowledgement
Wickersham have ordered a new trial
for Leonard OLSON, the socialist
whose citizenship was Cancelled by
Judge Hanford. Although Judge Han
ford has been charged with exceeding
his authority in the OLSON case, he
states that he was merely enforcing
law passed by congress during the
Roosevelt administration.
The Northwest DEVELOPMENT con-
gress in session at Seattle, adopted a
set of resolutions urging home rule for
Alaska, more liberal administration of
the public lands and outlining a plan
Tor cooperative development of the
northwestern states. The place for
holding the next congress was referred
to the executive committee, a choice
to be made within so days.
A small mountain of basalt rock is
TO be ground into sand for use in the
concrete work for the big dam that the
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