The Newport miner. [volume] (Newport, Wash.) 1899-current, 1912-03-07
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Years eve, was convicted Of murder
in the first degree.
With the improvement Of the lum-
Der trade, tetty and other construc-
ton work, and the expected increase
of business through the opening OF the
Panama Canal, there Is a large In
crease in ship-building at Aberdeen.
The Palouse Irrigation Project Con-
gress, called by William Lippitt. pres
ident of the Colfax Commercial Club.
for Adams, Franklin and Whitman
counties, met at Colfax Saturday.
Delegates from each county were
present.
DR.. F. D. Johnson, charged with
completely in the bar murder case at
Chehalis, has not been released on
bail, and will not be, until some more
satisfactory signatures are secured on
his bond.
A price-cutting fight that threatens
to involve nearly every brewing COM
pany represented in Spokane has be-
gun, as the result of a reduction by
the Spokane Brewing & Mating Co.
of so cents a barrel in the price Of
bottled beer.
An investigation Of the Spokane
freight department of the Northern
Pacific railroad is being prosecuted
by special agent from st. Paul and
the Spokane auditor. Graft on q
wholesale scale is alleged In the In
vestigation.
With the conviction in the police
court at Aberdeen Of Joseph Nunes,
the authorities believe they have done
much to put an end to oyster bed
thefts in the lower bay, which, during
the last three years, have aggregated
a loss Of $4,000.
While Fireman r. F. Farrar, with
the company from Station s, was an
swering a false alarm in Union Park
at Spokane, his own home, within two
blocks of the fire station, was de-
stroyed by fire and the lives of his
wife and 4-year-old child imperiled.
Investigation Of the reports so far
turned in by the men who are cruising
the timber Of Washington, show that
an enormous amount has so far es-
capped taxation. In one township
alone 1O3,OOO,00o feet was found in
excess of what had formerly been
listed.
Records of the coroner's office for
February show II violent deaths in
and near Seattle. Sixteen were sui
cides, Is persons died through acct
dents, eight were murdered and one
was killed by justifable homicide.
Thirty-four of the dead were male and
seven female.
So as not to inconvenience clients
who had entered into contracts, mas
ter painters of Spokane are finishing
jobs already in progress. Union
painters continue on the work and the
SIS day scale is paid. In most cases
the master painters have given bonds
for completion of the work
Two hunters in the employ of the
government have commenced work
killing off the predatory wild animals
in the Wenaha reserve. The men.
Leonard Jennings, of Pomeroy, and
John Zaler, of Walla Walla, will each
get $50 a month and bounties on the
scalps and pelts of the animals they
kill
Charged with the wholesale larceny
of horses from the Umatilla Indian
reservation range, Ralph McBain and
Bert Pixler, alias Ed Smith, were ar
rested at Walla Walla where they
were seeking to sell % head of horses
which had been stolen from the Una
tilla reservation in the vicinity of
Thorn Hollow.
Walla Walla may yet get q fran
chise in the Northwestern Baseball
league. Unless the business men of
Tacoma raise between $4,000 and
$4,000 within the next few days Presi-
dent A. E. Rothermel of the club an
nounced that he would reopen nego-
tiations with the Garden city and dis
pose of the franchise.
A court order was issued at Seattle
temporarily restraining the Indepen-
dent and Sunset Telephone companies
from effecting consolidation of their
systems. The order was issued On
complaint of the city, which claims
an equity of 100000 in the poles.
wires end conduits of the Independent
company, which equity will be placed
in jeopardy if the merger is COM
pleted.
D. A. Hatfield, prisoner in the Sc
attic county Jail, is charged in a tele-
gram sent by District Attorney Irwin,
of Kings County, Cal, with having
forged deeds to $4,000 acres of Cali