The Newport miner. [volume] (Newport, Wash.) 1899-current, 1912-05-30
WASHINGTON BRIEFLETS

Inc University of Oregon over
jWhelmed the University Of Washing
ton in the dual track meet at Seattle.
winning SO to So.
Fewer than 800 applications were
made for the Al farm units under the
shird district of the Tieton unit of the
Yakima reclamation project.
By an accident at the Seattle light
ng plant $4,000 volts of electricity
passed THROUGH the body of Ed C. Rein
ig, chief operator, killing him instant
lily.
''The Vanport Bridge" is the name
suggested for the proposed Pacific
Highway bridge to be built across the
Columbia river between Vancouver
and Portland.
The contract for the federal build
ing at Olympia has been let and work
Will be started Immediately. The con-
tract calls for a ss2,76O building to be
completed by July, 1913.
A dispatch from st. Paul, says G. #.
Reid, western counsel for the NortA-
ern Pacific, has been appointed as
sistant to the president of that road.
with headquarters in Tacoma.
For stealing ten cents from a Gen.
tralia grocery store two months ago,
Frank Johnson was sentenced to one
year in the Walla Walla penitentiary
by Superior Judge Rice of Lewis coun-
!, ty.
By executive order more than 1000
acres of rich farming land along the
upper Columbia river has been restor-
ed to entry and is open to homestead
ers. The value of the land is estimat-
ed at 100000
Self defense will be pleaded by T.
L. Richards, the Snoqualmie farmer,
who shot and killed Henry Dillman,
his neighbor, after dispute arising
from the breaking of Calls leg.
Richards claims that Dillman came at
him with Ratchet
Attorney r. L. Sheriff. of Tacoma,
who obtained $500 from Mrs. Eliza
beth Crashule, of Wilkeson, year ago
on the representation, it is said, that
it was for bail to secure her release
from Jail, has been indicted by the
grand jury on the charge of grand
larceny.
The body of Lee A. Baldwin, a
wealthy druggist, of Warren, ILL.,, was
found with an empty ,carbolic bottle in
his hand in a clump of trees along the
railroad track south of North Yakima
He is thought to have been temporar-
lily insane, brooding over the death of
his wife two years ago.
The war department has outlined
plan for joint maneuvers on Gray's
Harbor July 81 to 80. Militia of Ore
gon, Washington and Idaho will take
part with the Twenty-frst and Twenty
fifth regular infantry, a squadron of
the First cavalry and battalion of
the Second Field artillery.
DR.. Emanuel Schmidt, president of
the Adelphi college at Seattle, has
been awarded first place in the annual
literary contest of the Swedish acad-
envy. This placed DR.. Schmidt in the
foremost rank among Swedish men Of
letters. Schmidts contribution was
translation of Longfellow's "Hiawa-
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Seattle is to be headquarters for the
largest lumber selling agency in the
west under the management of Sher-
man L. Johnson, former sales manag-
er for the Grays Harbor Commercial
company of Cosmopolis. Seven mills
controlling an output of several mil
lion feet of lumber are included in the
organization.
A slipping knot in an improperly
made tackle of his own rigging caused
William Dowley, a painter, IS years
old, to fall Is feet from the top of the
huge smokestack of the Seattle Rem
dering Works on Harbor Island. The
man escaped death as by miracle,
but physicians fear his neck Is dislo-
Gated or broken.
Existing price of fir and cedar logs
will be advanced 81 on June 1, If pres
ent plans of the largest logging con-
Germs on Puget sound are carried out.
The rise in price is expected to be an
nounced by the Washington Log &
Brokerage company. This company
aids in marketing more than IS per
cent of the entire logging output on
Puget sound.
The first step towards the establish
ment of a municipal telephone system
| in Seattle has been taken. Superin-
tendent of Public Utilities Valentine
is collecting data of the merits OF diff
ferent systems and the cost OF install
ling 10000 instruments. At the March
election the voters went emphatically