The Newport miner. [volume] (Newport, Wash.) 1899-current, 1912-03-21
WASHINGTON BRIEFLETS

started.
Insanity will be the plea of w. j.
Shaw, the negro who killed his wife.
1T Walla Walla February e..
The president has nominated Hugh
Eldridge as postmaster at Belling-
ham, and Henry A. Rathbun as post
master at Marysville.
The jury in the Phillips case at
Kalama, after considering the evil
dence for one hour and Is minutes,
brought in a verdict of acquittal.
Postal savings banks will be opened
at Black Diamond, CheWalah, Con-
crete, Grandview, Oroville, Ridgeville,
Riverside, Sultan, Tekoa and Wapato.
Heavy rains and cool weather are
holding back spring work on the
farms of the Walla Walla valley, and
spring seeding will be at least two
weeks later than usual.
According to reliable information
the president has decided to name
Elmer NJ Hayden of Tacoma, as sue
cessor to Judge Donworth as United
States judge for western Washington.
Friday was Weed Day in Yakima
and any Canada thistle, tumbleweed,
Russian thistle, Jim Hill mustard and
the Chinese lettuce plant were attack
ed with a will by the clubwomen of
the city.
Chehalis' chicken ordinance, which
prohibits fowls running at large from
February 1 to November 1, is to be
rigidly enforced. A fine will be levied
against owners of birds where cOnvic-
tons are secured.
John Early, the Washington leper,
has at last been found a place by the
government. He has been given a
position at the quarantine station near
Port Townsend, taking care of An
drew Grover, another leper.
Purchase of the Bellingham Bay &
British Columbia railway and the Bel
bingham Terminals company by Kuhn,
Loeb & Co., for $10,OOO,OOO has been
announced The transfer will be
made to the Hartman system.
Eastern Washington fruitgrowers
declare that the time has now passed
when their trees will be endangered
this spring by late frosts, the contin-
ued chilly weather of the past four
weeks holding back activity in tree
life.
The ship Benjamin F. Packard was
the first of Seattle's salmon vessels to
sail 1t departed for Chignik, Alaska,
and will be followed by the other can
merry boats. Each steamship sailing
for the north carries crews of Chinese,
Japanese and white cannery hands
Three hundred and twenty acres
of agricultural land near Spokane may
be set aside as a municipal farm,
where violators of the city code can
earn money while working out Jail
sentences, if an ordinance carrying
an appropriation is adopted by the
city council.
H. M. Boone, former president of
the State Bank of Palouse, made a
trip unattended from Hanford to Wal
la Walla, surrendered himself to the
warden of the penitentiary and began
his sentence of one to 10 years for
enlightenment in connection with the
failure of the bank
Herbert Hanlon, a newspaper man,
charged with grand larceny for the
theft of about $500 worth of clothes
and furs from the private office of
]. F. Douglass, at Seattle, was found
guilty. This verdict exonerates Han
Ions 16-year-old brother, who swore
that he was the guilty one.
Burn l.. Smith of Syracuse, New
York, who is erecting a AZ story office
building at Second avenue and Yesler
Way in Seattle, announces that COM
pletion of this building will be follow
ed Immediately by construction of a
second AZ story building at Yesler
Way and Occidental avenue.
That surgical patients are sold to
the highest bidder in Spokane and
other northwestern cities is the dec
laration of the North Pacific Surgical
association, which was formed for the
purpose of stamping out fee-splitting
between physicians and surgeons and
of preventing criminal traffic" of the
sick. *
The city of Raymond has employed
an expert engineer to run lines and
estimate the probable cost of NUM-
clpal water system. 1t is proposed
to take over the private plant and
enlarge and improve it by laying heav-
jer mains and building reservoir
with a capacity sufficient for the
needs OF this fast-growing city.
The purchase of the Issaquah coal
mine by German syndicate at cost
OF 100000 is announced. This coal
mine is one of the landmarks of the
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