The Newport miner. [volume] (Newport, Wash.) 1899-current, 1912-08-01
WASHINGTON BRIEFLETS
Kennewick will hold big grape

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al bank note of splendid workmanship
has appeared on the Pacific coast. Sc
cret service operatives discovered It
in Seattle.
The Canadian S,scif1c nd Northern
Pacific railways kA,e jusr entered into
q new 10-year traffic agreement cover
Ing freight and passenger business in
the Puget Sound country.
Notice has been received from the
postoffice department at Washington
that after August Is the postoffice at
Eufaula, 40 miles southeast of Cen
tralia. will be discontinued.
A well which will furnish the full
pumping capacity of the Playground
equipment, $4,000 gallons of water per
hour, has just been drilled at the
Clarke county fair grounds at Vancou-
yer.
Washington's 1912 wheat crop will
total about 38,O0O,O0O bushels, 4.OOO,-
600 bushels more than last year, &C.
cording to the estimate made by G.. J.
Holset, chief grain inspector of the
public service commission.
The estate of DR. w. H. Olds, Of
Spokane, who was shot and killed by
his wife on the night of May %, was
appraised and found to be worth $780,
624.01. Mrs. Della Olds will get the
full widows share of the estate.
Mrs. Anna Christensen, charged
with completely in the death of her
husband, the Pasco banker who was
poisoned on a Northern Pacific train
q few weeks ago, has been released
from Jail at Walla Walla on $4,000
bail.
DR.. Edward M. Rininger, one of the
most widely known surgeons in the
northwest, was killed, and Miss Luella
Davis, a trained nurse, fatally injured
when DR.. Rininger's automobile was
struck by locomotive at a railroad
crossing near Seattle.
A meeting of the Pacific County
Good Roads association at Ilwaco Sat
urday was well attended by a repre-
sentative gathering of citizens from
all parts of the county, and harmony
and good feeling were apparent
throughout the meeting.
The nomination of B. w. Coiner as
district attorney of western Washing
ton will not be confirmed at this ses-
sion. Roosevelt men in the senate
have announced that they will fight
the appointment. 1t is probable Coin
er will be given recess appointment.
Spokane is to have an elaborate new
hotel, IA stories high and to cost ST.
100000. 1t will be built by L. w. Day.
export and associates, the associates
said to be the Hill interests, w. H.
Cowles, publisher, and number of
other noted personages in the fnan-
cial world.
The conference committee on the
bill granting to the Westinghouse
gon trolley road a right-of-way across
the Vancouver military reservation
reached an agreement by which the
right-of-way license will be revocable
only by congress and not by the war
department.
Since the passing by congress Of
the bill providing for the survey of
the Columbia river and carrying
$4,000 appropriation for river improve
ment, preparations are being made by
the Vancouver Port Commission to be-
gin work on the survey and prelimin-
ary work at once.
The grain commission Of the Mer-
chants Exchange at Seattle has es-
tablished the differential between
sacked and bulk wheat at four cents,
one cent more than last year, due to
the fact that grain bags this season
cost 111a cents, the highest ever paid
in the Pacific northwest.
That John N. Haley, of Bremerton,
time he shot and killed G. Ditton, as
sistant dockmaster at the Puget sound
navy yard, and seriously wounded an
other navy employee, was the finding
of Judge Roger S. Greene, special
master appointed by Judge G. H. Han
ford to examine into the matter and
report.
A petition for rehearing Of the case
Of Rev. w. A. Bass against Rev. Mark
A. Matthews, of Seattle, has been filed
with the supreme court. The action
was instituted by Mr.. Bass to recover
damages for an alleged libel, but the
lower court dismissed the suit, and it's
decision was affirmed by the supreme
court. Plaintiff now seeks to have the
case reconsidered.
twenty-five thousand dollars in
demnity will be paid by the Mexican
government to Lawrence F. Converse,