The Newport miner. [volume] (Newport, Wash.) 1899-current, 1912-02-08
WASHINGTON BRlEFLETS

MOnteSanO is to nave new news
paper to be called the Chehalis Coun-
ty Call.
town seven miles south of Chehalis.
Is to incorporate.
The Laurel Development club, COM
posed wholly of ranchers, has incor-
porated at White Salmon.
An epidemic of smallpox is feared
at Prescott, five cases having been
discovered in three families.
J. Honistein, a pioneer settler Of the
Quiniault country, together with his
son Emil, aged II, were drowned in
the upper Quiniault river Friday.
Hop roots are reported worth SID
per thousand at North Yakima. This
is about three times the price at
which they have usually been sold.
Three persons were badly injured
in a rear end collision between the
Skykomish local No. and local No.
235 on the Great Northern line about
one mile from Everett.
William H. Dunphy, one Of the best
known Democrats in Washington and
representing the state on the National
committee, has formally announced
his candidacy for governor.
Eight Republicans are seeking the
two congressional posts at large in
Washington, Albert Johnson. editor Of
the Hoquiam Washington. being the
last to announce his candidacy.
Porter Brothers have been awarded
a contract to build a double-track rail-
road for the Northern Pacific between
Tacoma and Tenino, a distance Of 45
miles. Building will commence at
once.
Angered at being ordered out Of o
restaurant at Centralia, w. A. Roney
fought F. x. Page, the proprietor, and
sank his teeth into Pages ear, biting
the member completely of and spit
ting it out on the floor.
Eighty per cent of the convicts
paroled from the Washington state
prison have made good and are earn
ing an average Of $40 a MONTH" de-
clared Warden C. S. Reed to the State
Sheriffs' Association at Walla Walla.
Senator Jones has introduced a re-
solution for an estimate Of the cost
of enlarging the present project of
deepening the channel in Willapa
river and harbor from Raymond to
the sea, so as to secure a depth of "a
feet.
To acquire land and build six ocean
piers as the initial step in the de-
velopment of a $7,5O0,O0O ocean termi-
nal on Harbor Island, Seattle's port
commission has decided to submit a
100000 bond issue to the voters
at the March election.
A number of the members of the
Spokane Loyal Order of Moose have
made application to Supreme Dictator
Arthur A. Jones, Of the order, for a
charter, and if the request is granted
a second order will be started In Spo-
kane in the near future.
Incompatibility and cruelty consti-
tuted the grounds On which Mrs. Mar
tin Welch secured an absolute divorce
from Martin WEIGH, wealthy railroad
contractor Of Spokane, who is brother
and partner of Patrick Welch, the
multimillionaire railroad contractor.
A warrant was sworn out at Everett
for the arrest of Alexander Keay, ex-
city treasurer, on charge of en-
bezzling more than $4,000 of the
city's money. Keay left early in No
vember, saying he was going on a
hunting trip in the mountains and has
not returned.
AS result of an agreement among
the judges of the superior court bench
of King county, Judge Myers announc-
ed from the bench that the closest
scrutiny would hereafter be given to
all divorce cases presented, and that
DEGREES for trivial causes would be
absolutely barred.
The action of the O.-W. r. & N COM
pany in announcing reductions in
class rates from Spokane to all points
on the Oregon Short Line, effective
March 1, means that Spokane jobbers
will be able to invade the Salt Lake
and Boise territory and sell many
miles farther south than before.
The state board of control, follow
ing a conference with Warden G. s.
Reed, of the state penitentiary, and
Superintendent Roef, Of the state re-
formatory, intends to transfer rs pri-
soners at Walla Walla to the reform
atory at Monroe. The prisoners in
question are deemed worthy of spe-
cial conditions, as all are first tim
ers."
Representative Warburton has In
troduced a bill authorizing an appro-