The Newport miner. [volume] (Newport, Wash.) 1899-current, 1912-04-18
WASHINGTON BRIEFLETS


son, a bricklayer 25 years old commit
ted suicide in Seattle.
The jury in the case of Albert Shaw,
on trial in Walla Walla for shooting
his wife, returned a verdict of guilty
of murder in the first degree.
Compensation for an affected chill
blain is desired by Charles Maky, OF
Melbourne, who has presented claim
to the industrial insurance commits
sion.
Capitalists of Spokane and the i'm
mediate vicinity are estimated to De
100000 richer as the result of the ad-
vance in the price of CRANKY Smelter
stock.
A movement to organize the western
states into a strong combination to
fight for the interests of the west was
started at a meeting of the Spokane
Mining Mems club.
Because he said he would stand by
his labor union in preference to the
government of the United States, Lars
Emanuel Boman, was denied natural
ization papers by Superior Judge Fra
ter of Seattle.
John F. Rogers, well known tim
Der cruiser of Elma, has been missing
for six weeks, and his friends fear
that he has fallen a victim to John
Tornow, the wild hermit of the woods
north of Grays Harbor.
Failing to secure the appointment
of United States district Judge, to sue
coed Judge Donworth, resigned, Rep
resentative Humphrey of Seattle an
nounces that he will be candidate
for reelection to congress.
The jury in the case of Leon Sal
vestina at Pasco acquitted the latter
on the charge of numbering Philip Coo
CHA. His brother is on trial on the
same charge at the present time. LIE
on Salvestina claimed self defense.
G.. A. Berlin, Centralia boy who is
believed to be the only licensed avia-
tor in Washington, is arranging for a
flight from Portland to Seattle. He
will give exhibition fights en- route at
Kelso, Chehalis, Centralia, Olympia
and Tacoma
In a practical celebration of the
state good roads day, 100 business
men of Spokane and a large number
of hired laborers, worked Is miles of
suburban road. Twelve parties, each
under command of captain, cleared
and smoothed the highways.
Washington fisheries produced $751;
206,500 of marketable products in 1911
according to the report of the State
Fish Commissioner, John L. Riseland
The salmon industry made marked
advance, 10000 more cases having
been packed than in any previous
year.
Photographs showing the prelimin-
airy model in clay of the heroic statue
of Governor John Harte McGraw, to
be made in bronze by Richard Brooks,
of Boston and Paris, have been re-
ceived from Paris by Judge G. H Han
ford, chairman of the memorial COM
mittee, and will be submitted to the
committee for approval.
In report sent to congress, the
army engineers board reports adverse
ly upon the proposed improvement of
the Columbia river between Wenat-
chez and the mouth of the Snake. The
project would cost $7,025,OOO, and in
the opinion of the engineers, COM
merce, present and prospective, does
not justify the expenditure
The United States circuit court of
appeals made an order committing
Clarence D. Hillman, the multi-million-
aire promoter, to the custody of the
United States marshal at Seattle, who
is to take him to the Mcneil island
penltentiary, where he will serve a
sentence of two years and six months
for fraudulent use of the mails.
The posse out hunting John Tor
now, the alleged slayer of the Bauer
twins and Deputy Sheriffs Colin Nc
Kenzie and A. V. Elmer, is reported to
have stumbled across the hunted
mans camp fires and the fugitive him
self is said to have been seen by a
band of hunters who have now Joined
the posse and will take up the hunt.
According to an order issued by Uni
ted States Engineer E. L. Carpenter
no more round logs will be permitted
on the streams tributary to Grays
Harbor, but all logs must be made
into long RATS to be towed by boat.
The reason for this is that the streams
are being more freely used by vessels
and the round logs floating down the
streams are MANAGE to navigation.
Gustav Dikran, prince of Albania, a
province of the Turkish empire, who
has been in Portland, Seattle and Ia
coma lecturing on conditions in the
Turkish empire, was arrested at Puy-