The Newport miner. [volume] (Newport, Wash.) 1899-current, 1912-09-26
WASHINGTON BRIEFLETS

| fallen exceedingly low.
Fire caused by spontaneous combus-
ton, destroyed the Bryant lumber and
single mill at Fremont, causing
loss of $15O,OOO.
The O.-W. R. & N. has begun laying
track on the Spokane-Ayer line and
will have this important part of the
main line completed by December 1.
Picking of fall apples has started
in many sections. The crop is not up
to expectations and much of the fruit
will be of small size with fancy stock
scarce.
An official count of the vote of Spo-
kane county insures the nomination OF
Lester P. Edge for lieutenant COVER
| nor of Washington by a majority OF
SGT over Harry Collier.
At a cost exceeding 100000, a
highline irrigation ditch will be in
stalled near Brewster at once. Two
thousand acres of choice orchard land
will thus be placed under irrigation.
From January 1 to August 81 of
this year the Public Service commits
sion disposed of 273 formal actions
pending before it, according to figures
prepared for it's forthcoming report.
Immediately after the state fair at
make an overland trip from that city
to Chehalis by way of Cowlitz Pass.
He will ride horseback most of the
way
A. A. Curtis, a rider and owner of a
string of horses, was killed at the
Walla Walla fair when the saddle on
horse he was riding in a race slipped
and he fell Curtis home was in Lin
coin, Neb.
During the month of October the
state will net $26,3O5 in interest from
coupons clipped from bonds in the
permanent school fund, according to
an announcement made by State
Treasurer Lewis.
Multnomah carried off the honors
in the interclub smoker at Seattle be-
tween contestants from the Multno-
NAH, Seattle Athletic and Ballard
clubs. Multnomah took two bouts,
Seattle won one and Ballard annexed
one.
The expenditures of Governor Hay
in connection with his candidacy for
the Republican nomination for COVER
nor of Washington in the recent pri-
mary campaign totaled $13,1OO.99, &C.
cording to his sworn statement just
filed.
Nine single mills in the Ballard
manufacturing district were closed by
the walkout of $50 shingle weavers,
| who demanded an increase in pay of
one cent thousand shingles. The
closing of the mills threw 400 men out
| of work
Vancouver may have a new city
hall, if the bond issue election carries
this fall. The city council has ordered
| that special election for this purpose
be held in December. The city hall
is to be built at cost of approximate
ly $4,000.
The British tank steamship Romany
has arrived at Seattle with 5000 tons
OF benzine from Singapore. The ben
zine was produced in Sumatra and
Burma and will enter into competi-
ton with the product of the Standard
| Oil company.
A. w. Lueders, medical specialist
with offices in Seattle, was arrested
by federal marshal and taken to Ia
coma to answer a secret indictment
charging him with concealing proper
ty valued at $4,000 from his creditors
when he went into bankruptcy.
The organization of a bureau for
the detection of criminals in Oregon,
Washington and British Columbia was
one of the principal matters discussed
at the semi-annual convention of the
state sheriffs' association, which was
In session at Wenatchee for two days.
c. D. Osborne and Pearl A. Davis.
father and daughter, were burned to
death in mysterious fire which de-
stroyed the German hotel at Raymond.
Walter A. Davis, husband of the wo-
man and proprietor of the hotel, and
Red McAllister, boarder, were ar
rested on suspicion. McAllister prov
ed an alibi, but Davis is still held.
A brigadier general at %, Clifford
Sands, first lieutenant U. S. A., retir-
ed, and at one time one of the com.
manders of the army of Nicaragua.
has entered the University of Wash
lngton. Sands was brigadier gener-
al in the Nicaraguan army, going to
that country from Seattle, where he
was commander-in-chief of the Lincoln
high school cadets.
The second specimen ever caught
OF Acrotus Willoughbii, rare deep
sea fish, was received at the Univer-
slty of Washington for Identification.
\ the fish HAVING haoo