The Newport miner. [volume] (Newport, Wash.) 1899-current, 1912-05-02
WASHINGTON BRIEFLETs


county will hold a quarterly conven:
ton at Amboy, May and 9.
Hal ]. Cole has been appointed and
confirmed as register of the United
States land office at Spokane.
The O.-W. r. & N. and the Milwau.
kee railroad have purchased property
on Front avenue in Spokane for a big
union depot. The deal approximates
$1,25O, 900.
Final plans for holding a two day
automobile race meet at Tacoma july
and have been closed. There will
be four road races from 100 to ESQ
miles long.
Governor M. e. Hays campaign for
denomination was launched at Spo-
kane at banquet of republicans at
tended by representatives of the party
from eastern Washington.
United States District Attorney FL
mer E. Todd of Seattle, has resigned
to become associated with Judge
retired as a federal judge.
Unless city affairs are conducted
with greater economy and efficiency
than in the past, Seattle will adopt
commission form of government, is the
prediction of Mayor Cotterill.
At Index, mountain town near Ev-
| eratt Hhar1oc Coopoo1 n bo+o1 ~.
prietor, shot and wounded his wife
and killed a Mrs. Johnson. The Sea-
mans had Quarreled and the shooting
if Mrs. Johnson was accidental.
The price Of virtually all kinds of
lumber except spruce was raised so
| cents thousand by manufacturers at
Seattle. The price of shingles was
also raised cents a thousand, making
the quotation the highest in two years.
Joe B. LeMaster assistant cashier
of the Northern Express company,
who has disappeared from Spokane,
was short between $500 and $4,000
according to information given out by
persons who have been auditing his
| accounts.
Several hundred men employed in
sawmills and logging camps in Sno-
homish county, struck in response to
an appeal of the Industrial Workers
of the World. More wages are de-
manded, some of the men getting as
low as $1.60 day.
Judge Mason Irwin of the superior
court decided that the city of Aber-
deem had a right to close the halls
when l. w. w. meetings were being
held. The judge held that the organ
ization was an unlawful one, working
| to an unlawful end
Pierce county democratic conven-
| ton, after stormy session. voted
| down a proposition of the platform
| committee to indorse Champ Clark for
| presidential nominee and sent an I'M
instructed delegation to the state con-
vention at Walla Walla.
Touching a lighted match to dyn-
amite cap which he held in his hand,
| the 11-year-old son of J. H. Crosby, a
mill-worker residing in Riverdale, was
terribly injured by the explosion that
followed which tore three fingers from
one hand and badly lacerated the
other.
Engineers for the Oregon-W Washing
ton Railroad & Navigation company
are making the preliminary survey
of it's extension from the south side Of
the Chehalis to Montesano. The i'm
provement will cost $4,000 and will
give Montesano two more transcon-
tinental railroads to it's mills.
Herman Sporting, who was arrested
upon complaint of special officers OF
the North Bank Railway, charged with
stealing a building from the COM
pany's right-of-way at Fall Bridge,
pleaded guilty to petit larceny before
a justice of the peace at Goldendale
and was fined $40 and costs
There have been 70 deaths from
October 1, 1911, when the workmen's
compensation law went into effect, TO
April Is, 1912, according to figures
compiled by the industrial insurance
commission. Of this number 30 have
been among men employed IN the
class known as lumber and milling.
Several persons were injured, the
steamer Telegraph was sunk and the
Colman dock, one Of the finest passen-
ger piers on the Pacific coast was
wrecked when the big steel steamship
Alameda got beyond control and
plowed through the Colman dock at
Seattle. The damage is nearly $780,
900.
The last stone in the largest Dry
dock ever built In the United States
was set in place Saturday at the Pu-
get Sound Navy yard. Many months
of work will be required to install the
pumping plant and clear the entrance
to the huge basin. The dock wnen