The Newport miner. [volume] (Newport, Wash.) 1899-current, 1912-02-29
WASHINGTON BRIEFLETS

be ShOrn in the district around WAAH
Walla this year. 10 the statement
made by sheepmen Of the district.
A favorable report has been made
to the senate on Senator Jones bill
increasing the salaries Of collectors
of customs for Puget Sound to $4,000.
Starting April /, AZ carloads OF
rock will be shipped daily from the
Hercules quarry, in Tenino. to the
government jetty being constructed ut
Grays Harbor.
William McLathlin, who surrend-
cred to the Arlington authorities, i'll
sisting that he was insane and who
refused to leave the Jail. will be held
for the Oregon authorities.
A. L. Valentine, formerly supertn-
tendent of public utilities Of Seattle,
has declined a membership on the
State Public Service Commission. He
is the third man to refuse the place.
Confident that his fnd IL worth
one thousand dollars, Fred Graves OF
for a pearl he found in q geoduck, q
species of enormous clam peculiar to
Puget sound.
An Is inch pipe line, IA miles In
length, that will deliver 100000 gal
Ions of water daily and cost $134,11B
will be built at Centralia this year
providing the people vote favorably
on the proposed bond issue.
Nat Heiner a real estate dealer OF
Spokane, is suing Mrs. Georgette Muir
ray for $4,000 for SANDER. He al
legged in the complaint that Mrs. Muir
ray, with whom he had had dealings,
said: you are SO crooked you could
hide behind a corkscrew."
It is now believed that Judge Mark
A Fullerton of the Washington SUI
preme bench, will succeed Judge Dorl-
worth on the federal bench. Repre-
sentative Humphrey, being opposed
by both Washington senators, will not
again be given serious consideration.
Among the noteworthy addresses at
the Northwest immigration Congress
at Tacoma was plea for Japanese
labor made by John P. Irish, president
of the Delta Association of California,
who declared this form Of labor neces-
sary to the development Of his state.
Lewis County commissioners have
opened bids for the new county bridge
across the Cowlitz at Randle and will
build a structure under direction of
the county superintendent of bridges.
Four bids were received, ranging from
$2O,5OO to $22,124, and all we're re-
jected.
Jacob Furth, president Of the Seat
tie Electric company, has been elected
president of the Puget Sound Traction
Light & Power company, a 100000
900 corporation which is about to take
over the properties in the northwest
managed by Stone and Webster of
Boston.
Six Of the II railroad and steamship
men indicted in Juneau. Alaska, Feb
ruary Is, for alleged violation Of the
Sherman law, appeared before a Un-
tied States commissioner at Seattle
and gave bonds for their appearance
in court at juneau, March Is, to ans
wer the charge.
DR.. Linda Burfield Hazard, the
starvation specialist, recently found
guilty in Kitsap county of murder in
the second degree in connection with
the death of Miss Claire Williamson,
young English woman under her
treatment, is going to try the star
walton cure herself
Capsizing against the wharf at Sc
attic, the fishing steamship Independ-
ent sank within three minutes and
plunged half the members of her crew
of AZ men into the chilly waters of
the bay, while others, clad in little or
nothing, as the case was, scrambled
out upon the wharf.
Congress will be asked to authorize
a special bond issue of $4,000 900 or
$6,000,000 for a resurvey of the Pal
ouse project, and the building of the
system. The matter is before the
president and he is expected to auth
orize the survey within a few days.
The project will irrigate 100000 acres
of land.
The first gun In decisive warfare
at Spokane between employers and
organized labor was fired when mas
ter painters declared for an open shop
and announced reduction of 81
day in wages. Painters will resist
the order and it is believed the strug-
gle to follow will involve every build
ing trades organization in the city.
1t is announced that the Milwaukee
Railroad will build at once it's long
projected Beverly-Hanford branch be-
tween the Beverly crossing Of the