The Newport miner. [volume] (Newport, Wash.) 1899-current, 1912-10-24
WASHINGTON BRIEFLETS

SCuOO1.
The University of Idaho football
team defeated Washington State col
lege at Pullman IL to 0.
The steamship Victoria has arrived
at Seattle from Nome with $1,5O0,000
In gold, furs valued at 100000, and
522 passengers.
The jury in the case of Mrs. Chris
Jensen, charged at Pasco with the
murder of her husband, brought in
verdict of not guilty.
Claud Reynolds of Castle Rock was
taken to a hospital at Chehalis suf-
fering from serious injuries received
by falling from train near Winlock.
A. J. Enderlin of Vancouver has
pleaded guilty to embezzling $500
from the Northern Brewing company
while acting as bookkeeper for that
concern.
In line with the energetic work of
the Washington Association for the
Prevention of tuberculosis, Governor
Hay has designated Sunday. October
II, as Tuberculosis Day."
Jesse Girard was killed instantly
at Wenatchee by the premature ex-
plosion of blast. Girard was work
ing with a force of laborers on the
Wapato irrigation project.
Dave Miller, highway robber sus
pect at Spokane, broke down and con-
fessed, giving the officers informa-
ton as to where valuable diamond
jewelry could be recovered.
John King, 33 years old, was shot
and killed at Seattle by Patrolman
R. H. Johnson, just after King and a
companion, who gave his name as
Frank O'Donnell, emerged from sa-
loon which they had robbed.
Hundreds of business men and farm
ers from Spokane and the Inland En-
pire left Spokane on special train
to be present at the seventh annual
convention of the dry farming con-
gress being held at Lethbridge, AL
berta, this week.
John M. Bryant, an aviator Of Oak
land, Cal, had narrow escape from
death Friday when he lost control of
his biplane in a heavy wind and
crashed into a low hill two miles
from Colfax. He was badly bruised
and the biplane demolished.
The sixth fatal automobile accident
in Whitman county in six months
happened at Endicott when Mrs. J.
C.. Van Skike was killed; her daugh-
ter, Mrs. Joe Wines, received brok-
en- arm, and three of Mrs. Wines
children we're badly injured.
Charles R. Harris, aged 70, negro
who before the war was a slave of
the noted Darlington family of Rich
mond, Va, was convicted at Seattle
of murder in the first degree for
shooting James Hammond, a negro
fellow workman in a gas works on
July Is last.
Learning that a huge quantity of
opium had recently been landed in
British Columbia, and that an effort
would be made to bring it across the
border, customs officials at Seattle
have been doubly vigilant and have
seized within a week opium valued
at $4,000 and arrested three persons.
Trustees of the Wenatchee CONNER
cial club, as well as members Of the
organization and business men, and
citizens generally of Wenatchee, who
are interested in the projected Cas-
cade scenic highway, are behind the
movement to establish road through
Snoqualmie pass as well as through
Stevens pass.
The interior department ordered
thrown open for settlement on Octo-
Der % total of 1880 acres of land
in two fractional townships in Stev-
ems county. On October %, 1896 acres
more were ready for filing, and on
October "a, 22,668 acres additional, all
land office.
The state supreme court has Or
dered new trial in the case of Mrs.
Eliza A. Phillips VS.. Mrs. Matte A.
Thomas, in which the plaintiff gained
a verdict for $4,000 damages for
alienation Of the affections of John
w. Phillips, former husband of both
women. The supreme court held that
the amount of damages was excessive.
On the complaint of State Labor
Commissioner Hubbard, Contractors
Young & Davis, engaged in building
a new school house at Meskill, were
arrested on charge of violating the
eight-hour law. It is alleged that the
contractors worked their carpenters
ten hours, the information coming
from the Centralia Carpenters union.
Articles Of incorporation were filed
at Seattle for the Bellingham & North