The Newport miner. [volume] (Newport, Wash.) 1899-current, 1912-05-23
WASHINGTON BRIEFLETS

orthopedic hospital.
Florence Anderson, aged Is, Is be-
lieved by her parents to have been
kidnapped by two men and two women
from her home at Lacy.
Bert Hanson, employed by the Port
land Lumber company at Cathlamet,
was killed at it's logging camp by be-
ing hit on the head by a falling tree.
An ordinance prohibiting the carry
ing of any flags other than those rec
ognized by the government of the Uni
ted States has been passed by the Sc
attic city council.
Crazed by fancied wrongs, Sam w.
Watson, a young rancher near Gold
endale, shot and killed his Is year old
wife and her mother and put bullet
through his own head.
Cash prizes aggregating $4,000 and
four perpetual challenge trophies will
be awarded to the favored few in the
Montomara Festo automobile races
scheduled for July and at Tacoma.
A forest fire east of Tacoma de-
stroyed two lumber mills, general
store, about 20 homes and 10 cars be-
longing to the Tacoma Eastern rail-
road. The loss is nearly 100000.
S. ]. Maxwell, secretary of the
Pierce county Taft club and well
Lpoun n, Toooroo ond Coo++Io roo1tv
circles, was seriously injured at Ia
coma by being struck by an automo-
bile
J. P. Carey, while slashing on his
farm 10 miles north of Lyle, was bit
ten by a rattlesnake. The wound was
Immediately cut with a sharp knife
and carbolic acid applied, and Mr.. Car
ey is recovering.
While beating his way home, Will
liam Eildreth, Castle Rock boy, was
shot by Great Northern passenger
brakeman. Young Hildreth was on
top of a coach and was ordered off,
but did not move fast enough to suit
the brakeman.
George Donald, president Of the
North Yakima & Valley railroad, a
subsidiary of the Northern Pacific, will
resign soon, according to an announce
ment. His probable successor is Geo.
Reid of Tacoma, general counsel of
the Northern Pacific.
Thirty thousand trout have just
been planted in ThurstOn county
streams. Of this number $4,000 are
of the steel-head variety, and the re-
naming 5000 are a new cross, noted
for it's palatable qualities as well as
it's gameness. The fish were furnished
by the Nisqually hatchery.
Prohibiting the carrying of red flags
in any street parade, requiring all
street parades to be headed by an
American flag twice the size of any
other in the procession, and prohibit
ing Industrial Workers from holding
street meetings, are resolutions adopt
ed by the Spokane city council.
John Tornow, hermit of the woods,
suspected of numbering his twin neph-
ews, John and Will Bauer, nearly a
year ago, and Deputy Sheriffs Colin
Mckenzie and A. " Elmer, this spring,
has been driven from his haunts on
now believed to be in western Mason
county.
That the Clarke county prune crop
is almost a total failure is the gist of
the reports received in Vancouver by
people interested in the matter. It is
said that the output this year, from
present indications, instead of being
so per cent crop, will not total more
than Is per cent of the usual amount
harvested in the county,
The Columbia river is now above
the 14-foot mark, and is rising about
six inches daily. The water is coming
up so rapidly that nearly all salmon
fishermen have ceased work temper
arily. The run of shad is rather heavy
and some large ones are being taken.
These are salable this year, the can
neries paying about cents a pound
for them.
Unable to meet obligations of more
than $1,O00,000, the Seattle, Renton &
Southern railway has been adjudged
bankrupt by District Judge Hanford of
Seattle. The road is an electric in
terurban line on Puget sound and the
complaint was filed by Peabody,
Houghtelling & Co., of Chicago, lead
ing creditors. E. M. Mills and o. D.
Colvin were appointed receivers.
Petitions asking the recall of Mayor
George F. Cotterill of Seattle, who was
elected last winter, have been made
public. The principal charge made in
the petition is that Mayor Cotterill
has failed to give proper protection
to citizens seeking to enforce respect
for the American flag, the mayor hav-
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