The Newport miner. [volume] (Newport, Wash.) 1899-current, 1912-09-19


In 1913 to conduct the affairs of Kitti-
tas county.
The Hubert mill in South Aberdeen
burned to the ground Saturday, with
a loss of approximately $4,000 with
$35, 900 insurance.
J. H. Daily, of Seattle, was bound
over to the superior court at Chehalis
for horse stealing. His wife and her
sister, Miss Sadie Walker, were re-
leased
Work on a big evaporating plant
that will handle at the start 500 bush
els of apples day, has been begun at
Ellensburg. The evaporation will be
in operation by October 10.
No admittance will be charged at
the high school football games at Sc
attic this season according to ruling
Of the school board. The games will
be played in the city parks, and the
board will pay all expenses.
Mrs. Florence Holcomb has filed
suit for divorce against DR.. A. H. Hol-
comb of Seattle, because during a
quarrel she alleges he threw her on
the floor and forcibly removed all her
upper front teeth with a dentists for
ceps.
The largest consignment of treas
ure from the far north this season
has just arrived at Seattle on the
steamer Senator. The vessel brought
gold bullion from the Nome and Idit-
arod districts, besides a rich cargo
of furs.
Ex-Judge Cornelius H. Hanford, who
resigned from the federal district
bench while a congressional commit
! tee was investigating charges filed
against him, was admitted to practice
in the federal court at Seattle by
8 Judge Edward e. Cushman.
Fifty-one residents of Renton have
4 been served with notices by the Uni
y ted States district court restraining
them from interfering with the 800
& coal miners engaged by the Puget
Sound Traction. Light & Power com
pany to replace the strikers at that
6 place.
The supreme court Of Washington
has confirmed Judgment of $4,000
against the Northwestern Improve
ment company Of Olympia, and in IA
q vor of Mary Delaski and her four little
d children for the loss of husband and
& father, who was killed while employed
81 in mine.
John Oliver, young man who re
sided near Olequa, was instantly kill
q ed by a south-bound O.-W. R. & N
8 train at Castle Rock. The man was
] lying on the track between Little Falls
u and Olequa, presumably under the in
q fluence of liquor, and the engineer
did not see him until too late.
y The incorporation of a $20,000,00(
concern for the purpose of manufac
and ranges of the Pacific coast, was
perfected at Seattle this week by the
l. filing of articles of incorporation in
L the county auditors office of the In
II ternational Steel corporation.
;. City Engineer Blair, of Chehalis, is
!. experiencing considerable difficulty ir
/ securing sufficient labor for numerous
> street improvements about to start il
u Chehalis. In view of the fact that the
z wages paid by the city are higher thar
Il the ordinary and the working day Is
1t only eight hours, the engineer is pug
l. zled by the shortage.
The machinery and equipment
ID which is being used in the construc
e ton of the big dam across the Missis
l. sippi river at Keokuk, Iowa, is to be
= brought to Priest Rapids as repidlJ
If as the need for it at Keokuk passes
Sc and will be used in the construction
of the proposed power development
dam across the Columbia.
East-bound Northern Pacific passen
ger train No 395 was derailed short
p distance west of Harrington, on the
70 Green River branch, when it STRUCK
q large LT0O U1OWu dCIO6S LuC LIdChS
y by the strong winds. Other than En-
D. gineer Edward M. Putnam, who sus
At tanned broken leg by being thrown
3 to the floor of the cab, no one on the
% train was injured.
y, G. S. Gilchrist, Centralia banker
% and H. w. MacPhail, a Raymond
10 banker have purchased the stock held
by H. w. Hewitt of Aberdeen, in the
g. Pacific Fruit Packing company of Ray
mond, and will erect an additional
u building 100 by so, three stories high
\ for 80 more machines for the manu-
|, facture of fruit and berry boxes. The
=, new plant will give employment tc
&c $50 people.
n The American Association of Gen
u eral Passenger and Ticket agents con
cluded it's 57th annual convention al
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