The Newport miner. [volume] (Newport, Wash.) 1899-current, 1912-01-11
WASHINGTON BRIEFLETS

req by the city council from the
streets of Aberdeen.
Orders for fir ties that will require
approximately 100000 feet Of lumber
have just been placed by two trans
continental roads with Sound mills.
Senator Poindexter has come out
in favor of J. G. Lawrence, ex-rail-
road commissioner, as the Republican
candidate for governor Of Washington.
Senator Jones has laid before the
secretary Of agriculture the necessity
for establishing an experimental farm
in the Yakima Valley under the Tie
ton project.
The Seattle Clearing House asso-
citation has voted to purchase the en-
tire issue of 100000 bonds voted by
the city to build an east and west
electric line.
The Northern Pacific 10 planning
extensive improvements at Yardlsy.
near Spokane, and will spend between
100000 and $4,000, 900 in new shops,
EounQnOuSeS ana yards.
United States Judge Donworth has
announced that he sent his resigna-
ton to President Taft several days
ago. He gives his desire to return to
private practice as the reason.
Seventeen students at the Universi-
ty of Washington were forced to leave
college and 355 were conditioned a. 0
result Of the recorders report for
December, which has just appeared.
Charged with political activity"
and characterization" A. w. Psrlsy,
for several years track inspector for
the Washington public service COM
mission, has been removed from Of
fee.
Aside from the State Federation Of
Labor and the Northwest Carpenters
conference, Spokane will entertain an
annual session of the Northwest Ty-
biographical conference during the
week beginning January Is.
twenty-five hundred dollars In gold.
billed to the Exchange National bank
of Spokane, mysteriously disappear
ed at Oakesdale, while In the safe at
the Northern Pacific depot. Authori-
ties SO far have failed to discover o
clue.
John Corbett, chief jailer at Seattle,
who has accumulated a fortune Of
100000 by judioious investment Of
his savings in Seattle real estate, has
retired on a pension Of $57 q month,
after 81 years service on the Seattle
police force.
The 40 members of the crew OF the
fishing steamer Grant, formerly the
United States revenue cutter of that
name, which was lost On White Rock.
few miles south of Prince Rupert.
B. c., have arrived at Seattle. The
men were picked up by the British
steamer Falcon.
For violation of the pure food and
drug act, Fischer Brothers and Kriel-
sheimer Brothers, Seattle wholesalers,
pleaded guilty and were fined SIS on
each of three counts by Federal Judge
Hanford. The court declared that
the small fines were imposed because
the defendants had committed their
first offenses.
A big timber land deal for the rur-
chase of 1881 acres In Kittitas coun-
ty by New York capitalists for a cash
consideration of 100000. has just
been closed by Spokane real estate
dealers. The land consists of 1891
acres, carries 325, 100000 feet OF fine
quality western soft pine, which il
particularly adapted for shop lumber
In the manufacture of sash and doors.
Discoveries that will place Douglas
fir oil on a par with that extracted
from pine, will utilize the millions of
feet of fir stumps, roots and tree
limbs, representing one-half of the
standing timber, and will provide for
the manufacture of fine paper from
the waste after the oil has been man
Of the chemistry department at the
University Of Washington.
The state supreme court has decid-
ed that the act Of Congress granting
to the state of Washington sections
Is and So in each township OF federal
land for school purposes became Of.
fective In November, 1889. on the
day the state was admitted, and that
the 100000 acres Of land in those SEQ
lions which the government after that
day allowed to be settled on and pat
ented belongs to the state.
Washington is just entering upon
an important state campaign. Plans
for the construction Of a new $1,000
600 capitol, a new industrial insur.
ance law, two constitutional amend
ments, the initiative and referendum,
the removal Of restrictions limiting
county officials, and the fact that wo-