The Newport miner. [volume] (Newport, Wash.) 1899-current, 1912-01-25
WASHINGTON BRIEFLETS

voted to hold the next convention in
Portland in January, 1913.
State Land Commissioner E. w.
Ross will be candidate for congress-
man-at-large, probably announcing his
candidacy before the end of the pres
ent month.
City officials of Spokane are defend
ants in a suit for $4,000 because Of
the arrest of Elizabeth Weber during
the investigation of the Anna Weber
murder case.
Centralia is planning to send a big
delegation to the meeting of the
Southwest Washington Development
Association, which will be held in
Olympia on January rs, 26 and 27.
Elmer M. Hayden has been Endorsed
by Senator Poindexter and Represen-
tatives Warburton and La Toilette
to succeed Judge Donworth as United
States Judge for western Washington.
A new canning establishment cost
ing $4,000 and giving work to 100
people is promised Olympia. Citizens
have raised $500 to purchase the
states equity in tidelands to be used
as site for the cannery.
A crowd of over 1000 people saw
the Portland and Spokane athletic
clubs split even in their dual boxing
and wrestling tourney at Spokane,
Spokane losing the wrestling events
and winning the boxing
Professor J. w. Shepherd, formerly
a member of the Washington State
Board of Education and one of the
best known educators in eastern
Washington, died at Walla Walla fol
lowing a weeks illness with pneu-
monia.
Roscoe E. Lewis, Northern Pacific
agent at Aberdeen, who disappeared
in November, 1909, and for whom
warrant charging embeZZlemento of the
railroads funds was issued in Jan
uary, 1910, is under arrest in San
Francisco.
Bills were introduced in congress
calling for appropriations for public
buildings in IL cities of Washington
-Pasco, Dayton, Davenport, Water
vile, Ellensburg, Wenatchee, Aber-
deem, Anacortes, Blaine, Centralia,
Colfax and Hoquiam.
Interest has developed in the pro-
posed Palouse Falls irrigation project,
which the United States engineer re-
porting on the work has recommend
ed against on the ground that the for
nation of the land at the point where
it was intended to build the dam is
such that water can not be safely held
Alleging that he has been damaged
$4,000, R. H. Lord, real estate man
of Chelan, has commenced suit in the
Chelan county superior court against
the Wapato Irrigation company and
the Lake Chelan land company for
alleged failure to carry out the agree
ment with him in the payment of COM
missions.
Nine large railroad contracting
firms or their representatives are in
Tacoma to meet the Northern Pacific
engineers and go over the projected
Fort Defiance line, 20 miles between
Tacoma and Tenino, including the
long tunnel at Port Defiance. The
estimated cost of the work is $4,000
900 and bids will be submitted be-
tween now and January 81.
An auditorium, with seating capa-
city of at least 10000 and so construct
ed as to be available for all public
gatherings, will probably be erected
in Spokane this year. The initial
steps toward such an undertaking
have been made and the proposition
will soon be placed before the citizens
either in the form of municipal bond
issue or by public subscription.
A controversy that has been in the
courts for years was settled this week
by Federal Judge Donworth of Seat
tie, who handed down an oral decision
permitting several dozen fishermen to
renew their occupations at Swan is
land. Damages will be given these
fishermen because of their inability
to use their fishing territory during
the five years the suit has been pend
ing.
A course in industrial legislation,
dealing with the social and economic
accidents under the present compen-
sation law, will be instituted next
semester for a limited class of stu
dents at the University of Washing
ton. This is the result of the demand
of municipal councils and state Off
Gals for persons qualified to serve
and tabulate statistics cleaned from
Investigations of Industrial accidents.
That the Metropolitan Trust COM
pany of New York will finance a new
company to take over the holdings