The Newport miner. [volume] (Newport, Wash.) 1899-current, 1912-12-05
WASHINGTON BRIEFLETS

cial and realty broker OIL SeaIIAo' uAo~
at his home there, aged ~.
Reports received show that the
wheat surplus over and above that
needed for rome consumption in this
state will be 100000 bushels FOR
1912. or 100000 bushels over the
1911 record.
Marshall Peterson, a son or Mar
shall w. Peterson, cashier Of the Dex-
ter Horton bank of Seattle, dropped
dead from acute heart failure as ne
entered the grandstand before the
Washington-P Pullman football game.
Both locomotives were badly smash
ed when two freight trains on the
Grays Harbor branch of the Northern
Pacific met head-on in the Centralla
yards. A dense fog was responsible
for the wreck. The engine crews es-
capped by jumping.
At Tenino Mrs. Nellie Kinds shot
and instantly killed her husband, Hell
man Kinds. The couple had separat-
ed and Kinds had been served with a
court order not to modest his wife.
When he appeared and began kicking
In the door she shot him.
Three middle aged men, all single
and all possessed Of considerable
money, were found dead Saturday in
Seattle hotels. One was a suicide,
the second took an overdose of brom-
ida, while the third is believed to
have died of heart disease.
A meeting of delegates to be named
by the commercial organizations in
Whitman county towns which are In
terested in the location Of the propos-
ed state highway through Whitman
county has been called to take place in
Palouse Thursday, December 5.
An organized effort is being made
by several of the business men OF
Wenatchee to memorabilia the post
office department and every member
of the state delegation in congress,
asking for assistance in securing an
appropriation for government build
ing in Wenatchee.
At meeting Of about go Progress.
sives, chiefly from Pierce county, at
Tacoma, State Senator Paulhamus
made a most strenuous talk against
the 100000 appropriation for the Pan
ama-Pacific Exposition. He told his
hearers the smaller the amount the
better the people would like it.
The women of Randle, who recently
formed an exceptionally strong good
roads association, have prepared and
will circulate a petition to the COVER
nor and legislature, which urges the
completion Of state aid road No. in
eastern Lewis county. The women
expect to get hundreds of signers.
The Southeastern Washington Dew.
elopment league at it's meeting in
Walla Walla passed resolutions fav
oring system Of state highways tap.
ping the agricultural and horticultural
districts of the state and against tax.
ing the developed districts to build
state roads through the scenic re-
gions at this time.
At the age of 81 years, in the resi-
dence he had occupied since 1860
George A. Barnes, president Of the
board of town trustees of Olympia
mayor of the city when President Har.
rison visited there, and who crossed
the plains twice, once in 1848, and
again in 1850, and who is credited with
having. established the first bank in
Washington, died in Olympia.
Three small sons ranging from 13
to were found crying piteously over
the bodies of their parents when EN-.
ployes of single mill at Port Ores.
cent returned from work to the board
ing house kept by William Flanagan
and his wife. Both bodies were lying
on the floor, Flanagan having com.
mitted suicide with a revolver after
putting bullet through his wifes
head.
R. J. Cook, an inmate of the West.
ern Washington asylum for the in.
sane at Steilacoom for ~ months
made startling disclosures before the
annual meeting of the Washington
State Humane Society at Tacoma, de-
claring that it Is a veritable hell on
earth The society appointed a com.
mittee to confer with Governor-elect
Ernest Lister relative to a sweeping
Investigation.
Governor Hay has granted full
pardon to H. M. Boone, ex-state sena
tor from Washington county, and
president of the defunct Palouse State
bank. Boone has been an inmate OF
the state penitentiary since last
March, having been convicted of en-
bezzlement in connection with the
failure Of the bank. The governor
has also pardoned Henry Gable, sen
fenced from Tacoma In 1907 to 20