The Newport miner. [volume] (Newport, Wash.) 1899-current, 1912-09-12
WASHINGTON BRlEFLETS


peach crop.
The third annual Clarke county fair
began Monday and will continue for
week, ending Sunday, September Is.
At Everett, w. H. Miller, a mill
worker shot and killed his 1S-year-old
wife and then committed suicide, as
the result of domestic infelicity.
The sawmill of the D. & M. Lumber
company at South Prairie, rs miles
from Tacoma, has been destroyed by
fire. The loss is estimated at 100000.
According to figures issued by the
state superintendent, the state of
Washington has 283,141 school child
rem, an increase of 1897 over the cen
sus of 1911.
According to figures compiled by E.
J. Koors, secretary of the state tax
commission, on March 1, 1912, there
were 6721 automobiles in the state Of
Washington
The fourth annual exhibit of the
Southwest Washington Fair associa-
ton will open September 80 at the
fair grounds midway between Cheha-
lis and Centralia.
John L. Myers, bachelor, mayor of
South Bend, has proposed to the city
council that it levy tax of $25 upon
the head of every bachelor, old and
young, in the city.
Awed by long criminal docket fac
ing them if they should become jurors
at the coming session of the superior
court, II women have refused to exer-
else their privilege at Wenatchee.
The question as to whether the sale
of intoxicants shall continue in Spo-
kane will be decided at the November
election, a petition containing 1O,3O7
names having been filed with the city
clerk.
At Colfax, Mrs. Barbara Heibenrich
died suddenly in dentists chair. She
was given gas and had ten teeth
pulled, but it was impossible to re-
store her from the influence of the
gas.
Spokane banks are in better condi-
ton at the present time than at any
other period in the history of the city.
| Deposits show a gain of about 49,
100000 and the total now reaches $685.
475,S36.
An oil stampede in the Olympic
mountains has started Applications
are coming from Seattle and Chehalis
men to lease all the state lands for
prospecting. More than 5000 acres
have already been applied for.
The Spokane Park Commission has
decided to build a free municipal
swimming pool in the Spokane river.
itself, retaining wall in the middle
of the river forming one side.
August, 1912, was a record breaker
for fruit shipments from Wenatchee,
the total output for the month being
$50 cars, an increase of 100 cars or
more over any previous August. The
year is $4,000.
AS the result of a quarrel, Tony
Prapas shot and killed Oscar Fremko,
head sawyer at the Western Cooper
age company's plant at Aberdeen. Pra-
pas tried to escape and was pursued
by J. Hemphill, at whom Prapas shot
twice but missed.
Officials of the Alaska Steamship
company have announced the second
reduction in 10 days in freight rates
from Seattle to southeastern Alaska
ports, precipitating rate war which
Is expected to be the most spirited in
the history of Pacific coast shipping.
Charles Bates, young rancher, lies
at the point of death in a hospital at
Port Angeles from a gunshot wound
inflicted by William Bender, neigh
Dor, in gun duel over a quarrel about
horses getting into Bender's field Ten
shots from Winchesters were fired in
the duel.
The longshoremen's strike at Grays
Harbor, which has caused much trou-
BILE to shipping all along the coast for
year or more, is ended. The strike
was settled on basis of an open shop,
but the union officers say they are
well satisfied, as the conditions are
satisfactory.
A pathological examination of the
stomach of Louis Potter, the sculptor,
who died in Seattle following treat
ment by Chinese doctor, showed in
dications of phosphorus poisoning
Leo Hang Chow, the Chinese doctor
who treated Potter, is still missing,
as is also the sculptors woman COM
panion.
The formation of the Spokane
League for the Protection of Mother
hood" for the definite purpose of at
tending the next session of the legis-
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