The Newport miner. [volume] (Newport, Wash.) 1899-current, 1912-02-01
WASHINGTON BRIEFLETS

way at North Yakima.
Setting forth that he intends to
wage an active campaign for mayor
of Seattle, T. A. Parish has handed in
his resignation as a member of the
state tax commission to Governor
Hay.
A two-year scholarship at Johns
Hopkins University in Baltimore has
been awarded to before Cramblitt,
senior in the state normal school at
Ellensburg, for his thesis Psychology
and It's Relation to the Patient"
Because he fell IA feet in a wagon.
with his team, on a defective county
bridge, D. R. Meyers was awarded
$575 by Clark county jury. Meyers,
who is about 70 years old, sustained
several broken ribs and bruises.
The Yakima Valley Fruit Growers
association reports that the past sea-
son was a successful one. General
manager J. H. Robbins states that 81
carload lots and a large number of
smaller consignments were handled.
Recall charges alleging that he Is
inefficient, has hired incompetent de-
partment heads, and has violated the
civil service provisions Of the city
charter, have been filed against Com
missioner Benjamin J. Weeks, of Ia
coma.
The secretary of war has rejected
the plans for the construction Of
harbor of refuge at Neah bay. 1t was
found that such a harbor would cost
$1,873,907 and this expenditure is be-
Heved not advisable at the present
time.
In the thriving city of Kirkland,
where they boast of a city Jail that
has held but two prisoners in six
years, the voters have enlivened the
administration by choosing a woman
councilman-Miss Carrie Shumway,
teacher.
Official figures issued by w. L.
Crawford, secretary of the Puget
show the total pack of canned salmon
on the Pacific Toast during 1911 to
have been 5,922,943 cases, valued at
$3O,9S3,O7O.
At a meeting in Centralia Monday
afternoon preliminary steps were TAX
en- toward the organization of poul-
try-breeders' association, to be known
as the Centralia Poultry association.
The new organization will be affiliat-
ed with the American Poultry associa-
ton.
A jury was obtained in the Thurston
county superior court to try Joseph
M. Snow, former state highway COM
missioner, on charge of grand lar
ceny by embeZzlement. He Is accused
of failing to account for $1,000 of the
states money held in trust when he
left office.
Seventy-five girls, most of them fac
tory workers in New Jersey towns,
have written to Claude F. Gage, mar
riage license clerk Ia Seattle, express
sing a desire to be put In oommuni-
cation with the 12 Lansing, Mich,
bachelors who wrote two weeks ago
asking for brides to settle with them
on western Washington logged-off
lands.
From Elma comes the report that
cruisers and hunters have found the
bodies of many elk, killed and the
teeth removed. The condition of the
carcasses shows that they did not die
of starvation. The deep snow in the
foothills has driven many of them
into the valleys, where they fall an
easy prey to hunters, who have no
fear of the law.
Despite his repeated declaration
when first arrested that he was gull
ty, was anxious to be hanged, and
have it all over with as quickly as
possible, Adelbert Clark, who murder
ed Banker Lawrence Bar at Centralia
on December 80, entered plea Of not
guilty when arraigned in court His
attorneys will attempt to save his
life by plea of insanity.
In a public notice issued by the Sec
rotary of the interior for the opening
of the third district of the Tieton unit
in the Yakima irrigation project, it is
stated that until further notice no
homestead entry will be allowed for
any farm unit shown on plats except
entries of those persons who are en-
titled to preference rights to irrigable
lands in the district and they are linn
tied to one farm unit.
The state supreme court has held
that the power of the state to regulate
the charges and rates of public service
corporations, as vested in the state
public service commission, Is para
mount to that Of the municipalities,
! nd issued a writ restraining the low
tr courts from interfering with the
ties of the Independent Telephone
company of Seattle, as fixed by the