The Newport miner. [volume] (Newport, Wash.) 1899-current, 1912-04-04
WASHINGTON BRlEFLETS


The Blethen family of Seattle are
planning the con -truction of a five
story home for the Seattle Times.
The president has nominated John
o. Wilson as postmaster at Cosmopo-
lis, and Fred E. Kerby at Dublin.
John ]. Browne, founder of Spokane,
millionaire capitalist and banker,
dropped dead in his office in that city
from heart disease.
George Campbell was killed in the
mill of the White Lumber company at
Granite Falls, by falling against saw.
Campbelps father was standing at his
side at the time.
Alderman T. K. Long, of Chicago,
has arrived in North Yakima to take
charge of the search for his son, Will
liam Carson Long, who has been miss
ing since March 5.
Attorney Guy e. Kelly, supervisor
of the Tacoma census, and Roger
Watts, his chief clerk, have been
found not guilty of conspiracy to pad
the Tacoma census.
Death was the reward of Mrs. w.
III. Pierre, of Aberdeen, who saved the
life of her 3-weeks-old child from
flames which enveloped it, but who
herself was fatally burned.
The state tax commission has col
lected an Inheritance tax of $49, 539.OS
from the estate of the late Senator
William F. Villas, of Wisconsin, whose
will was probated in Pierce county.
Articles of incorporation of the Sc
attic Stockyards company, $1,00O,000
corporation, were filed in the county
auditors office with P. F. Purcell and
Herbert w. Myers as incorporators.
Attorneys representing the special
commission that has been investiga-
ting the Seattle mayoralty election in
the interests of H. c., Gill, have begun
the drafting of a complaint in quo war
ranto proceedings to force a recount.
Spokane's elite colony heard the last
of the mooted divorce case of Emma
V. Huntley against William H. Hunt
ley, when Judge Hinkle granted the
wife of the millionaire, banker di-
vorce on the grounds of three years
desertion.
Postal savings banks will be opened
May 1 at the following fourth-class
postoffices Albion, Anatone, Downs,
Elberton, Ethiopia, Endicott, Fairfield,
Govan, Hanford, Hatton, Johnson, La
tab, -Richland, Spangle, Thornton,
Waverly.
A power schooner, which is fitting
out at Seattle for a cruise to Boring
salmon cannery plant to Kotzebue
sound on the Arctic. This will be the
first salmon cannery in the world on
the Arctic ocean.
Morris Long, farmer residing near
Anatone, has been arrested upon com
plant of j. M. Coe, of Tekoa, on a
charge of robbing him of $3.50 and a
deed to 60 acres of land. Coe alleges
he was struck on the head by Long
and rendered unconscious.
Mrs. Anna M. Linden, sc years old,
of Everett, has registered for the spec
ial charter election April 16, also for
the presidential election. She hopes
to have the pleasure of casting bal
lot for Woodrow Wilson as the demo,
cratic candidate for president.
Miss Georgia Allen, who was detect
ed in an effort to convey revolver
and half dozen steel saws to George
Muir, in Jail at Bellingham on charge
of smuggling, has been sentenced to
serve from one to ten years in the
state penitentiary at Walla Walla.
Northern Pacific engineers are at
work on the old Seattle & Information
al line between Seattle and the Can
adam boundary. to provide curve and
grade reductions wherever possible, in
anticipation of the complete rebuild
ing of the line within the next two
years.
Mayor Cotterill of Seattle has an
nounced that he will sign no saloon Ii
censes while mayor. Such liquor Ii
censes as are not vetoed by him with
in 10 days after their presentation to
him for signature will become valid
under the provisions of the charter
without his approval.
Through the courtesy of General
Maus. U. S. A., commanding the de-
partment of the Columbia, the regular
army maneuvers of the National
Guard have been SO arranged as to
terminate July 10 in time for the
troops to participate in the Golden
Potlatch military and naval parade in
Seattle on that day.
Former State Senator Cyrus F.
Clapp, millionaire money-lender, and
f. A. Wakefield, an attorney, were
served with subpenas requiring their
presence in the Seattle federal court
ADr;l II in connection with tha inUnS-