The Newport miner. [volume] (Newport, Wash.) 1899-current, 1912-10-03
WASHINGTON BRIEFLETS

birds for the first time in three years
In this state opened Tuesday.
Woodland has a peculiar freak OF
nature in the orchard of L. M. Love
in an apple tree full of blossoms.
The fourth annual exhibit of the
Southwest Washington Fair associa-
ton is being held at the grounds
between Chehalis and Centralia.
Dharm Singh, Hindoo, aged II, of
Vancouver, and Miss Mary Woods, a
negro-NSexican, aged rs, of Seattle,
were awarded a marriage license at
Seattle.
Pinned beneath his overturned car
after a plunge over 20-foot embank-
ment at Wenatchee, F. w. Shultz,
well-known Spokane banker, suffered
painful injuries.
Clinton w. Howard of Bellingham,
recess appointee of President Taft,
took up his duties as federal Judge,
succeeding Judge c. H. Hartford, on
Tuesday, October 1.
Near Auburn an engine attached to
freight train on the Chicago, Mil
waukee & Puget Sound railway, ex-
ploded killing the engineer, fireman,
conductor and brakeman.
In DR.. Nena Jolicon Croake, one of
the city's leading clubwomen, Tacoma
has the first woman candidate for the
state legislature in Pierce county, and
in the state, so far as known.
Suit has been brought by the attor-
ney general in the King county super
3 ior court against the Tolt Logging
company to collect sos contribution
on it's payroll to the state accident
fund.
The newly elected Democratic state
central committee met at Seattle and
chose Hugh C. Todd, of Seattle, as
chairman. He will have direct charge
of the management of the state cam
paign.
At Seattle Lewis Tenney, pattern
maker, shot and killed his divorced
wife, then killed himself, while their
14-year-old son was pelting the father
with rocks in an attempt to prevent
the tragedy.
UNFOLDING the ruling of the state
public service commission, Superior
Judge yesterday gave a decision at
Tacoma fixing railroad rates to Spok-
ane from Tacoma, identical with those
from Seattle to Spokane.
While no definite date has been set
for the formal dedication of the new
Chehalis passenger depot, plans are
under way for it's being held next
month at the same time as the annual
banquet of the Citizens Club.
The next day after Staying his In
shoreman at Tacoma, pleaded guilty
to murder in the second degree. Olsen
tried to kill himself, and failing, beg
ged the officers to end his life.
E. w. Andrews, president of the Sc
attic National bank, and Joseph Furth,
R. V. Ankeny and Daniel Kelleher, di-
rectors, are charged in information
| filed in the superior court of aiding
and abetting the failure of w. E.
Schricker & Co., private bankers of
| La Conner.
Kittitas valley sheep, $4,000, valued
at more than $250,000, made their an
nual fall pilgrimage from the United
States forest reserves in the Cascade
mountains to the winter ranges on
the Columbia river. The government
decreed that all of the sheep must be
out of the forest reserve by October 1.
One child is dead, another near
death and three are critically i'll at
the home of J. Sledge, near Ephrata,
the result of eating pork from two
hogs that had been found dead in
pasture. Mrs. Sledge explains that
the whole family ate of the pork,
thinking the hogs had been kicked to
death.
Upon the request of Mrs. R. G.. Nc
Creole, president of the State FEEDER
alton of Women's Clubs; Governor
Hay has revoked the conditional par
don granted Maud Myrtle Johnson,
who was convicted of obtaining money
under false pretenses by taking" an
injury and suing the Northern Pacific
Railway company to recover.
Mrs. Kate Young of Olympia has
been delegated to take charge of or
ganizing the women of Thurston coun-
ty for President William H. Taft. She
will devote her energies to organizing
the women in the various precincts
and predicts that at the November
election Thurston county women will
cast a large vote for President Taft.
1t is announced at Republican state
headquarters that the nomination of
Mrs. Josephine Preston of Walla
Walla as superintendent of schools
Is assured over A. S. Barrows of Seat