The Newport miner. [volume] (Newport, Wash.) 1899-current, 1912-05-09
WASHINGTON BRIEFLETS

monia at the family residence Friday.
L. F. Chester, prominent attorney
of Spokane, has announced his cand1-
dacy for governor of Washington on
the Democratic ticket.
The senate has confirmed the nom
nation of Edward e. Cushman OF Ia
coma as United States district judge
for western Washington, to succeed
Judge Donworth, resigned.
The Lincoln County Editorial Asso-
citation has decided to call meeting
at Davenport for May Is, the same
day representatives of the commercial
clubs of towns in the county assemble
there.
President A. ]. Earring Of the Mil
waukee system was in Tacoma this
week and stated that work would soon
begin ON a new passenger depot In
that city planned on million dollar
scale.
David P. Belvill. Of Raymond, after
kissing his 10-months-old baby at the
home of his wife's mother at Cascade
Locks, stepped to an adjoining room
and committed suicide by swallowing
strychnine.
The strike of the workmen in the
sawmills of Aberdeen has been de-
clared off and the strikers authorized
to go back to work. Wages Of COM
mon laborers have been increased
from $3.50 and 50 to $2.25 day.
Six policewomen are now attached
to the Seattle police department and
are wearing the star of authority. The
work of one is in the humane depart
ment while the efforts of the others
are devoted to juvenile and rescue
work.
Miss Dean Rice, aged 20, a seam
stress, who was pinned under a big
automobile, which was overturned
while carrying joyride party at Seat
tie, has died. Ray H. Batchelder, the
chauffeur, is in Jail charged with reck-
less driving.
Alleged illegal expenditures of near
iy $4,000 are reported by state exam
iners who have been checking up the
books Of Whitman county. The report
covers the period from January 1,
1907, to January 1, 1912, and has been
lied with the attorney general.
Postal savings banks will be opened
June 1 at the following fourth class
postoffioes: Bickleton, Bridgeport,
Cathlamet, Centerville, Douglass, Eat
onville, Ilwaco, La Center, Lyle, Nor
ton, Naches, Randle, Skamokawa,
Stevenson, Toledo, Wilkeson and va
colt.
The dead body of Miss Julia Grant
Daily, daughter Of the late John D.
Daily, of Corvallis and Portland, was
found on the ground beneath the win
dow of her room in hotel in Seattle
She had evidently leaped or fallen
from the window of her room in the
fifth story.
With record percentage of lambs
in most of the bands of sheep, with
exceptional forage all winter, and the
best grazing on the range at this time
of year, the outlook for the stockman
Of the Yakima valley Is quite as bright
IS that Of the fruitman, with his full
-blossomed trees.
An order Of the railroad commission
Of Washington directing the O.-W. r.
& N. company to put in switches con-
Meeting with other railroads in eastern
Washington has been set aside by the
United States supreme court, the high
er court holding that present traffic
does not justify the order.
The Seattle, Renton & Southern
railway has been placed in the hands
OF a receiver on the petition of VIII
liam R. Crawford, it's president, who
charges August S. Peabody, trustee,
and other financial interests with con.
spiracy to deprive him of $1,000, 900
worth of stock In the company.
The power schooner Silver Wave.
the first cargo-carrying vessel to sail
for Boring Sea ports this season, left
Seattle for Nome loaded with fresh
vegetables and fruit, with which to
replenish the larders In the homes of
the Boring Sea metropolis that have
become depleted during the long win
ter months.
G. A. Carlson & Co., Spokane rail-
road contractors, have secured the
contract for construction of IS miles
OF railroad on the Kettle Valley lines
west Of Penticton B. c.. and will com
mence work Immediately. It is sx.
pected that 1900 men will be employ.
ed on the job and work will extend
to the first OF: the year.
With 20 men aboard the codfishinx
schooner Joseph Russ, which left Sc,
attic April |, is lying battered wreck
on Chirikof island in the north Pacific.
The vessel went nerth in command