The Newport miner. [volume] (Newport, Wash.) 1899-current, 1909-11-11
SHORT NEWS NOTES.

Ben Heney, a brother of Francis
}. Heney of San Francisco, has been
removed, from office as mayor OF
tucson, Arizona, on a charge of re-
moving city records.
Within a few months, public
highway to the top of the famous
Royal Gorge will have been built
and some Of the most rugged and
magnificent scenery in Colorado will
be easily accessible.
The possibility of an Anglo-Ger-
man understanding appears to be
under consideration in high German
circles. Failure to reach such an
understanding heretofore is attribut-
ed to the method adopted by Great
Britain
w. Cameron Forbes, vice-govern-
or general of the Philippines, has
been named by President Taft as
governor general to succeed James
Smith, resigned.
A squash weighing Isl pounds has
been placed on exhibition at the
Chamber of Commerce in Marsh
field, Or There were six other
squashes on the vine, the smallest
of which weighed 60 pounds.
E. A. Ross. professor of sociology
in the Univel sity of Wisconsin, de-
clares that school vacations are a
relic of pioneer days, and that chill
dren should attend school II months
in the year.
DR.. VIM Ames, aged SO years,
died at his home in Fremont, Ohio
He is reported to be the oldest
member of the Elks in the United
States.
A New York magazine has con-
tracted to pay Commander Peary
$4,000 for a story of $4,000 words.
The story of Peary's dash to the
North Pole will be run serially.
John Stuart Kennedy, one Of
Americas little-known rich men,
who died of whooping- cough in his
New York residence, left requests
of more than $25,00OOOO to religious,
charitable and educational institu
tons
After sustaining their lives for
FIVE days by eating lizards and cac-
tus, Ed Lauhr and Jim Reynolds,
prospectors, were rescued near
Reno, Nevada.
The United States government has
offered to purchase a Pacific port
from Peru for coaling station.
Jesse James, Jr., son Of the ia
nous bandit and now living in Kan
sas City, Mo-, was made defendant
in divorce suit filed by his wife.
Refusing to be drawn into the
Cook Peary North Pole controversy,
the state department declined re-
quest that it cable American Minis
ter Egan at Copenhagen permission
to examine the records of Dr. Cook
when they are submitted to that
institution
Judge Cotteral in the United
States district court of Oklahoma,
reaf6rmed his decision that state Of
fcials could not interfere with in
terstate commerce shipments Of
liquor before they had been deliv-
cred to the consignees.
Because it is alleged prisoners in
the Texas prisons and on the state
convict farms were whipped to death
or shot by their guards. special
session of the legislature will be
called to enact measures reforming
the whole convict system.
The Dominion government as
sembled at Ottawa Thursday. The
principal measure the government
will present during the session will
be a bill concerning the creation of
Canadian navy and the participa
ton of Canada in imperial defense.
For the first time in the % years
of its existence the American Fed
Grafton of Labor has crossed the
border line of the United States, and
beginning Monday, will hold its an
nual convention in Canada
The government of the United
States has taken steps to correct the
ill-treatment which the government
of Honduras is charged with hav-
ing accorded A. R. Miller, an Amer
lean citizen, who has business inter-