The Newport miner. [volume] (Newport, Wash.) 1899-current, 1909-11-18
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AT least ESQ miners were killed
at Cherry, H., Saturday, IN one OF
the worst mine disasters OF history
The Chicago, Milwaukee & st. Paui
railroad owns the mine.
Nine. Margherita Steinheil was
acquitted by a Paris jury OF muir
dering her husband, Adolphe Stem
he'll, noted painter, and her step
mother, Nine. Japy.
Owing to the defamation OF the
fur seal herds the kill on the Bering
Sea rookeries this year was oOO
short of the number permitted by
law, which is $4,000 skins.
Professor J. w. Connaway, of the
University of Missouri, former
resident of Oregon, is said to have
perfected a hog-cholera cure. In
Missouri, where his cure received
its official test, it is estimated that
his discovery will save the farmers
of that state alone over 81, 100000
this year.
Broughton Brandenburg, charged
with enticing James Cabanne, IT,,
away from his home in St. Louis,
was found guilty in the criminal
court and vas sentenced to pay a
fine of $500
Several Seattle capitalists are de-
veloping a large irrigation project
I'D the Columbia between Pasco and
Walla Walla.
The convention of the American
Federation of Labor, at Toronto,
went OH record as favoring woman
suffrage.
Strong representations on the part
of the United States have resulted
in the release by the government OF
Honduras of the American gasoline
| launch Perlas, which was seized and
held at Puerto Cortez.
The Territorial Board of 4n1mi-
grafton will soon send another agent
to Hardin, Siberia, to get Russian
immigrants for Hawaii.
Thousands of wild ducks are dy-
ing near Imperial. Cal, but whether
from disease or poison is not known.
Acres of grain fields are strewn with
dead birds, while others, still living,
are so supplied that they can be
caught by hand
Surgeon-General Wyman, in an
address before the sanitary officers
of New York state, said the United
States is still threatened with in
vasion of plague from India and
other points. He said that San Fran
cisco is now the most sanitary city
in the United States.
In furtherance of his determina-
ton to protect power sites on the
public domain. Secretary Ballinger
has withdrawn from entry 1893 acres
along the Klickitat river, in Wash
ington. and 1894 acres along Clark's
Fork in Idaho and Montana
December wheat on the Chicago
Board of Trade jumped from $1.01
to $l.O7 last week.
VIM. J. Gaynor, mayor-elect of
New York. has filed an election
statement with the secretary Of
state Mr. Gaynor declares and
swears that he did not spend any
money to further his election.
The President has approved the
recommendation of the joint army
and navy board for making Pearl
Harbor, in the Hawaiian islands, the
greatest naval station in the Pacific
Hezekiah Barnes was hanged Fri
day in the Walla Walla penitentiary
| for the murder on April 80, 1908,
of Mrs. Anna Aldrich, 20 years old
Driven to bay by an armed posse,
Earl Bullock, the 17-year-old robber
| of Lawrence, Kan, who twice with
| in the last month robbed the Eu-
dora State Bank, murdered a police
man, shot another man and fatally
wounded himself in an attempt to
commit suicide, died at Eudora, Kan.
Frank Czolgosz, aged 40, an elder
brother of Leon Czolgosz, assassin
of the late President Mckinley, died
| last week at his home II miles
north of Aberdeen, Wash. of heart
| disease He believed his brother
insane at the time of the murder
| of Mckinley
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