The Newport miner. [volume] (Newport, Wash.) 1899-current, 1909-10-28
SHORT NEWS NOTES.

The lone highwayman who robbed
the Vinton hotel, at Vinton, Cal, was
found in a barn near the scene OF
the trouble, dead.
According to the figures OF the in
ternal revenue commissioner, more
whiskey is being Withdrawn from the
bonded warehouses throughout the
country than ever before.
The worlds automobile record OF
64.44 miles an hours was beaten in
the Portola automobile races at Oak
land, Cal. The winning car sustained
an official average time of o4.51 miles
per hour.
The police of Colorado Springs have
been asked to look for VIM. c. Lilley,
wealthy retired church and temper
ance worker of Pittsburg, who disap-
peared on the day set for his mar
rage, and who is believed to have
come to that city, where he has rel
atives.
Charged with the murder of Thos.
Patton, a rival in love, in Hendricks,
KY, p years ago, Alexander McFar-
land was arrested last week in Hunt
ington, Va.
Edward A. Jones, who founded the
Metropolitan Life Insurance Com
pany, died at East Orange, N. J., at
the age of IS years.
The Spanish cabinet formed Janu-
airy Is, 1907, under the premiership
of Antonio Maura, has resigned as
result of the bitter attacks made
against the government by EXPIRE
mier Moret Pendergast.
Because he was asked to pay $lU
| for plate at the luncheon that will
be given to President Taft on the oc-
casion of his visit to Columbia, S. c.,
November f, Senator Tillman has de-
clined to attend and says that he may
not serve on the reception committee.
The battleship Delaware, the first
American fighting ship of the dread
naught type, made splendid show
ing on her screw Standardization runs
over a measured mile course in Pen
obscot bay, exceeding her speed re-
quirements by nearly knot.
The Tennessee Grand Lodge of the
Independent Order of Oddfellows
adopted a resolution denying men,
bership in the order to dealers in
near-beer and also to men who con-
duct so-called "soft-drink" stands.
The annual report of the Northern
Pacific Railroad Company for the
year ending June 80 last, shows to-
tai operating revenue of sos, 46O,7A.
A $4,000 endowment fund has been
completed by the Woman's National
Missionary Association of the Uni
versalist church.
American capitalists have been
granted concessions in Turkey for
1243 miles of railroad through Ar
menia for an electric line at Patias,
Greece, and for a new railroad in
Honduras.
Gerald Mann, telephone lineman,
seized live wire, was instantly killed
and slid to the foot of pole before
the Mortified gaze of thousands of
Portola sightseers in San Francisco.
Henry Farman, the French aviator,
was awarded the grand prize of $l0,-
600 for the longest flight at the avia-
ton meeting in England. He COW
cred AZ miles in his best attempt.
Great impetus to the movement
for the rapid settlement of the 20o,-
100000 acres of semi-arid lands in
the west and south is expected to be
given by the fourth Dry Farming
Congress, which met in Billings,
Mont, Tuesday for \ session of three
days.
An important meeting Of the foun-
dation for the promotion of industrial
peace will be held in Washington
Thursday of this week.
A covered wagon with six hunters
as occupants toppled over 60-feot
embankment into the canyon of the
Sandy river, near Troutdale. Or, and
while the wagon was utterly demol-
ished, the men escaped with but
minor injuries and the horses were
unhurt. The hunters were saved by
a projecting tree upon which the
wagon caught, easing the fall of men
and steeds