The Newport miner. [volume] (Newport, Wash.) 1899-current, 1909-12-02
HAPPENINGS OF INTEREST
CONDENSED FOR READERS

A free medical dispensary for the
poor will be opened at Portland in
the near future.
A new memorial to George Wash
ington is planned by the George
| Washington Memorial Association,
which has just been organized in
New York City.
More than $6O,00O0O0 worth of
American merchandise was carried
by rail across the Isthmus of Pan
anna and Tehuantepec in the fiscal
year 1909, and in the calendar year,
which ends with next month, the
total probably will reach $75,00O,0O0.
Anti-saloon men from all parts of
the country are preparing to move
on Chicago in force The campaign
for local option i'll the western me
tropolis will begin in earnest when
the biennial convention of the Ma
tional Anti Saloon League meets the
first week in December
The United Mine Workers of
| America will attempt to raise $780,
600 as a permanent relief fund for
| the widows and orphans of the vic
TINS of the Cherry Hill mine dis
aster. 1t is estimated that 1000 chill
dren have been made orphans.
Cattle "rustlers" are getting so
bold in northern Mexico, that
droves of from 40 to 100 head of
cattle are being driven off almost
daily from the large ranches.
With every available man from
the sheriff's Office, aided by the
Great Falls. Mont, police depart
ment, at work on the grave robbery
case in which the body of the baby
son Of fairfield Conrad, a Montana
millionaire. was stolen from its last
resting place, there is no apparent
progress in tracing the ghouls.
Frank Jay Gould. the multi-mill-
ionaire, who was but recently di-
vorced from Helen Kelley Gould,
has been sued for 100000 by a
young dancing girl.
The Denver mint which was shut
down last July because of surplus
of all denominations of gold coins
will open the first of the year with
between $8,0OO,OOO and $20.OOO.0O0 in
gold bullion on hand, which will at
once be coined into money of small
denominations.
Measured by actual tonnage in
service, the United States ranks Sec
ond among the nations of the world;
Great Britain alone surpasses this
country.
H. O. Blaisdell, of New York,
made new worlds typewriter rec
ord, writing 1904 words from copy
he had not seen before in IS min
utes The previous high record was
o5 words a minute.
The Portland FIGURING Mills Com
pany has been awarded by the in
terror department the contract to
furnish the Indian schools and
agencies of the Northwest and as
far south as Arizona the -four for
the present fiscal year. The con-
tract calls for the delivery of more
than 100000 pounds to flour
Three hundred Americans sat
down to a Thanksgiving dinner in
Exposition Park, Germany, where
the American Exposition will be
held next year.
Mrs. Theodore Roosevelt and her
daughter, Miss Ethel, have returned
from an extended trip to Europe.
For the first time in the history
of the United States Naval Acade-
my, midshipmen will have the use
next summer of three battleships for
their annual practice cruise.
Officers of the United States Sig
nal Corps are preparing to install
wireless telegraph on the army aero
plane. 1t will send and receive 80
miles
With the testimony of Squire c.
Chezum, the session in Seattle of
the governments inquiry into the
validity OF the. Cunningham coal
land entries have closed and the in
ouiry will be resumed in Spokane
Thursday
The Oregon State Equal Suffrage
Association celebrated its Goth an
niversary in Portland, Tuesday.
A special commission will be sent
by the United States to Central
America to take up the question of
developing a situation for insuring