The Newport miner. [volume] (Newport, Wash.) 1899-current, 1909-12-30
HAPPENINGS OF INTEREST
CONDENSED FOR READERS

Admiral George Dewey celebrated
his seventy second birthday Sunday
Never before in the history OF
railroads has there been such heavy
Christmas travel.
A o2-pound mince pie, creation
of the Newark, n J., Pie Bakers
Association, was presented to Presl-
dent Taft for Christmas.
The scarcity of elephants in Cuba
has caused a Cuban planter to re-
fuse to accept a shipment of ma
chinery delivered to his order by
a New York manufacturer.
Railways in Western Canada have
made joint arrangements tor a gilt
of 100000 for worlds fair IN
Winnipeg, provided it is postponed
until 1914.
Owing to the coal mining strike
in Australia in which 1900 miners
are engaged, $4,000 more men have
been thrown out of employment and
"a steamers are tied up there.
The board OF governors Of the
Explorers Club voted that DR.. Fred
erick A. Cook be dropped from the
rolls of the club for frauds prac-
ticed on its members and on the
public
Joseph E. Austin, of the United
States steamship South Dakota, was
dismissed from the naval service be-
cause he married in violation of an
order issued during the Roosevelt
administration
Edward Payson Weston, the aged
pedestrian, is planning to walk from
Los Angeles to New York, starting
January %. He hopes to establish
new record for the trip.
Declared to have no equal as a
frst-class fighting machine, the bat
t1eship Utah, the greatest warship
ever built in the United States, has
been launched at Philadelphia.
Any person of good judgment,
who has received an ordinary COM
mon school education. can readily
pass the test to be given applicants
for census enumerators on Saturday,
February 5.
After % years separation, in which
time both married and were left
alone by death, E. R. Pulford,
Sacramento, Cal, merchant will
soon rewed his former wife and be-
gin life anew.
The entire west and northwest
from Winnipeg to the lower tier of
Illinois counties, along the Ohio
river, are hard and fast in the grip
of the storm king.
According to the present official
program the Duke of Connaught,
brother of King Edward, will sue
coed Earl Grey as governor of Cana
da in 1910.
Judge R. S. Lovett, successor OF
E. H. Hartman as head of the
great Hartman system of railways,
has. already taken steps to meet the
effort of the Seattle Commercial
Club to develop the Chinese trade
to that port
George Preston Sheldon, former
president of the Phenix Fire Insur-
ance Company. and accused of de-
falcations from the company of more
than 100000, died in Greenwich,
Conn, Christmas morning.
President Taft, according to pub
lie men who have talked with him
on. the subject, is inclined to await
the decision of the United States
supreme court in the Standard Oil
cases before pressing other prose-
cutions under the Sherman antitrust
law.
About $1OOOOO,OOO is to be spent
by the United States Steel Corpora
ton and its subsidiary companies in
improvements to the steel-making
territory from South Chicago to
Gary, Ind.
Alaskans who are spending the
holidays in Seattle are urging the
candidacy of J. c. Mcbride, of Ju-
neau, for delegate in congress from
the northern district. Mr.. Mcbride
was chairman of the Alaska commits
sion to the A.-Y.-P. Exposition.
Mark Twain's. invalid daughter,
Jean, met death tragically when at
the bath in Redding, Conn. Miss
Clemens died not directly from
drowning, but more through strang-
ulation due to an attach Of eni1.ne,.