The Newport miner. [volume] (Newport, Wash.) 1899-current, 1909-10-07
SHORT NEWS NOTES.

Rear-Admiral w. s. Schley, re-
tired has Cancelled all engagements
for entertainments in New YORK anu
will seek seclusion.
The Lord Mayor Of London has
announced his intention OF opening
a Mansion House fund to ASSIST Gap
tain Robert F. Scott to raise money
for his expedition to plant the union
Jack at the South Pole.
Orders for equipment and power
have just been placed by Hartman
lines which will bring the total ex-
pepditures for this purpose during
the last six months up to fully $lI-
100000.
The Southern Pacific Railroad
Company pleaded guilty in the
United States District Court in San
Francisco to rebating and was hned
$1,000. The maximum penalty IS
$4,000.
A dispatch from Fee says inquiries
show that Ell Roghi, the pretender
to the throne of Morocco, who was
executed at Fee in the middle OF
September, was put to death by Sui
tan Mulai Hafid himself under cir
cumstances of revolving cruelty.
The trial of Patrick Calhoun on
a charge of having offered brlDe 10
a San Francisco supervisor has been
continued until November IS, at the
request of the defense.
Submission of law providing for
statewide prohibition will proba-
ably be an issue in the next session
of the Virginia legislature.
Congressman w. S. Hammond, the
only Democratic congressman from
Minnesota, may become a candidate
to succeed the late Governor John A.
Johnson.
Governor Glasscock of West Vir-
ginia has announced that he Is IN
to the federal constitution, and will
use his influence to have the next
legislature ratify such an amend
ment. An extra session of the legls-
| lature will be called this fall
Experiments with bog peat by ex-
perts of the United States geologi-
cal survey are expected to produce
from the marshes of the United
| States a new fuel to take the place
of the rapidly disappearing coal sup
ply.
A reuuisition was honored by the
Governor of Washington for B. Feis-
ter, wanted in Marion county, Or.
for breaking into a box car ano
stealing a $25 oil lamp.
The Chicago, Milwaukee & st
Paul railroad has ordered ESQ al
steel passenger cars, Of which 16(
are for the western coast extension.
Representatives of II govern
ments are attending the 18th an
nual meeting of the Association o
Military Surgeons in the United
States, now in session in Washing
ton, D. G.
In view of the Polar. controversy
the board of directors of the Nation
al Geographic Society at a specia
meeting to determine the attitude i
should assume toward DR.. Cook OF
the occasion of his visit to Wash
ington, D. c., to deliver lecture Of
his Arctic experiments, decided no
to recognize DR.. Cook in an Offlcla
way.
Mrs. Charles T. Yerkes has fnall
arranged for settlement OF tn
fight over her husbands estate.
is said she will get virtually thir
interest in the value of the estate.
Secretary Dickinson finds nothin
to criticise in the action of Genera
Grant in taking part in a temper
ance and law-enforcing parade i
Chicago in his uniform as Major
General of the United States army.
Tammany' Hall has accepted tn
candidate of the fusion reform OF
ganization for Mayor of New Yor
and has nominated Judge Willial
{ J. Gaynor for Mayor.