The Newport miner. [volume] (Newport, Wash.) 1899-current, 1909-12-23
HAPPENINGS OF INTEREST
CONDENSED FOR READERS

Friday in Brussels
A cougar measuring eight feet
from tip to tip was killed by two
boys near Seaside, Oregon.
Henry L. Wilson, brother Of John
L. Wilson, of Seattle, is to be pro-
NOTED to be ambassador to Mexico.
Edhem Pasha, commander of the
Turkish forces in the Graeco-Turk-
ish war in 1897, died last week in
Cairo, Egypt.
President Taft journeyed from
Washington to WATERFOWL, Conn,
Sunday to attend the funeral of his
brothers wife.
A campaign for the determination
of mosquitoes i'll the great inland
valleys of California is being planned
by the state board of health.
After living in three centuries,
Mrs. Brayne Makedensky, aged lis,
died in Philadelphia. Her oldest
grandson is 20 years Of age.
Five lions, leopard and a variety
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Colonel Roosevelt to the zoo at
Washington. have been received.
Governor Marshall, of Indiana, has
been informally launched as a Demo
cratic candidate for the presidential
nomination in 1912.
One black ball was found in the
ballot box when Colonel Theodore
Roosevelt was elected to member
ship in the Academy of Political
and Moral Science in Paris.
William Watson, the British poet
who came to this country recently,
has disappeared completely. His
brother believes his mind is affected
from stress of overwork
Judge Taylor, acting as arbiter in
the famous Cleveland, Ohio, street
railway dispute decided in favor
of Scent fare with l-ccnt trans
fer
Flax sold at 81 bushel on the
Minneapolis grain market last week,
a record price. According to the
government estimate. Minnesota
and the Dakotas raised 25.W0,00O
bushels OF this grain this year.
A handsome silver loving cup. was
presented to Commander Robert E.
Peary by his fraternity brothers at
the annual banquet of the Delta
Kappa Epsilon Association at the
Hotel Aston New York
The railroad commission of Ten
nessee has launched movement to
secure an amendment to the inter-
state commerce law permitting MEM
bers of railroad commissions to ride
free on the railroads Of the country.
The jury found guilty five of the
six employees of the American Sugar
Refining Company who have been
ON trial for the last three weeks,
charged with criminal conspiracy to
defraud the government of customs
duties on imported sugar.
Attorneys for the Standard Oil
Company of New Jersey, its. sub
salaries and the seven individuals
against whom the government re-
Gently won it's dissolution suit, have
filed an appeal from the adverse
decision of. the federal circuit court
By command of King George of
Tonga, Africa, baker Of Auckland,
New Zealand, has designed and built
a cake for the coming nuptials of
that potentate that weighs 500
pounds and stands eight feet high.
Plans for the confederation of
Costa Rica, Salvador, Guatemala and
Nicaragua are under discussion, fol-
lowing the outlining Of the plan for
the creation Of one government in
Central America, by John Barrett,
director of the Bureau of American
Republics.
Oregon's claim against the federal
government OH account OF its ex-
penditures incurred in raising and
equipping troops during the Civil
war, amounting to $4,000, will be
pressed before the house of repre-
sentatives next month.
Unpleasant references to Ameri-
cans in Zelaya's message resigning
the presidency of Nicaragua having
infamed the lawless element among
his followers. to the extent that
lives of Americans are in danger,
the United States cruiser Buffalo has
been ordered to hurry to Corinto