The Newport miner. [volume] (Newport, Wash.) 1899-current, 1909-10-14
SHORT NEWS NOTES.


for loan of Sl25,OOO,OOO in the be-
ginning of 1910 to cover deficits.
Miss Campbell of Scotland won the
woman's golf championship of the
United States by defeating Mrs. R.
II. Barlow of Merton, Pa.
Four small Minneapolis boys found
a can of powder on dump. They
poured gasoline over and touched a
match, seriously injuring all four.
Yale university's 2Ooth year opened
with a falling off in the Vumber of
freshmen entering and decrease in
the number of students in attendance.
Hotels throughout Kansas are clos
ing rapidly, and unless the provisions
OF the new fire escape statute are
overlooked many of the smaller
towns will be without hostelries.
The New York Legislature League,
composed of progressive women, has
decided by resolution that it is not
incumbent upon a married woman to
use her husbands name
Cholera threatens to become seri-
Gus epidemic in Seoul, Corea The
palace of the emperor has been in
vaded and the home of the resident
general has not been immune.
Seattle celebrated the last Sunday
of the A.-Y.-P. Exposition with an
attendance of 3O,253, bringing the to-
tai attendance since the fair opened
up to 3,555,57O.
A report is current that the Stand
ard Oil Company has purchased nine
of the leading oil properties of the
Kern River (Cal.) oil fields for more
than $5,OOO,OOO.
Mrs Eliza Meeker, wife of Ezra
Meeker, who recently retraced the
"Old Oregon TRAIL" died at her home
in Puyallup, Wash, last week, aged
rs years.
Seventeen persons were killed, ten
of them Mexican 1aborers, and ten
severely injured in collision between
a Santa Fe construction train and a
regular freight at Topeka, Kansas.
An inquiry has been inaugurated
into the cost to the railroad COM
panies of transporting the mails, for
which the companies receive annually
from the government $5O,O0O,OOO
Between 1000 and 5000 natives were
drowned during a hurricane which
swept over the Yucatan coast and is
lands off that section Of the Mexican
mainland. Most of the victims were
poor fishermen.
A cut of 10 per cent in salaries of
all Chicago officials and employees of
the city from the mayor down, has
been agreed upon by Mayor Busse
and department heads for the next
year.
More than 100000 prairie dogs have
been killed by J. W. Holman. the Of
hcially recognized United States gov
eminent poisoner of the pests in the
Southwestern states. during the last
eight months.
T. p O'Connor. M P, will sail
soon for the United States. at the re-
quest of John E. Redmond the Irish
leader, TO explain the political situa-
ton to the supporters of the Irish
cause in America and to appeal for
funds to carry on the struggle for
home rule.
After a search of his former rooms
in Boston and his recent quarters at
Monterey, CAL. the literary executors
of Charles Warren Stoddard has dis
covered that the author of the South
Sea Isle" had burned all the manu-
script of unpublished as we'll as of
published poems, the day before his
death.
Workmen engaged in tearing down
the old Owen county Cnd.) court
house found gallon jug of whiskey
buried in the foundation stones. The
Jug was sealed with sealing wax and
bore on one side a discolored paper
label inscribed: "Deposited by Joseph
Free1and, 1926; distilled in Owen
county, 1928"
Director of Census Dana Durand
believes that college students will
make excellent census enumerators,
and he proposes to suggest that edu-
cational institutions give leaves of abb
sence in April next to such students
as may care to join the army of $4,000
enumeratOrs.