The Newport miner. [volume] (Newport, Wash.) 1899-current, 1909-09-02
SHORT NEWS NOTES.


Slxry-fve million bushels of wheat,
3o,OO0,0OO bushels of oats and IS
100000 bushels of barley is the ex-
tent OF the grain crop predicted for
washington, Idaho and Oregon this
season by millers and bankers who
have made close study of the sit
uation in the three states.
The Swedish Cabinet has refused
10 arDltrate the labor dispute. Gov
eminent returns show that 2Ol.O89
persons are still on strike.
State troopers mounted guard last
night at the plant of the Pressed
Steel Car Company in Schoenville,
where $500 employees are on strike.
The proposal to extend the pri-
mary law to other cities and counties
should it prove successful in the
cities of the first-class to which it
now applies, is destined to meet
with determined opposition in the
INDIANA legislature.
Harry l. Kingston, representing
the Philadelphia Press, has COM
pleted arrangements for relay race
with President Taft across the con-
tinent. Kingston will leave the
Quaker City when the President does
and, using different automobiles on
each stage of his journey, will carry
greetings from Taft to Governor Hay
of Washington
1t has been officially announced
at Toxic that an armored Japanese
cruiser will sail September Is for
San Francisco, to take part in the
naval pageant during the celebration
of. POrtola's discovery of the Golden
Gate, which viii be held October
1928
The American Federation Of Labor
has been informed that at the con-
vention of the British Trades Union
congress, to be held in Ipswich. Eng
land, during the first week of Sep
TENDER, President Gompers of the
American Federation of Labor in
tends to suggest movement for the
formation of an International Labor
federation, with a membership of
from 100000 to 10, 100000 in the
old and new worlds.
Mrs Theodore Roosevelt, her
children, Archie, Quentin and Ethel,
Ambassador White and wife, Mrs
William Rockefeller, and host of
other Americans saw Glenn H. Cur
tiss, the unassuming aviator Of Ham,
mondsport, N. Y. win the blue rib
bon event of the worlds greatest
meeting of aeroplane artists.
Capitalization of the combined
Chicago by the erection of group
of 80 buildings to cost approximately
S., 100000 and the abolition of the
"sweatshop' by the building OF
homes, clubhouses, libraries and
gymnasiums for $500 employees is
the plan launched by the Chicago
Garment Manufacturers association.
The statement of the clearing
house banks of the City of New York
for the week ending August %
showed an increase of 1851 900 in
loans, a decrease of 81, 100 in
cash, a slight decrease of $649, 400
in deposits and an increase Of $780,
900 in circulation.
Testimony showing that the city
of Montreal has lost millions of dol
lars in contract work and that off,
cial positions of all kinds have been
bought and sold for years, has been
brought out by the investigation into
the city's civic affairs, begun by the
provincial government several weeks
ago.
The crow Indians will receive
s1555.25O next year for the grazing
privileges on their land in Montana,
instead of $4,000. obtained for the
same purpose this year.
w. J. White, inspector of Domin-
ion immigration agencies in the Uni
ted States, predicts that. $4,000 i'm
migrants will come this year from
the United States to Canada.