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

1t is reported that Mrs. Roosevelt
has engaged a house at Khartoum.
Egypt, where she will meet her hus-
band when he comes out of the
jungles.
A verdict OF not guilty was
brought in by the jury in the case OF
Thomas Broadhead. ex-Chief OF PO-
lice OF Los Angeles, charged with
having accepted brides to protect re-
sorts in the old restricted districts.
Mayor Franklin P Story. of At
lartic City, was arrested on a war
rant charging him with ignoring an
order of State Acknowledgement Will
son, which notit1ed the Mayor to en-
force the law against Sunday selling
of liquor
William Clyde Fitch, known TO
playgoers in every part OF the world
as Clyde Fitch, the successful Anne
rtcan playwright, died, following an
operation for appendicitis. Mr.. Fitch
had been spending the summer mo-
toring through Germany and was en-
route to Paris when seized.
F. J. Heney. prosecuting attorney
in the bribary-graft cases In San
Francisco, and who is candidate
for District Attorney, upon his re-
turn froE1 an extended vacation in
Alaska, received an ovation at a
local theater, which was packed to
the doors with friends and support
ers of Heney and the graft prose-
cution.
W. j. Bryan narrowly escaped in
jury at Springfield. Mo-. when a
motor car, in which he was being
taken to make an address. got be-
yond control. going down steep
hill. The brake broke, but the car
was stopped just on the edge OF an
embankment.
Isaac Brock, of Waco, Tex, who
claimed to have seen 26 Presidents
elected, is dead at an age said to be
l21 years. According to Brooks
family Bible and other documents.
he was born in Buncombe County.
North Carolina. March /. 1888
The full return OF prosperity to
the railroads Of the United States
is evidenced in reports just published
of the: gross earnings of rs roads for
the first half OF August. For the
first time since the panic OF 1907 the
aggregate weekly gross earnings ex-
coed the high. records reached in
August. 1907:
Sir hundred tons Of barnacles
have been taken from the bottom
of the armored cruiser South Dako-
t. SAT the Mare island Navy-Yar
making the vessels hull rise four
and d half inches from the water.
The barnacles fastened themselves
to the ships bottom during Il recent
trip 70 the South Sea Islands.
The Legislative act prohibiting
wholesale as we'll as retail sale Of
liquor in the State OF Tennessee was
upheld except as regards sales for
shipment outside Of the state. in an
opinion handed down IN Chancery
Court at Chattanooga by Chancellor
T. NJ Mcconnell
The awards OF the contracts for
the TWO American dreadncughts Of
$4,000 tons each. the battleships
Wyoming and Arkansas, will be
made to William Cramp & Sons. OF
Philadelphia. and the New York
Shfpbuilding Company. at Camden.
N j.
William r. Hearst. at a meeting
Of. the Independence party's county
committee in New York. declared
that he was prepared to use all his
power Ia an effort to defeat Tam
many at the approaching municipal
election He announced himself as
favoring fusion with the various an
ti-Tammany organizations ii be were
satisfied that the organizations, were
loyal in general to the principles of