The Newport miner. [volume] (Newport, Wash.) 1899-current, 1909-09-23
SHORT NEWS NOTES.

The employees of the Omaha &
Council Bluffs Street Railway Com
pany have voted to walk out. All
lines in both cities are tied up.
The Boston Chamber of Commerce
has adopted resolutions condemnlng
the proposed Spokane freight rates
and has voted to send delegates to
the hearing at Spokane September
%. The Chamber will file at once
petition of intervention at Washing
ton.
At the closing session Of the Amer
lean Bankers Association convention
in Chicago, resolutions condemnlng
in strong terms both guaranty de-
post laws and the establishment OF
postal savings banks were adopted.
In criticising these two propositions.
Arthur Reynolds, of Des Moines, Ia,
chairman of the Federal legislative
committee. referring to the postal
savings banks, declared that the
danger of the political use of such
a power should cause all patriotic
men to hesitate before adopting such
radical measure
1t is understood the PostOffice De-
partment will try to find out why
the offer of the Santa Fee road to put
on a new mail train to run on So
hour schedule between Kansas City
and Los Angeles was withdrawn.
Just as the Government was about
to accept the offer of the Santa Fe,
it was withdrawn and no reason was
assigned
Mrs Edward T. Hartman, who,
by the terms of her husbands will,
was left all his property, probably
becomes the. worlds richest woman.
She is expected to ask for an official
appraisement of the fnancier's es-
tate within two weeks. Until this
appraisement is made nothing def
mite will be known as to the amount
of wealth accumulated by Hartman,
but in Wall street it is the common
opinion that it will be close to
O0,OOO,OOO.
More money was added to the
reclamation fund during the last
year than any year since the recla-
nation law was passed, save 1908.
Receipts from the sale of public
lands last year exceeded those of all
previous years, save 1908. The total
receipts for the year ending June 80,
1909, amounted to $11,627,687. OF
this amount it is estimated that ap-
proximately sS,5O0,00O will be
turned into the reclamation fund.
After having warned the neigh
borhood that unless three white men
in the strictly negro town OF Taft,
Okla, left town Immediately, death
would follow, negroes dynamited the
store of the one of the whites. The
building was partially demolished.
The Irish land bill introduced in
Parliament on March 80 by August
inc Birrell, Chief Secretary for Ire
land, passed through it's final stage
in the House of Commons by a vote
of ia to 81. The House of Lords
probably will pass the measure after
modifying the clause regarding COM
pulsory ACQUISITION of lands.
Official announcement has been
made of the appointment of Y. Uchi-
da, ex-Ministar of Foreign Affairs
and now Ambassador to the Court
Of Austria, tC succeed Baron K. Ia
kahira, japanese Minister to Wash
ington.
Rival propositions to carry the
mails from Chicago to Seattle in Sc
hours have been submitted by the
Great Northern Railroad company
and by the Chicago, Milwaukee &
st. Paul railroad. This would clip
16 hours off the present schedule for
the 1900 miles. The threatened
speed war has for it's reward the
four-year contract for carrying the
overland mail from Chicago for the
Puget Sound country, Alaska ano
transpacific ports and from Chicago
TO St. Paul and Minneapolis.