The Newport miner. [volume] (Newport, Wash.) 1899-current, 1910-03-17
HAPPENINGS OF INTEREST
CONDENSED FOR READERS

At meeting at Eureka, Cal. OF
representatives of practically all OF
the shingle mills of the redwood belt
of this state it was decided to organ
iZe a selling association which will
work for the expansion of the red
wood single market On the Pacific
Coast
The Northwest Corporation. which
water and ele,-tric light and power
plants in Oregon and Washington, has
been sold to H. NJ Byliesbv & Co.,
of Chicago, one Of the largest pro-
motion houses in the country.
Suicide by shooting caused The death
of Thomas Mex Laughlin. broiher-in-
law of Mrs. Taft. wife OF President
Taft.
The price of live hogs reached the
$11 level at Chicago last week
After a worldwide search Of %
years, Mrs. Annie Lowe. OF Butte,
Mont, has: found her son. William
Vaughn, an invalid, In hospital at
Ell Paso. Texas.
The Indian appropriation bill, car
rying $9,416.11S. an excess of more
than million dollars over the total
carried by the bill as it passed the
House, was passed by the Senate.
Phe Military Academy bill. carry
ing appropriations of $1,70O.00O, was
passed by the House, and considera-
ton was begun of the executive and
judicial appropriation bill, which
carries nearly $s4,oo0,Ooo.
Francis J. Heney is in Washington,
where it is stated that he will con-
suit with Acknowledgement Wicker
sham in regard to the Oregon land
fraud cases in which he has been
acting as special prosecutor.
About e2,oso acres in Oregon were
placed under the enlarged homestead
act by the Department, bringing the
total in that state designated for set.
Element under that act to $4,000
acres
. Representatives of Oregon and
Washington apple-growers who have
been before the committee On agri-
| culture in opposition to the Lafean
apple-box bill express entire satisfac-
ton with the facts developed at the
hearing, and feel confident the bill
cannot pass in its present obnoxious
FORM
The lands in Idaho, withdrawn un-
der the first form OF the exclamation
act in 1904, 1907 and 1908 for use in
connection with the Minidoka irriga-
ton project. will be restored to set
tlement, with the exception of about
s44 acres along the Snake River.
The ship subsidy bill is apparently
dead, SO far as the present session is
concerned and the same is probably
true of the short session next Win
ter. The bill is killed by its friends.
A sharp earthquake, in some parts
the severest shock since the big
earthquake of 1906, was experienced
/ through the central part of California
last week.
Charles E. Hunter, commander of
the organization of Rough Riders, has
issued a call for every member OF
the regiment to meet in New York
City. June Is, to join in the welcome
that will be accorded the ex-Presi-
dent on his arrival from Europe. The
Rough Rider veterans number about
500 and Hunter believes every one
of them will go to New York.
Coal operators in the Northern Col
orado fields have announced to the
miners that rather than accede to the
demand of the organized miners they
will be forced to close. They base
their reply on the new rate rulings of
the Interstate Commerce Commission
approximately 100000 corporations
amenable to the law imposing tax
Of l per cent On their net incomes
above $4,000 have made returns to the
Internal Revenue Bureau.
The American Legation at Bogota
is being strictly guarded, as the feel
ing against the Americans is intense,
following the rioting which accom-
panied the recent demonstrations
against the American-owned street
railway.