The Newport miner. [volume] (Newport, Wash.) 1899-current, 1910-01-27
HAPPENINGS OF INTEREST
CONDENSED FOR READERS

Sacra,nento's public library is soon
to be converted into q city JAN
Mayor James c. Dahlmann, OF
Omaha, has announced his candidacy
for governor OF Nebraska.
Harry K. Thaw, slayer OF Stan
ford White, has been declared
bankrupt.
Heavy losses OF sheep are re-
ported ;n Wyoming because OF the
lack of food
The senaae committee on irrigation
will report a bill providing for
$3O,OOGOOO bond issue to complete
irrigation projects.
A vigilance committee has been
organized in Wyoming to capture
gang that is Strengthening elk Tor
their teeth
The North Pacific Conference OF
the Seventt.sDay Adyentists will be
held in Portland from February IL
to 20.
A national aviation circuit, some
what on the order Of the big Dase-
ball organizations, may be the re-
suit of a conference to be held at
81. LOUIS next month.
Arthur Goebel, who carried on
hunt for ten years for the slayers
of his brother, VIM Goebel, gov
.ernor of Kentucky, died in Phoenix,
Arizona.
Despite the denials of Eastern rail-
roads, prominent shippers in the
west and in Chicago believe that the
railroads are paving the way for
Z general rate increase.
Thomas Taggart, Democratic ma
tional committeeman from Indiana,
while hunting in Mississippi was shot
in the eye and will lost the sight
of that optic.
Rewards aggregating $500 have
been offered for the arrest and con-
viction of the outlaws who held up
and robbed a Missouri Pacific train
last week near Eureka, Mo. They
secured approximately $4,000
United States shipyards have won
a notable victory against European
competition in securing contracts for
building two battleships of the
"Dreadnaught" type for the Argen-
tine government.
Following more thorough search
of the wreck Of the Canadian Pa
cifc's Montreal Minneapolis express,
which plunged over an embankment
into the Spanish river, it is estimated
that between IS and 40 persons lost
their lives
The finance division of the Pana-
maPacihc exposition committee at
San Francisco has launched a cam
spaign for $5,OOO,OOO, which its mem
lbers declare must be raised before
the government appropriation can be
assured
January dividends in stocks of
nearly all the great corporations of
the country have been reported as
the largest on record-$202,032,6O 2.
and it is predicted the next July
dividends will be quite as large, if
not larger
An agreement is understood to
have been reached by the National
Sugar Company and federal prosecu-
tors, by which the company soon
will refund $65OOOO to the govern
ment as settlement in full of back
customs due on underweighed impor-
tations
A decision by Judge Hough in
the United States court quashing the
indictment against F. Augustus
Helnze, hnaneer and promoter, has
given renewed hope to friends and
counsel of Chas W. Morse, the
banker now serving a term of IS
years in the federal prison at At
,lanta, Ga.
The Canadian conservation confer
enee, held in Ottawa last week, has
developed q sentiment in favor of
the prohibition Of all pulp wood ex-
port, which may have a serious ef-
feet on the situation now existing
between Canada and the United
States.
Paul 0. Steusland, ex-president of
the Milwaukee Avenue State po,,L
of Chicago. and H. W. Herring, form
eerly its cashier, who were convicted
in connection with the wrecking of
the bank and the disappearance of