The Newport miner. [volume] (Newport, Wash.) 1899-current, 1910-01-06
HAPPENINGS OF INTEREST
CONDENSED FOR READERS

The deficit of the last year in the
postal revenues of the United States
amounts to Sl7,44l71e
The Australian legislature has
voted 100000 for assisted passages
tor immigrants
1t IS now proposed that congress
appropriate $4,000 annually to main
tain box for the president and
Mrs. Taft at the grand opera.
Mrs. J. G. Turk. of Vernon, Cal,
is holding at bay the Union Oil
Company, which is seeking to lay
pipe line across her property.
Mayor Mccarthy of San Francisco
has announced that he will make a
clean sweep of all the commissions
of that city
Cable advices report 4 violent
earthquake in the French island OF
Martinique. Mount Pelee, volcano
on the island, is reported active.
More than Sal 100000 in interest
and dividends for the last six months
were distributed to Boston people
the first of the year.
Mrs. Russell Sage has donated
100000 to Yale University to meet
the entire cost of securing so acres
of land
The seventh annual meeting OF
the Western Retail Lumbermen's
Association will be held in Portland
February IA to 10.
The new law against the manu-
facture of intoxicants became effec-
tive January l, and for the first
time in the history of Tennessee it
is against the law to manufacture
liquors in the state
A California syndicate has just
signed contract with the Japanese
government to deliver 100000 bar
rels of California oil yearly for the
next ten years.
The wet" forces of Lincoln, Neb.,
are laying their plans for an active
campaign looking to the re-cstab-
lishment of saloons when the refer
endum is taken early in the spring.
Officers of the American Fedora
ton of Labor have issued call Oh
its l,54A000 members to subscribe
to a fund with which to wage q
fight on the steel trust.
Western railroads are engaged in
dispute regarding reduced rates of
all kinds during 1910, and the first
of the year finds the policy of the
roads underlined.
Ray Lamphere. convicted slayer of
Mrs. Belle Guinness, of Indiana
murder farm notoriety, and her
children, died of tuberculosis in the
Michigan City penitentiary.
Nearly one-6fth of the saloons in
Omaha closed permanently the first
of the years as result of the law
passed by the late legislature COM
pelling all saloons in the state to
close at 8 o'clock in the evening.
The value OF the mineral output
of Alaska for 1909 was $40, 2O0,0
Alaska has produced since 1880,
when mining first began, $168, 600, O00
of which all except 100000 has
been gold.
A central bank that would abso-
lutely be beyond the control of the
Wall street interests is an impos-
sibility, according to Prof. Sprague,
of Harvard University, one of the
best informed students of the sci
ence of finance in America.
During the past year not less than
II railroads and industrial corpora
tons have increased their rates OF
dividends. involving total annual
disbursement of approximately $20,-
100000 more than was paid to hold
ers Of these securities last year.
Mrs: Ella F. Young, supcrinten-
dent of the Chicago public schools,
has been elected president of the
r,,;-o:e c+"+a Teachers Association.
This is the first time in the history
OF ;nc ssociation that woman has
been chosen for the head of the
association
Driven by the pressure of an ice
jam, the false work of the Mckinley
bridge across the Mississippi river
at St. Louis went out Sixty-nine
men were thrown into the river.
Forty of these were rescued by tugs;
of the others, it is possible that at
least some may have escaped over
the foes to the shore.