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The Newport miner. [volume] (Newport, Wash.) 1899-current, 1910-10-06
SPOKANE GREETS DRY
FARMING CONGRESS

Spokane-President Taft in his ex-
ecutive Offices at Beverly, Mass, on
Monday evening at II o'clock, Eastern
time, or 8 o'clock Spokane time,
pressed golden button key that con-
veyed direct to the great armory in
Spokane the signal for the opening
Imme diately following this signal an
operator seated on the platform re-
president to the dry farmers of the
world assembled, and with the read
ing of this the International Dry
Farming Congress band played inter-
national airs and 200 children of the
graded schools of Spokane, arranged
upon the platform in the form of a
living United States flag, sang "Am-
erica" the vast assemblage rising and
joining. The session was called to or
der by Alfred Atkinson, of Montana,
chairman of the board of governors.
Following the invocation by Rev. DR..
William j. Htndley, pastor of Pilgrim
Congregational church, addresses OF
welcome were made by H. w. New
ton, chairman of the local board OF
control; Mayor Nelson S. Pratt, Chas.
81. Fassett, president of the Spokane
chamber of commerce, and Governor
Hay
The Newport miner. [volume] (Newport, Wash.) 1899-current, 1910-10-06
MANY new FACES
IN next CONGRESS

Washington-The sixty-second con-
gress will be almost unacceptable.
Never since the memory of man run
meth not to the contrary have so many
leaders" failed of denomination.
Tawney of Minnesota; Boutell of
Illinois, Gardner of Michigan, Scott of
Kansas, Sparry of Connecticut, Nudd
of Maryland and Huff of Pennsylva-
mia are among a few of the prominent
republicans who will fail to answer the
roll call. Uncle Lou Livingstone is
the most conspicuous of the demo-
cratic absentees.
The situation in the senate will be
as bad If not worse. With Hale, Aid
rich, Burrows, Flint and Piles certain
ly out, and a sure thing that Bever-
1dge, Dick, Depew, Scott, Carter and
number of others may not follow,
the senate after March 4 next will re-
semble~ picked chicken so far as
leaders are concerned. Tho next con-
gress will have a greater proportion
of new statesmen than any congress
has had in recent years.
The Newport miner. [volume] (Newport, Wash.) 1899-current, 1910-10-06
% SAILORS DROWN;
MANY ARE MISSING
Naval Officers Start lnvestiga-
ti0n of Disaster to New
Hampshire's Barge.

New York.-There was given out
from the battleship New Hampshire
a list of 20 men who were supposed
to have persisted by the swapping of
a barge, which was being towed to
the vessel at anchor in the Hudson
River Saturday night. Appended to
this list are names of II men who
are still absent, but who were not
recognized as having been in the
swamped boat.
On board the Louisiana, Admiral
Vreeland convened court of inquiry to
determine the exact cause of the &C
cident and place the responsibility.
Cause Not Yet Known.
Various versions of how the acct
dent occurred are in circulation The
generally accepted one, however, was
that the barge, heavily loaded with
sailors and marines, returning from
shore Ieave, WAS towed into the heavy
swells Of a passing steamer. Rising
for moment like cork, the barge
then plunged into the trough between
two waves, one of which broke over
the side and swamped it.
The Newport miner. [volume] (Newport, Wash.) 1899-current, 1910-10-06
NEWS OF NOTED PERSONS

Virginia Harned-Sothern, the we'll
known actress, has filed suit for d.
vorce against Edward H. Sothern, the
prominent actor. in the district court
at Reno, Nevada. -.
No pardon will be granted to John
r. Walsh, former Chicago banker and
capitalist, who is serving a five-year
sentence in the Leavenworth (Kan)
penitentiary for violation of the bank.
ing laws.
N. G. Broward. ex-governor of Flor
ida, and recently elected to the Unit
ed States senate to succeed Senator
Taliaferro. died suddenly.
Senator Robert M. LaFollette, OF
Wisconsin, will undergo an operation
for infected gall bladder and possible
complications of the appendix
Lucy Walker, "a years OF age, first
polygamous wife of Joseph Smith,
founder OF the Mormon church, is
death she married Hober C. Kimball.
another prominent leader of pioneer
days.
The trial of Governor C. N. Haskell
OF Oklahoma. in the Muskogee town
lot cases. came to a sudden end when
the government announced that un-
der the restrictions laid down by the
court it would be unable to make out
a case
With the republican state conven.
ton at Saratoga off his hands, ex-
President Roosevelt will make brief
trip through the south and middle
west His first stopping point will be
Knoxville. Tenn. where he 10 to speak
at the Appalachian Exposition Friday.
The Newport miner. [volume] (Newport, Wash.) 1899-current, 1910-10-06
Price is Not Limited.

Denver-The right of the depart
ment of the interior at Washington to
fix the price of coal lands belonging
to the Federal government was up
held in a decision by United States
Judges Vandevanter and Lewis in an
opinion handed down in the United
States district court. The opinion
holds that the department 10 not lin
tied by the price OF $50 per acre
named by the act Of 1873.
The Newport miner. [volume] (Newport, Wash.) 1899-current, 1910-10-06
He Wanted to Know.

There was a small crowd at the soda
counter when tall man rushed in and
pushed an empty bottle over the drug
counter.
Acid" he whispered. excitedly.
Ten cents worth Of acid, and quicky'
The soda water crowd began to sit
up and take notice.
whats be going to do with that
acid:" dema nded one
ITS q secret" answered the drug
clerk.
Nothing unusual. hope"
well. rather"
What: You mean to say he is 60
ing to take that acid ?"
"Oh. no. Listen There Is a silver
wedding at his house tonight. and he
is going 70 test the presents as fast as
his friends bring them In"
And then and there they voted him
the meanest man in town.-Chicago
News
The Newport miner. [volume] (Newport, Wash.) 1899-current, 1910-10-06
FEDERAL CONTROL FAVORED

Pueblo, Colo.-Resolutions adopted
by the National Irrigation Congress
declare that Federal control is es-
sential to equitable distribution and
utilization of water of interstate
streams" Creation of special
agency through which the government
shall act is recommended. The work
of the reclamation service is COM
mended
Benjamin A. Fowler, of Arizona, was
reelected president of the congress,
and Arthur Hooker, of Spokane, sec
rotary. Chicago was chosen as the
meeting place for 1911, after Los An
geles had carried its fight to the floor
of the congress.
The Newport miner. [volume] (Newport, Wash.) 1899-current, 1910-10-06
A Scandal SnoiiAd

"Of course he and his wife seem de-
voted to each other now" said the
jealous Miss Gaussip, but do you
think she will always be so true and
all that?''
WELL" replied Miss Kidder, Il have
reason to know that only last night he
had occasion to set trap for her."
"Ah: Do you know, l suspected
something
''They more than suspected. They
knew there were mice in the house,
The Newport miner. [volume] (Newport, Wash.) 1899-current, 1910-10-06
GATHERING OF BIRD men

ChicagO-The elimination of
years remarkable progress in avia-
ton began in Chicago when entrants
in the $4,000 New York-Chicago air
race gave exhibitions at Hawthorne
track. The race to New York will
start next Saturday. Nine aviators
are entrants. The 1,O00-mile flight to
New York, which must be accom-
plished in 1856 hours elapsed time,
stops unlimited, will be the greatest
endurance test of modern flyers.
The Newport miner. [volume] (Newport, Wash.) 1899-current, 1910-10-06
Government Wants Enuineer.

Washington-Civil service examina-
tons will be held at all regular ex-
animation points in the Northwest
November 9, for appointment as as
sistant superintendent of construction
at the Mcneil Island p<nitentiary. The
positions pay IS a day. Only men ex-
perienced in architectural construc-
ton work are eligible. They must be
over 20 years of age.
The Newport miner. [volume] (Newport, Wash.) 1899-current, 1910-10-06
Auto Races Result Fatally.

New YOrk-Four dead and 10 seri-
ously injured-three probably fatally
was the price in human flesh paid
for the sixth running of the Wander
biit cup race, won by Harry Grant,
dr9v4noAr12o-horsep Alec.
The Newport miner. [volume] (Newport, Wash.) 1899-current, 1910-10-06
Indian Land for Sale.

Spokane-Between a million and a
half and two million acres of land in
the Crow Indian reservation of Mon
tana will be placed on the market at
Billings, Mont, October 20
The Newport miner. [volume] (Newport, Wash.) 1899-current, 1910-10-06
Airship Beats Train,

ingfield-Aviator Walter Brook
ms broke the American long -distance
continuous flight record, beat a spec
ial train a distance or 1877 miles, and
won $4,000 prize when he alighted in
the Illinois State Fair grounds here,
seven hours and twenty-one minutes
out of Chicago
The Newport miner. [volume] (Newport, Wash.) 1899-current, 1910-10-06
EXPLOSION WRECKS
Los ANGELES TIMES
Fire Follows and Employees Are
Trapped and Many Meet
Death and Injury.

Los Angeles-Following the explo-
sion and fire which destroyed the
Times building, with the almost GER
tain loss of nineteen lives and injury
to more than a score, the finding OF
dynamite bomb under the residence
of F. J. Zeehandelaar, secretary OF the
Merchants and Manufacturers Asso-
citation, and another under the window
OF the residence of General Harrison
Gray Otis, editor-in-chief of the Times,
the city is in ferment of excitement.
The explosion, which occurred short
ly after l o'clock Saturday morning,
was of such terrific force that it al
most completely wrecked tae whole
interior of the six-story building, kill
ing several men instantly and cutting
off others who sought means OF es-
cape.
Within a minute after the explosion
the instantaneous ignition OF gas from
the pipes through the building caused
flames to dart from a hundred win.
dows and leap far above the roof. It's
force was greatest in the heart Of the
building directly under the composing
room The men working there were
thrown to the ground and the linotype
machines tumbled over like a house of
cards
Flames Cut Off All Escape.
There were 115 employees in the
building at the time, half a hundred
others having left within half hour
before with the winding up Of the
work for the first edition. The scenes
that followed were indescribable.
Men cut off from ord nary exits by
flames darting from every side, rush
ed hither and thither looking for
means of escape and were finally
forced to Jump from second and third
story windows to the street below.
Most of the serious injuries were
the results of these leaps for life.
Even this opportunity of escape was
denied to those who are numbered
among the missing, most of whom are
buried under the ruins. They died,
walls, or suffocated by the smoke and
flames.
The paper was just being closed for
the morning editions and most OF the
editorial force had gone home for the
night. The mechanical force, how
ever, was still at work and the men
were caught without seconds warn
ing.
Labor Unions Blamed.
General Harrison Gray Otis and
other responsible heads OF the Times,
place the blame for the explosion on
the labor unions, with which organl-
cations the paper has long been en-
gagged In bitter warfare. 1t is charged
that unknown parties set off a heavy
charge of dynamite in blind alley
which ran into the center of the build
Ing. The leaders Of the unions dis
avow any responsibility for the out
rage.
The Times got out its regular issue
printed on it's auxiliary plant, pro-
vided, its management says, as safe
guard against just such disaster as
has befallen it.
The City Council voted $4,000 as a
fund to be used to run down the per-
petrators of the alleged dynamiting OF
the Los Angeles Times.
San Francisco-O. A. Tveitmoe,
secretary-treasurer of the State Build
ing Trades Council, has offered a re-
ward of $500 for the conviction OF
the perpetrators of the Los Angeles
Times explosion.
The Newport miner. [volume] (Newport, Wash.) 1899-current, 1910-10-06

A we'll managed farm is the best
source of wealth nowadays. The
farmer is the man of substance and
influence and there is no healthier
life than his. Invest your money
in farm and you will feel indie
pendent. The firm that handles
Real Estate regularly as business
ought to know something about
property values.
We have made speciality of the
business for a great many years
and recognize a bargain when We
see it. We offer choice selection
of Stevens Co. farm lands in suit
able locations and at tempting bar
gains.
You will admit that it is we'll
worth while to have our experience
as a guide. We can show good
land at $40 per acre. other at SIS
and up to $25. If looking for farm
land or small tracts, call or write
for our list.
Newport Wash. Land Co.
Newport. Wash.
The Newport miner. [volume] (Newport, Wash.) 1899-current, 1910-10-06

San Francisco-O. A Tveitmoe,
secretary-treasurer of the State Build
ing Trades Council, has offered a re-
ward of $500 for the conviction OF
the perpetrators of the Los Angeles
Times explosion.
The Newport miner. [volume] (Newport, Wash.) 1899-current, 1910-10-06
THE MARKETS.
Portland.

Wheat-Track prices: Club, SIC;
bluestem, 88c; red Russian, Sic.
BarIey-Feed and brewing, 322.
Oats-No. i White, $28 per ton.
Hay-Timothy, Willamette Valley,
$4,000 per ton; Eastern Oregon,
$20@22; alfalfa, $15@16.
Butter-Creamery, 36c; ranch, 24c.
ranch, 24c.
Eggs-Ranch, candled, Csc.
Hops-19O9 crop, 10@11e; olds,
nominal, 1910 crop, 1870.
Wool-Eastern Oregon, 14017c per
pound.
Mohair-32@33c.
The Newport miner. [volume] (Newport, Wash.) 1899-current, 1910-10-06

Wheat-Bluestem, SSc; Club SIC;
red Russian, soc.
Oats-$30 per ton.
Barley-$21 per ton.
Hay-Timothy, $26 per ton; alfalfa.
$19 per ton.
Butter-Washington Creamery. sec;
ranch, &c.
Eggs-Selected local, 40c.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1910-12-06
Alleged Smuggling.

New York, Dec. G.-Balked in their
attempt to evade payment OF duty on
goods purchased abroad by the recent
rigorous enforcement of the law at the
port of New York, American smugglers
arc now operating by way of the Cana
dian border. Positive information to
this effect having reached Collector
Loeb, he passed it along to the Treasury
Department with the result that wide
net has been spread, and it is under
stood that many arrests are impending.
Heretofore inspectors have made but 4
cursory examination of goods brought
from Europe by way of Canada, but
from now on it is intended that all bag
gage will be carefully examined and
actual seizures will be the rule instead
OF, as in the past, the exception.
The big Canadian transatlantic
lines have reported an increased passen-
ger business to Montreal and Quebec
since the word went forth that here
after all persons convicted or pleading
guilty 10 smuggling or attempted
smuggling in New York would receive
prison sentence.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1910-12-06

T. j. BURNS, n well-known electrical
contractor Of Lynchburg, yesterday
cleared up the mystery surrounding the
bullet which was fired into the Office OF
the Anti-Saloon League in Lynchburg
Sunday afternoon, and which would
have killed Rev. J. D. McAlister had
he been at his desk. Burns stated he
was repairing a revolver and the cart
ridge was accidentally discharged. He
paid no attention to the matter, for he
did not dream until yesterday afternoon
chat the bullet had passed through the
door AS soon rs he ascertained the
ball had gone into the building across
the alley he notified the police and ex'
planned how the thing happened. Thus
sensation has been nipped in the bud.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1910-12-06
FATAL JUMP,

Fighting off other girl employees,
and with smile and 4 whispered
"goodby," Adalenia Aurora, seam
stress, % years old, hung a moment
from the ninth story of the Textile
building, at Fourth and Elm streets,
Cincinnati, yesterday, then dropped to
the pavement below.
When Miss Aurora started for the
window several other girl employees in
the room tried to drag her away.
II must go" cried the girl as she
broke from those who were holding
her. Then she climbed out OF the win
dow. As the others rushed to the win
dow and looked out, she was hanging
by her finger tips to the ledge. One
girl seized her by the wrists, felt the
trembling hands slip from her grasp,
heard the murmured "goodby," and
saw the smile.
Men who had seen the girl fall picked
up the broken body. Life still re.
manned, and she was taken 10 hospi-
tai. but she will die.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1910-12-06
IN HONOR OF FULLER.

Memorial ceremonies in honor OF
tn. late Chief Justice Fuller are to be
held next Saturday in tho Supreme
Court Of the United States. Richard
Olney, of Massachusetts, will preside
and will deliver an address. S. S.
Gregory, of Illinois, will present rcso-
lutions expressing the regret OF the
bar Of the court over the death OF the
late chief justice. Remarks will be
made by Alton b. Parker, OF New
York; Charles E. I.ittlefeId, OF Maine;
William l., Nlarbury, of Maryland;
George Z. Price, of West Virginia; A.
J. Montague, Of Virginia; Senator
Ovorman, Of North Carolina. and II.
y. NJ. Smith, OF South Carolina.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1910-12-06
ROME ATITS WORST.

Il is well known that there is in
Roman history a period which, from,
the reputation that it bears, may be
well called Infamous. This extends
from the death OF Sulla to the death OF
Nero, including the end OF the repub-
lie and the early years OF the empire.
This period has very bad reputation
not only was it full OF disorder, civil
war, scandalous law suits, but nearly
all Of its most illustrous personages
were VIGOROUSLY vicious, beginning
with the most illustrious OF them all,
Julius Caesar.
All we're deep in debt, drunkards,
gluttons, spendthrifts; they we're DISCO
lute, when not accused outright OF CIV
ing themselves up to the most degrad-
ing pollution. There is no infamy that
has not been attributed to them. Only
very few have escaped from this uni
versal censure; and, with the exception
OF Pompey and Agrippa, those who did
not escape were OF minor Importance.
The others were either odious in the
extreme, or else depraved like Lucullus,
Crassus, Anthony, Augustus, Maecenas,
Liberins, Nero-to say nothing Of the
women OF the Claudian line, who, when
they were not poiseners outright, were
women OF evil life, about whom histo.
rians tell every kind OF horror, --Gpgli.
elmo Ferrero, in Atlantic,
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1910-12-06
CHARGED WITH POISONING
barry.

Mrs. AdeIine Robinson, aged G6, 4
prominent resident OF Hollidaysburg.
Blair county, Pa, was arrested at the
Pennsylvania Railroad Station ut Johns-
town late Saturday evening on charge
OF administering chlorotorm to her
daughters infant child, and in making
confession to the police, implicated
her husband Samuel Robinson, and DR..
E. NJ. Duff, also OF Hollidaysburg.
DR.. Duff and Robinson we're arrested.
While driving to the Pennsylvania
depot the woman, according to her own
confession and to the testimony Of the
cab driver, John Schultz, placed the
baby in telescope valise after admins
tering the chloroform. She alighted
with the telescope in her hands.
Schultz informed the police and Mrs.
Robinson was arrested before she could
escape.
1t was early last August that Robin
son advertised for q family in Johns
town to care for their daughter. A
Seventh ward family answered the adj
yertisement and soon afterward DIR.
Duff and Mrs. Robinson came to Johns
town to see the family. The two re-
turned to Hollidaysburg, and on August
% Miss Fannie Robinson, who gave
her name as Mrs. Frank Hughes,
moved in. Last Wednesday evening
boy baby was born. Thursday morn
ing Mrs. Robinson came to the city,
bringing with her new telescope. She
then went home, but on Saturday re.
turned
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1910-12-06
BAKED NAIL CAUSES A SUIT.

Sadie A. Smith is something OF an
expert on nails, being q manicure. But
when it comes to having wire nails in
her Boston brown bread she protests;
in fact, she sues. The defendant is
Lyman A. Cushman, q baker, OF Am
stcrdam avenue. Miss Smith is suing
him in the City Court for $4,000.
According to the plaintiff, she bought
loaf OF brown bread ut the bakery OF
the defendant, and while eating it swal-
lowed part OF a wire nail, and was al
most strangled. She had to get medi-
cal attendance and was for some time
incapacitatcd from her business, she
said. Cushman had several witnesses
on the stand to prove that the nail did
not get into the bread through any
negligence Of his. The case is still on.
- New York Tribune.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1910-12-06
Government Expenses.

Washington, Dec. 6.-Showing little
opportunity for retrenchment in the
regular departmental appropriations,
the estimates of the Secretary OF the
Treasury for funds needed to conduct
the government for the year ending
June so, 1912 we're transmitted tc
Congress today. The estimates, on
which will be based the bills appro.
priating the departmental budgets,
show total increase over the estimates
for the fiscal year ending June So
1911, OF S., 947, 663. 60.
Besides this increase, the estimate:
for 1912 omit any provision for the
deficiency in postal revenues, which
in the 1911 estimates was placed al
$40, 634, 122. So.
Only three OF the departmental total:
as prepared by secretary of the treasury
are less than the estimates for 1911
They are the figures for territorial
government, decreases $50, 200; the
Navy Department decreased 1881 ,S7S
and the Interior Department, decrease
81, 072, 3O7 80.
The executive department estimat,:
for the White House, the president
and vice-president show M increase o.
over $500, 900 more than doubling the
1911 estimate. The Treasury Depart.
ment shows an increase OF little less
than five million, the War Department
an increase of about the same amount
and the Department of Agriculture an
increase of 81, 500, $50.
According to the figures of the Sec
rotary OF the Treasury the total appro-
priation based on the estimates of 1911
amount TO $500, 294, 512.
The estimates for 1912. therefore, il
they should be strictly adhered to in
the appropriations would show saving
Of s56, S79, 962 as compared to the ap.
preparations for 1911 but this is not
considered likely.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1910-12-06
Tetanus Kills Little Girl.

Philadelphia, Dec. 6.-Six-Year.old
Rose Brogan, daughter of Philip Bro
gan, OF Washington lane and Sullivan
street, Germantown, who was vaccinated
on the arm one month ago, died Of
tetanus Sunday night at the Chestnut
Hill Hospital. The father OF the girl,
who is gardener employed in
east Washington lane, decided to
send her to school early in Noyem.
Der, and had pr. John McCloskey, Of
Chestnut Hill, vaccinate her.
1t was on Thanksgiving Day that the
arm began to swell, and DR.. McClcskey
was called. SYMPTOMS OF tetanus devel.
oped and the doctor ordered her sent
to the hospital on the Saturday follow
ing Thanksgiving Day. The mother is
Frustrated with grief and is under the
doctoria care,
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1910-12-06
Cnal for a Long Enture.

FreeIand, Pa, Dec, 6.--In an inter
view here yesterday John Markle, the
millionaire coal operator. predicted that
the coal supply OF this district would
not be exhausted for three generations.
He said:
I'VE, of this generation, have no
cause to worry about the exhaustion OF
the coal supply. Three generations to
succeed us will be mining and shipping
coal just as we are doing today.
Ny absolute faith in the future OF
the coal trade is in evidence on our
property, where we have expended ST.
100000 in Improvements in the past
two years. There is coal here for fu'
ture generations, and am investing
my money with a view of mining sutt!-
Gent to supply present demands.