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

A monster battleship of $4,000 tons
displacement, which. will be the most
powerful ever seen. is the ambition of
the Navy Department, according to a
statement made to the committee on
naval affairs by Secretary Meyer.
A strike vote by the members OF
the Brotherhood of Locomotive Fire
men and Enginemen on the Great
Northern and Northern Pacific sys-
TENS is almost completed and in a
few days the vote will be sent to Chi
cage or Peoria to be counted
A 30-day crusade against liquor and
saloon interests will be conducted In
San Francisco Plans Tor beginning
the prohibition war March 70 nave
been made.
President Taft will be the principal
speaker at the banquet of the League
OF Republican State Clubs i'll Wash
jngton, d c.. on April ?
Postmaster-General Hitchcock has
informed the italian government that
the United States will accede to the
proposal to extend the parcels post
convention existing between the two
countries so that parcels may be ex
changed with the postoffices in the
Arso Pt5a ~
A great fight pavilion. capable OF
holding $4,000 persons. at San Fran
cisco, will stage the .Jeffries-John
son fight next July. If plans OF tbs
promoters and OF Supervisor Herget
are carried out
Deals are now being organized III
Denver which will probably result in
the formation Of trust that will con.
troll 80 per cent Of the asbestos OF the
world
The Secretary of the Interior has
decided to report fayorably upon the
Bourne bill amending the enlarged
homestead act so as TO permit patents
OF issue in Oregon upon proof OF pro
duction and cultivation instead OF 70
quiring residence
1t is announced that the Great
Northern Railway has planned an ex-
penditurs OF about s6,0O0.O00 this
year for additional equipment
Personal friends OF Charles w
Morse. the convicted banker. are pre-
pared to spend mnrs than $1,000, 00s
In working for his release from tbs
Federal prison ut Atlanta
The Senate finance COMMITTEES has
raising $4,000, 900 for an addition ts
the reclamation fund. and it will be
submitted To the irrigation committee
for substitution for the bin which has
been reported and IL now before the
Senate finance committee
Consul General John E. Jones. OF
Winnipeg. reports the formation OF
IS 900 900 American Canadian com
pany to exploit the oil fields Of AL
berta
Fire which had been burning some
time before being discovered. com.
pletely Quilted the Motter- Wheeler
Mercantile Company's store, at Boise,
last week, causing loss estimated at
100000, partly covered by insurance
The origin of the fire is unknown.
S. A. D. Puter is in Washington
trying to get recognition from the
general land office of preference
rights to locate certain claims which
by contesting he assisted the Govern
ment in canceling. The law gives n
successful contestant 30 days pref
erence right to locate.
There is trouble ahead for the ad-
ministration in it's effort to pass the
Townsend railway bill without amend
ment 1t is known that the interstate
commerce court and the stock regula,
ton features are Objectionable to
some of the powerful members Of the
house.
Mrs. Alma Vaughn, widow of Pro-
lessor J. T. Vaughn. 6t Kirksville.
Mo-, who died OF strychnne poisoning
in October has been arrested charged
with completely in the death OF her
husband
Leading Democrats of Washington.
d. c., are planning a national love
feast of party celebrities to be held
April Is in the form Of Jefferson