The Newport miner. [volume] (Newport, Wash.) 1899-current, 1910-06-09
BRIEF NEWS OF THE WEEK

OnIEF NEWS Uf Ine WEek
The Sunset Telephone Company has
engaged an expert vocal teacher and
is giving course in voice culture to
fifty picked central operators.
To enable the Secretary of Agricul.
ture to conduct experiments in paper
making, the House adopted an amend.
ment offered by Mann of Illinois to
the sundry civil bill, carrying an ap,
preparation of $4,000.
Mrs. Carrie Chapman Gait, the
president of the Woman's Suffrage
Association, is seriously i'll in a pri.
vate sanitarium following a serious
operation. Grave doubts are expressed
as to her recovery.
A $30,000,000 stock dividend will be
declared at the stockholders meeting
of the Singer anufacturine Company,
June 10. The dividend is 100 per
cent. and the company has a surplus
of $30,OO0,OO0.
Arrangements for the consolidation
OF hotel interests valued at $4,000. 900
are being contaminated. The consoli.
dalton will include many well known
hotels between San Francisco and
New York
Women temperance workers from
all parts of the globe are congregating
in Glasgow. Scotland, to attend the
eighth triennial convention of the
Worlds Woman's Christian Temper.
ance Union.
With President Taft in attendance
as the orator of the occasion, the ma
ton, State, city and adjacent farming
district united at Monroe. Mich. in
paying tribute to the memory OF Gen
eral George Armstrong Custer. who
with 254 of his cavalrymen, was slain
by Sitting Bulls band of Sioux In.
dams at the battle Of the Little Big
Horn in the dad lands" Of Montana,
June Is, 1876.
Ninety-five per cent. of the fruit
crop Of Iowa was destroyed by the
late killing frosts, according to q re-
port issued by Wesley Greene, secre.
tary of the State horticultural depart
ment.
In ninety minutes, and without
alighting, Captain and Hon. Charles
Stewart Rolls, of the London section
of the British army motor service.
sailed a Wright biplane from Dover
to Calais and returned without alight
ing
An Amendment to the sundry civil
appropriation bill adopted by the
House stipulates that no part OF the
100000 provided in the bill for the
enforcement of the Sherman antitrust
law can be used in the prosecution OF
labor organizations.
Mrs. Eva Prosser, who when at.
raigned entered plea of not guilty OF
the alleged Staying of her husband.
Rees Brown Prosser. of Seattle. on 9
Great Northern train last Wednesday,
| was ordered held without bail for
trial in the District Court
The spring gold cleanup of the
Nome district is estimated at $1,175,-
900. A large portion of this will come,
| from third beach claims. Candle
Creek will contribute 100000 and the
creeks of the Kougarok will yield
100000
The rout of the Madriz forces con.
centrated upon Bluehelds in his last
desperate attempt to capture tbs
stronghold of the Estrada faction is
now complete, according to advices by
wireless, and the war will be carried
into western Nicaragua.
During the brief period between
March j and April Is. this sprin9sbe~
tween 10000 and $4,000 colonistss nc
| cording to the various railroad mana
gers, found new homes in the Pacific
| Northwest, in California and in Idaho.
Montana, Nevada, Utah, Colorado and
| Wyoming.
| The Interior Department has desig-
mated under the enlarged homestead
act approximately q million acres OF
| land in Wyoming not susceptible OF
successful irrigation at reasonable
cost from any known source Of water
supply. In Wyoming. up TO the pres
emit time, thesaree OF land 50 les1Gs
mated totals 14.6oo.ooo acres.