The Newport miner. [volume] (Newport, Wash.) 1899-current, 1910-02-17
HAPPENINGS OF INTEREST
CONDENSED FOR READERS

| SSxN0GAN0GO INN ANG&AN 1890
A recommendation that Japan be
2 given the minimum rate under the
| new tariff law will be made by Presi-
dent Taft
Whether the Hawaiian Islands shall
be dry" will be left to the Hawaiian
people themselves and will not be de
| termined by Congress.
The case of the late Lieutenant Jas.
! H. Sutton, of the Marine Corps, the
Portland boy who met death at the
Naval Academy in 1907, will not be
reopened.
Partial arrangements have been
made by Senator Bourne to have
| geologist from the geological survey
examine the oil deposits of Oregon
next year
w. J. Bryan has come out nat
| footed for county option, and declares
Democracy must divorce itself from
| the liquor interests, because an ALL
ance with the saloon can generally
| be regarded as an alliance with vice.
The Pacific Navigation Company's
steamer Lima is ashore on one OF the
islands in the Huamblin passage OF
the straits of Magellan, and prob
ably will be a total loss. The chief
| pilot and so passengers were
drowned
impairment of the efficiency of the
organized militia by the use OF ar
| mories in certain states for non-m1i-
itary purposes is charged in adVlces
on the subject received by the War
Department
The French Antarctic expedition
| under DR.. Jean NJ. CharcOt has
reached latitude 70 degrees south,
longitude 1876 degrees west and dis
covered 120 miles of new land to the
west and south of Alexander Island
Charges that certain of the 'insid-
ers' in the Wells-Fargo Express Com
I p1AyI AAOWIuS III dofdASO tAA%S S~A~
800 per cent melon" would be cut,
| had tricked stockholders out Of their
holdings, will be laid before the In
terstate Commerce commission.
The directors of the Pullman Com
pany decided at special meeting to
give the stockholders a stock divi-
dend of 20 per cent on the corpora
tons $100000,000 of capital. This
will call for the issuance of $20,0c0,-
900 of new capital, worth nearly $40,-
900, 900 in the open market.
Believing that certain rays of the
X-ray machine may cure leprosy, DR..
George H. Slower. Denver physi-
clan, has started for Hawaii with the
intention of making experiments at
the leper colony at Molokai.
The joint plan formulated by Secre-
taries Ballinger and Wilson and now
approved by the President will re-
store 100000 acres, now in reserves.
to public entry, and will eliminate
from the reserves 100000 acres in
Idaho and about 500 900 acres in Ore
gon
Driven from her course the French
Transatlantic Steamship Company's
steamer General Chanzy crashed at
full speed, in the dead Of night, on
the treacherous reefs near the Island
Of Minorca. in the Mediterranean Sea,
and all except one of the 1877 persons
on board persisted.
Confidently asserting that, after 15
years experimenting, he has dlscov-
cred a process whereby black roses
may be grown, Dennis Tapley,
homeless cripple from Savannah, Ga,
is in Washington to obtain, if posi-
bic, patent upon his discovery.
Upon a charge of having used an
explosive with intent to do injury to
d human being. Dr. Willard P. Burke,
owner Of Burkes Sanitarium, one of
the largest health institutions in Cali
fornia, was arrested at Santa Rosa,
Sunday.
Genuine fire opals similar to those
OF Mexico have been discovered in
the bed and banks of Deadman's
Creek, within few miles of the CITY
OF Kamloops, B. c., and a company
will be formed to mine and market
this new and unlooked-for wealth
promising resource. The discoveries
OF the semi-precious stones sent
many samples to the Department of
Mines at Ottawa, which classified the
opals auth oritatively.