The Newport miner. [volume] (Newport, Wash.) 1899-current, 1910-03-24
HAPPENINGS OF INTEREST
CONDENSED FOR READERS

| CONDENSED FUN NGANA SANS
Commander Peary, discoverer OIL
the North Pole, will probably address
the University of Copenhagen some
time in May.
A non-political, non-religious Ma
tional daily paper has been suggested
to Andrew Carnegie as means OF
spending some of his surplus millions.
| Afro-Americans of Oregon, WASH
ington, Idaho and Northern California
are preparing to hold jubilee and
convention in Portland July 8, and
5.
Attention has been called in the
Belgian parliament to the fact that 6o
per cent of children in some parts OF
the country cannot read or write
Advices from Dawson say upwards
Of 100 Indians of the Dogrib nation
have this Winter persisted of starva-
ton at Great Slave Lake.
Worn out by the strain upon him,
caused by the SO days of the special
session of the Legislature, Governor
Charles N. Haskell, of Oklahoma, has
been ordered to bed.
The President will sign a proclama-
ton giving to the products OF France
and Algeria, imported into the United
States, the minimum tariff rates OF
the Payne-Aldrich act.
| As last resort to relieve the labor
situation on the broad wheat ranches
/ of Central Washington, Hartllne
farmers have sent Hartline citizen
to Virginia to bring negro families
| West to work on farms.
The single manufacturing inter
ests of Vancouver and other parts OF
the province are now facing a shut
out in the American market, provided
the United States applies to Canada
on April 1 the maximum tariff.
An increase in wages of two cents
an hour, allowance of time and a half
for all overtime, and hearing with
in three days when threatened with
dismissal were given the switchmen
in the railroad yards of Chicago by
the Illinois State Board of Arbitra-
ton.
A general strike Of all building
trades and employees in New York will
be called on March %, unless set
Element of the steamfitters' strike.
now On, has been made before that
date
the Department of Commerce and
Labor is made in a bill, favorably
reported from the committee on edu-
cation and labor, by Senator Flint, OF
California
Details of a plan are now on foot
for forming a new military system in
which the regulars and the militia,
for purposes of instruction, will CO.
| operate, much in the same way that
the regulars and volunteers work to-
| gether in times of war. The plan is
the work of Secretary of War Dickin-
son.
Preliminary returns on the vote be-
ing taken by the unions of the West
ern Federation of Minters on the
proposition to affiliate with the
American Federation of Labor, indi-
| cate that the issue will carry by
substantial majority.
BY one OF the most remarkable
operating efforts in the history of rail-
roads many of the trunk lines cen
teTtng in Chicago have succeeded in
clearing up the congestion of Winter
months, which is estimated to have
cost them $20,oo0,o0O, and are in
normal condition to handle traffic.
Unless the Western members of
Congress show a disposition toward
acting favorably upon some of the
administration conservation bills. they
are likely to fail in their efforts to get
the bill through the House, authoriz-
ing the issuance of $4,000, 900 in Ger.
tficates of Indebtedness to complete
Government irrigation enterprises.
Mr.. Roosevelt's European itinerary
has been definitely determined upon
with as much exactness as it is DOS
Sihle to make in advance rh e.
or President will arrive in Rome on
April 3; in Paris, April 81; in Berlin.
May 3, and in London on May Is
or II.