The Newport miner. [volume] (Newport, Wash.) 1899-current, 1910-06-23
BRIEF NEWS OF THE WEEK

French statesmen are greatly exer-
cised over the suggestion that King
Edwards death may open the way to
combination between England and
Germany.
President Taft went to New Haven
Wednesday to see his son Robert grad
uate from Yale univers1ty:s
Pursuant to the call of Governor
Hughes, the New York legislature
met in extra session Monday for the
further consideration of the direct pri-
mary issue.
The trial of Robin J. Cooper,
charged with the murder of former
Senator Carmarck in November, 1908,
cyan In Nashville Tuesday. Young
C popsr was convicted in the criminal
c urt and the case was reversed last
81 ring by the state supreme court.
The Fouth International Congress OF
chambers Of commerce and Industrial
association convened in London Tues
LAY for a session of three days.
Other events of the week of more or
lsss public interest include the presi-
Dental election in Mexico.
Owing to the threat of Gov. Gillette
to call out the militia, II necessary, to
stop the fight, San Francisco has been
definitely eliminated as a possible
scene of the Jeffries-Johnson fight
Tie fight will be held in Nevada, as
thu. Laws of that state do not prohibit
gle We contests, and no serious objec-
tto,s to the battle is anticipated in
that state.
A favorable report was made to the
senate on the house bill appro-
priating $4,000 for erecting and equip
ping detention hospitals for the Alas
ka insane at Fairbanks and Nome.
The senate has passed the bill ap-
propriating $4,000 for constructing a
residence for the governor of Alaska
at Juneau.
The Washington Pioneers associa-
ton accepted the invitation of the
Oregon Pioneers association to meet
at Portland June %.
The house committee on labor has
decided to favorably report the bill
creating department Of labor with a
seat in the presidents cabinet.
Representative Poindexter has in
troduced a resolution for a congress
S onal investigation Into alleged tim
b ri and frauds in the Mar BILE Greek
di str let of Northern Idaho, under
which subsidiary of the Weyerhaeu-
ser company is alleged to have &C.
quired title to very valuable white
pine lands. There is no likelihood
that the resolution will pass.
| Timbermen and loggers report that
there is a general upward tendency in
the price of logs throughout the North
west and a still greater advance is ex.
pet ted owing to the conditions now
pre- Vailing in the market
The President has nominated Ever
EFT Orville Jones and Nathan Putnam
Wood, of Washington, and Frederick
T. Harris, of Idaho, as first lieu
tenants of the army medical reserve
corps.
With the Incarceration of Howard
unter in the county Jail at Healy.
Il aho, the American Bankers associa-
ton believes it has retarded the activ.
tiles of one of the most dangerous
forgers who has operated in the
Northwest in recent years.
Secretary Nagle, of the department
OF commerce and labor, who will visit
Alaska this summer, has invited At
torney-General Wickersham to accom-
pany him On the trip.
Hundreds of acres of bottom land
lelr Dawson are being seeded this
spling in potatoes. The greater por-
uNt Of the potatoes consumed in the
kd ndike are now raised near Daw.
son.
Not only is Senator Robert M. La
Toilette to be read out of the Re.
publican party in Wisconsin, but the
organization which he has laboriously
built up is to be discredited in the
national convention, two years hence,
Such, at least, appears the purpose
OF the Taft Republicans who met in
Milwaukee in conference and appoint
ed state committee with authority to
perpetuats itself