The Newport miner. [volume] (Newport, Wash.) 1899-current, 1910-02-10
HAPPENINGS OF INTEREST
CONDENSED FOR READERS

James F. Curtiss, of Massachusetts,
has been confirmed by the Senate 10
be Assistant Secretary of the Treas
ury
Colonel Roosevelt will arrive IN
England May Is and soon afterWard
will deliver an address at Oxford uni
versity He plans to return to New
York about the middle of June.
The War Department has recon-
mended to Congress a $426,0OO i'm
provement of the Siuslaw River IN
Oregon, conditional on local coop
Grafton.
The jury in the famous boycott suit
of D. E. Loewe, of Danbury, VS.. 20U
members Of the Hatters Union IN
Connecticut returned verdict IN
favor of the plaintiff for STA 200.
That the United States Congress is
likely to pass a prohibition law apply
ing to Hawaii is the belief of an at
torney who is representing the
liquor interests of the islands in
Washington
The draft of bill appropriating
$4,000 for the purchase of land and
the erection of buildings for the care
of the insane in Alaska has been
submitted to the house by Secretary
Ballinger
For the second time in two years
the medical supply department OF the
United States Army was burned out
of it's headquarters last week, in
New York City, with loss estimated
at 100000
Chief Forester Graves has decided
to re-establish the branch of lands
OF the Forest Service, abolished some
time ago and consolidated with the
law department.
approximately 769,167 acres of land
have been designated by Secretary
Ballinger as open under the enlarged
homestead act OF this amount, 672,-
900 acres are in Wyoming, 24,540 in
Montana, and 61,767 in New Mexico.
No movement favoring the Lefean
bill to regulate the packing and grad
ing of apples has been made by the
Department of Agriculture and it is
said on good authority the depart
ment is not urging the agricultural
committee to act on the measure.
Honoring the memory of the late
ton, Secretary Ballinger has approved
the recommendation of the Commits
sloner OF Indian Affairs that the name
OF the Puyallup Indian School at Ia
coma, Wash, be changed to the Cush-
man Indian School.
Commander Robert E. Peary, dis
coyerer of the North Pole, has made
proposition to the National Ge-
ographic Society, which, If accepted,
will mean that an American expedi-
ton will be on it's way to discover
the unconquered South Pole next
FALL
Ten submarines year for the next
five years is the program of naval
construction for the Pacific Coast de-
lenses that has been prepared by the
members of Congress from the states
OF the Pacific Coast This will be
insisted upon strongly at an early
date before the House committee on
Naval Affairs.
In an effort to find out whether the
four principal express companies of
the country are really competitive or
il there is working agreement to
maintain rates, Examiner Frank
Lyons, OF the Interstate Commerce
Commission, has started an investi-
CATION
After short but torrid open hear
Ing, followed by an executive session
OF an hour, also filled with dissep-
sion, the House committee on mer-
chant marine and fisheries voted. 10
to Z, to report favorably the Admins
tration ship subsidy bill, as intro
duced by Representative Humphrey
of Washington.
Concessions by both the United
States and Germany have averted a
threatened tariff war Negotiations
have been concluded between the two
countries which settle the question of
q minimum and maximum rate with
the exception of cattle and dressed
meat issues.