The Newport miner. [volume] (Newport, Wash.) 1899-current, 1910-05-12
HAPPENINGS OF INTEREST
CONDENSED FOR READERS

With the final report OF enumera-
tors, it is generally understood that
the census of Seattle will not exceed
100000. Il IN
Senator Chamberlain has accepted
an invitation to speak at Erie, Pa,
on the Oregon laws, also before the
Brooklyn Democratic club on May Is
on the same subject.
BY the end of this year the chief
cities of the Ottoman empire Will, 1t
Is hoped, be Joined by telephone
system extending from Constantinople
to Jerusalem and Mecca.
For the killing of his mother-in-law,
Mrs. Frederick Schulz, at Tacoma
recently, Charles J. Weller was SEN
fenced to ten to fifteen years servi-
tude in the state penitentiary.
A general investigation into the
cause of the i'll health of Senators
soon will be in order. No less than
eight of the members of the United
States Senate are on the sick list.
Former Governor Henry T. Gage of
California, newly appointed minister
to Portugal, sailed for his post on the
steamer George Washington.
Rear-AdmiraI Bowman II. McCalla
(retired) died suddenly at his home
in San Francisco.
The Chicago Association. of Com
merce and the Illinois Manufacturers
Association have taken steps to begin
a fight to prevent the proposed in
crease in class freight rates on rail-
roads between Chicago and the East.
Seventy-five theater owners, repre-
senting 200 theaters in the United
States and Canada have formed an
agreement to organize the National
Theater- Owners' Association, repre-
senting property interests valued at
350,000,O00.
President Taft went to New York
to attend the opening of the great
Actors Fund Fair in that city Monday
afternoon. In commemoration of the
occasion the President was given a
handsome gold medal. William H.
Crane, the dean Of American actors,
made the presentation speech.
Thomas F. Byrnes, ex-superintend-
ent of police of the city of New York,
but more famous for his work in the
detective bureau, died at his home in
New York city from chronic indiges.
ton, after an illness of more than
two years.
Her Majestry, Queen Elizabeth, of
Roumania, will visit Washington, D.
c., next August to attend the inter-
national congress of the Esperantists
and efforts are now being made by
local Esperantists, backed up by the
Hartman railroads, to get the Queen
to visit Oregon.
Building operations throughout the
country for April show an increase of
8 per cent over the same month a
year ago. Official reports from AZ
cities show increases in and de-
creases in IS. Pacific Coast cities,
with the exception of Seattle, have
enjoyed wonderful boom and are
still forging ahead.
The New York assembly has passed
the so-called Audubon bill forbidding
the sale or possession in that state
Of the plummage of birds protected by
the state laws, whether the birds were
killed in this state or not. The main
purpose OF the measure is to prevent
the sale of aigrettes, the plumes of
the white heron and American egret.
The first stride toward the reestab-
lishment Of silver in its old time place
among the precious metals is being
made by number of mining men of
Nevada and Colorado. The plan is to
secure the cooperation of all the
friends Of silver and endeavor to in
duce manufacturers and dealers to
place on the market articles of super.
ior grade and heavier weight and. at
the same time, at lower price than
1t present furnished.