The Newport miner. [volume] (Newport, Wash.) 1899-current, 1910-03-31
HAPPENINGS OF INTEREST
CONDENSED FOR READERS

The Senate has Increased the sal
airy of the Governor of Alaska from
$4,000 to $1,000
Travelling Libraries are the latest
device for carrying the gospel OF
woman's suffrage to those who sit
in darkness.
The 100000 fund which the Ameri-
can Bible Soc ETY. has for more than
year been seeking to raise, in or
der to secure an equal amount, the
gift of Mrs. Russell Sage, has been
completed
Entangled in the cord of mon
ster kite which he was flying, Will
liam Fletcher, II years Old, was
dragged over a steep decliviIy on
Telegraph Hill at San Francisco and
fell $50 feet to his death.
The special board appointed to Sc.
lect site for the proposed torpedo
station on the Pacific Coast has re-
ported to the Navy Department.
which for the present desires to
keep the location secret
For stealing crepe from door knobs
to which it had been tied to indicate
mourning for death, Lille O'Neil, 20
years old, has been sent to Black.
wells Island penitentiary for 80 days.
The most radical changes ever
made in the American game Of foot.
ball were adopted by the rules COM
mittee. representing most of the big
American universities and colleges.
at session in New York.
That 100000 lives are sacrificed an
nually in this country on the altar Of
ignorance and neglect of sanitary
laws was asserted by Senator Owen
in speech in the Senate in support
Of his bill creating department of
health, with Cabinet officer at its
head.
Opium valued at $4,000. the &C.
cumulation of a years seizures on Pa
cific Liners, was destroyed at San
Francisco in pursuance Of orders
from Washington. After b e i n z
boiled, the, drug was poured into a
sewer by customs officials
The Senate commerce committee
adopted an amendment increasing
the Appropriation for the Columbia
River between Bridgeport, and Kettle
Falls from $4,000 to 100000. The
State Of Washington has already ex-
pended $4,000 on this project.
Some OF the members of the House
Committee on Agriculture who have
attended the hearings on the Lefean
bill to prescribe standard sized boxes
for shipping apples and pears, state
that they do not believe the bill will
be reported out Of the committee.
The Secretary of the Navy A.
nounced that the whole Atlantic bat
tleship fleet would. in November, pro-
coed to European waters The prin.
cipal cruise will be made in the Med.
iterranean. It IS intended - divide
the fleet while ia the Mediterranean
in order that various ports may bs
visited.
Reports from all points in the dis
trict directly affected by the eruption
OF Mount Etna, indicate that the VIC
lence OF the movement within the
volcano is subsiding. Hundreds of
: peasants have lost their homes and
worldly belongings. and it Is said
many OF them will emigrate to Amer.
lea.
Sailing from Alexandria Wednes.
day, on the steamer Prins Heinrich.
former President Roosevelt will ar.
rive at Naples two days later to BE-
gin his EUROPEAN tour. From NaplNs
the Roosevelt party will proceed Il.
rect to Rome, where they are to be
deliberately entertained.
Thursday is the day set for the
maximum tariff rates to go into et
feet against all countries which have
not been found to practice no undue
discrimination against the United
States. In the meantime nepotia.
tons with Canada and France will
be continued and tariff officials are
hopeful that all questions at Issue
will have been settled before the date
set for the new schedules to become
operative.