The Newport miner. [volume] (Newport, Wash.) 1899-current, 1910-04-21
HAPPENINGS OF INTEREST
CONDENSED FOR READERS

j. Pierpont Morgan, now in Switzer-
land, last week celebrated his 73rd
birthday.
The American Cereal Company. re-
puted to be the largest cereal manu-
featuring concern in the world, is to
build a large cereal mill on Puget
Sound, probably at Seattle.
President Taft has informed Sena-
tor Jones that he believed the House
Of Representatives before adjourn
ment would pass the $30,000,000 irri-
cation bill that is now before the
ways and means committee.
Ecuador is sending arms and am
munition to Machala, in the south
western province, adjoining the Peru
Wan frontier. There is popular de-
mand that Ecuador be prepared for
war with Peru.
Damage to fruit in Salt Lake Valley
from frost will aggregate 100000.
The apricot crop has been almost en-
tirely destroyed and peaches, pears,
prunes and early apples suffered Sc
verely. The use of smudge-boxes
saved several orchards.
Governor Benson has honored a
requisition from the state of Washing
ton for the return to that state OF
Aaron S. Lebb, wanted at Seattle for
the desertion of his wife and two
little girls.
A unique device for life saving at
sea has been invented by J. C. Hall,
of Vancouver, B. G. It consists of a
rocket which can be shot from the
deck of a wrecked ship to the land
and which automatically forms life
line over which crew or passengers
can escape without aid from the
shore
The committee in charge of the
Fairbanks Mount Mckinley expedition
desires that the United States Gov
ernment shall detail Signal Service
men from the point nearest Mount
Mckinley to make a trip to the vi
cinity of the mountain, and report
whether an American flag is flying on
tho summit
President Taft has promised Rep
sentative Townsend to go to Monroe,
Mich, on June IA to attend the un-
yelling of memorial statue to Gen
eral Custer. Monroe was Clusters
home when he enlisted, and the old
homestead there now owned by the
Government. The site will be used
for a Postoffice building.
Held guilty on eight of the IA
counts which charged violation of the
Federal statutes governing safety ap-
planes, the Rio Grande Railway
Company was directed by Federal
Judge John Marshall at Salt Lake to
pay a fine of $500 and costs. The
Oregon Short Line was found guilty
on one count of similar charge,
and penalty of 500 was assessed
against the company.
Directed by Commissioner bennett
of the General Land Office, six more
special agents of the Department OF
the Interior for Oregon and Washing
ton at Portland have been removed
from office because of the million.
dollar appropriation for their salaries
and expenses having become ex
hausted. Until more POUNDS shall be
available through Congressional &C.
ton there will be but two agents CD.
Grating from the Portland and Seattle
headquarters.
The New York District Attorneys
office has completed all preparations
for beginning the murder trial of AL
bert Walter Wolte, charged with
having brutality murdered Ruth Amos
Wheeler, handsome girl Of Is years
and with having dismembered and
partly burned her body. The crime
which was committed less than a
month ago, was of an unusually
brutal and fiendish nature and ere
ated considerable sensation at the
time.