The Newport miner. [volume] (Newport, Wash.) 1899-current, 1910-04-14
HAPPENINGS OF INTEREST
CONDENSED FOR READERS

Governor Shafroth has been asked
to take a hand in the strike Of the
United Mine Workers of district No.
Is, by sending troops to the scene
of the difficulty at Lafayette, Colo.
AS further punishment to the late
Forester, the Postmaster General has
directed that on July l the name OF
the postoffice at Pinchot, Shoshone
County, Idaho, be changed to Avery.
Rumors that Joseph Smith. presi-
dent and prophet of the Reorganized
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter
Day Saints, will abdicate in favor of
his son, Frederick NJ Smith, are cur
rent
A. C. Shaw, dismissed from the
Forestry Service on a charge OF In
subordination in connection with the
Pinchot- Ballinger controversy, will
practice law in Portland, Ore.
Chief of Police Creecy was dis
missed from his position by the st.
Louis Police Board He was found
guilty of five of the eight charges on
which he was tried.
The Nebraska State Board OF Pub
lie Lands and Buildings will buy a
moving picture machine for the
1f OF
the Norfolk Asylum.
The Senate has agreed to take up
the Warren irrigation bill for final
consideration, and it is expected the
bill will be passed. Only Senator
Hepburn and Senator Chamberlain
are known to oppose it.
William Harris, alias Brown, no.
torious as a bandit and accomplice Of
Harry Tracy, the renowned Western
desperado, has been released to the
authorities of the Utah Penitentiary
by officials of the Federal prison, at
Leavenworth, Kan.
The hookworm, according to DR..
Hollis B. Frissell, of the Rockefeller
Sanitary Commission, who has CON-
pleted tour of Southern states and
| is in Chicago, will soon be thing of
| the past.
Henry S. Graves, Chief Forester,
left Washington April IA for an ex-
| tended trip through the forest terri
tory. He will spend some days at
San Francisco, Ogden, Portland and
| Missoula.
The monthly crop report of the De-
partment of Agriculture just made
public shows that on April l winter
wheat in the Pacific Northwest was
practically normal, and runs Is per
| cent above the general range for the
, United States.
| The river and harbor bill as re-
ported to the Senate Monday carries
total appropriation of $3,725,300 for
rivers and harbors of the Pacific
Northwest and authorizes contracts
to the extent of $2,290.000 additional,
making a grand total of $6,015,300.
AS a result of water competition, it
is stated, the transcontinental rail.
roads have announced that the freight
rate on canned salmon in $4,000.
pound shipments, will be reduced
from IS cents per hundred pounds to
IS cents per hundred pounds be-
tween Columbia River and Puget
Sound points and Chicago.
Scarcity of unskilled labor through
the United States has resolved itself
into a problem so serious that rail-
road builders and big contractors, es.
pecially in the Middle West, are fac
ing the necessity of throwing up
their contracts or securing an exten.
sion of time in which to complete
their work.
The Imperial Window Glass Com.
pany, incorporated in West Virginia,
and is officials and directors were in
dicted by a special Federal Grand
Jury on three counts. The indictment
charges conspiracy in the restraint
of the hand-blown window glass.
trade in the United States: engage
ment in illegal competition and an
attempt to monopolise intarstats
| trade.