The Newport miner. [volume] (Newport, Wash.) 1899-current, 1910-04-28
HAPPENINGS OF INTEREST
CONDENSED FOR READERS


Eulogies on the late Representative
Cushman, of Washington, will be held
May 81.
Wisconsin's State Board of Forestry
has joined hands with the Federal
Forestry Service in getting a compre.
hensive statement of facts as to forest
tax conditions in that state.
President Taft has ordered the re-
moval of United States District At
torney John J. Boyce and United
States Marshal Dan A. Switzerland,
Of the first division, Alaska.
AS a result of sensational test.
mony before the House committee on
the District of Columbia regarding
the conduct of affairs of George Wash.
ington University, there may be a
Congressional investigation.
Albert Wolter, degenerate youth
of 10 years, who gloated over 1ewd
pictures and was "crazy" about WON
en-, must die in the electric chair for
the murder of Ruth Wheeler, pretty
16-year-old New York stenographer
President Taft has signed the first
of the proclamations providing a re-
classification of the lands in the Ma.
tional forests, which will throw 4,000,.
900 acres cslt of the forest reserves
and make them available for home
stead entry
Senator Johnston of ALBANIA has in
formed the Senate that movement
for the importation of Australian beef
had been inaugurated in New York
as a means of meeting the trust
prices. He said it had been found
that the foreign meat could be sold
at a rate of cents pound less than
the domestic product.
Government employees are much
perturbed over reports which Indicate
| that the hookworm disease, dread foe
of all work, is approaching the Ma
tional capital. In Viryinia, only a
short distance south of Washington,
il was found in one school that z of
the 9 pupils harbor hookworms.
Mrs. Hetty Green, celebrated for
years as the richest and shrewdest
business woman in the world, will
soon retire from active business life
and will turn over the handling OF her
immense fortune, estimated at $685.
900 900, to her daughter, Sylvia, now
Mrs. Matthew Astor Wilkes.
Commander Sverdrup, the famous
Arctic explorer, will leave Norway this
week with Il men on the whaler
Hvalrossen for an expedition to
Greenland's northwest coast and BAT
fin Land in the hope of finding a new
whaling territory. Commander Sverd-
rup will visit also Annatok and Etah,
in order to examine the places IN
which DR.. Cook declares he left his
observation materials.
The Dixon long and short haul
amendment to the Elkins interstate
commerce bill now before the Senate
will probably be defeated because the
lumber Senators, who at first glance
were inclined to favor this provision,
have become convinced that Coast
terminal rates should not be robbed
of advantages that come to them by
reason of their water competition.
Chicago Board of Trade men pro-
fessed surprise when they heard the
renorts that an investigation into the
operations of the Board of Trade Is
to be made by the Department. OF JUS
tice. The contention of the dealers is
that the Board of Trade as an insu-
tution in no way affects prices but
simply affords market where supply
and demand may have free play IN
fixing the true, just, natural price.
There is now only eight states in
the Union which Mr.. Taft has failed
to visit officially and these will have
the pleasure of meeting the President
before many months have passed
They are Wyoming, Nevada. Oklaho.
ma, Michigan, Florida, West virginia,
Maine and New Hampshire. He will
have been perhaps the first OF the
Presidents to visit every STATEN the
Union during his incumbency.