The Newport miner. [volume] (Newport, Wash.) 1899-current, 1910-03-10
HAPPENINGS OF INTEREST
CONDENSED FOR READERS

The direct primary law passed oy
the Nevada Legislature a year aso
has heen declared constitutional
A monument, shaft OF vermont
granite. to the memory OF Lleutenan'
Joseph Petrosino, who was muiuei eu
in Italy while on secret mission ioi
the New York police, has DeeA
erected in a Brooklyn cemetery
In no other country has there oeen
such a great growth of interest IN art
matters as in the United States. Our
ing 1909 the value of importatons o.
art works into this country amounted
to more than $4o,Ooo,oOO
According to Premier Gouih' lne
order prohibiting the expectation OF
Canadian pulp wood will be rauIieo
at the legislative ASSEMBLY, OF Queoec
and will become operative Septem-
Der /.
A new society calling itself the so
ciety of American Officers has Deen
organized in New York with its man
object "the bringing together OF OIL
ficers OF the National Guard OF the
United States of America
The National Labor Alliance, or
sanixed in a secret meeting at WASH
inston. d. c., will oppose the lnflu-
ence of the American Federation OF
Labor in National and Congressional
elections.
One hundred and fifty prominent
New Workers have been named 10
comprise the committee which Will
rive Theodore Roosevelt welcome
home from his hunting expedition IN
Africa.
OF the 90 Canadian Pacific train
men. trackmen and laborers buried
by an avalanche in Rogers Pass, on
the summit of the Selkirk range OF
the Rocky Mountains, all are prob
ably dead
A gold medal in recognition OF MS
services In conserving the woodlands
OF the country was presented to Gilt
ford Pinchot, ex-Chief Forester OF the
United States, at the dinner OF the
Campfire Club of America in New
York city
First meeting of the board of ar
bitrators who are to settle the switch
mems strike on eight railroads enter
ing Chicago was held in the Federal
building at Chicago. Hearing OF evil
dence will be he'd next Wednesday.
Each side will have three days in
which to present its case.
The completion Of the second unit
OF the Bellefourche, S. D., irrigation
project embracing 10000 acres, and
divided into 40 and 80 acre farms,
has been announced by the Interior
Department. These farms are now
available under the homestead and
reclamation laws.
Representative McCredie Of Wash.
ingron, has introduced a bill fixing
the size Of apple boxes to be used in
Oregon, Washington and Idaho at 1Sx
llnx101a inches. inside measurement,
and pear boxes at 1Sx11hxS. This is
proposed as a substitute for the La
team bill
Twenty Republican editors Of the
Eighteenth Congressional District Of
Illinois, represented in Congress by
Speaker Cannon, at a meeting In
Danytlls Endorsed the Speakers pol
icies. calling upon him to again be a
candidate for Congress; approved the
Payne-Aldrich tariff bill and paid
high tribute to President Taft and
Governor Deneen.
It is estimated that about one.third
the membership of the Senate are
nllionaires, while enough to make a
majority Of the body are what might
be called wealthy men-that is men
whose assets top their. liabilities by
half million dollars or more. The
richest man in the senate is Gug-
genheim of Colorado
The Administration bill providing
that the United States shall issue
$30.000.000 in 8 per cent bonds for
the reclamation of arid lands, may
meet a summary fate in the House
1t is contended by members Of the
House that this is a revenue pro.
ducing measure, and that such legis-
lation can originate only in the ways
and means committee of the House.