The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1904-03-25
THEY SAY

| That actual work on the Panama Can
al will begin about the fifteenth OF
April.
That company is being formed at
Bellingham to engage in the silk weav-
ing industry.
Winter wheat looks we'll and prom
ses an abundant crop say some OF the
Big Bead papers.
That the Alaska business since JAN
uary first has been the largest yet and
ls constantly increasing.
That the political pot do boil down at
Wenatchee, and that the ManAfraid-
to-Speak Out is eussed by everybody.
That there are in the United States
over 800 negro physicians, 300 lawyers
and $4,000 teachers following those pro-
/ fessions.
That new railroad will be built this
summer from Spokane to some point on
the Canadian Pacific. The line will be
$50 miles long.
The Columbis &c Okanogan Steam
ship company has offered free transpor-
tation for all the hay that the stock
men of that section need.
That a rural free delivery mail route
has been established out OF Wenatchee
for the benefit of those who live in the
Squilchuck and Wheeler hill neighbor-
hood.
That Wenatchee is to build band
stand in the park for the band boys and
that the town is to be treated to band
concerts two evenings each week this
summer.
That twenty-four car loads of the
Washington exhibit has already gone
to ST. Louis and five or six more are to
go and that that the exhibit will be in
place by April.
That Nathan Perry Reeves, who for
sixty-six years taught in the public
schools of New York city, has retired
and that during all that time he never
whipped a pupil.
That the Supreme Court has decided
against the railroad merger but the
railroad companies have determined
that the ends sought will be attained
just the same in some other way.
That the republicans of the Tenth
Congressional district of Georgia last
week nominated, Sim Walton a negro
barber, for congress against Hardwick
the present democratic incumbent.
That seeding land to wheat has begun
in some portions of the Big Bend coun-
try, and that the winter and spring has
been very favorable to the wheat crop,
and the wheat farmers are looking for
ard to big crop this year.
That the long winter and the exces-
sive snow fall the past winter has play
ed sad havoc with the stockmen OF
Okanogan county. The ground has
been completely covered now for over
four months so that all the feed that
stock got was what was fed to them by
their owners.
That the Twenty-sixth Republican
Congressional district convention which
met in Cleveland last Saturday broke
up in a row between the followers Of
Ca-otor Eo,aIa, .opd tho e,ioceasnr Of
Hanna, Senator Dick. The police final
ly interfered and restored order. When
the convention split, each party nomi-
mated a ticket and selected delegates to
the National Convention.
That Professor Gsyley, instructor in
English in the California University,
created Juror last week among coed
ucators by saying to class OF a hun
dred girls to whom he was reading and
explaining the beauties of some new
poetry; "If God Almighty or the angel
Gabriel wrote poem it would not inter-
est you. You are nothing but giggling
girls. Half of you ought to be made
pay tuition. The class is dismissed.
That white Gaping, species OF
crime which has been supposed to be
confined to the southern states, has
broken out in Stevens county. A man
by the name of Thomas was called 10
his door last week by some of his neigh
bors who did not like him and bound
and gagged. After beating him and
warning him TO leave the country they
left him. He managed to get home and
went before an officer and made COM
plant against six or eight prominent
law abiding citizens and now they are