The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1904-03-11
THEY SAY

That Wenatchee wants to close all
business houses ut six o'clock p. IN.
That a movement is on foot to build
an electric road from Chelan to Rock
Island.
That II. s. Irwin has bought the
store at Blewett which Ira Freer estab-
ished last year.
That the people who live in Douglas
county just across the river from We
natceee want to be attached to Chelan
county.
That the funds have been raised and
the preliminary survey is now being
made for an electric road from Curlew
to Chesaw.
That o. c. McManus, of Mission, is
candidate for county treasurer, and
that the Mission people say they will
stay with him first, last and all the time.
That Seattle shoplhter by the name
of Hollenbeck went into store and
stole hat. Not getting the right size
he went back to exchange it and stole
two more.
That the farmers around Krupp will
go in strong for the new forage plant
known as dry land alfalfa, which has
proved to Withstand drought and make
good forage.
That the Corn Exchange Bank, of
Chicago, has posted notice forbidding
any of its employees marrying, on pain
of losing their job, who receive less
than thousand a year salary.
That John Spanjer at Waterville re-
Gently sold n section of raw land four
miles south of Quincy for $4160. This
is in a section of country which three
wears ago was considered worthless for
farming.
That Wenatchee's Commercial Club
has undertaken to get the two thousand
acres OF sugar beets subscribed to make
the sugar refining fact. And that
they have every rerson to believe they
will succeed.
That Kiowa Indian squaw sold her
dress in Ell Reno, Oklahoma, for 81, 900
and the purchaser is congratulating
himself on his bargain. The costume
was lavishly decorated with Elk teeth
which are becoming almost as rare as
pearls.
That this is not the only country
where they have snow slides. On the
fifth of this month an avalanche, which
| is the European name for slide,
buried the entire village OF Beas, Spain.
Many people were entombed in their
| houses.
That Professor Trigg, of the Standard
Oil University, has been fred out of his
job because he brought the patron saint
into contempt. Sometime ago in lee
turing his class he compared John ID.
Rockefeller with Shakespeare to the
poets disadvantage
! That the farmers around Wilson
| Greek sold all their wheat last fall to
the warehouse-men and now wheat is
| high and the warehouse-men want cash
| for it and many of the farmers have
spent all their cash, and there you are.
No money, no seed; no seed, no crop.
That Spokane shippers, who repre-
senting about million dollars worth
of freight bills per year have combined
and will give their business to the o.
r. g. N. railroad until such time as the
Northern Pacific and Great Northern
see fit to grant some freight rate con-
cessions which the Spokane merchants
think they ought to have.
That the population statistics of
Omaha for the month of January show
that Bishop John NJ Francis Of Indiana,
| was right when he said that babies are
not born in the home of the rich. OF
155 born in Omaha during the month OF
January all are given on the birth rec
ords as the children of 'artisans,"
sclerks' or 'laborers." Not one was
credited to the idle rich
That buxom Amazonian widow of
! 35, by the name of Fanny Blackburn,
recently captured three burglars who
tried to enter her house. They were
entering by way of the cellar, and as
each burglar came up through the trap
door be was promptly seized by the col
lar and with a hickory club put to sleep.
After the third and last one had been
attended to she phoned the station to
send the hurry up wagon and haul the
game to the lock up. The story Incl
dentally explains why Mrs. Blackburn