The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1906-04-20

| preservat1ve severed his connection
last week and left Thursday night for
South Bend, Wash, the home of his
parents. As an all-around printer be
is hard to beat.
The family of engineer D. w. Lough-
lin moved to the ranch he recently
purchased from s. L. Ellinger. Miss
Clara Trerice accompanied Mrs. Lough-
lin and will help to make ranch life
less lonely for her, Mr. Loughlin being
away from home about half his time.
The bids for ten thousand dollars
worth of Leavenworth school bonds
were opened at Wenatchee last Satur-
day and were awarded to Morris Bros,
of Portland, Ore. Their bid was par
for the bonds at 51a per cent interest
with a premium OF S389.5O which re-
duces the interest to approximately
five per cent.
A. w. Barlow agent for the Wash
ington Nursery, at Toppenish, WASH,
delivered ten thousand fruit trees TO
the farmers of this vicinity during the
past week. None OF these are for the
Cascade Orchards. Between ten and
twelve thousand trees from the Stark
Brothers nursery will be here this
week for these lands.
Quite serious passenger wreck oc
Cured three miles west of Adrian on
the main line of the Great Northern
last Saturday. Six couches and the
tender were derailed. Fortunately the
casualties were not serious. A tramp
had his arm bnDken and the baggage
men were shaken up and bruised con-
siderably. Trains were delayed from
ten to twelve hours.
H. H. Dean and family will leave for
Des Moines, Iowa, about the 25th of
this month to visit his old home which
he has not seen for fifteen years. He
will make short stops at ST. Paul and
Chicago to visit friends. From Des
Moines he will go to Memphis, Tenn,
to attend the annual convention of the
locomotive engineers as delegate from
the Leavenworth brotherhood. He
will be absent two months.
VIM. Gavin who secured the contract
for building the Red Mountain road
brought his outfit up from Cashmere
last Friday and bought his supplies
and forage here. He took four heavy
teams and eight men from here up to
the point where the work begins, about
sixteen miles from Leavenworth. He
will secure both men and teams among
the settlers along the route. The road
is to be completed by September LIST.
NJ G. Thomas and his son Burt re-
turned Tuesday from Ketchikan, Alas
ka, after an absence OF two months.
Joe Scott, who accompanied them, re
manned there. The party went there
with the purpose of trapping but found
the country well covered with indians
who are engaged in the same occupa-
ton. Mr.. Thomas says the country is
still covered with snow, and that it is
difficult to get about. Prospecting is
out of the question until June he says. |
Mr.. Thomas and his son enjoyed the
best of health, Burt having gained II
pounds in weight.
DR.. Hoxsey and his wife went to
Spokane last Monday morning with
Mrs. M. J. Dutton, who has been suf-
fering with appendicitis for the past
month. An operation was performed
by Dr. C. E. Hoxsey, of Spokane, at
the Sacred Heart hospital, assisted by
Dr. G. W. Hoxsey. The formation of
a psoas abscess in connection with APP
pendicitis made the operation com
plicated one but telegram dated
Tuesday indicated that the operation
would be successful and hopes are en-
tertained of her rapid recovery.