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The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1907-05-24
STATE NEWS ITEMS

Owing to the advanced cost of all
kinds of foodstuffs, the hotel and res
taurant keepers of Odessa have felt
compelled to raise the price of meals
and board, and met Monday and agreed
upon the following scale of prices,
which went into effect Tuesday: Reg
ulm meals, IS cents; meal tickets, S.;
board by week, $3.50; board by month,
$3.50; board and room, $6 per week;
board and room per month, $24. The
proprietors of all the public eating
houses in Odessa are parties to the
agreement. They claim that this ad-
vance is necessary to conserve their
profits and that they must get more if
they are to maintain their tables in the
way they are wont to keep them.
Boarding house keepers in several
other towns in the Big Bend have like
wise raised their prices for the same
reason, and board can still be obtained
in Odessa as cheap and in most in
stances cheaper than elsewhere.
Odessa Record.
The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1907-05-24
Conductor Dodson Found Guilty

A Waterville dispatch of Monday
last states that John Dodson, charged
with burglarizing freight car on the
Great Northern railway last summer,
was found guilty in the superior court
last Saturday after the jury had delib-
Grated % hours. Judge Steiner re-
served sentence. Dodson was a freight
conductor at the time the robbery oc-
cured on his train, and a brakeman
named Chapman was arrested in the
same case. The latter entered a plea
of guilty to a petty larceny charge.
Dodson lived at Leavenworth and was
well known among railroad men at
Spokane.
The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1907-05-24
COLUMBIA RIVER COMING UP
Wenatchee People Reaping Harvest of
Logs for Firewood

The rapidly rising Columbia is bring
ing down an enormous number OF valu-
able logs during its present freshet.
The most OF these are supposed to be
from the Lamb-Davis dam, which broke
at Leavenworth some time ago, and
many of which were lodged in the river
at points above Wenatchee.
The river rose at least foot Tuesday
night and is still coming up. Logs are
passing down in steady procession.
Many of them have been caught in the
eddy near the Simmons ranch below
town, and wagons are busy every day
hauling them from the riverside here to
the city. One man is said to have
pulled out over 400 since they started
down week ago, and young man
named Elfers is reported to have made
$54 Sunday morning; he dragged out
27 and sold them at 50 each.
1t will be remembered that short
time back the local wood dealers made
an effort to combine and keep the price
of frewood at $3.50 per cord during
the summer. With these big solid logs
selling at 50 each and purchased largely
for wood there is some chance of the
wood trust busting.-Wenatchee World
The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1907-05-24
OUR FIRE APPARATUS HERE
With an Increased Water Pressure, Plenty
of Hose and Two Chemical Engines
We Need Fire Brigade

The balance of the fire apparatus re-
Gently bargained for by the council ar
rived last week. We now have hose
cart, two chemical tanks mounted on
wheels and nearly one thousand feet
of hose.
The hose cart and one chemical
engine will be kept at the city hall on
Commercial street. That is when the
city hall is built. At present they are
stored in a shed on the back end of
the lot. The other chemical will be
housed in a building to be erected on
one of L. w. Blooms lots, on the north
side of the track, the town having Sc
cured lease of grond from Mr.. Bloom.
Work on the new reservoir is pro-
crossing rapidly, and soon we will be
getting water for all purposes from the
large reservoir. The water company
has also arranged for new pump to be
used in pumping direct from the river
in the case of break in the fume.
All we need now to insure fairly
good fire protection in the business
districts are few hydrants on Com
mercial street. A fire hydrant should
be put in near the City Hall and also
one in the vicinity of the Congre-
gational church, then an extension of
the fire hose limit might be made as
the residents demand it. But this is
not all we need. We need an effec-
tive and well drilled fire company,
composed of the very best men in the
community, men who would not be
likely to lose their heads in the event
of a fire. Five men at fire, going to
work Systematically, knowing what to
do, will accomplish more good than
hundred unorganized men working at
cross purposes.
Have you never noticed how it is
at a fire when all wait for some one TO
take the lead, or where a dozen try to
tell the two who are doing there best,
what to do. Where every body wants
to be boss and nobody wants to be
bossed-all confusion and no system.
Can't we guard against this by or
ganizing a fire department. We don't
need large company. Better have
small, well organized, dependable
bunch that would obey leader.
The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1907-05-24
Sues Secretary Garfield

The suit referred to was originally
started by our fellow-townsman, Hon.
J. J. King, before coming to Washing
ton. He three times won the contest
against Cox, but it had not finally been
decided when he left Nebraska four
years ago.
On the 18th of May Peter G. Cox
instituted suit in the supreme court Of
the District of Columbia against Secre-
tary Garfield, of the Department of the
Interior, to compel Mr.. Garfield to
grant hearing in a case involving title
to a quarter section of land in the
O'Neill land district in Nebraska. Cox
was the original settler on the land un-
der the homestead laws and his entry
was successfully contested by man
named Wells. Cox now alleges that
Wells was not in a position to make a
valid entry under the homestead laws
because he had previously exercised
his right. On the other hand, the de-
partment decided Cox's right to make
second entry had been assured under
the act of 1900, giving the right to
such entry under certain conditions.
The trial OF the case will involve the
construction of that law.
The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1907-05-24

The battleship Nebraska, built at Sc
attic, is expected to be fully completed
by the last of May.
The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1907-05-24

One of our enterpsising lady home
steaders was in town from her ranch
in the north part Of the county the
first of the week and took out a load Of
posts and wire for fencing purposes.
She has been fencing her ranch and
had run out of material and came to
town to procure more, driving the team
alone. If that homesteader can't have
the pick OF the old bachelors in this
county we will throw up our job
Waterville Press.
The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1907-05-24

Ministers and number of other cit
izens of Skagit county apperaed before
the board OF county commissioners and
asked that the board close all the sa-
looms in the country districts on Sunday.
Commissioners Moody and Thompson
have expressed themselves as being in
favor of the step if all the towns in the
county would cooperate.
The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1907-05-24

A. w. Perley, connected with the
State Railroad Commission in the ca
pacity Of inspector of tracks and safety
Appliances, spent a couple Of days
here this week in the discharge OF his
duties. Mr.. Perley is an old loco
motive engineer. His home for twenty
years has been in Whitman county,
tho he makes his headquarters in
Olympia at present.
The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1907-05-24

The Fanesworth sisters will occupy
the house Mr.. Mills will erect on Com
mercial street. They will open dress
making parlor and later may add mil
linery department.
The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1907-05-24
Thomas.

Odessa stands preeminent among
her neighbors in one thing at least. 1t
is the Star baby town of Eastern Wash
ington and it would do President Roose-
welt good to drop in here some of these
fine afternoons and see the fine healthy
specimens of babyhood that are daily
wheeled up and down our pnblic streets.
Bless the babies! What would life
be without them?-Odessa Record.
The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1907-05-24

Spokane voters declared for the ini-
tiative and referendum in city laws al
the recent city election.
The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1907-05-24

The horse thieves are getting busy
again in Okanogan county according
to reports coming in from there. A
number have been run in from across
the line and one Charlie Joe, an In
dian has been arrested charged with
being implicated in the deals. More
work for Judge Steiner and Sheriff
Thomas.
The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1907-05-24

John D. Atkinson will be the next
governor of the state of Washington,
declares Lewis N. Rosenbaum, Seat
tie attorney and capitalist.
The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1907-05-24

Wheat buyers in the Big Bend are
offering IS cents for new wheat at de-
livery time.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1907-07-21
BkRRINGTON'S STORY.

The morning after McCann's disappearance
harrington appeared at the home Of his bene-
factor, pale, nervous, weary from loss OF sleep
footsore carrying his masters walking stick.
wearing McCann's hat, his clothes torn be-
oraggled and boodstained. He told McCann's
wife that he had met her husband the night be-
fore at the drug store. had accompanied him In
q cab with two women TO Suburban Garden. a
summer resort on the western edge of the city
where Mccain in is'cups, had fought with two
men.
The blood stains his clothing he explained
by the statement that he had helped Mccain in
his fight with the men. In the struggle, he said
the horseman had been cut across the face by
one Of his antagonists. After the fight Mccain
had disappeared IN the cab with the women
leaving him TO return home alone. His absence
OF the night he explained by the statement that
he had vainly sought in the neghborhood Of the
Garden for his employer.
For q few days this explanation satisfied Mrs
Mccain. who waited for the end OF her hus-
bands spree and for his return. ANY suspicious
she may have had were iuled for a time by
notes which she received from day to day osten-
siby in her husbands handwriting. and promis-
ing his speedy return. But these very notes.
calculated TO alay her suspicious were the
means OF quicken!ng them. and when the end
OF two weeks Mccain did not return she re-
ported his disappearance TO the police.
Barringtons arrest the first step IN the
police investigation. But so plausible were his
explanations that even wary police veteran
as the chief OF detectives ordered his release.
He was kept under surveillance. however. and
the investigation proceeded. It was not long be-
fore a conductor and motorman on the St.
Charles & Western Railway, an interurban line
between st. Louis and St Charles. found
who remembered taking out y cir car late on
the night Of McCanns disappearance the horse
man and companion answering the description
OF harrington.
The crew had seen the man answering
Farringtons description returning alone and on
foot early the following morning. Still an
other conductor was found who remembered
taking harrington home from the city limits
shortly after dawn the morning after Nc
Cams disappearance. Their recollection OF Bar
ringtcn WAS fixed because OF his obvious agita-
ton and the bedragsled and bloodstained con-
oitioa OF his clothing
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1907-07-21

OF Magistrates for the Mayor 70 III. Tia lau
authorizing night sessions OF the public COURT
requires two new magistrates. and tho pIscs.i
have already been filed by the Mayor. ~.
lawyers TO act as counsel for the Public ser,rcs
Commission have not yet been selected brs
both bodies are actively at work. The upstate
one has chosen as its secretary John H s. Ka,
nedy, who was secretary OF the State RaIIroas
Commission. The city commission purposes tai
Ing UP the task OF ascertailing the exact rac,
in regard to the two great corporations whics
control the systems OF travel IN the borougbs =.
Manhattan and Brooklyn.
THE Haywood trial has reached the staea =.
summing up by counsel. and It is expected tha.
1t will reach the jury the comin, week A.
other trial exciting much interest is that OF p
fessor Karl Hau. In Germany. on the charra -.
numbering his mother-in-law. The decline :.
land values in the agricultural regions OF +bt
state since the SOS by S170OOOOOO has arousa5
much attention. and the study OF the problsrn
with view to the restoration OF former CO..
ditions. With Mayor SchInitz out OF the vysv tba
Board OF Supervisors in San Francisco b.s
chosen as the chief executive OF the city n
Edward r. Taylor, who IS regarded as exra-
tiOnally well qualified for the duties OF the No..
The perils OF travel are illustrated by the rac.
that crowd OF roisterers on an elevated t-,t
IN this city prevented the motorman r~nr,
using his controller and shutting or the pows.
IN time TO prevent running into a train ahsss
Out in the country an engineer was prostratad
by the heat and was helpless at the throttle =.
his engine. which fortunately stopped bePo,.
serious accident. But it there was danger a,
crowds also death came In the silence OF o..
summit OF q mountain peak to q man who 10.
Just made a difficult ascent and died sro,,
heart disease
General Alikhano6s who had had an aav.n.
urous and turbulent career in various parts a.
Russia, fell victim to the bomb which his On
mics had repeatedly threatened him with .,
lAlexandrOpol. An aeronaut who had mads man,
perilous descents with parachute. after bans
apparently shot from mortar IN the coursa ~
a balloon flight, found the reality OF peril 4,
having his clothing set fire. and narrowly
escaped death President FalHerss OF the French
Republic had narrow escape from being shot
by an assassin the occasion OF the celebration
Of the Bastile anniversary IN Paris.
The record OF deaths for the week tnclra.,
the names OF ex-State Senator Henry = Cosgs-
shall. who served nine terms at Albany Admiral
John Pearse Afaclear, OF the British navy; Pro-
fessor Angelo Heilprin. who made the ascent a.
Mont Pelae at the time OF the great eruption.
Theobald Chartran. the French artist; Sir VIII
lam Henry PerAin. the discoverer OF anilins
dyes: Hector Henri Malot, the French novelist.
Andrew John. whose Indian naIne was Gus Ia
Note head OF the Seneca tribe OF Indians and
Robert c. Black. a we'll known Jeweller, Of this
city The report Of the death OF Tolstoy was
happily not confirmed"
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1907-07-21

by tho education Of women In a land where they
are kept behind the curtain" IS almost incom-
prehenslble 10 one accustomed TO the liberty Of
the West and 10 tho equality OF the The
missionaries have far-sightedly set TO work 10
make the very springs OF Indian society Chris
tian.
Physical hardships are more numerous for
missionaries in India than Tor those In any other
Oriental land. / came TO India I'm the hot sea-
son; some missionaries cruel enough 10
goat over this fact. for more travellers see
India only I'm its delightful cool" season. and
then wonder why anybody should complain Of
the climate. The missionaries have my sym
pathy: people who work, they do in Ii
temperature ranging up to 800 degrees are not
out for q pleasant time Trying To accompany
them on their rounds nearly finished me; here
after 1 prefer to read about their labors IN a
book.
Accustomed though the American he to the
plague as an occa sional horror which merely
peeps in at one OF our seaports it is not
cOngenial TO go ranging about the native quar-
ters of cities where the deaths from plague
number moro than two hundred day. Yet
there lies the missionnry's lot. and he will ex-
plain that few white persons die from plague.
although cholera eXacts II heavy toll. Nobody
Feems to know just what the plague Is; even
the natives have come 10 n hazy realization OF
the fact that It is transmitted by some sort OF
dirt germ. Therefore, during plague seasons
many natives may be seen wearing shoes and
sandals to avoid cuts on their feet through
which the plague might enter.
Snakes real peril in India, some fifty
thousand persons dying annually from snake
bite. certain missionary upon whom called
had native nurse for each OF his two little
children Perhaps he thought / looked az If
regarded this "A missionary extravaganza. for
he explained that they dare not trust child
outdoors for a minute alone because of the dam
ger from snakes. Altogether. missionary work
in India is not an Edenic experience-especiaIly
since at some places the missionaries labor for
years without convert. one British veteran
has had only three converts in fifteen years AT
Benares the three strong missions average only
two three accessions a year.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1907-07-21

the most poorly paid IS 100 rupees month, or
nineteen times that of his father. This is the
sort OF thing that is being accomplished all over
India.
The schools OF India are the browning glory
of mission work: they the mills of which
manhood and womanhood Is the finished prod
uct. They distinct and powerful contribution
to the forces which are creating modern ma
tional consciousness in India.
one phase of missions to which the govern
ment contributes its support, financial and
otherwise Is the industrial school work. The
Indian is proverbially unprogressive and unn-
ventive; the mission schools teaching the
manual arts in modern fashion. so that new
enterprises for the winning of a livelihood are
being created and old ones revived.
For the Christians. be 1t understood are prac-
ticaIly a caste by themselves in most places.
They are cast off by their families. friends and
co-religionists and It is necessary that some
means OF livelihood not dependent upon neigh
borhood favor be taught them. Thus industrial
training has a most practical relation to mis-
sionary success; since not all nor in these days
OF great ingathering a very large percentage OF
the native Christians can be employed by the
missionaries in any capacity.
The powerful social leverage which Is exerted
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1907-07-21
THE BODY FOUND.

Darlington was TearFested. The car men Iden-
g9aied him without hesitation. and the police OF
both city and county set out TO find his victims
body. II ascertained from the crew Of the
fnterurban car that Mccain and his companion
had LEFT the car at Bonns. a lonely village about
fifteen miles from the city limits A farmer near
the village was found who remembered hearing
on the night OF the supposed murder faint cry
for help borne on the wind. The police sought
tn an abandoned quarry q mile distant from the
farmers cottage. but although they dragged
the pond. they found no body.
Then IL vas that the coroner OF ST Louis
County remembered that mans body had heen
found floating in the pond some weeks before.
An inquest had been held upon the body which
bore no papers or other marks by which IL
might have been identified. and after the custom
OF the county coroner the body buried
the spot.
This body was eXhumed and identified by Nc
Cams wife and his brothers. Upon this evil
dence and much more which was unearthed by
the authorities. Lord Frederick Seymour-Bar-
Yington" was brought 10 trial for the murder OF
James J. Mccain, found guilty and sentenced
10 death.
That was three years and more ago. Hover
ing within the shadow of the gallows, Bar
rington has never ceased to protest his limo
cence Of McCanns murder. his belief that Nc
Cam will some day turn up alive to save him.
And although his long record, with names,
Hates and prison data, supplied from Scotland
Yard Brooklyn and various places In the South
have been adduced TO show that he has had
lie and half way round the globe. he has
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1907-07-21
MISSIONS IN INDIA.
Grandchildren of Concerts the
Chmchs Hope There,
BY William t. Ellis.

Copyright. 1907 by Jospeh h Bow1esD
1t is serious ignorance OF the worlds big news
to be unaware that there is at present in India
a widespread sentiment OF resentment. if not
actual revolt. against Great Britain, which may
at any time find sporadic expression in revolu-
ton.
Any who gets close to the natives as
the missionary does-which is far closer than
any other white man-knOws that the foremost
subject of thought and agitation among them is
what they consider their wrongs at the hands of
the government. They claim that they being
dealt with IN high handed and oppressive fash
ion; that they do not have anything approaching
a proper measure of self government; that the
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1907-07-21
THE DRIVER WEPT.

Tho coolest thing that has happened for some
time occurred few days ago In u provincial sub
urb
The electric car system has just been installed
there, and the drivers and guards go about their
work with n great air OF dignity. This accumulated
the audacity of Il certain workman who was wend-
ing his way homeward. carrying his kit
AS approached IN all Its glory of a fresh
coat of varnish he held up his hand. and the car
drew up smartly But the man did not get aboard.
He had tobacco pipe in one hand and a match
in the other
He coolly struck the match the side of the
car. and said to the driver. between puffs "AIl
right puff)-governor. you-can-go on"'-Philadel-
Dhia Inquirer.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1907-07-21

ceeded in impressing more than one person Of
intelligence with the sincerity of his protesta-
lions.
Without money, without family influence save
what may exist for the credulous in his spurious
claims of gentity, with charm Of manner.
but only a vulgar glibness OF speech, he has
succeeded in enlisting counsel Of ability enough
TO carry his case to the highest court in the
state and 10 delay the laws vengeance until
now. The British Vice Consul, when Barring
toms fate seemed to have been sealed by his
lack OF funds with which TO obtain transcript
OF the evidence take the case before the
Supreme Court went to his aid.