The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1908-09-04
AsHINGToN NEWS IN BRIEF.

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J. NJ. Allen and Edmond Duchess
8au, who were arrested at Kalama
the sheriff of that county, Satur-
~, confessed that they robbed the
ore of McClintock & Simpson at
hite Salmon last week.
The postofice at Falkland, a short
istance from Tacoma, was robbed
asst week. The safe was blown open
nd the robbers took $500 of Govern
nent money, $500 of the postmast-
RS cash and large number of
amps.
Harry Thompson, an engineer, rep
esenting the Department of Agricul-
IRE. is in Centralia gathering data
agarding the clearing of logged
ands. 1t is probable that an expert
nent station to investigate the clear
ng of logged-off lands will be estab-
ished near Centralia.
A party of Government surveyors,
Under command of Major Mclndoe,
commenced the final survey of the
Cowlitz River from Kelso to the Co.
lumbia, September l, for the pur-
pose of estimating the cost of deepen
ing the channel sufficiently to admit
deep-water ships. An appropriation
for the work will be asked at the
next session of Congress.
There are more than 100000 chill
dren of school age in this state, ac-
cording to the census taken in July.
This is a gain of about 5000 over
the previous year The 1850 school
houses in the state in July, 1908, and
sites, libraries and other school prop
erty are valued at an aggregate Of
about SIS, 100000, as against but
S12,448,291 the previous year, a gain
of about 100000.
Union longshoremen of Seattle are
laying plans to carry the fight which
has been on for more than a month
in this port to other Pacific Coast
cities, according to Joseph Chester
secretary of the union. The scheme
is to perfect an organization along
the entire Coast and, when the right
time comes, make an effort to en-
barrass the handling of shipments ar
irving from Seattle.
The Seattle police have captured
o. Karlson, Russian Jew, whom
they believe to be man who escaped
from prison at Vladivostok, Siberia
where he had been sentenced to
death in prison for murder. A re-
ward of $4,000 had been offered by
the Russian authorities for his arrest
He worked night and day for several
months digging passage way
through which he escaped. The Rus
sian authorities have been notified of
his arrest.
A cougar entered the outskirts of
Hoquiam Saturday morning, killed a
calf and was feasting when the owner
of the calf took shot at the big cat
with a shot gun. The cougar ran
away, but its hunger overcame its
fear and it soon returned to the feast.
Local hunters were notified, but were
unable to locate the animal until
Sunday forenoon, when they dis
patched it with rifles. 1t measured
a trife over six feet.
Deputy Prosecuting Attorney John
l. O'Phelan, of Pacific county, and
Attorney General John D. Atkinson
are engaged in preparing complaints
which will be brought by the State of
Washington to set aside certain deeds
to oyster lands sold to F. z. Houston
and others by the state. The COM
plants will allege that fraud was
practiced in the transfer of these
lands to defendants as the grounds
are in fact natural beds and the law
of the state forbids the sale of nat
ural oyster beds in Pacific county.
Joseph Block, one of the organ
izers of the German-American Bank
oil Portland, was arrested in Seattle
last week with a Mrs Weis, on a
statutory charge, the complainant be-
ing Mrs. Bloch of Portland, who says
she has been deserted by the bank
promoter. Bloch, whose name is
said to have been Barabas before i'm
migrating to America, was caught af-
ter a search had been made of the
Pacific Coast cities, at the instigation
of his wife, who is supporting her
self as a hairdresser in Portland.
United States Marshal G. G. Perry,
of the Third Judicial Division of
Alaska, has been summarily removed
by President Roosevelt, acting upon
the recommendation of Attorney
General Bonaparte who handled the
entire controversy from his summer
home at Lennox, Mass. Though
neither Washington. D. c., nor Fair
banks authorities have been informed
regarding the reasons for the Presi-
dents action, it is understood the re-
moval grows out of what is alleged
to have been mistakes in handling
the strike situation in Tanana county
last spring.
The first conflict over the Fall fish
ing season will begin after the Wash
ington state law permits fishing and
the Oregon new law says that 1t is
prohibited during the same period.
Fish Warden McAllister, of Oregon,
has notified his deputies to enforce
the law strictly and as the decisions
of the Supreme Court state that each
state has Jurisdiction over the river
from bank to bank. his deputies will