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The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1908-11-20
WASHINGTON NOTES

William Arnold Shanklin, former
~ pastor of the First Methodist Epis-
copal church of Seattle, was elected
last week president of Wesleyan Uni
versity, Middletown, Conn.
President Roosevelt Saturday at
ternoon signed the commission OF
George F. Russell to be postmaster
at Seattle, succeeding George Stew
art recently removed. Russell was
recommended by Senator Piles.
A beet of the mangelwurzel va
riety. weighing % pounds, is on ex-
hibition at Montesano. 1t has been
put in cold storage and will be used
for an exhibit at the A.-Y.-P. expo
sition next year.
Carrying one of its occupants to
her death, an automobile, in which
were seven people, plunged over a
precipitous bluff overlooking the Spo-
kane river at Spokane Sunday even
ing.
A letter has been forwarded TO
President Roosevelt by j. e. Chill
berg, president of the A.-Y.-P. Elk
position, asking that his trophies OF
the chase in British East Africa be
made an exhibit at the Exposition.
Caught in the gear of coal ele-
vator at the Northern Pacific yards
in Spokane Saturday night j 9.
Northrup, u prominent mining man
of Palouse, Wash, was crushed to
death before the machinery could be
stopped.
The body of Mels G. Ormes, the
missing timber cruiser, was found
last week short distance from Puy-
allup. Ormes left that town on Oc-
tober 22 to go on a hunting trip. II
is believed the trigger of his gun
caught in the brush, the charge en-
tering his breats, near the heart.
William Klockstead. of Cove, Fl
years of age, forfeited his life for
leaving his home to start on the life
of a hobo. With both of his legs
severed above the knees by train
in the Portland Union. Depot yards
last week, he died in a hospital a few
hours later.
Boosting of his wealth and his sus-
picious manner of disposing of gold
dust and nuggets in Seattle, was the
cause of the arrest of R. R. Reed, an
Alaska miner. He is charged with
having stolen $4,000 in gold dust
from Cook & Co.'S mines at Boone
Creek, near Fairbanks, Alaska
where he was employed.
Within "a hours after James Me-
Quade, who made such sensational
plea before a jury in the superior
court here last week, resulting in his
acuuittal, was released from the
county Jail, word was received that
the acquitted man is an escaped con
Wet and is wanted in the Oregon
Penitentiary at Salem.
The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1908-11-20
WORLDS NEWS IN BRIEF

The new divorce law, increasing
the period of residence from six
months to one year, was carried in
South Dakota by vote of 2 to 1.
If the recovery of Postmaster E.
w. Morgan, of New York, who was
shot last week, continues, he will be
at his desk the first week in De-
cember.
Official election returns show that
the Unionist party carried all seven
districts of Porto Rico. The Union
lists advocated independence and self
government.
President Roosevelt has appointed
George S. Terry to be Assistant
Treasurer of the United States, in
succession to Hamilton Fish.
The United State Steel corporation
has decided to expend IS, 500, 900,
the greater part of which will be
used to increase its capacity for
pressed steel cars.
The Home Missions of the Metho-
dist church last week appropriated
$500, 900 for mission work in Ameri-
ca. The funds are to be used largely
for work in the city slums and at
frontier posts.
The grand jury at Nashville, Tenn,
returned a true bill in which Colonel
B. Cooper, his son, Robin B. Cooper,
and ex-Sheriff ]. d. Sharp are jointly
charged with numbering ex-senator
Carmack and in which Sharp is in
dicted also on the charge of being
an accessory before the fact.
Professor Mark w. Harrington,
formerly chief of the United States
Weather Bureau, who mysteriously
dropped out of sight nearly 10 years
ago. has been found, hopeless men
tai wreck, In the New Jersey Asylum
for the Insane at Morris Plains. Such
is his condition that he has been un-
able to tell the asylum officials any
thing about himself. His wife re-
Gently visited the asylum and identi-
fed her missing husband.