The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1908-07-03
WASHINGTON NEWS IN BRIEF.

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at Port Townsend, made the rich find
of about $4,000 worth of ambergris
outside Cape Flattery.
o. C. Mathis, former cashier of the
defunct Exchange bank of Blaine,
pleaded guilty to forgery last week
in the superior court. He formerly
pleaded not guilty.
The Secretary of the Interior has
rejected all bids for removing timber
around Lakes Kathess, Keechelus
and Cleelum, which are to be used
as reservoirs in connection with the
Yakima irrigation project. The work
will be readvertised.
Reports from Coulee City, Doug
las county, state that the wheat crop
of the entire county has been dam
aged so per cent in the last 80 days
because of lack of rain. Grasshop-
pers and squirrels have also hurt the
wheat.
The application of Harry Ochs.
Grant Mccain, T. A Hansard, Au-
gust Timm, c. A Pegle and E. J.
Hibschman to organize the First Ma
tional Bank of Harrington, with
$4,000 capital, has been approved
by the Controller of the Currency.
Because he stopped his harrow and
went to the house for a bearskin
coat, John Simpson, a farmer near
Garfield, started a runaway in which
his team was so badly injured that
both horses had to be shot. Simpson
had but recently refused $500 for the
team.
Despondent over her failure to
pass her grades at the recent High
School examinations, Nellie Giggey,
17-year-old Bellingham girl, has dis
appeared and 1t is believed commit
ted suicide. She had frequently
threatened to take her life since her
failure to pass senior examinations.
The United States Court has ap-
pointed Sol Prudential, of the
Schwabacher firm, temporary receiv-
er for the John W. Dickie & Son
Company, the bankrupt Raymond
shipbuilding company, and issued a
restraining order directing Mr.. Little,
recently appointed receiver, to give
the management of the affairs over
to the new appointee.
Prosecuting Attorney Rowland, OF
Tacoma, has given out written
opinion declaring that nearly all can
didates have violated the primary
laws by publishing notices of their
candidacy. If Rowland enforees the
law as he sees it, the chances are
that all or nearly all of the men
elected to county Offices will not be
able to qualify for the Office to which
they were elected. The law may also
be enforced with reference to state
officials.
Steps are to be taken by the State
Tax Commission to have Frank c.
Heddorf, who escaped from the Medi-
cal Lake insane asylum eight years
ago and has been missing since then,
declared legally dead. Heddorf pos
sessed property in Okanogan county
worth $40, 900. and if no heirs can be
found the property will escheat to
the states permanent school fund.
The Office of purchasing agent on
the Isthmian Canal Commission at
Tacoma has been discontinued. Agent
Haradon, who has been in charge,
has submitted his resignation to take
effect July 8. AS no purchases ex-
cept lumber were made at Tacoma,
the Office was thought unnecessary
Whatever inspections are hereafter
required will be made by the Army
Engineers Office at Seattle.
piercing scream from Mrs. Eliza
beth Gauveitte, following two pistol
dying woman gave residents in Spo-
kane the first intimation that the
woman was being pursued by an I'M
known assassin. Immediately after
the shots were fred, a man WAS seen
to run to the south side of the street
and leap several fences. In the belief
that the woman's husband was re-
sponsible he wRs arrested an hour
later and confessed his guilt to the
police. They had been living apart.
Under ruling made by the At
torney-General, the earliest date
upon which a declaration OF candi-
dacy can be filed under the new pri-
mary law is Friday, July 10. and the
last day is Saturday, August 8. The
Attorney-General in the same opinion
holds that although the Supreme
court has held that the Offices OF
game warden and OF county fruit in
spectors are elective, the legislature
has passed no law providing for the
election OF such officers. and county
auditors should not file nor receive
declarations OF candidacy for such Of
fcsrs.
To cross the trail OF the Chicago,
Milwaukee & st. Paul and cut Seattle
and Tacoma out as wheat shipping
points from Central Washington