The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1908-08-28
WASHINGTON NEWS IN BRIEF.

publican National Committee, has ap-
pointed Richard A. Ballinger. OF So
attic. on the advisory committee.
Interest which has been tagging In
the primary election Is now awaken
ing throughout the state and numer-
Gus candidates who have started out
on speech-making tours are attract
ing good audiences. The leading
candidates for Governor are nearly
all speaking daily.
Last week fire destroyed the Allen
Fortune threshlng machine at the
Charles Kessler ranch In Pleasant
Valley. Mr.. Kessler lost thousand
sacks of wheat The fire was of mys-
terous origin, having started near
the separator. The crop was burned.
No insurance on the machine.
Notice has been filed with the
county commissioners that the citi-
zens of the town of Washougal Will
make application for incorporation as
a city of the fourth class. Action on
the petition has been set for Septem-
Der Il. when an election will un-
doubtedly be ordered.
Drowned by stepping overheard
from steamship while walking in
his sleep, was the fate of Charles
Ellis, a brother of a Spokane broker.
Ellis left Prince Rupert last week
for Upper Skeena river on board the
steamship Distributor. He got up
about midnight and walked over the
side of the boat.
A. A. Richie, employed on the Gov
eminent road work in the National
park on Mount Rainier, was killed
by falling over n precipice last week.
He had taken a short cut through
the timber to the blacksmith shop
and the men in the shop saw his
body roll down the cliff. He lived
several hours after the accident. He
was about 80 years of age.
In accordance with an announce
ment made at Walla Walla last week,
applegrowers will be compelled to
pay an advance of from Is to 20
cents a box on freight rates to East
ern points. The increased rate comes
through an agreement between the
Northern Pacific and o. r. & N. Of
ficials and will go into effect Septem-
Der 10.
While Deputy Sheriff T. j. Step
hens, of Pacific county, was chasing
head when he started to catch the
train at The Dalles, Or, last week,
his prisoner, Martin Cole, who had
been captured there by Sheriff Chris
man on the charge of deserving his
family, boarded the train, leaving his
custodian behind. Cole was later
picked up at Hood River, Or.
Denied the protection they are en-
titled to by the city police, shipown-
ers employing nonunion longshore-
men in Seattle have announced that
hereafter when strikers or their SYM
pathizers are arrested for assaulting
strikebreakers, the owners will take
the matter into the Federal court
and out of the hands of the Munich
pal judges, where they have not been
able to get desired results.
On warrant issued at Mount Yer
non, A. H. Scott was arrested at Van
couver last week and is held in the
county Jail awaiting the arrival of
officers from Mount Vernon 1t Is
charged that Scott not only deserted
his wife, but that he left with an
other woman. He will have but lit
tie to say in regard to the charge
against him, except to state that he
left his wife because she had at
tempted to poison him.
Maddened at the sight of 40 Hindu
strike-breakers filling their places in
the Northern Pacific railroad yards
at Tacoma, last week, about SO Ital-
ian laborers, armed with stones,
clubs and other weapons, twice en-
gagged the Hindus in a pitched battle,
but were repulsed by the latter with
bullets. One Hindu is in the hos
pital with a bruised face, and the
foreman of the track gang was in
jured slightly by rock thrown by
the Italians.
Chester Thompson, who was tried
on a charge of numbering Judge
George Meade Emory in Seattle two
years ago and acquitted on the
ground of insanity, has thrown the
Emory and Whittlesey families into
state of terror by his attempts to
see Miss Charlotte Whittlesey three
weeks ago while the young lady was
participating in tennis tournament
at Tacoma. 1t was over Miss Whit
tlesey that Thompson shot down
Judge Emory in cold blood, and rela-
tives fear that he will kill her, too,
if he gets chance.
One vote may be sufficient to nom
mate candidates on the Democratic
ticket for State Treasurer, State Au-
ditor and Attorney General. When
the time for filing declarations of
candidacy expired on August there
were no aspirants for these places.
Since then the Democratic state CEN
trail committee has been claiming the
right to fill the vacancies, but &C
cording to the Acknowledgement the
right of the committee to fill vacan-
Cies will exist only in the event the
places are vacant after the primaries
have been held. The law, according
to previous opinions given by the At
torney-General, permits the voting