The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1909-12-03
NEWS OF PACIFIC NORTHWEST

didates. R. L. Mccormick, the big
lumberman OF Tacoma, Representative
Miles Poindexter of Spokane, and
Judge John E. Humphries of Seattle
are out in the open and actively at
work. Former Senator John L. Wilson
has gone abroad after telling the Will
son Senatorial Club that he is in the
hands of his friends" Judge Thomas
Burke is out with frank statement
that he will be candidate unless Sen
ator Piles seeks reelection. McCor-
mick's candidacy carries with it the
withdrawal of Judge Smell and indicates
that there will be no other candidate
from Pierce county or the southwest.
Judging from the newspaper following
already attached to him it does not
seem likely that Mr.. Poindexter will
have any east side opponent. But
King county, with three candidates, is
certainly in for bunch of trouble.
The Northwest apple is still king of
them all. His regal claims were vim
dictated again at the second National
Apple Show recently held in Spokane,
when premier honors went to Thomson
& Guthrie, of Eagle Point, Oregon,
who won the thousand dollar prize for
best carload. Their exhibit consisted
Of luscious Spitzenbergs, regarded as
the standard apple. The greatest
number of prizes in the plate and box
classes was won by Wenatchee growers.
However, good showings were made
by Yakima, Walla Walla, Spokane,
Hood River and British Columbia
growers. Howard Elliott, head of the
Northern Pacific railway, who was presi-
dent of the apple show, says it proved
that for high grade fruit no section Of
the country can produce anything supe-
rior to the apple of the Northwest. In
his opinion, Washington, Oregon, Ida
no and Montana are the real apple
states of the country today, having
wrested the title formerly held by New
York, Missouri and Iowa.
Editor Cloud surely made a ten
strike when he located in Lynden,
Wash, for at a recent meeting of the
local commercial club that organization
voluntarily voted the Lynden Tribune
$40 in recognition of its service in
boosting for Lynden. Such acts are
exceedingly rare, for most people hold
that their paper has nothing to do but
boost and deserves no particular mark
of credit for its good work. In &C
knowledging the courtesy, Editor Cloud
says it's the first time he ever heard of
town admitting that newspaper was
doing more than it was paid for.
AS result of the remarkable devel-
opments in the Northwest in the last
decade, R. H. Thomson, city en-
gineer OF Seattle and keen student Of
public affairs, predicts that by the year
1000, which is only ninety years hence,
the population of the state of Washing
ton will aggregate 100000. In
the course of recent address he indi-
Gated certain lines to be followed,
which will make this apparent dream
become reality. And when the day
does come, he says, Greater Seattle
will extend along the shores of Puget
Sound from. Everett to Tacoma, where
will be..found Us per cent of the total
population. Spokane will be a city OF
million and sseveral other localities
will require six figures to number their
inhabitants. But the greater part of
the population will be distributed
among the fertile farms and the pro-
ductive orchards, insuring the prosper
ity and happiness of the Evergreen
State.
The local option campaign in Wash
ington state continues merrily. Au-
burn, in King county, refused to ban
ish the saloon; while Governor Hays
home town of Wilbur has gone dry.
Cowlitz county voted wet. Whitman
county has a bitter fight on and a
special election is to be held this week.
Ellensburg will vote on the question
Dec. 7th, almost a thousand voters
having registered to date. In Seattle
the city council has refused to transfer
ten licenses held by brewing COM
pany, which wanted to comply with