The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1909-11-19
NEWS OF PACIFIC NORTHWEST

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by majority of 28o out of 1898 bal
lots cast.
John Hancock, Jr. who is charged
with horse stealing, forfeited $1,000
bond when his case was called at Con-
Gully.
A Mansfield woman last week made
trip to Wenatchee over the new Big
Bend railroad. This is the first trip the
woman has taken on a railroad in 81
years.
The new brick, $4,000 Great
Northern station has dwindled 10 a
common frame building to cost frac-
ton OF that sum. Still, it is consoling
to get half loaf il you can't secure a
whole one.
The weekly report of the state treas
urer shows only SOS, 123 cash on hand
in the state general fund last Saturday,
with prospects of but small receipts the
remainder Of this year. 1t is expected
the state will be on a warrant basis be-
fore the first of next year.
George S. Henderson Of Pullman
has been appointed deputy in the
state dairy and food department by
Commissioner L. Davies, vice John E.
Wrage, resigned. Mr.. Henderson has
had large experience in dairy work
and will make dairy and creamery in
spections his work in the department.
The will of the late Senator S. J..
Cameron has been filed for probate.
All the estate is left to the widow,
with the proviso that the three chill
dren are to share equally in the ad-
ministration. 1t is also provided that
there shall be no court proceedings
except insofar as is necessary in the
probating of the will. The estate is
estimated at 100000.
Thursday, November II, was Admis-
sion Day in the state OF Washington.
At the instance OF the Seattle Chamber
of Commerce it was locally observed
by the flying Of flags and other decora-
tons. An effort will be made to have
the occasion celebrated all over the state
hereafter, particularly in the public
schools; for the admission to statehood
is regarded as an important step in the
| history of Washington.
An even dozen towns will feel a
great benefit from the Chicago, Mil
waukee & Puget Sound railway, begin
ming on Nov. Is, when railway mail
service goes into effect. 1t will serve
Kittitas, Beverly, Red Rock, Tauton,
Othello, Warden, Roxboro, Ralston,
Revere, Rock Lake, Pine City and
Maiden. These towns have been served
by stage; but, effective Nov. IS, there
will be closed pouches from Seattle,
Tacoma, Ellensburg, Lind, Rosalia, Te-
koa, Missoula and Butte. Later the
regular railway postoffice service will be
installed.
Prospective homesteaders in the Vi
cinity OF Sunnyside, Yakima county, are
erecting cabins preparatory to locating
on eleven claims of 100 acres each,
which will be open to settlement after
midnight November 10. The rush fol
this land, it is expected, will rival SEN
sationally the grab for ground recently
at White Bluffs, on the Columbia where
men threatened gun play in guarding
tracts previous to the land being opened
to settlement. The land is rich and
can be watered either by pumping from
the Sunnyside canal or from the high
line ditch which is projected into that
section. The cabins are being built on
the outer edge of the tracts, and the
settlers propose to push them over
when the clockhands point TO midnight.
Suffragists of the Northwest are hop
ing that Mrs. Emmeline Pankhurst will
extend her tour Of the country TO Wash
ington before returning to England, SO
that the campaign for equal rights will
be benefited by the visit. Mrs. Pank-
hurst is the leader of the fight for the
ballot which the women of England are
making She has addressed large gath
erings in the East. Mrs. Pankhurst
takes the position that the enfranchise-
ment Of women is the greatest issue
before the world today, and that upon
its settlement rests the solution of all
other problems, economic as well as
political Should Mrs. Pankhurst come
to the Northwest, it is certain that she
will be greeted by large audiences in
Spokane, Seattle, Tacoma aad Portland.
Without single dollar paid in on
its million dollar capital and equipped
with one secondhand locomotive and
two old passenger coaches and two
antique freight cars, the North Yakima
& Valley Railway Company operated
its fourteen miles of track from North
Yakima to Matches and carried 80, 648
passengers and lo, 1882 tons of freight
for the year ending June 80, 1909,
according to its report filed with the
state railway commission. The COM
pany was Organized in 1905. but il re-