The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1909-06-11
WASHINGTON STATE NEWS
OF THE WEEK IN BRIEF


school and state land held here Sat
urday. including also the sale of
timber. about $4,000 was realized.
Montesano-At test of butter
from various sections of the state,
made at Seattle. the product of the
Montesano Creamery showed So
points out of a possible 100.
HoQuiam-Moclips has shipped a
large bone from the head OF a whale
to the Seattle fair for exhibition.
The bone weighs one ton and re-
Quired four men with levers to load
It.
Spokane - The new Indictment
against ]. H. Schively. charging per-
jury in his testimony before the
grand jury. will stand. Judge Web
ster having oVerruled a motion to
quash the same.
Aberdeen-It is estimated that
nearly 100000 will be spent in
Aberdeen this year in new buildings,
street improvements, railroads and
the commencement of new water
system.
Aberdeen-Because of the indif-
ference of the millowners the mills
of Gray's Harbor may be kept closed
until after the Fourth of July. 1t is
limited the millowners are In no
hurry to consider terms from the
strikers.
Seattle-A. X. Townsend, who ad-
vertised himself as an employer of
young women at lucrative salaries,
to work as stenographers, has him
self been provided with employment
with the chain gang for 60 days,
having been convicted of vagrancy
Colfax Superior Judge Garfield
has confirmed the appointment of j.
E. Mccormack, president of the Sc
curity State Bank. of Palouse, as
permanent receiver of the Palouse
State Bank. which closed Its doors
May 81.
Spokane-To close the deal for
the sale of the Crystal mining prop
erty, located near the mouth of the
Spokane river, Captain John Gray,
principal stakeholder of the com
pany, has departed for Paris,
France, taking with him the deeds.
The amount involved is 100000.
North Yakima-Iva Hanson IT.
year-old girl, died at her home in
this city from too violent exercise
at play. A week ago she had played
very violently, causing an internal
disorder, for which an operation was
necessary. A hemorrhage followed
and death resulted
Olympia-The supreme court re-
versed the verdict of the jury of
Snohomish county that awarded
Mary M. Campbell verdict against
the Order of Washington, an insur-
ance organization. She sued to col
lect $50 burial fees and $25 a month
for four years and judgment was
rendered in her favor.
Aberdeen-Finding the rear end
of his automobile on fire while on
the road between Hoquiam and Abb
erdeen and no water near, Charles
Armstrong, observing woman
washing at her home near the road
side, ran to her side, grabbed up the
tub, clothes and all, and with the
contents put out the blaze.
Walla Walla-According to word
received here from Pasco, the rapid
rise of the Snake and Columbia
rivers has already caused $4,000
damages to the property or the
Pasco Power & Water Company and
threatens to completely wipe out the
company's 100000 pumping plant
lust completed a mile below Pasco
on the Snake river.
North Yakima-One-half OF the
teachers In the public schools OF
North Yakima have resigned or been
dropped from the faculty. The ma
iority of the teachers who have re-
signed say 1t is due to the fact that
they cannot work in harmony with
the superintendent. The majority
of the teachers from the outside de-
cline to come back again, and many
of the home teachers have given up
their positions.
Pasco-To start a disastrous nre
among frame buildings in this city
and during the confusion hold up
and rob the early morning risers was
apparently the plan of firebugs VINO
kindled flame at the rear OF To-
cal restaurant Saturday morning,
the fire spreading rapidly until an
entire block of structures was razed.
The total loss is estimated at $780,
600. Three holdups were perpetra-
ted during the excitement, the rob-
Der In one case being woman.
Seattle-At the urgent request OF
Senator Jones the Indian ONCE at
Washington, d. c., is making ar
rangements to pay pro rata to the
Colyille Indians fund of $54O,OOO
now to their credit in the treasury