The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1909-11-05

SHORT NEWS NOTES.

Vancouver, Wash. Socialists have
passed resolutions endorsing the pro-
hibition movement.
The Linnhaven Fruit Co., of Al
bany, Or, has purchased 1000 acres
for the purpose of setting the same to
fruit trees.
Twenty-one dollars and fifty cents
was the price given for the finest box
of apples at the Albany, Or, apple
fair.
The Okanogan irrigation project in
northern Washington is now 965 per
cent completed and the Concully dam
S42 per cent finished.
Six pieces of bone taken from the
leg of a dog and grated into the
tibia of Joseph Riley's leg, at San
Francisco, have saved his from an
amputation.
Fifty-two Chinese students are on
their way to the United States. After
a year in preparatory schools they
will be entered in a number of lead
ing universities.
A solemn edict of the Rhine coun-
tries, dated 1909, setting forth that
any agent caught urging emigration
to the American colonies would be
hanged, has been unearthed by Prof.
Learned of the University of Penn
sylvania.
Addressing banquet of Washing
ton shinglemen at Seattle, u. S. Sen
ator Piles state that it was not i'm
probable that the lumber and shingle
tariff question would be fought out
again at the next session of congress.
G. r. Kendall, whose dead body
was identified and buried at Dead
wood, S. D., ID years ago, and on
whom the insurance policies in the
Woodmen of the World and the An
cient Order of United Workmen were
paid, is alive and we'll
A crisis among railway employees
of the United States, it is believed in
railroad circles, is drawing near 1t
is said referendum vote now is in
progress among the 100000 or more
members of the trainmen and con
ductors association east of the Mis-
sissippi for an increase in wages
A westbound train on the Oregon
Short Line ran for 4 number of miles
through western Wyoming with a
dead man at the throttle While lean
ing out of the cab window the en-
gineer was struck by bridge or mail
crane and the top of his head torn
off A brakeman looking ahead saw
the engineers mangled head hanging
out of the cab and notified the FIRE
man
James A. Patten became approx
mately $4,000,000 richer through the
wild rise in American and English
cotton. Every change of point in
the market meant $4,000 to the mil
lionaire, who won about $5000,000 in
wheat last May
Bert Gamble, a native Moscow,
Idaho boy and formerly student of
the University of Idaho, has gained
distinction as a composer, and his
production entitled "Orange Bios
SONS" has been approved by we'll
known New York house
Jack Johnson and James ]. Jeffries
have signed articles binding them to
fight IS or more rounds to a finish
not later than July 5. 1910, before the
club offering the best financial induce
ments, the winner to take side bet
of $4,000 and Is per cent of the
purse, the loser to take rs per cent.
To train Indians in agricultural
pursuits on a broader and more prac-
teal scale the Indian bureau has un-
dertaken the project of installing
model farms on all Indian reserva-
tons, with teachers who have been
trained in scientific agricultural
schools.
The United States gunboat Albany,
which sails for the Philippines in De-
cember, will carry to the Orient a
silver punch bowl and a great silver
loving cup, which will be presented
to the navies of China and Japan,
respectively, as tokens of the kindly
feeling of the men of the Atlantic
fleet toward those who entertained
them during the trip around the
world