The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1909-06-18
WASHINGTON STATE NEWS
OF THE WEEK IN BRIEF

appointed Jesse Jones, of Tacoma,
state railroad commissioner.
Castle Rock-The marriage of Ar
thur Bryan, son of President Bryan
of Pullman College, to Miss Bessie
Buland. took place Saturday after
noon.
Goldendale-Klick county is
to have an annual fair. A tract of
40 acres has been secured in this
city and work will be commenced at
once on a half-mile track.
Spokane-Tom Hopper, veteran
hunter, has set new record in this
section of the country by bringing in
30 bears between April 10 and June
10.
Spokane-Palmists, clairvoyants
and fortune-tellers of all kinds must
quit the business Immediately or be
prosecuted as common Migrants.
This Ia the ultimatum of Chief of
Police Sullivan.
Tacoma - Marking the formal
opening of the Milwaukee road to
passenger travel, the first passenger
train over the Chicago, Milwaukee
& st. Paul lines arrived in Tacoma
Sunday night.
Tacoma-The work of double
tracking the Northern Pacific be-
tween Vancouver and Tacoma will
begin at once. The first piece of the
line to be double-tracked will be be-
tween Vancouver and Kelso.
North Yakima-Two men asked
Police Judge Wedne to give them
Jail sentence for 80 days to give
them a chance to stop drinking. One
of them said that he had kept from
drinking for two years after
strengthening up in the lookup at
Wenatchee.
Olympia--Applications for rail-
road rights of way have been filed
In the state land Office by the North
ern Pacific covering parts of four
sections in Grant county and by the
Grays Harbor G Columbia River
road covering nine tracts In Wahkia-
KUN, Chehalis and Pacific counties.
Tacoma-The United States gov
eminent has purchased through a
local firm 200 acres Of land on
WILDLY island, near Greenbank, for
$4,000. The land was purchased for
additional Notifications to the en-
trance to Puget Sound, which, 1t Is
said, will be erected there at once.
Seattle-Reunited for the first
time since the death of their father,
40 years ago, six children Of Ed
son Gilman met at the A.-Y.-P. Ex-
position last week and enjoyed jol-
LITIGATION such as probably no other
family has had here since the ex-
position opened.
Spokane.-In terrific revolver
battle between Deputy Sheriffs ]. T.
Logan and George Sweet, seven
miles west of Spokane, about dusk
Friday night, Bascom Wallace, al
legged cattle thief, 80 years old, who
lived on a homestead near Berry,
Douglas county, was shot and killed
by one Of the deputies
Walla Walla-Practicall the en-
tire student body of Whitman Col
lege, the faculty and a large number
of the alumni made their annual pill
grimage to Waiilatou Saturday
morning, the occasion being the
yearly picnic, which Is always given
at the scene of the Whitman massa-
ere.
Centralia-T. A. Talcott, deputy
state highway commissioners, states
that he will at once put survey
party at work on the line of the
proposed state road to cross the state
and end at Willapa Harbor. The
party will do It's first work west OF
Mccormick, where, for a strip of IL
miles, there Is no wagon road lead
ing to the Harbor.
Seattle-Ilphonse Jahns and ]. A.
Strong thought they were beset by
footpads and In making a getaway
Jahns tripped on the street curbing
and fell heavily After ascertaining
that his leg was broken, he found
that the footpad bugaboo was
false alarm and that he had been
frightened by a woman, who nearly
died of fright herself.
Seattle-A provision of the new
anti-cigarette law, which went into
effect at midnight, June 10, Is that
every person who shall manufac-
ture, sell, give away or have In his
possession any cigarettes, cigarette
papers or cigarette wrappers, shall
be guilty Of misdemeanor." 1t Is the
opinion of the attorney-generafs Of
fee that the law means that the Gig
arettes are banished under the new
law and any person who has them
In his possession is subject to fine
and Imprisonment.
Colfax-On the farm of August
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