The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1909-09-17
SHORT NEWS NOTES.

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Orville Wright, flying over the pa
rade grounds at Berlin, travelled at
the estimated speed of 40 miles an
hour and remained in the air ga
minutes.
An official estimate by the Cana
dian department of agriculture and
statistics places Canada's wheat
crop at 16S, 386,O0O bushels. or
this it is estimated 149, 285,00 BUSH
els will be produced west of the
great lakes.
Good progress is being made on
the Panama canal and four sections
of it have been finished" according
to Colonel Goethals, chief engineer
in charge of the canal construction,
who recently arrived in Washington
from the isthmus
Theodore Roosevelt and ex-Vice-
President Fairbanks are among
those appointed delegates to the
worlds missionary conference in
Edinburgh, Scotland, next June IA
to "a. There will be about 100
delegates of whom 500 will go from
this country and Canada.
The Western Theater Managers,
have declared themselves for the
open door" policy of booking plays,
and during the coming season will
accept all offerings presented by
either the theatrical syndicate head
ed by Klaw & Erlanger or by the
Independents, of which the Shu-
berts are the controlling spirit.
Reinforcements to the number of
II 900 men have arrived at Melilla,
Morocco, to reinforce the Spanish
forces. General Marina, commander
of the Spanish forces in Morocco,
continues to advance his line, with
the object of outflanking the Moor
ish positions on Mount Guruga. The
Spanish advance columns have en-
countered many natives who beg for
restoration of peace.
The biggest diamond and jewel
robbery perhaps in the history of the
country occurred in Pittsburg last
Spring, but the police are only now
making 1t public. The value of the
gems stolen amounts to about $780,
900, yet the police refuse to make
known the name of the person rob-
bed They admit, however, that they
are on the track of the man or men
who stole one diamond valued at
$4,000 and enough other jewelry
and precious stones to total the
100000.
The management of the Santa Fe
Railroad has withdrawn its offer to
the Government to put on fast
train to run between Kansas City
and Los Angeles in SO hours, which
was to have been a reduction of ten
hours in the present schedule. This
action was taken without any ex-
pldndLlOH, ALI ledNeS IHe idoI-ihiii
situation uncertain.
During the maneuvers of the Aus
trian army, so horses of the Sixth
Regiment of Dragons were STAN
peded at midnight by a searchlight
played upon the Company by the
enemy" and ran madly through
the camp, tramping ON the sleeping
soldiers. Nineteen men were severe
ly injured, and one was killed.
1t is not putting it too strongly to
say that Washington, which was pre-
disposed to be friendly to Civil En-
gineer Robert E. Peary, U. S. N,
this being his home, has become dis
gusted with his savage attacks on DR..
Cooks claim to the discovery of the
great prize of exploration. The flood
of kilograms from the north is
deemed undignified for an explorer
of Peary's record and abilities.
The indictments charging F.
Heinze, the copper financier, with
conspiracy to obstruct the admins
tration of justice by concealing the
books of the United Copper Com
pany, have been dismissed by Judge
Hough, of the United States Circuit