The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1909-11-26
HAPPENINGS OF INTEREST
CONDENSED FOR READERS


A. p Leonard, former county ad-
ditor of Chehalis county, Wash, was
acquitted by a jury o. the charge o:
embezzlement.
After unanimously re-electing
President Samuel Gompers, Vice
President John Mitchell, Secretary
Frank Morrison and other eXecu
tive officers, and selecting St LOUIS
as the place for holding the next
meeting, the Doth annual convention
of the American Federation OF La
Dor adjourned.
AT the convention of the Women's
Foreign Missionary society of the
Methodist Episcopal Church OF
Pittsburg, it was discovered that the
ladies of the organization have been
assessing $40 on each member for
each baby that is born
The Oregon & Washington Lum
Der Manufacturers Association has
adopted a resolution providing for a
permanent traffic and legal bureau
with a permanent manager The
manager will look after claims
against railroads, also all legislation,
new rates, etc, affecting lumber in
terests.
The Alsop claim against Chile for
more than $1,000000, pending for IS
wears, has assumed a critical stage
Mr.. Dawson, American minister to
Chile, is now on his way to Wash
ington.
Washington apple trees are TO be
experimental with in Austria, and a
Touchet valley nursery has just re-
ceived an order for 1000 trees to be
shipped Immediately to Galacia, Aus
tria
Mrs. Allan F. Read was found
guilty of attempted extortion in Den
yer. A year ago she attempted to
force Mrs, Genevieve Phipps to give
her 100000 threatening to blow
her up with dynamite unless she
complied.
The Oregon Academy of Sciences
will hold its annual meeting i'll For
est Grove November 20 and H.
Richard Watson Glider, editor-in-
chief of the Century Magazine since
its foundation in 1881, died suddenly
in New York.
Secretary Ballinger, acting on the
recommendation of the agricultural
department, has withdrawn tempo
rariIy from settlement the vacant
unappropriated lands comprised in
49, 22 acres proposed as an addition
to the Sewer national forest, Utah
Mulai Hafid the sultan of Moroc-
co, bent on being saint if he can
not be a statesman, is engaged IN
writing a book on the Koran
The Italian government has pre-
scented a plan for the reduction of
indirect taxation, chiefly as affect
ing sugar, the loss of revenue in this
direction Mo be offset by progress
sive income tax.
The superior court has granted an
allowance of $4,000 monthly to Mrs.
Claus Spreckles until the estate of
her late husband, Claus Spreckles, is
settled
Mrs. Augusta E. Stetson, excom-
municated Christian Scientist leader
of New York City, has secluded her
self following the action taken by
the Mother Church in Boston
against her, and just what will be
the outcome of matters in the First
Church of Christ, Scientist, of which
she was formerly the dominant fig
ure. is predetermined.
Football has claimed its annual
toll. Thirty dead, 216 crippled.
many for life, and scores still hoy
ering on the brink of death in the
surgical wards of hospitals; that's
the tale of the gridiron covering a
period of 90 days.
Famished, nearly exhausted and
CARRIED mostly in borrowed clothing
the lO3 persons who were passen-
gers on the steamer St. Croix which
burned and sank off Point Duma,
IS miles up the coast from Santa
Monica, Cal, Saturday night, ar
rived in Los Angeles. There were