The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1909-10-22
SHORT NEWS NOTES.

Thirty-six leaders of the striking
cigarmakers at Manila were arrested
and charged with criminal conspiracy.
Anti-saloon Democrats of Indiana
have started a movement to make
Governor Marshall the Democratic
leader of that state
The Western Hotel Mems Associa-
ton during its recent session at San
Francisco, chose Portland as its next
meeting place.
John L. Riseland, state fish com
missioner, estimates the value of the
Washington salmon pack of 1909 at
100000.
Pittsburg won the worlds baseball
championship by defeating Detroit by
the overwhelming score OF 8 to in
the seventh and decisive game.
Gen. Fred D. Grant. at present in
command of the department of the
lakes, is slated as the successor of
Gen. Bell as chief of staff of the army.
1t is related by one of the biggest
men in Wall street that the dismissal
of Charles R. Crane from the diplo-
matte corps was instigated by J. Pier
pont Morgan.
Gen. Richard c. Drum, u. S. A., re-
tired, distinguished veteran of the
Civil war and for many years adju-
tant general of the army, died in
Drummond, Nd
At least 81 persons were killed in
the storm that swept portions of Ten
nessee, Alabama, Arkansas and South
Carolina. The property loss is esti-
mated at 100000.
Neville H. Castle, for nine years
member of the bar of Nome, Alaska,
has been appointed assistant United
States district attorney for the Sec
ond judicial division at Nome.
Schools for special military train
ing will be conducted at the Vancou-
yer, Wash, military barracks during
the winter, when attention will be
devoted to the theoretical rather than
the practical side of military tactics.
Barney hughes, one of the famous
argonauts of the early days, and one
of the six discoveries of Alder gulch,
one of the richest placer regions in
the northwest, died at Wisdom,
Mont
The revolutionary movement is
spreading rapidly in Nicaragua and
the widest confusion prevails. Thou
sands of people are flocking to the
standard of General Estrada and the
revolutionary leaders now have for
midable arm.
William Buchanan, who has been
in Europe for some time in connec-
ton with an important diplomatic
mission for the state department at
Washington, died in London Satur-
day.
The British naval harbor, which
has been in course of construction at
Dover, England, for / years and has
cost about S200OO,000, was formally
opened Friday by the Prince OF
Wales. The harbor comprises an
area of nearly 700 acres.
The acting project of police for St.
Petersburg has applied to the minis
try of the interior for permission to
apply restrictive and precautionary
measures to the sale of certain drugs
on account of their widespread en-
ployment for purposes of suicide.
The interior department has restor-
ed, subject to settlement and entry
next February 173,440 acres of public
land Withdrawn for reclamation pro-
jects in Washington, California and
Arizona. The lands include 5000 acres
in the Walla Walla, Wash, district.
Willie Boy, the Piute Indian double
murderer and desperate, for whom
three posses of so armed men have
been securing the San Bernardino,
Cal. desert, was found dead on the
summit of Bullion Mountain. He had
killed himself with the last shot from
his rife
Tomasso Viviano, aged 5, and his
sister, aged PIP years, abducted from
their home in ST Louis August 2 by
the Black Hand Society, and for
whose discovery a reward of $4,000
was Offered. were found wandering
the street of Chicago, nearly starved
and evidently recovering from some