The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1909-09-10
NEWS OF PACIFIC NORTHWEST

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AT meeting of the state board OF
tax commissioners, J. E. Frost Of
Ellensburg was elected president, a
position heretofore held by T. D.
Rockwell, of Spokane. ]. E. Koors is
secretary.
In response to an inquiry by county
authorities at Everett, Attorney Gen
eral Bell has ruled that a female is
legally qualified and eligible to hold
the position of deputy county auditor
in this state.
A Chinook salmon weighing exactly
fifty pounds was shipped from Hoquiam
to H. D. Chapman at the Seattle ex-
position to be used as an exhibit in
the Chehalis county building. The
fish is the largest caught in Grays
harbor this season.
Starting at North Yakima, it is now
proposed to fumigate instead of spray
ing fruit trees. The experiment has
been given a trial, and it worked
successfully. The process is guaran-
teed to kill all insects. The trees are
enclosed in tents and subjected to
deadly fumes.
The two officials selected to adjust
the loss on the Snohomish county
courthouse at Everett, A. G. McAdams
for the county, and T. L. Grant for
the insurance companies, reached an
agreement today. They decided that
the courthouse is total loss. It was
one of the first building to go in the
recent confagration. They decided
that $27 900 is the actual loss after
deducting for depreciation. The
county gets $4,000.
Six years ago in Norway Theodore
Bake and Miss Laura Aanensen
became engaged to be married. They
were young. She was rich. He was
poor. The girls parents forbade the
marriage. Bake came to Bridgeport,
Douglas county, and became one of
the foremost men of the town and we'll
to do financially. Last week Miss
Aanensen arrived in Wenatchee, hav-
ing kept her troth for, 10, these six
years, and the two were united in we'd
lock by Rev. A. I. Barnes.
The triumphant march of local OPP
ton has received its first setback in
Washington, at Bothell, small town
at the head OF Lake Washington, near
Seattle. Advocates of the licensed
saloon won by margin of three votes
in the recent election and the saloon
keepers celebrated their victory by dis
pensing free beer. This makes the
score four to one, in favor of no Ii
cense, to date, four communities hav-
ing voted dry. The next election will
be held in Colville, where merry war
fare is being waged now, between the
vets and drys.
A petition containing o62 names,
asking for a special election to be
called in Clarke county for Nov. Q
to vote on the question of license or
no license was filed with the county
auditor by Donald McMaster, presi-
dent of the Clarke county local OPP
ton league. The county outside OF
incorporated limits contains but one
saloon, that being in Battle Ground.
It is conceded that the county will
90 dry, but there is much doubt about
Vancouver. At the last general cleo
ton there were 4,170 votes cast in
the whole county.
Health Officer ]. Nywening of North
Yakima believes the epidemic now af-
fecting the hogs of the Yakima valley
is typhoid fever, and to protect the
health OF the people he issued strict
order that no pork be sold by any of
the butcher shops of North Yakima for
a period of ten days. All citizens are