The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1909-10-08
EVENTS IN OUR STATE
OF MINOR IMPORTANCE

between two Great Northern passen-
ger trains near here, DR.. Cox, of Su-
perior, Wis, was fatally injured. A
misplaced switch caused the wreck.
Walla Walla-Peat, the first ever
found in this part of the country,
has been discovered in large quanti-
ties on the ranch of A. Haberstok,
three miles southeast of this city.
Colfax-Otto Hoffman, a young
German, has been committed to the
Medical Lake insane asylum. He is
obsessed with the idea that the mem
bers of secret orders are persecut-
ing him.
Walla Walla-The Walla Walla
county fair opened Monday. A fea-
ture of the fair viii be a relay race
lasting six days, the riders chang
ing horses every half mile and run
ming two miles a day.
Bellingham - Thirteen persons
were seriously injured and a smok-
ing car on the Great Northern was
badly wrecked five miles south Of
here when a giant cedar tree fell
from the mountain side above the
track directly across the coach.
North Yakima-The excitement of
seeing President Taft and of shak-
ing hands with him was too much
for Muriel Vose, a 6-year-old child,
who has been in frail health She
died the evening after the President
had departed.
Marching to familiar
gospel tunes 10000 boys and girls
paraded through the principal
streets of Spokane. They represent
ed the Sunday schools of Spokane,
the demonstration being the begin
ming of d campaign to increase this
work.
Harrington-The car shortage is
being felt here by grain companies,
but is more binding with the -four
mill owners, who find it hard to Sc
cure enough cars to handle their ex-
port trade Warehousemen have
loaded wheat into refrigerator cars
and gondolas
Stevenson-That Skamania coun-
ty is making good the advertisement
of the Board of Trade of Stevenson,
that it grows anything under the
sun, and grows it we'll has been
proven by Mrs R. M Wright in
raising cotton The seeds were
found in an empty box car by some
boys and given to Mrs. Wright, who
planted and cultivated them. The
bolls are beginning to open now,
showing well-ripened cotton.
Spokane-"Jo Cannon will never
again be speaker of the house of
representatives Congressman Miles
Poindexter is destined to be one of
the foremost leaders in the lower
house of congress within the next
three or four years. Inside of four
years the insurgents will be in con-
troll of the house and the autocracy
of Joe Cannon will be at an end"
This is the expressed opinion of
Congressman Lenroot, of Wisconsin,
who was in Spokane recently.
Walla Walla-Written complaint
to the state railroad commission has
been made by c. J. Freese of this
city setting forth alleged unsanitary
conditions on the sleeping cars of
the Northern Pacific railway at
Pasco, where passengers from Spo-
kane for Walla Walla are COM
PEELED to lie over from . a. m. till
midforenoon in cars in which sani-
tary provisions are denied by locked
doors.
Wenatchee-The purchase of the
Wenatchee bridge by the state will
be taken up by representatives of
central Washington with view of
having the deal consummated. Prom
inent men not associated with pro-
moters or builders of the structure
are planning to go to Olympia to dis
cuss the bridge question with Gov
ernor Hay and members OF the state
highway commission.
Seattle-A dispatch from Wash
ington announces that the census
bureau has set November 3 as the
date on which examinations will be
held in Bellingham, North Yakima,
Port Townsend, Pullman, Seattle,
Spokane, Tacoma, Vancouver and
Walla Walla for appointment of spe-
cial agents for collection of statis-
tics Of manufactures, mines and
uuarries in the state for the thir-
teenth census.
North Yakima-Secretary of the
Interior r. A. Ballinger is credited
with saying while here last week
that the reclamation work in this
valley. as well as in general, will
now depend upon the amount OF
money that congress viii raise by is
suing bonds, in accordance with the
Presidents recommendation as
made in his Spokane speech. He is
ia e. bo1fava unU that The ODDO-