The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1909-12-03
WASHINGTON NEWS NOTES.

i SN ANSFN ~ 49,
Asotin-Farmers are still holding
100000 bushels of the 100000
ell wheat crop, and expect prices
still higher than those now prevail
ing.
North Yakima = The women of
North Yakima propose to help out
the men in boosting this section
by organizing an auxiliary to the
Commercial Club. A war will be
waged against unsightly billboards
and for cleaner streets and the
cleaning up of vacant lots.
Seattle-Diversion of the Cedar
river from its original bed by the
Chicago, Milwaukee & Puget Sound
railway company threatens the water
supply of greater Seattle. There
is danger that the pipe lines might
be carried away in which event
seattle would be deprived of water
for a month.
Spokane-By mistaking medicinal
tablets on a stand in a bedroom, the
two-days-old daughter of Mr.. and
Mrs. J. H. Hess, residing few
miles below Bridgeport, Wash, at
Bridgeport, Orchards, was accident
ly poisoned and died The child's
stomach was emptied, but the power
full medicine caused death.
North Yakima-Yakima apples
have received the first prize in the
fruit display made by the agricul-
tural college of Cornell University,
fruits from all parts of the country
having been in competition. Sec
retatry James, of the Commercial
Club, received the blue ribbon that
was awarded.
Woodland-After one OF the most
strenuous campaigns that any small
town ever went through, the vets
won their fight in the local option
election here by vote of 81 to
48, and Is not voting. Much bitter
ness has been shown. The regular
town election will come upon De-
cember 7, and it may be that the
fight is not yet over.
Spokane-Plans are on foot to
make Spokane county by itself
to handle all taxes and improve
ments without the aid of the sur
rounding territory now making up
Spokane county. A bill putting
the plan in operation will be intro
duced at the next meeting of the
legislature. City officials are now
preparing the bill.
Seattle-The body of Stanley E.
Wakelin, aged &C. an English re-
mittance man and said to be the
son Of a wealthy Lord, was found
in the brush near this city, with a
self-inflicted bullet wound in the
temple. In his pocket was letter
addressed to his borther, John Wake
lin, of Wanganui, New Zealand, in
which the suicide spoke of his dead
father as a Lord and possessor OF
an immense fortune.
North Yakima-The City Council
in special session has virtually de-
| cided to purchase the water plant
and system of the Northwest Light
& Power company for $4,000. The
company agrees to take the citys
bonds, without question as to their
validity, at per cent.
Seattle-The new state law which
was supposed to forbid the owner
ship of saloons by brewers and dis
tillers only makes it unlawful for
them to pay for the licenses OF
saloons, according to Mayor Miller,
who signed 10 bills transferring as
many saloons from the ownership
of a brewery company to that OF a
holding company organized by the
brewery. All other saloons owned
by brewers and distillers will be
similarly transferred and the state
law will be of no effect.
Spokane-Supported for years by
the Columbia River Conference Of
the Methodist Church, dying a few
days ago and leaving an estate val
ued at $1,000, Mrs. Eliza Uren, in
valid wife of the late Mr. Uren,
pastor of the First Methodist Church
of Dayton, caused disappointment
in church circles at Dayton, Wash,
when her wealth was made known
She willed her fortune to relatives
in Australia without contributing a
penny to the church which had
made comfortable existence possible
for her during an illness of six years