The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1909-07-09
WASHINGTON STATE NEWS
OF The WEEK IN BRIEF


has accepted the presidency Of the
National Apple Show. offered 10 him
BY the board Of trustees. The show
will be held IN Spokane December :.
SteyensOn-This city will be heat
ed in the future with hot mineral
water piped from a spring. Steven
son, il is said, IS the second city In
the United States having natural hot
mineral water piped TO private baths.
The plant will cost about SEQ. 900.
Walla Walla-Professo Ander-
son, acting president Of Whitman
college, purchased q large part Of
the toEnsite Of Two Rivers and has
obtained al option on the remain
der.
Olympia-Goy. Hay has appointed
c. J. Munger. Of Seattle, hotel in
spector under the new law He also
appointed K. D. Shut. Of Tacoma.
and Nels Anderson, Of Bow. on the
commission TO select site il Skagit
county for the proposed farm Tor
harmless insane.
Olympia - The state supreme
court has reversed Judge Black, Of
the Snohomish county superior
court, and ordered an injunction 10
issue to restrain Snohomish county
from collecting more than s40,603
tax for 1906 on the Great Northern
tracks in that county.
spokane-At q meeting Of the
Spokane County Medical Society it
was decided that for the remainder
Of 1903, all those presenting them
selves for physical examination as
q qualification for the taking out Of
q marriage license, should be ac-
commodated BY the members OF the
society free Of charge.
Within the past two
weeks, contracts for 100000 feet
Of lumber have been placed with
Washington mills by the Isthmian
5000. 900 feet will be manufactured
by Grays Harbor mills. Tacoma
mills secured the balance OF the
business.
Seattle-F1ye hundred chauneurs
in 1O5 automobiles Friday afternoon
accompanied TO the cemetery the
body Of Carl II. Schott, the victim
OF the accident of June 29, when a
heavily loaded auto crashed into a
freight train near Georgetown, kill
ing Schott and wounding three
others. The floral offerings filled
three cara.
Olympia-Fire which broke out at
o'clock Saturday evening in the
plant of the National Wood Pipe
Company, completely destroyed the
building and storage yards as well
as four residences and grocery
store The loss, which is practically
all on the plant of the National
Wood Pipe Company, is estimated
at 100000.
Eyerett-James Haven, OF Airing
ton, was attacked by mad stallion
as he was driving the horse to
pillow and would have been trampled
to death had 1t not been for the
timely arrival of two neighbors.
Haven's arm was broken and his
body painfully cut and bruised. The
stallion was afterwards shot.
Tacoma-To the devotion and
self-sacrifce of his sister George
Moore owes his life. Following an
operation for pleurisy a hemorrhage
developed and in order to arrest 1t
and restore his strength TRANSMISSION
was resorted to, his sister consenting
to part with her own blood for his
sake. An incision was made in her
left wrist, which was bound to his
left arm, in which an incision was
made near the elbow.
North Yakima-It remained for
the Japanese colony here to call
North Yakima TO patriotic order.
Having planned a carnival this fall,
the business men decided to make
no special observance of Indepen-
dence day. Japanese residents, how
ever, believe in celebrations and Of
fered to the city the display OF 5000
worth of fireworks, some to be the
new daylight fireworks. The display
consisted of $50 pieces.
Olympia State Commission
announces that an order Is to be en-
tered in the near future requiring
the railroads, the Northern Pacific
particularly, to make general
changes in Its passenger train seed
ule. Under the present train scheule
the passenger trains are operated al
most exclusively for the benefit OF
through business, although the com
mission claims the local business is
more remunerative. The order will
require local trains making daylight
trips on each division OF the road.
Dayton With harvest in the In