The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1909-12-24
WASHINGTON BRIEFS.

been sold here during the past Is
days to plant 1000 acres of land next
spring.
Walla Walla-So satisfactory have
the gasoline motor cars proven that
the o. R. & N. has ordered two
more to be delivered.
Montesano-A beet weighing about
18 pounds, the diameter being 8 in
ches and the body two feet long, is
on display here.
Wenatchee-The Chelan County
Historical Association will hold its
annual convention at Cashmere Sat
urday.
Spokane-Kiona, an unincorporat-
ed town in Benton county, south
west of Spokane, has the only sa-
loon in a territory embracing 1900
square miles.
Olympia-The supreme court set
aside the conviction of two Cowlitz
men under the felony gambling law
and ordered them sentenced under
the misdemeanor act.
Cheney-Cheney, home of the
state normal school, voted dry at
the local option election 1875 to IS,
and the church bells rang for 20
minutes after the result was an
nounced.
Spokane-At a cost OF about $4O,-
900, prominent Spokane men have
purchased a group of farms ag-
gregating 500 acres of choice fruit
land in the Methow valley, about
rs miles north of Wenatchee, Wash.
Startup-A New Jersey general
contracting firm has placed an order
of $275,000, and calling for 10000
feet of the best timber to be found
in the state of Washington, with the
Wallace Lumber Co., of Startup.
Olympia-Efforts will be made to
have the appeal in the case of Ords
Hamilton, recently convicted of en-
bezzlement while Acknowledgement,
heard at the January term of the
supreme court, which eonvenes the
second Tuesday of the coming year.
Spokane-All money now in the
hands of the Columbia River I'm
provement Commission will be
equally divided between the lower
and up-river sections for the i'm
provement of the respective por-
tons of the streams.
Seattle-After celebrating six
hours, the jury in the case against
Mrs. Mary Johnson, accused OF de-
frauding the Seattle Electric Com
pany of $500 by means of fake"
damage claim, returned a verdict OF
not guilty.
Olympia-Joseph M. Snow, ex-
state highway commissioner, who
was removed by Governor Hay,
owes the state $2l42os, according
. to a report submitted by the state
bureau of inspection and supervis-
ion of public Offices, which has besa
investigating Shows accounts.
Aberdeen-Reports of a general
agreement among the lumber manu-
facturers of Grays Harbor to close
their mills for a month, beginning
at Christmas, are flatly denied by
millmen, who say that in most in
stances only the usual holiday vaca-
ton will be allowed.
Olympia-Urder the auspices OF
the newly organized Olympia Com
mercial Club, the business and pro-
fessional men of Olympia will ten
der a banquet to Gov. Hay and the
other members of the state capitol
commission in this city the night OF
December 81.
North Yakima-The Christian En-
deavor societies of Yakima and Kit
titas counties are to form union
on the occasion of the visit here
on February 10 of President Francis
E. Clark and International Treasurer
William Shaw of the Christian En-
deavor society.
Husum-A four-foot vein Of coal
is reported as having been discovered
on Major creek, short distance
west of Lyle, this county. The
creek has cut through the vein, ex-
posing the coal Should the find
prove a good quality, cheap trans
portattion facilities are close at hand.
North Yakima-Frank Griffith OF
Toppenish is in the county jail here,
charged with having stolen 70 sacks
of wheat from a Northern Pacific
car at Toppenish. 1t is also re-
ported that coal is being stolen by
the wholesale at Toppenish and sold
from house to house at the rate OF
s. ton, but no arrests have yet
been made.
Seattle-Wheat touched $l.2o here
Saturday, with $l2l asked. Much in
terest is taken in the efforts of an
Ellensburg operator to unload bay
here. He offered timothy here and
in Tacoma at $245o, but found no
takers. 1t was reported that If