The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1909-11-05


Total vote cast SO.
Only SITS in bad money was taken
in at the gates Of the Seattle exposi-
ton out of total receipts Of 81, 070, 900.
Hon. A. M. Storch has received his
commission as supervisor of the census
for the Third district-the largest in
the state.
The name of The F. M. Scheble
Lumber Company of Waterville has
been changed to The Big Bend Lum-
Der Company.
White Bluffs boasts the only woman
ferry operator on the Columbia river
Mrs. +. P. Rollins, who gives splendid
service to the public.
According to the state grain commits
sioner there were 2,oo5, 900 acres in
grain cultivation this year, from which
were raised 35,0o5, 200 bushels wheat,
100000 bushels oats, and 5,180,000
bushels barley.
The Great Northern has bought con-
troll OF the Spokane and Inland Empire
electric line, and has stolen march on
the Milwaukee road. The Spokane and
Inland has 800 miles in operation, thru
a rich section of the territory adjacent
to Spokane.
This week saw the Inauguration of
the work on the upper Columbia river.
Capt. McDermott is in charge. The
steamer Yakima has been purchased by
the state and is fitted up with derricks
and appliances for removing rock from
the river bed.
With $50 names out OF total OF
1000 voters on the poll books, a petit
ton has been filed with the county
auditor calling for a special election
December % as to whether or not all
of Thurston county, outside of incor-
porated cities, should 60 dry and pro-
hibit saloons.
The Interior Department has restored,
subject to entry and settlement next
February, 173, $40 acres of public land,
which formerly was withdrawn for GER
tain reclamation projects in Washington,
California and Arizona. The land in
cludes $500 acres in the Walla Walla,
Wash, district.
John P. St. John, formerly governor
of Kansas, who has gone to Spokane to
begin the fight for prohibition in Wash
ington, makes these predictions: Ten
years hence there won't be a legalized
saloon within the boundaries OF this
commonwealth. Spokane will be dry in
five years from this time
Local option elections are soon to be
held in Vancouver, Colville and Walla
Walla, where hot campaigns are in prog
ress. Even Spokane is said to be con-
sidering taking vote on the question.
Seattle seems to feel the agitation, for
it is reported the largest brewery in the
Northwest is thinking of removing from
Georgetown, Seattle suburb, to an
other state not yet so anti-beer.
A project has been started to divide
the Third congressional district of this
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counties. This would put the central
counties into the Fourth district. l..
o. Meigs, speaker of the 1909 house
of representatives, is being doomed for
the place in congress from this district.
He lives is North Yakima. Hon. Miles
Poindexter is solid in the Third district,
on his insurgent record.
B. K. Short, a rancher living five
miles north of Spokane, has 12-year
old apple tree which bears apples with
no cores or seeds. Three watchmen
guard the tree day and night Mr..
Short intends to graft scions on other
apple trees next spring. Expert pomolo-
gists say, if the process be successful,
he will have made discovery of greater
commercial importance than any yet
credited to Luther Burband and other
plant wizards.
Havelock Boyle, business man of
Tacoma, is urging the name of that city
be changed to Rainier. Mr.. Boyle says:
In addition to majestic Mount Rainier
holding the name of the city up for the
people OF the Northwest to see daily,
there is also Rainier beer and Rainier
lodging rooms, Rainier hotels. Rainier
laundries, Rainier rivers. In other words,
it's something like the case OF Mahomet
and the mountain. He couldn't get
the mountain to come to him, so he
went to the mountain. If we cannot
change the name of the mountain to
Tacoma, let US change the name of the
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