The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1909-10-08

SHORT NEWS NOTES.



Rear-Admiral W. S. Schley, re-
tired, has cancelled all engagements
for entertainments in New York and
will seek seelusion.
The Lord Mayor of London has
announced his intention of opening
a Mansion House fund to assist Cap
tain Robert F. Scott to raise money
for his expedition to plant the Union
Jack at the South Pole.
Orders for equipment and power
have just been placed by Hartman
lines which will. bring the total ex-
penditures for this purpose during
the last six months up to fully ST.
100000.
The Southern Pacific Railroad
Company pleaded guilty in the
United States District Court in San
Francisco to rebating and was fined
$1,000. The maximum penalty is
$4,000.
A dispatch from Fee says inquiries
show that FL Roghi, the pretender
to the throne of Morocco, who was
executed at Fee in the middle of
September, was put to death by Sui
tan Mulai Hafd himself under cir
cumstances of revolving cruelty.
The trial of Patrick Calhoun on
a charge of having offered a bride to
a San Francisco supervisor has been
continued until November Is, at the
request of the defense.
Submission of a law providing for
statewide prohibition will proba-
ably be an issue in the next session
of the Virginia legislature.
Congressman w. S. Hammond, the
only Democratic congressman from
Minnesota, may become a candidate
to succeed the late Governor John A.
Johnson.
Governor Glasscock of West Vir-
GINA has announced that he is in
favor of an income tax amendment
to the federal constitution, and will
use his influence to have the next
legislature ratify such an amend
ment. An extra session of the legis-
lature will be. called this fall.
Experiments with bog peat by ex-
perts OF the United States geologi-
cal survey are expected to produce
from the marshes of the United
States a new fuel to take the place
Of the rapidly disappearing coal sup
ply.
A requisition was honored by the
Governor of Washington for B. Feis-
ter, wanted in Marion county, Or,
for breaking into a box car and
stealing a s25 oil lamp.
The Chicago, Milwaukee & st.
Paul railroad has ordered $50 all
steel passenger cars, of which 100
are for the western coast extension.
Representatives of IL govern
ments are attending the 18th an
nual meeting OF the Association OF
Military Surgeons in the United
States, now in session in Washing
ton, d. c.
In view of the Polar controversy,
the board of directors of the Nation
al Geographic Society al special
meeting to determine the attitude it
should assume toward Dr. Cook on
the occasion of his visit to Wash
ington, D. c., to deliver a lecture on
his Arctic experiments, decided not
to recognize DR.. Cook in an official
way.
Mrs. Charles T. Yerkes has finally
arranged for a settlement of the
fight over her husbands estate. 1t
is said she will get virtually third
interest in the value of the estate.
Secretary Dickinson finds nothing
to criticise in the action OF General
Grant in taking part in a temper
ance and law-enforcing parade in
Chicago in his uniform as Major
General of the United States army.
Tammany Hall has accepted the
candidate of the fusion reform or
ganization for Mayor of New York
and has nominated Judge William
!. Gaynor for Mayor.