The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1909-07-23
WASHINGTON STATE NEWS
OF THE WEEK in BRIEF

Association met III thls ClI9 Monu"'
for a weeks session.
Spokane 49, Fourteen steamfitters'
helpers have gone on strike because
of the bosses refusal to raise wages
from $3.50 to $500 day
Everett-The lock of the safe in
the Langley postoftice, on WILDLY Is
land, opposite Everett, was picked
by thieves Friday night and sly Sc
cured.
Aberdeen-Chas. Bealey, colored,
arrested a few weeks ago, charged
with arson, and who was held for
trial in the superior court, has filed
a claim against the city for damages
in the sum of $4,000.
Seattle-Medical associations of
Oregon, Washington, Idaho and
British Columbia met in Seattle on
Tuesday for four days session. 1t
is the first meeting of the kind ever
held in the Pacific Northwest.
Colfax Frank Clark, aged 35, a
strong, able bodied man, was given
the first fine in ColfaX under the new
vagrancy law. Clark was arrested
while begging on the streets of Col
fax Saturday, being sent to jail to
serve out $50 fine.
Walla Walla-While attempting
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order that he might get to this city
and secure a job in the harvest
fields, James Murphy was set upon
by a gang of negro employees of the
Wallace Hagenback shows, robbed
and afterward severely stabbed.
Stevenson from alcoholism
and his flesh partially cooked by ex-
posure to the hot sun, the body OF
Samuel L. Moore was found near
this city Saturday morning. Moore
was a farmer 1t is said he had not
been sober since July 4.
Montesano-The county auditor
last week issued y warrant in the
sum of $50 in favor of Earl Petit,
of Hoquiam, for the bounty on three
cougars and nine wildcats. The
three cougars were killed in one day
Seattle-Prof. A. c. Haddon,
reader in ethnology in the Cam
bridge University, England, dined
upon dog Saturday morning with a
dozen Igorrotes as messmates. Prof.
Haddon did not eat much OF the
dog, but says he liked what he did
eat.
Carrying out the new
law, State Auditor Clausen has is
sued orders that hereafter all claims
against the state must be sworn to
before some officer with a seal, and
that the state will not allow fee
for such affidavit County clerks
and auditors under the law must ex-
ecute such affidavits without cost.
Tacoma-A petition is being
signed by hundreds in South Ia
coma asking the Metropolitan park
board to change the name OF South
park to Cushman park, in honor of
the late Congressman Francis w.
Cushman. The park is one of the
beauty spots of the city and the
change of names will doubtless be
made.
Seattle-The section of the new
criminal code of washington max
ing attempted sicide a criminal Of
Tense, punishable by fine OF $1,000,
Imprisonment for two years, or both,
is TO be enforced in the case of G. ID.
Tenner, who cut his throat In sa-
loon because the bartender refused
to give him a drink.
Port ownsend-Details OF the
Coast artillery target practice that
establishes a record for accuracy in
that branch of the United States
army are furnished by Col Whistler,
commanding the artillery district OF
Puget Sound, in report mace 10
the war department. Col. whistler
statement discloses unusual profile
iencv with the use of the 10-inch
rifles.
Wallla 'Valla-Farmers or the
wheatgrowing section of the Inland
Empire expect to save approximately
100000 on this seasons wheat
crop through action taken unani-
mously at meeting of several local
unions of the Farmers Educational
and Cooperative association in
Washington, Oregon and Idaho,
when it was decided to refuse to al
low grain-dealers to deduct pound
ON every sack of wheat purchased,
as has been done heretofore. On
the basis of $4,000, 000-bushel
crop for the three states, the farmers
will save 462,571 bushels.