The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1909-07-16
WASHINGTON STATE NEWS
OF THE WEEK IN BRIEF


sion, on August 2, will take up the
final hearing on the Cunningham pc
tition for a reduction of grain rates
for the east side to the coast.
Centralia-Republi of Lewis
county have launched a boom for N.
B. Coffman, of Chehalis, as a candi-
date for congressman, to fill the
vacancy caused by the death of F.
w. Cushman.
Olympia - The Western Union
Company has filed it's report with
the tax commission, showing gross
receipts in Washington in 1908 of
$301,426, as compared with $751;
Ola for 1907.
Tacoma-In passing upon the case
brought before him to test the re-
Gently enacted anti-cigarette law,
Judge Clifford, of the superior court,
ruled that the law was at variance
with the interstate commerce act
and denied it's constitutionality.
Seattle-The interior department
has cancelled an order withdrawing
100000 acres of public land in con-
nection with the Yakima irrigation
project, and the same becomes sub
ject to settlement October 5 and to
entry November 4.
Dayton-Flouring and chop mills
of the Touchet Valley have closed on
account of a shortage of grain. Not
for years has milling grain been
cleaned up so closely, condition
due to the high prices this spring
and summer.
Spokane - Henry Saulsstraw, a
farmer living near Colbert. lies in
the morgue here with a bullet
through his heart, and Ed Scholl,
neighboring rancher, is in the county
Jail, charged with the murder as the
result of a quarrel between the men.
Spokane-At Fuher's sawmill, 25
miles northeast of Spokane, Hess
Hoffman, a mill hand, was shot and
instantly killed Saturday morning
by a man who had worked at the
mill only few days, and who gave
his name as X. A. Greek, who es-
capped.
Seattle-The Chicago, Milwaukee
& Puge Sound railway has sent
party of engineers into the eastern
portion of Lewis county, where the
Milwaukee is about to build 3D.
mile branch line into the largest I'M
developed timber and agricultural
district in the state.
Colfax-Ralph Carter, aged rs,
whose home is near Garfield, and
who was arrested last week by Dep
uty Sheriff Cole, charged with being
one of the band of horsethieves who
have been stealing and selling horses
taken from Henry Gable, on the
range near Cornell, has confessed to
the crime.
Tacoma-Advices from Washing
ton state that several of the house
leaders are urging the election OF
E. E. Cushman, recently appointed
to a judgeship in Alaska, to succeed
his brother in congress. The funeral
of the late Congressman F. w. Cush-
man was held from the armory in
this city on Tuesday afternoon.
.Seattle-Arthur F. Slater, pri-
vate secretary SUCCESSFULLY to Senator
Ankeny and Secretary of the Treas
ury Shaw, and subsequently assist
ant secretary of the treasury, has
been appointed supervisor of Gus
toms for the Pacific Coast. This Is
a new office created by the treasury
department and the appointment is
not a presidential one.
Olympia-In an opinion to the
secretary of the state board OF medl-
cal examiners interpreting the new
medical law, the Encouragement
has ruled that no person is entitled
to license in this state unless he or
she has a diploma. If the applicant
has practiced in the state two years
any diploma will do; If no such prac-
tice has been had, the diploma must
show the applicant a graduate OF
the full medical course.
Wallula-Walla Walla county, in
Guiding every city and village, will
vote on the saloon issue the first
Tuesday in next December. A con-
ference of temperance workers In
the ten counties east of the noun
tains was called at Spokane July IL
to formulate plans of the campaign.
Colfax A warrant has been
placed in the hands of the sheriff
for the arrest of w. o. Erbs, piano
salesman, on a charge of obtaining
from Henry Ochs, a wealthy Russian
farmer of Endicott, Ave promissory
notes of $500 each, by alleged
fraudulent representations. Erbs
took advantage of his inability to
read English and induced him to
sign the notes with the understand
ing that they were contracts for the
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