The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1910-01-21
BRIEF NEWS ITEMS OF INTEREST

The widow of Brewer Jones Of New
has turned her estate over
to DR.. Sidis OF Harvard for the estab-
lishment of sanitarium for the blues,
melancholy, etc.
An eastbound passenger train on the
Southern Pacific was wrecked eight
miles west Of Ogden early Monday
morning, three persons being killed
and a number injured.
The Elgin, ILL.,, board of trade,
which practically establishes the butter
prices of the country, has decided
that there will be no drop in the price
this spring, as is usual.
The Russian council has decided
that the proposal Of the United States
for the naturalization OF the Manchur-
ian railways is not acceptable to the
Russian government at present.
w. A. Bennett Of New London,
Conn, committed suicide Sunday by
putting three sticks Of dynamite in the
front OF his shirt and lighting the fuse.
His body was blown to fragments.
Four big delegations to the Ohio
general assembly have come out
openly for Sunday baseball and will
support a bill to be introduced to make
baseball legal Sunday amusement.
One passenger was killed, a brake
man fatally injured and nine other pas
sengers seriously hurt, in a head-on
collision Sunday between two fast pas
senger trains on the Chicago, St. Paul
& Milwaukee, at Keystone, Iowa.
Charges were made in congress
Monday by Representative Hitchcock
of Nebraska against Secretary Ballinger
and other officials of alleged improper
use of public funds to pay private
travelling expenses Of nephew of the
secretary.
The immigration officials at New
York have been anxiously waiting to
see if anybody is willing to bid for the
contract to feed the immigrants at
Ellis island. The present caterer gets
% cents meal and his successor will
have to contract for a term Of three
years in the face Of rising market.
1t has been conservatively estimated
that there are 100000 water horse
power undeveloped in this state. This
is the actual minimum estimate. The
maximum amount possible is 10000
900 horse power. 1t is figured that il
this were developed it would yield
$35, 100000 annually in taxes to the
state.
Three men were suffocated by pow
der smoke and nitro fumes in the Gun
nison tunnel, near Montrose, Calf.
Sunday, and thirty others barely es-
capped with their lives. Air currents of
the tunnel were reversed by the con-
cussion of heavy blasts and the smoke
and gases were blown back upon the
miners before they could reach the
portal.
Although there have been some bad
ice gorges in the Ohio river, the gorge
that formed near Louisville, KY, Mon
day is said to be the greatest on record.
1t was almost as hard as granite and
the jam extended from Louisville to
Brandenberg, a distance of seventy
miles. A tremendous amount-of water
was held back and great damage was
feared when the gorge went out.
DR.. Cooks story of the discovery oil
the earth's apex was the result of polar
insanity, according to Right Rev. B. E.
Rowe, Episcopal bishop of Alaska.
Bishop Rowe said that both Cooks re-
markable story and Commander
Peary's frame of mind upon hearing
that story can readily be attributed to
the loneliness, the grayness and the
silence OF the north. All men come
from the polar circle with their nerves
shattered" says the bishop, and in
Alaska we send home fifty men annu-
ally after the long winter, their minds
completely wrecked"
Never in the history of transporta-
ton in the United States has a great
railroad been stricken so sorely as was
the San Pedro, Los Angeles & Salt
Lake by the midwinter thaw. In a
twinkling the desert-born torrents
Tapped up hundred miles of rails and
entertainments, severed the steel bond
between mountains and sea and made
of busy avenue of commerce two dis
organized branches, whose ends are
lost in the wilderness. Millions of
dollars of investment temporarily profit
less and hundreds of capable railroad
men without employment are two re-
suits OF the disaster.