The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1910-03-25
CONDENSED NEWS ITEMS

DR.. Mary Walker is camping at the
state capitol at Albany, N. Y, looking
after the interests of bill she has sue
ceeded in having introduced. The
bill provides that any policeman arrest
ing a woman for being dressed in
mems clothing will be fined $1,000 and
be sent to Jail for six months.
The American Sugar Refining Com
pany finished the fiscal year ending
December 31st last with a deficit for
the year Of 81 1895, $50 on account of
suits in which the company was in
volved with the government.
1t has just been discovered that
Richard Nugent Of San Francisco, who
has acted as juror in innumerable civil
and criminal cases in the past twenty
years, is not citizen. II is claimed
that this invalidates all the judgments
in the cases in which he sat as juror.
1t is believed Whitman county hogs
have broken the record for high prices
in the northwest, if not in the United
States. A carload of hogs shipped to
Portland brought SLIPS per 100
pounds. This is $1.05 more than the
highest price paid during the civil war.
instruments at the Gonzaga college,
Spokane, recorded an earthquake
shock Friday afternoon last which lasted
Is seconds. No other stations re-
ported any seismic disturbance.
Nearly 40 students of the Aberdeen
high school, including number of
girls, were sent home the other day for
appearing in loud socks" which were
much in evidence through the turned
up trousers of the boys and the short
dresses of the younger girls. 1t was
an attempt Of the students to establish
March 10 as loud sock" day.
By an election Saturday the city of
North Yakima annexed considerable
new territory and added 5000 to its
population.
Ex-Councilman Kline of Pittsburg,
Pa, who this week began to work out
a sentence of three and half years,
has made confession duplicating 90
other councilmen, who are alleged to
have accepted brides ranging from
$10.83 up.
Two hundred and twenty-five per-
sons persisted by shipwreck and 80
vessels met with disaster off the New
England and British North American
coasts, or while engaged in the New
England, Canadian, or Newfoundland
trade during the fall and winter season
just ended.
Forty-ive people were killed and
many injured in the wreck Monday of
a Rock Island train, which was being
detoured over the Chicago Great West
ern tracks through Iowa.
A light engine on the o. R. & N.
jumped the track at curve near Pen
dleton, Sunday, killing both engineer
and fireman. A few moments later a
following freight train was derailed at
the same spot by broken rails, the en-
CINE and five cars plunging into the
river. The crew escaped by jumping.
Fred A. Hacker Of Wapanita, Ore,
recently killed so coyotes with dyna-
mite. Dynamite caps were placed in
the bait and connected with a battery
some distance away.
Much alarm is reported in England
over the condition OF the health Of King
Edward, who is believed to be gradu-
ally breaking down.
The seating capacity of the arena for
the Jeffries-Johnson fight is $4,000,
and the promoters figure this will bring
in 100000.
Mayor Gill. Seattle's new executive,
has raised storm Of wrath by announc-
ing that a restricted district would be
located on Eighth avenue south, where
huge wooden barracks were built for
that purpose few years ago by wealthy
politicians.
T. M. Elliott of Brewster bought
some state land at public auction
short while ago. Now the Great
Northern bobs up with papers to prove
that it owns nine acres Of the same
land. Mr.. Elliott is now asking State