The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1910-05-20
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coal mine at White Haven, Eng, last
week, 1877 miners lost their lives.
An electrical lineman, named F. H.
Covert, Of Oakland, Calf, in desire
to be sure to get up early enough &c
see Halley's comet, decided to SLEEP
on the roof OF his house. While NOV
ing about in the dark he missed his
footing and plunged to the ground, the
fall resulting in almost instant death.
The Mississippi river packet, City Of
Saltillo, bound from St. Louis to Ten
nessee points, struck rock and sunk,
causing a loss Of twelve lives. The
accident is being investigated by the
government.
By the breaking down of stairway
at the Saltair pavilion, Salt Lake, over
100 people were precipitated into the
briny waters. Quite few were bruised
but none were drowned.
A street car in the southern out
skirts of Seattle was held up about l
o'clock Friday morning. The passen-
gers, many of whom were saloon keep
ers returning home, were relieved of
over $1,000 in cash and valuables.
Earl Mari, representing the Wenat-
chez high school, last Friday night
won the interscholastic oratorical con-
test at the state college against score
of school orators from Inland empire
towns. His Grafton, insurgents in
Politics." dealt with the anti-Cannon
movement from its inception and
harked back to the times of Wendell
Phillips and John Brown,
The woman's debating team of the
University Of Washington defeated the
women of the University Of Oregon in
a debate on the postal savings bank
question last Friday night. The Wash
ington team had the affirmative side.
This was the first woman's intercollegi-
ate debate held in the Pacific north
west.
Harry F. Waugh, SIS years old, Of
Seattle, Wash, a well-known pioneer
miner of Alaska, member of the Arctic
club, and leader of the Waugh sledge
expedition to the delta of Mackenzie
river, committed suicide in a Chicago
hotel Saturday by hanging himself to a
bedpost. Failure to interest capital in
his mining companies is supposed to
have discouraged him.
Another fire, supposedly of incen-
diary origin, visited Valley, Wash, last
Sunday and destroyed several business
houses.
Wire photography had its initial
demonstration in this country Saturday
when photographs Of prominent men
were transmitted by means of the cleo
trograph system from the Offices OF the
Boston American to the New York
American and back again. The tests
were pronounced by committee Of
well-known New Workers to be an I'M
qualified success.
H. H. Parks, an Oklahoma farmer,
has one row of corn that covers sixty
acres. 1t begins on the outer edge Of
the field and winds up in the center,
like huge clock spring.
An attempt was made Sunday to
blow up two cars at Vancouver, B. c.,
containing 100 Cinnamon. Sticks o.
dynamite were discovered in the cook
stoves in each car just before the fire:
were lighted.
The Kentucky law levying license
tax on liquors has been upheld by the
u. S. supreme court. The law is also
held applicable to double stamp spirits
There are practically 800 men ii
Seattle who live from the revenue o.
the white slave traffic, almost all o
whom could be reached by the state
co,,rts Il the rornner efforts were made y