The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1910-06-03
CONDENSED NEWS ITEMS

jury drank a bottle OF WnlsKey Whlc
was the chief exhibit, and the case fe
through for lack Of evidence.
Practically all the coyotes in Idah
are said to be afflicted with rabies ant
the farmers and stockmen are organic
ing to kill them off on account Of tn
danger to which stock is subjected
Aid has been asked OF the state.
At the annual convention of TIT
railway mail clerks last week resolu
ton was adopted appealing to congress
in the interest Of retiring scale Of pa!
for railway mail clerks. The resolution
urged that clerks be allowed to retire
at 90 years of age or after twenty-five
years of service and be allowed three
iourths of their former salary.
The French submarine was run into
and sunk by an English mail boat il
the English channel Thursday of last
week. All of the crew, numbering
nearly thirty, were drowned.
John c. Axtell, the oldest pioneer in
the Sound country, and veteran oil
the Indian wars, died last week at his
home in Grand Mound, Thurston
county. He was "a years Of age and
had lived all his life on the homestead
which his father located in 1854.
Henry Bond of indianapolis, Ind,
whose nose was sliced off in street
fight, has just been discharged from a
hospital with an improved nasal organ
made from the flesh Of his own leg.
Work in agriculture will be a special
feature at the Pullman state college
of the work of the summer science
school for teachers during the ap-
preaching summer term. Three
courses of instruction are already
planned, one to cover. the field of ele-
mentary agriculture. The second, a
course in methods of teaching agricul-
ture; the third, course in types Of
animal FORM" or principles Of stock
judging.
Governor Hughes of New York
created almost a sensation last week
when he issued a call for a special ses-
sion of the state Legislature TO convene
on June 80. The purpose OF the SEES
sion is to consider the ACCESSIBILITY Of
passing direct primary law to nomi-
nate political candidates.
The Washington democratic state
convention has been called to meet in
Tacoma September d. The delegates,
to be chosen in accordance with the
state primary law, will be apportioned
on the basis Of the vote on presidential
electors at the last election.
The two Irish parties in Ireland
mixed at a political gathering at New
market, with the result that one man
was killed, dozens wounded and sew
eral hundred slightly injured.
Glenn H. Curtiss, the famous avia-
tor, few Sunday in an aeroplane from
Albany to New York, distance of 137
miles, in 152 minutes. Never before
has this trip been made in the aero
plane. The flight of Curtiss broke the
worlds record for speed in a long dis
lance test. He maintained an average
of 54.7S miles an hour, and in spurts
frequently exceeded the rate Of mile
a minute. The feat won for him the
$4,000 prize offered by the New York
World.
The strawberry shipping season al
Kennewick practically closed last Sat,
arday evening, more than IA, 900 crates
having been marketed at an average
price Of about $3.50. The crop had
been failure the two previous seasons
on account of frost.
c. E. Hagar, former secretary OF the
Colorado state board of pardons, has
been arrested on a charge Of accepting
a bribe to secure pardon.
William c. Baldwin, Brooklyn, N
Y, merchant, died last week from rup
ture OF the stomach last week, the
rapid formation Of gases from glass o
ice cream soda causing the rupture.
c, J. Hoist, postmaster at La Crosse
has been appointed state grain inspec
tor for this state to succeed S. c. Arm
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