The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1910-04-29
CONDENSED NEWS ITEMS

Politicians in Yakima county, below
Union Gap, are framing up a deal to
divide the county at the gap. This
would leave the city Of North Yakima
practically county by itself.
Eighteen miners were entrapped and
persisted in an explosion and fire last
Friday night in a mine near Amster-
dam, Ohio.
Ten thousand machinists employed
on the various western railroads have
authorized their officials to call strike
unless granted 10 per cent advance
in wages.
Charles ]. Weller, under arrest at
Tacoma for the murder of Mrs. Fred
ericka Schulz, at Gig Harbor, April a,
has confessed.
Republican members of the senate
committee investigating high prices of
necessities, have abandoned their efforts
to have the senate vote $685. 900 to
carry on the inquiry.
Property loss amounting to millions,
devastation of the fruit belts of North
ern Indiana, Western Michigan, Illi-
nois, Iowa, Missouri, Minnesota and
damper on general business, were the
result of a blizzard which ragged over
the middle west last Friday and Satur-
day.
Five thousand persons homeless, a
number missing, many injured, and a
property loss of over 100000 re-
suited from fire in the center Of Lake
Charles, La, Saturday.
Fire at Rosalia Saturday morning de-
stroyed the building and plant Of the
Citizen-Journal. The town is now to
be newspaperless, as the editor will not
resume publication.
Fifty Of the leading business men of
Japan, who are touring the world, ar
rived in San Francisco the past week
and will visit various cities in this
country.
When the revenue cutter Tahoma
sails from Seattle to Bering sea she
will carry an expedition organized by
New York and Portland newspapers to
climb Mount Mckinley. The party
will be led by c. E. Rusk Of Chelan.
Arrangements are being made for
the state convention of auditors which
is to be held at Walla Walla the middle
of June One OF the features will be a
strawberry spread for the auditors the
first day of the convention. On the
last day of the convention it is planned
to present each auditor with package
of immense Royal Anne cherries.
Suffering from what is believed to be
leprosy in an advanced stage, woman
with an 8-months-old baby at her breast
was found last week in a densely popu-
lated east side tenement in New York
city. In the same three-room lodging,
besides the victim and her baby, were
a young woman, two men and their
wives and five children.
Taking the census appears to be a
strenuous form of work. After five
days of question-asking designations OF
enumerators began to pour in, mostly
in the east. Nearly all the accompany
ing physicians certificates give nerv-
Gus prostration" as reason for resigna-
ton.
Charles Chiften, betrayed by Span
ish girl pal whom he had thrown over,
is in Jail at San Jose, California, charged
with four of the numerous mysterious
murders at Santa Clara, Berkeley and
San Francisco. The prisoner is also
believed to be implicated in many
holdups and burglaries.
A gang of men and women Of vari-
Gus ages have been arrested at Spokane
who seem to be badly wanted by the
police of many cities. A 19-year-old
member of the gang has confessed to
numerous burglaries in Seattle and said
the gang had done so many Jobs he
had forgotten many Of them.
At the request of the state depart
ment of public instruction, the Pullman
state college has prepared an outline
for the course Of study in forestry dur
ing the seventh and eighth grades fol
recommendation to the state board