The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1910-02-11
BRIEF NEWS ITEMS OF INTEREST

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state college and can be used only for
that institution; $4,000 is in the
United States fund and may be ex-
pended solely for the maintenance of
the soldiers home, and about $780,
900 is in permanent funds which may
not be spent at all, but which may be
invested in bonds, the interest thereon
used for current expenses. The total
receipts for the week were about $780,
600 and the expenditures were $685.
900.
The carriage free of postage of all
mail matter sent by Theodore Roose-
welt has been proposed by Representa-
tive Hamilton Fish Of New York, who
has introduced a bill to that effect in
congress. Franking privileges are en-
joyed by Mrs. Cleveland and Mrs.
Harrison, widows of presidents.
Three unknown men held up and
robbed passengers on an eastbound
Missouri Pacific train near Pittsburg,
Kan, Saturday night. About $500 in
cash and small amount of jewelry was
taken. Women passengers were forced
to strip the rings from their fingers.
w. H. Adams, deputy inspector of
markets and pure foods for the state,
INDUCED in still hunt among the cold
storage plants of Spokane for several
days last week and as result un-
earthed 5000 pounds of turkey and
consigned the same to the city crema-
tory Saturday.
A temporary injunction against the
state of Oklahoma, preventing the en-
forcement of the two-cent passenger
rate law and certain maximum freight
schedules, was granted Saturday to the
Missouri, Kansas & Texas and Santa
Fe railroads by Judge William c. Hook
of the United States circuit court.
Uneasiness is expressed in England
on account of the determination of the
labor party to press the right-to-work
bill before the new parliament. The
measure caused small concern in the
old parliament, because the labor party
was weak. Now it is much stronger.
The right-to-work bill consists of a
proposal to force local authorities to
find work for the unemployed in their
respective jurisdictions.
The numerous divorces obtained in
Seattle by Japanese couples shortly
after being married has caused sus-
picion to arise in the minds of King
county authorities that the marriage of
the many Japanese women immigrants
is simply blind and that the women
are really being imported for immoral
purposes. The last decree asked for
has been held up by Judge Gillian un-
til the whole matter is investigated.
Another blizzard hit the east the first
of the week. Zero temperature, with
biting wind, was reported from New
York, Boston and other places. A
number of deaths from exposure were
also reported.
Needless of the warning OF fore
man in charge of the excavation opera
tons along the line OF the private
motor road from Kelvin to the Ray
copper mines, near Phoenix, Ariz., the
motorman of gasolene car containing
six passengers ran his car close to the
excavation just as a suffering fuse
burned to heavy charge of dynamite
Saturday afternoon, and the car and its
seven occupants were blown to atoms
Robert L. LaFollette, the noted SEN
ator and statesman from Wisconsin,
may stump eastern Washington this
fall in the interests of his cousin, w.
T. La Toilette of Pullman, who is
candidate for the republican nomina-
ton for congress.
C. B. Kegley Of Pullman, master OF
the state grange, is to be arrested ac-
cording to a report from Olympia, on
charge of criminal libel, on complaint
of A. S. Ruth, president OF the state
senate. Kegley week or so ago, in
an address, charged that a section OF
state roads built in eastern Washington
nv A. S. Ruth as contractor, had been
a graft from start to finish, and was abb
solutely worthless.
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