The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1910-02-25
BRIEF NEWS ITEMS OF INTEREST

The worst blizzard Of years is raging
in the east.
Three days OF rioting in the Phila-
delphia street car strike resulted in the
wrecking Of $50 cars.
1t is reported from Washington that
Secretary Ballinger will resign his job
as soon as the investigation is over.
The town of Albion, twelve miles
from Colfax, was partially destroyed by
fire Monday night Loss $4,000.
Governor Hay has decided that the
facts before him does not warrant his
investigation into the conditions attend
ing the switchmen's strike.
Tuesday night marked the lowest
temperature for twenty years in the
Occur d Alene country, thermometers
registering from IA to over 20 below.
Natural gas has been discovered near
Standpoint, Idaho. A syndicate to
sink wells has been formed and option
secured on several hundred acres of
land.
1t took the whole fire department of
Spokane to subdue a threatening fire
in the heart of the business district
Tuesday forenoon. The Symons block
was badly Quilted, entailing loss OF
over 100000.
The little city of Priest River, Idaho,
was practically wiped out by fire Monday
in spite of the help extended by the
fire department of Newport. OF the
thriving business section but one
saloon and two stores remain.
Governor Hay has issued requisition
gapers for Fred Hesselbaugh of Occur
d'Alene, Idaho, an official of the
l. w. W., who is securing contribu-
tons for the continuance of the fight
for free speech on the streets of
Spokane.
Rector Williams, SIS years old, has
been released from the Texas state
prison, after serving twenty years of
forty-year sentence, and walked out a
free man, accompanied by the man he
was convicted of having killed, B. J.
Carter of Seattle.
One of the most important acts of
the convention of postoffice clerks,
held at Spokane this week, was the en-
dorsement of Congressman Poindexter
and the expression of an appreciation
for his work in attempting to have the
postal gag law repealed.
The investigating committee of the
Spokane Bar association, which was ap-
pointed to look into the charges made
by the Chicago Socialist against Judge
Webster, may deem it necessary to
send a Spokane man to Kentucky to
make an investigation and report to the
committee.
Prosecuting Attorney Pugh of Spo-
kane who, Saturday, after the Flynn
jury had gone to THAR homes for over
Sunday, allowed himself to be inter
viewed by the press, predicting riot
and bloodshed in case the defendant
was acquitted, was roundly scored
Tuesday by Judge KEENAN, for his I'M
professional and unethical conduct.
Attorneys for the defence are endeav
oring to have the case thrown out be-
cause of influence of the interview on
the jurymen.
The authorities of Philadelphia, be-
lieving the regular state troops were
not severe enough towards the street
car strikers and their sympathizers, or
dered out the Philadelphia Fencibles,
an independent organization of society
men. They proved worse than babies.
Many of them had their guns taken
away by the mobs, and coats stripped
from them. The girls of the Kensing-
ton district would rush one OF the
soldiers and cut off all the uniform
buttons and gold braid as trophies.