The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1910-02-04
BRIEF NEWS ITEMS OF INTEREST

The January dividends on the stocks
OF the great corporations OF the country
are reported as the largest on record,
amounting to 1902, O32, 602, and it is
predicted that the next July dividends
will be equally as large.
The farmers of Kansas have organ
lied and will oppose the meat boycott
which is depressing livestock prices.
The farmers propose to quit the use of
union label products.
The libel case of the government
against the New York World for state
mentS in regard to the Panama canal
purchase, has been dropped.
A report just published by the gov
eminent health department says that
during the past year not single case
OF rabies occurred in the northwest and
but two cases west of the Missouri
river.
A young lady attending an eastern
college contracted leprosy from a rat of
false hair and has been deported to the
leper colony. Thousands of queues of
dead Cinnamon are imported yearly to
aid femininity in following fashion.
It is authoritatively stated that on
February the striking switchmen will
return to work and that practically all
will be given their old places.
The annual meeting Of the Pacific
coast lumber manufacturers adopted a
resolution instructing all members to
insist that retailers accept fifteen per
cent Of their shipment in odd lengths.
The order went into effect February l.
Plans now before the Indian depart
ment propose to irrigate over 1000
acres of Colville reservation lands on
the east side of the Okanogan river.
Drops in the canals of the main project
will generate electricity for pumping
water for the additional acreage.
A resolution is being prepared by
the ways and means committee of the
national house providing for an inquiry
into the high cost of living.
The bituminous coal miners are de-
handing raise Of ten cents ton in
Kansas, Missouri, Oklahoma, Texas,
Colorado, Washington, Wyoming,
Montana and British Columbia, where
new wage scales are to be signed. A
strike of magnitude is threatened in
case the demand is denied.
The largest map ever constructed is
being prepared for the international
Scientific Congress. The map, which
will represent the entire world, will be
1OOx15O feet. Each country will con-
tribute that section representing its
own territory. The whole work will
be assembled in London.
To protect the lives OF government
postal employees on trains and prevent
the loss Of mail by fire, Representative
Carey of Montana is in favor of the
government buying its own mail cars
and contracting with the railroads for
their hauling. He has introduced
bill which authorizes the postmaster
general to proceed with the work of
contracting for these cars, put them in
use as rapidly as possible and have all
railroads fully equipped with them in
1915.
The coal fields of Alaska, just now
so much under discussion in Washing
ton and throughout the country, are
the subject of lengthy bill introduced
in the house by Delegate Wickersham
of Alaska, providing that $4,000 acres
of the best coal-bearing lands OF Alaska
be set aside by the United States In
perpetuity as the national coal reserve.
The Great Northern will this spring
begin a suburban service between
Seattle and Everett. The road is be-
ing double tracked and gasolene motor
cars will be used in the service.
The farming lands of the Canadian
northwest are proving increasingly at
tractiye to settlers from the United
States. During the eight months end
ing with November, nearly 72'ooo
citizens of the United States migrated
across the border, an increase OF %
ner cent over the corresponding period
of 1908.