The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1910-05-27
PACIFIC NORTHWEST NEWS

Burn your slashings now" The
annual effort of the Washington Forest
Fire association to save a few million
dollars worth of timber that is custom
arily destroyed by fire in this state each
summer, has been going on for the
past month, with the result that
thoughtful lumbermen and farmers have
got their burning done, or will do it in
the next few days, instead Of waiting
until the dry season. By burning all
slashings in the spring or fall, the
greatest source of damaging fires is
eliminated, and the disastrous expert
ence of past years will probably be
avoided this summer if the work of
the association is of any avail. The
Washington Forest Fire association
is an organization Of lumbermen
and timber owners who have come to
realize that millions of dollars of the
states most valuable natural asset is
wasted each year in forest fires which
can be prevented. The association
will maintain this year force of patrol
men whose duty it will be to help safe
guard the burning of slashings, and to
watch for incipient fires and see that
they are put out before they get be-
yond control. These patrolmen will
cooperate with the state officers, whose
numbers, one in each county, are
sadly insufficient to guard all of the
forests of the state.
The new criminal code of the state
contains this provision: Every per-
son who shall operate or permit to be
operated in dangerous proximity to any
brush, grass, or other inhammable ma
terial, any engine or boiler which is
not equipped with modern spark ar
roster in good condition, shall be
guilty of misdeamnor." This pro-
vision of law, if carefully enforced, will
save the state many thousands of feet
of standing timber, and the Forest Fire
association intends to help in its en-
forcement this summer.
S. Lounsberry, city passenger agent
of the Great Northern railway in New
York city, and G. M. Orabell, travelling
passenger agent, of Boston, were visi-
tors in Seattle last week, and this week
George Eighmy, the Buffalo agent of
the G. NJ, and L. D. Ketchell, who
represents the railroad in Pittsburg, are
in Seattle. The Great Northern is
answering so many thousands of in
quiries about the northwest country
through its agents every day, that it
decided this year to send its eastern
representatives in pairs on trips over
the lines in the west to familiarize them
with the country which they have to
describe to prospective settlers. 1t is
the railroad agents who probably send
more new people into the western
tLo,o 1fhar inA5 and ~
is quite important that they should be
thoroughly conversant with the adj
vantages which they are describing to
the interested fastener. After their
western trips the Great Northern agents
will be able to tell first hand about the
Yakima spuds and Wenatchee apples
and Pullman wheat fields, and the
scores of other opportunities which the
state of Washington offers to every
settler.
In straw ballot on the question of
equal suffrage, conducted by local
newspaper with only women voting, the
result was 2218 in favor of equal suf-
frage, and 81 opposed. The Star
wanted to find out whether women
really desire the right to vote, and the
result rather indicated that they do. No
woman could vote more than once, and
each ballot, signed with the name and
address OF the woman casting it, will be
sent to Congressman Humphrey.
The University OF Washington won
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