The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1910-05-06
CONDENSED NEWS ITEMS

and two persons killed and seventeen
injured. OF the latter several have
died.
Louis Paulhan, the aviator, last
Thursday won the greatest race in the
history of mankind, when he flew from
London to Manchester with only one
overnight stop. The distance was
over 1870 miles and actual time Of
flight hours II minutes.
1t is reported that John D. Rookie
Teller, angered at the reception accord
ed to his plan to establish an enormous
philanthropic foundation and weary of
the delays imposed upon the national
incorporation OF the plan, will abandon
the bill introduced by Senator Calm
ger.
Giant crevasses from six to eight feet
wide, and filled with water, have sud-
denly appeared in Jakes valley, Ne
vada, and large number of cattle have
been swallowed up by them.
DR.. Simon Flexner, head of the
Rockefeller Institute of Medical Re-
search in New York, declared at a re-
cent meeting of the American Philo-
sophical Society that he has located
the organism of infantile paralysis
through experiments on monkeys.
]. ]. Hill has just let a 100000
contract for the building of lbs miles
of new railroad in Oregon. The line
will run from Madras, the present
terminus of the Hill road in Oregon, to
the northern boundary Of the Klamath
Indian reservation.
Jesse Scammon, a rancher near
Goldendale, is building the largest fish
preserve in the state, planned to hold
oo,OOO tIoul' n udil dSiOoo d SiCCh
will make lake OF 16 acres with a
maximum depth Of % feet.
A fire at Oakland, Calf, Thursday
last, practically destroyed the China
town district, doing damage to over
100000.
Increased freight rates between the
western territory and the Atlantic sea-
board will be filed with the interstate
commerce commission by all western
roads some time before June l, accord
ing to an announcement just made.
Gustave Banderet, a prominent dry
land farmer of Spokane county, is com
pleting arrangements foran extended trip
to the South American republic of Ar
gentine, where he will assist in estab-
fishing a system OF education in dry
farming methods.
The acid test Of the practicability Of
government reclamation work is being
applied. On April there was due
and payable into the reclamation fund
from the settlers on the various pro-
jects, approximately $1,000,000 for
water rights. II the farmers are able
to meet their payments all we'll and
good. If not, national reclamation
under the present plan is failure.
The theatrical trust is broken, and
the open door" for all attractions will
be in vogue all over the United States
the coming season. This is the opin-
ion of John Cort, head of the North
west Theatrical syndicate. The bust
ing of the trust is said to be due to a
rupture between the Shuberts and
Klaw & Erlanger
The village Of Plymouth, six miles
southwest of Emporia, Kan, about
400 population, was entirely destroyed
by a tornado Sunday night. Several
houses in Emporia were unroofed and
otherwise damaged. No lives were
lost.
L. E. RAIDER, formerly member of
the state legislature, is thought to be
insane by Seattle's city health officer.
RAIDER has been fasting for thirty days
under the care Of DR.. Linda Hazard
and has been spirited away where the
authorities cannot find him.
]. A. Campbell, 81 years old, a
wealthy Missouri farmer, as joke in
serted a matrimonial ad in various pa
pers, signed Mora Johnson" sup
posed to be 17-year-old orphan and
heiress to fortune in New York. The
letters, most Of which''contained money,