The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1910-04-08
CONDENSED NEWS ITEMS

a loss of 100000.
Work has been begun on an irriga-
ton scheme near Chewelah that is
planned to reclaim 10000 acres.
1t is announced on authority that
about $4,000 has been guaranteed
toward fund to help DR.. Cook prove
his claim to discovery of the north
pole.
Eight cases of smallpox were discov-
cred at Charleston, Wash, last week,
and all schools, public halls, saloons
and pool rooms have been ordered
closed.
Humbert Leblon, a noted French
aviator, was dashed to death in Spain
Saturday when the motor of his aero
plane broke down when he was at a
height Of 140 feet.
The state fair association is spending
$27 900 improvements this summer
and as a result expects to have the
finest exhibition grounds in the north
west.
Secretary Ballinger has temporarily
withdrawn from all forms of disposition
many tracts of land in Washington and
Idaho. A total Of 1870 acres along the
Columbia river in Washington is with
drawn.
An ordinance modelled after the Chi
cago one, and prohibiting the use Of
hat pins which protrude from the hat
more than two inches, is being consid-
cred by the Seattle city council.
A 3000-pound sunfsh, thought to be
the largest ever captured, was caught
with rod and line off Catalina island,
California, last Friday, after a struggle
lasting two hours.
1t is stated by the union officials
that the voluntary wage increases an
nounced lately by certain railroads will
not alter the plans of the trainmen and
conductors who have made demands
for larger increase.
The Salvation Army in this country
will have to change its name. On ap-
plication of the English organization
New York courts have issued an in
junction forbidding the present Ameri-
can organization from using the name,
F. M. Hoskins, who owns $500
acres of land near Dayton, WASH, is
planning one of the largest orchards
and nurseries in the west. Work Of
setting out $4,000 apple trees has
already commenced.
For the first time since 1907 the
army cutworm has appeared in Montana
in vast numbers. 1t is feared much
damage will be done to the winter
wheat before the season is over.
Mad Mullah has risen again in re-
bellion to British rule in Arabia and
fully thousand natives friendly to the
English have been killed. Many towns
have been RACED and vast areas laid
waste.
The two Japanese who were arrested
at Manila for attempting to purchase
photographs of the Notifications of Cor
regidor have been released on orders
from the secretary OF war.
Three prominent Germans, one a
member of the reichstag, lost their lives
Sunday by being crushed and drowned
while making balloon ascension near
Stettin, Germany. A fourth member
of the party was rescued in a serious
condition.
George H. Williams, 81 years old,
known as the grand old man of Ore
gon," once a member of President
Grants cabinet, and the most promi-
nent figure in politics and public life
in Oregon, died suddenly at his home
in Portland, Monday, from heart failure.
AS result of the reduction of the
tariff on cream it is believed the price
OF butter will be sharply reduced in the
northern states. A chain of creameries
is to be built along the border and but
ter made from Canadian cream.
The largest irrigation project ever
launched in the state of Washington,
the Klickitat Irrigation & Power Com
pany, has nearly the required number
of acres signed up for water rights. Out