The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1910-11-11
ITEMS FROM ALL OVER THE STATE


Washington, which will be presented
to the state Legislature at its next ses-
sion, has been circulated on the uni
versity grounds, and in one day eceived
more than 500 signatures.
Olympia is being flooded with Mexi-
can half-dollar and dollar pieces, the
debased currency of that country being
passed at its face value in United States
money, in what appears to be a DELHI
crate attempt of some one shipping in
the Mexican coin.
The attorney for the defendants in
the anti-vice injunction suits brought
by James B. Murphy, acting for the
Public Welfare League, against Mayor
Hiram c. Gill, Chief of Police Charles
w. Wappenstein and the lessees and
property owners in the old King street
restricted district, asked Judge Gillian
to override his demurrer to the COM
plant (Which he did), so that a final
hearing on the application for a perma-
nent injunction could be had at an
early date in Seattle. In addition to
the petition for an Injunction the plain
tiff is suing for SAC, 900 damages said
to have resulted from the contiguity Of
the vice district to his property.
Robert Neal, a veteran of the Spanish
American war, has gone from Dayton
into the mountains to hunt for the 800
sheep still missing from the R. A. Jack
son hocks. Eight hundred sheep were
lost during the recent roundup, but
500 of them were subsequently found.
It is feared the other 800 have been
killed by hungry wild animals.
An experimental count of all letters
and mail packages will be made for
Eve days, beginning November 10,
by the railway mail service, in order to
ascertain the increase in business. This
experimental count is made every six
months in order to insure the govern
ment and railroads from financial loss
on the weight schedules for mail.
B. H. Bohrhardt of Minneapolis, who
is the heaviest land owner in Horse
Heaven, has arrived at Prosser to start
the cruise and classification of his prop
erty, which aggregates $4,000 acres.
The Minneapolis man owns nearly half
as much land in Horse Heaven as there
is under the entire Sunnyside irrigation
project.
Robert E. Lee, grand master, and
w. E. McCrosky, grand warden, l. o.
o. F. of Washington, were at Medical
Lake looking over the sites offered by
the local lodge for the permanent build
ing to be erected for the grand secre-
tary.
The state supreme court dissolved
the injunction issued by the Thurston
county superior court, restraining the
United States engineers from opening
the gates of the Lake Washington canal
and lowering the level of the lake dur
ing the flood period.
Just as the undertaken at Ellensburg
was about to burn the clothing Of John
Cronin, a homeless railroad man who
died there OF alcoholism, he discovered
a check for $4,000 wrapped in a leaf
of a medical journal %protruding from a
pocket. The check will be held by
the local authorities until Cronin's rela-
tives are found.
A meeting was held Saturday night
to discuss building an electric power
line to Quincy and vicinity to pump
water for irrigation.
Robert Muldrow, in charge of the
United States geological survey which
has been working in Quincy valley for
several months, making typographical
surveys, has gone to Washington, D.
c., having ended his labors there for
the present.
Mrs. Mary 1. Stark died at the home
of her daughter, Mrs. Leah Irwin, in
Colville, aged SO years. She crossed
the plains in 1916.
Senator R. F. Pettigrew, who has
large holdings at Moses Lake, bought
the Blue Wing Duck Club property on
the lake. This has long been a hunt
ing paradise for sportsmen who visit
the place every year and bag large
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