The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1910-03-04
BRIEF NEWS ITEMS OF INTEREST

ne uducS uuiOuS vi lilS statC al
voting on the proposition to establish
state labor party.
AID Wolgast, lightweight champion
has accepted the offer Of $1,000 weel
for ten-week vaudeville engagement
in Kansas City.
Congress demands that it be shown
and has called on Peary for proofs tina
he reached the north pole. A numbe
of bills are before congress to COME
various rewards on the explorer.
A strike vote is being taken by tht
railway employees in the east and south
owing to the unanimous refusal of al
the roads to grant demands presented
by the trainmen and conductors.
The National Woman's Suffrage asso-
citation has endorsed the Chicago plar
of no vote no tax" 1t is proposed
that women property owners all ovel
the country refuse to pay taxes until
given the right to vote.
Two years ago when the Douglas
county division was being proposed the
people were warned about high taxes,
but the tax rolls for Grant county show
the rate is less than one-half what it is
in the old county Of Douglas.
England is facing the greatest politi-
cal revolution in her history. The
growth of radical sentiment is forcing
the government to agree to plan
whereby the house of lords will be
elected and the hereditary right abol-
ished.
1t is believed that the crew OF Great
Northern surveyors, who have been
working between Harrington and Will
son Creek are planning cutoff to es-
cape the yearly foods in the neigh
borhood OF Lamona and between there
and Wilson Creek.
The state college at Pullman is to
be examined by the trustees of the ia
nous Carnegie foundation fund for
superannuated college professors, and
if the institution meets with the re-
quirements of that body, its professors
will receive the benefits of this fund.
For saving the 7-year-old daughter
of Samuel w. Jennings of Texas from
being killed by train, Frank Strome
is now the owner of half of the Jenn-
ings ranch with $4,000 cattle on it.
His fortune is estimated at million
dollars. A week ago Strome was a
tramp.
Because his wife would not pray, A.
F. Barker, 70 years old, has been
granted divorce by the district court
at Topeka, Kan. Mrs. Barker is 63
years old. Barker testified that for As
years he has prayed and read the Bible
after supper, but his wife would not
bow her head.
A timber merchant named Levkin
has been condemned to death in Rus
STA for arson. For the purpose Of
keeping the market for building ma
terial active Levkin would hire men to
burn houses, paying 81 for firing ordi-
nary houses, and IS for firing houses
filed with sleeping people.
Clifford Pinchot took the witness
stand at the Ballinger-Pinchot inquiry
Saturday afternoon and read state
ment, before being sworn, in which
he charged Secretary Ballinger with
falsehood and disloyalty to President
Taft and declared that Mr.. Ballinger
should be dismissed from the service.
Bills have been introduced into the
senate prohibiting the entry or sale OF
Alaska coal lands and providing for the
leasing OF the same. The bill pro-
hibits the leasing OF more than 5000
acres to one person or association, OF
for more than thirty years. Surface coal
deposits, however, may be disposed OF
under the land laws.
The authorities of Spokane are hav-
ing the time OF their lives. The l. w.
w. fight to speak on the street is sup
posed to be renewed with unusual
vigor, the refusal OF the council to in
crease the wages of the city employees
has started the unions to going in a
thunderous protest that may result in
the formation of labor party, and the