The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1910-04-22

the week.
H. E. Can intends to occupy the
Adam Emig place and will shortly
move there.
Mrs. L. P. Durand arrived last night
from Seattle and will spend a few days
with relatives and friends.
The ladies Of the Congregational
church served clam chowder luncheon
to a goodly crowd yesterday.
The regular meeting of the. Ladies
of the Maccabees has been postponed
to April 30th on account Of the illness
of one OF the members.
Between answering the questions of
Deputy Assessor Simons and U. S.
Enumerator Coulson our citizens are
kept fairly busy these days answering
questions.
George Siverly, J. ]. Henry, c. w.
Wallace and D. w. Fowler, from the
White River valley and Wenatchee lake
region, were doing business in Leav-
enworth this week.
On Monday last the little babe of
Mr.. and Mrs. M. A. Marley was quite
severely burned. 1t is afflicted with
whooping cough, for which treatment
with the fumes OF cresolene was pre-
scribed. The vessel in which the liquid
was burning sat on a stand and the
babe pulled it off, the lighted fluid fall
ing on its neck and hands. Tho pain
fully burned it is not in a serious con-
dition.
The work of remodelling the Fritz
building so it will be suitable for a
banking house was begun this week.
Mr.. Field, who will be the cashier of
the new bank, writes that he expects
be here at an early date.
Edwin Shortly returned from Astoria,
Oregon, last week. Since the latter
part of December he has devoted his
time to brother who resides at
Astoria and who has been i'll but is now
out and well.
One night this week Engineer Love
found the viaduct on fire and thinking
to save conhagration he would go for
a bucket of water. Just about that
time along came o. V. Cox. When
Mr.. Love returned with the water, 10,
the fire was out. Which reminds the
writer of a story in Gulliver's Travels,
where the fire in the palace of the
Lilliputian queen was extinguished by
the giant traveller.
w. T. Clark of Wenatc hee, builder
of the high line canal which irrigates
nearly all the lower end of the Wen
atchee valley and a large tract south
of the Columbia opposite Wenatchee,
was here the first of the week. He
came up the valley in his auto. Rumor
says he is interested in a projected
irrigation scheme which has for its OBJ
ject the taking of water out of the
Icicle river. A surveying crew, for
merly connected with Mr. Clark's other
work, has been here for the pas. two
weeks and has run several lines from
the Icicle down the south side of the
Wenatchee river.
F. A. Losekamp departed last Sun
day for Seattle and hopes to close a
mining deal of considerable conse-
quence before he returns. Mr.. Lose
kamp had compliment paid him by
the general manager of the Great Nor
them, Gruber, when he was here last
week. Having his attention called to
the improvement being made by the
town on the parking strip which the
railroad company gave the town, he
could not help but praise Mr. Lose
kamp's skill as builder of retaining
walls, particularly that part which was
directly under Mr.. Losekamp's person
al supervision.
Last Tuesday was remarkable for the
number of accidental self-inhicted in
juries. Mrs. P. H. Graham accident
ally cut her wrist with butcher knife
and had to be brought to the doctor to
have the wound dressed. On the same
day Frank Watkins, bridge carpenter,
was brought to DR.. Hoxsey for treat
ment, having inflicted severe cut on