The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1910-03-11
BRIEF NEWS ITEMS OF INTEREST

Jacob Schaefer, former national bill
lard champion, died at his home ii
Denver at HISS o'clock, Tuesday
He was victim of tuberculosis.
Strong indications of natural gas and
oil have been discovered on the PENN
sula about three miles from Hope,
Idaho, and prospecting for actual value
will begin at once.
Thomas Farrell of New York was
tripped up by one baby carriage and
run over by another, and is now in a
hospital, suffering from a dislocated
shoulder and serious internal injuries.
Nearly thirty miners were killed last
week by the explosion of powder
magazine in the 1100-foot level Of the
Mexican mine, one of the group oil
Treadwell gold properties on Douglas
island, Alaska.
A car containing 100 strikebreakers
was dynamited near Corinto, N. Y,
Tuesday morning, and forced to re-
turn to Saratoga. The conductor was
mobbed and a bridge burned. Paper
makers are on strike.
Forty-six persons were injured, some
of them so seriously that they probably
will die, when an Oak Knoll car of the
Pacific Electric system was tossed from
the track by the engine of freight
train on the Salt Lake route Tuesday
night, at Los Angeles.
Portions of eastern Washington were
hit hard by the floods from melting
SHOWS. Colfax was a heavy sufferer.
Several business blocks and many
dwellings were ruined and over hun
bred families were forced to camp on
the hillsides without food or shelter.
A charge of two and half tons of
powder was placed in a ledge in the
Columbia near the mouth of the Chelan
river last week and exploded. A great
commotion was expected, but only a
part of the charge went off and but
about one-third of the rock was blown
away.
Drafts of the new treaties which
Japan proposes to make with the pow
ers are about completed. Existing
treaties will undergo considerable
changes because Of changed conditions
in Japan. The present treaty with the
United States continues in force for
another year.
Farmers of this country are appar-
emily opposed to immigration. None
of the immigrants reach the farms,
where they might be utilized. These
statements were made by representa-
tives of the Farmers Union, which ap-
peared before the house committee on
immigration.
With SO claims of widows and other
relatives of the victims of the Cherry
mine horror, in Illinois, settled by pay
ments ranging from $500 to $1,000 per
death, the St. Paul Mining Co. has en-
tered into negotiations with counsel in
about 100 more cases to settle with the
victims widows at the rate of $500 in
each case.
If the interests are seeking to
monopolize water power sites in the
west they will have to hustle, or else
the U. S. geological survey will have
all the available locations reserved.
According to late report the survey
during the past year has withdrawn H.
100000 acres of containing water
power sites.
A unique plan has been adopted to
locate settlers on $4,000 acres of irri-
gable fruit and vegetable land near
Northport, 90 miles north of Spokane.
A mining man of Spokane, backed by
syndicate of capitalists, has been sent
to Ireland to organize colony of 5000
families to make their homes along the
Columbia and Kettle rivers in Stevens
and Ferry counties.
The city election at Seattle Tuesday
resulted in the election of Hi Gill, the
wide-open candidate. He had ma
jority OF 1000 over Moore. The union
labor party polled an insignificant vote.
Amendments for a government by a
commission, and non-partisan prima-
ries and ballots also carried. The at
tempt of the politicians to destroy the
initiative and referendum was de-
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