The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1910-06-03
PACIFIC NORTHWEST NEWS

The Methodist Preachers associa-
ton of Seattle has given its support to
the cause Of equal suffrage, in reso-
luton passed after the ministers had
listened to the reading Of letter from
Miss Emily Inez Denny, daughter OF
the Seattle pioneer, A. A. Denny, to
her pastor, Rev. w. H. Rees, in which
she said:
Those OF US who are struggling to
cure some OF the results Of present
conditions look with a great and noble
envy upon the success of women in
securing protective legislation for boys
and girls in the states where women
vote"
Mrs. Emma Smith DeVoe, leader of
the suffrage movement in this state,
has arranged for woman's day at the
state fair at North Yakima this year. In
her travels about the state Mrs. De-
Voc is gaining many friends to the suf-
Grage cause, her quiet but unceasing
efforts having more effect than the
more noisy and strenuous work Of the
militant sufragettes. We are con-
Quoting a drawing room campaign, "
said Mrs. DeVoe in an interview at
Olympia, and are winning support
without sacrificing any of woman
charm. Militant methods, like the
marriage strike, have no place in the
work of women who are making gen.
uine effort to secure the right to the
ballot
The state board of fire wardens,
meeting in Seattle last week, made the
annual appointments of deputy fire
wardens for each county of the state,
and issued one order which will accom-
plish much in helping to fight against
forest fires and forwarding the campaign
carried on by the Washington Forest
Fire association. This order relates to
spark arresters on locomotives, and will
compel every locomotive operating in
the state to have a spark arrester in
good repair, or be put out Of commits
sion by the fire wardens. This rule, if
carefully enforced, will prevent great
many fires along the right-of-ways Of
railroads. Under another order, per-
mits to burn slashings may hereafter
be obtained from patrolmen of the
Washington Fire Association, as well
as from deputy state fire wardens.
The insurance committee of the Sc
attic Chamber OF Commerce has met
with practically universal success in Sc
curing for Seattle the general agencies
of insurance companies which formerly
conducted their work in the northwest
from general agencies in San Francisco.
The committee has issued an advisory
list of local, general agency and direct
reporting companies. The result Of
this work has been to keep great
deal of money in this section which
formerly went to agencies elsewhere,
and also to advertise the home COM
panies. The Washington companies
listed by the committee are the North
Coast, Pioneer, and Washington OF Sc
attic, and the Western Empire of Spo-
kane. Then there are two lumber
mems companies in Seattle and one
local mutual company which practi-
cally controls that field of fire insur-
ance, the Northwestern Mutual Of
Seattle.
The theatrical war started by John
Cort and other managers from outside
of New York, when they broke away
from the control of the Klaw & Err
LANCER syndicate, moves on apace, and
with every move the theater-going
public gets the best of it. Klaw &
Granger now talk about building new
theaters in Seattle, Portland, Spokane
and Tacoma, and claim that they can
supply these houses with more and
better attractions than the independ-