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

The election OF Mcintosh township
last week resulted in a defeat of the
saloons, large majority voting the dry
ticket.
Women homesteaders will be given
an opportunity to win premiums at the
coming international exposition to be
held in Spokane in connection with the
Dry Farming congress and interstate
fair this fall.
At a special election on the local
option question held at Edmonds,
Wash, last week, the drys won by a
majority of 81. The vets were con
fident Of winning and are greatly disap-
pointed and also shocked.
The second section of Northern Pa
cifc westbound passenger train No. Z
was wrecked last Friday morning just
west of Eddy, Mont. Several passen-
gers and trainmen were seriously but
not fatally injured. The baggage car
burned up.
Officials of the navy department and
of the department of commerce and
labor believe amateur wireless telegraph
and telephone operators may be con-
trolled by being prohibited by law from
interfering with wireless messages dis
patched to and from vessels at sea.
The three little children Of E. S.
Pudds, who was killed by a Northern
Pacific switch engine at Crestline street,
Spokane, on Dec. 23rd last, will be
benefciaries to the extent of SIS, 900
from the railway company. The de-
cision for damages was rendered by
Judge Sullivan.
Moved to action by the Spokane
city councils refusal to grant an in
crease in the city wage scale, 5000
laboring men, members of the local
unions, will parade the streets next
Tuesday night and at 8 o'clock will
gather in the council chamber 10 pre-
sent their requests for more pay.
A decision was handed down by the
u. S. circuit court at Kansas City last
week which permanently enjoined the
interstate commerce commission from
prohibiting railroads and other carriers
to allow compensation to owners and
operators OF elevators for elevation and
transfer OF grain in transit.
Something more tangible than tele-
vision has been devised by French
inventor, Edouard Belin, who is max
ing an apparatus by which series oil
photographs can be telegraphed one
after the other instantaneously and re-
formed so as to give a cimematograph
reproduction of an event at any dis
lance.
Serious conflicts between the police
and socialists, in which many were
wounded, were the outcome of the
most impressive open-air demonstra-
tons in Berlin and other cities OF
Prussia Sunday against the suffrage bill.
It is estimated that in Berlin alone
10000 persons took part in what was
called "a demonstrative stroll, " in va
rious parts OF the city.
Startling revelations concerning frau
dulent filings on thousands of acres OF
Grant county lands will be made to the
federal grand jury which meets in Spo-
kane early in April. Carefully woven
chains of evidence will be laid, it is
stated, and the indictment of fraudu-
lent manipulators at Ephrata and other
central Washington towns on charges
of conspiracy to defraud the govern
ment is expected.
Reports from Roslyn are to the effect
that the mining camp of the Skookum
Copper Mining Co, about twenty miles
from Roslyn and four miles from Mount
Stewart, had been practically wiped off