The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1910-03-18
BRIEF NEWS ITEMS OF INTEREST

to D.. Every voter registered cast a
vote.
The quarantine on Washington
sheep which has been in effect for
three years was lifted March IS, Secre-
tary Wilson having issued an order to
that effect. The quarantine was for
scabies.
The bill requiring compulsory pub
licity for election campaign contribu-
tons and expenses has been reported
by the house committee on elections
of president and vice president and
members OF congress, with favorable
recommendation. The bill was intro
duced by Representative Mccall, re-
publican, OF Massachusetts.
A Pittsburg, Pa, coroner's report
Saturday gave the cause Of death of
Thomas K. Laughlin, brother-in-law OF
President Taft, Friday, as suicide by
shooting.
According 10 General Manager J. 2.
O'Brien of the Oregon Railroad &
Navigation company, the losses to that
company due to the floods in eastern
Washington, will reach $150,000. 1t
will require three months to put the
company's tracks in good condition.
The city of Chicago is considering a
hatpin ordinance in which it is an
offense If the point of the pin protrudes
more than half an inch from either
side, top, back, or front of the hat, re-
CARELESS of whether the pin goes thru
or upon the hat. The maximum pen
atty for violation of the ordinance is a
fine Of $50.
If general strike OF mine workers
in the bituminous coal fields OF the
middle west and Ohio districts is called
on April at least 100000 miners will
walk out, according to conservative
estimates made by union leaders.
The Arizona and New Mexico state
hood bill has been ordered favorably
reported by the senate committee on
territories. Only those who have re-
sided in the territories for one year or
more will be allowed to vote for the
ratification of the constitutions.
The ninth annual convention OF the
Pennsylvania State Federation Of Labor,
in session last week, unanimously
passed resolution asking that in the
event of an arbitration of the Philadel-
phia strike question failing, the Ameri-
can Federation of Labor call nation
wide strike of organized and morgan
lied workmen.
According to Senator Hepburn con-
gress is in a fair way to establish an
initiative and referendum system in
Hawaii to decide the liquor question.
The matter came up in connection
with a joint resolution providing for a
special popular election in the Ha-
waiian islands on prohibition and pro-
vides that the result of the election
shall have the effect of instruction to
the Hawaiian legislature.
D. E. Lesh, one of the pioneers OF
the Yakima valley, has sold his 70-acre
ranch, most of which is in orchard, and
located about two miles from North
Yakima, for SIS, 900.
The fight against diphtheria has be-
gun in earnest in Kansas. Each Of the
5000 physicians in, that state will re-
ceive letter from the state board Of
health explaining how the board will
furnish free anti-toxine to anyone who
is unable to pay for it. The board has
selected at least one drug store in each
county where the anti-toxine may be
secured.
The greatest blizzard experienced
since 1880 devastated the eastern
coast Of Japan Saturday and Sunday. 1t
is feared that thousands Of fishermen
have been drowned. Nearly $50 fish
ing boats are known to have been
wrecked.
David Waldo Field Of Brooklyn, As
years old, millionaire and president Of
seven corporations, has gone to school
at Harvard to get the education he was
denied when youth. He is the rich
est student at Harvard and the oldest.
A FIRE at Ephrata, Wash, Sunday,