The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1910-03-18

will attract thousands Of people to this
state. This is almost the last large par
eel Of public land left and it is expect
ed there will be tremendous rush Of
entrymen, exceeding anything in the
history of past land drawings.
A plague Of mosquitoes have appeared
along the Sound shore, between Ia
coma and Stones landing. The same
ravenous infiction was also reported at
different points on Henderson bay.
Settlers are now oiling the surface Of
all pools of water.
Reports from the islands of south
eastern Alaska state that deer are dying
Of starvation by the hundreds. The
past winter has been exceptionally Sc
we're and the heavy snowfall has driven
the deer to the beaches and deprived
them of all upland food.
Petitions are being circulated in
Spokane urging the council to author
ize a special election, at which voters
will be asked to go on record for or
against the granting Of franchises by
the city to the Chicago, Milwaukee &
Puget Sound and the North Coast
Railway companies without terminal
rate and common-user clauses.
Sixteen hundred kegs of wire nails
at the bottom Of the Mississippi river
are being recovered by the use of a
huge electric magnet. The latter is
lowered to the bottom Of the river, the
current turned on, and when brought
to the surface from one to half dozen
kegs are found sticking to it.
Thomas I. Hisgen of Massachusetts,,
candidate for president on the Inde-
pendence ticket, has filed a protest
against the federal incorporation Of the
proposed Rockefeller foundation. Mr..
Hisgin claims the Rockefeller founda-
ton will have greater powers than the
government which is used to create it..
Seattle is plunged into deep -mys-
tery. A man named Gilman was fined
$1,000 some months ago. He says he
paid it to either L. c. Gilman or Judge
Ronald. Though neither of the latter
can remember anything about it, and
the court records are equally silent,
Cochrane's bank account shows check
for the amount OF the fine was paid at
that time.
Census enumerators in the rural dis
tricts are to be paid from SIS to So a
day, according to instructions received
from the director of the census at
Washington, D. c. Country enumera-
tors will be compelled to pay all OF
their expenses.
Senator Chamberlain of Oregon has
introduced into congress bill making
it misdemeanor in the District of Co
lumbia and the territories to discrimi-
nate against persons wearing the uni
form OF the United States.
Senator Jones has introduced bills in
congress ceding forty acres of public
land to Wilson Creek for cemetery pur-
poses and permitting the town to buy
forty acres more for reservoir at SIPS
an acre.
It is said that nearly one tenth oi
the corporations in this state have been
wiped out OF existence by failure to
pay state tax for three years, as per the
operation OF the new law.
Rev. George Schroeder, pastor Of the
First Congregational church at Elm
wood, ILL.,, has resigned his pastorate to
accept a job as umpire for one Of the
state baseball leagues.
The French aviation society has
brought suit for the annulment OF the
Wright Bros. patents in France, on the
ground that the invention has not been
exploited as the law demands.