The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1910-04-15
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Eight workmen were killed by an
explosion OF dynamite Monday while
doing construction work on the Santa
Fe railroad near Novite. Texas.
An immense irrigation scheme is
being incubated at Boise, Idaho, and
the plans include a s3,O0o,OOo dam
ESQ feet high, seven miles of tunnels
and the watering Of nearly 100000
acres of land.
Three masked men held up an Alki
Point, Seattle, street car late Saturday
night and robbed the thirty odd passen-
gers of several hundred dollars in
money and jewelry. For the capture
of the robbers a reward of $500 has
been offered by the street car com
pany.
It is believed that the big pool rooms
of the country were touched for some
thing like a million dollars last Satur-
day when bunch of shapers tapped
the wires and sent in false reports on
the Oakland races.
AS result Of green fireman and a
too trusting engineer two S. P. & S.
passenger trains met headon on the
Seventh street trestle at Spokane Satur-
day night. The smoking car, crowded
with passengers, mostly Italians, was
telescoped and every occupant injured.
The mail car was thrown bodily to the
ground forty feet below. Nearly forty
persons were injured. Of these, two
have died and several others are not ex-
pected to live.
The rapid advance Of modern times
was strikingly illustrated at Memphis,
Tenn, Sunday, when an aeroplane col
lided with an automobile.
The interstate commission has de-
cided that rates for Pullman berths are
too high, especially the upper berths.
The commissioners think that 50 for
full nights journey of twelve hours for
lower berths and $3.50 for upper berths
would be about right. This would
mean a reduction Of So and $3.50 re-
spectively on the trip between Seattle
and St. Paul.
A fire at Beaver Falls, Pa, last Sat
urday, destroyed two manufacturing
plants with loss of million dollars,
throwing 800 men out of work.
The u. S. senate committee has re-
fused to give the Fort Walla Walla
military reservation to Whitman col
lege, but is quite willing to sell the
land for $50 an acre. The buildings,
constructed in 1859, are mostly built
of logs and of little value.
Northern Pacific engineers have al
most completed the location work for
the Ellensburg-Ritzville cutoff. This
will eliminate the operation of transcon-
tinental trains through the Yakima
valley.
Speaker Cannon Monday again de-
fed the insurgents to depose him from
the speakership, declaring in speech
on the floor Of the house that unless
the republicans who do not approve OF
the personality Of their speaker have
the courage to join the solid minority,
I remain speaker until March next. "
Walla Walla fruitgrowers who keep
their orchards absolutely free of weeds
and grass, find that their diligence is
costing them dearly. Armies of what
is called the climbing cut worm are
bombarding their trees and attacking
the buds since these pests cannot find
any food in the cleanly-cultivated soil.
An insane woman at Pasadena, CAL,
swallowed nine-inch table knife the
other day. Several hours argument on
her part finally convinced the ply
sicians that she had performed the
startling feat. Seventeen doctors gath
cred to watch the operation for the re-
covery Of the knife. The woman will
also recover.
The unemployed Of the United
States will hold a convention in Phila-
delphia July to organize a political
party. Three hundred welfare organi-
cations have been asked to send eleven
DELEGATES each.