The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1910-11-04
ITEMS FROM ALL OVER THE STATE

Complete remuneration OF the pop
ulation Of Tacoma, Wash, was ordered
by Secretary Nagel as result Of the
protests made by the people of thai
city.
A full-grown coyote, with fondnes'
for chickens, was killed almost in the
business section of Spokane last week
by R. F. Williams of the merchants
police.
A pocket Of natural gas has been
struck at Roslyn, 200 feet below the
surface. The gas exploded and flames
broke out, leaping to the top of the
shaft. The gas was burning Friday,
and the engineers believe an immense
pocket Of natural gas has been re-
leased.
Seven thousand voters have signed
the petition for the recall Of Mayor Hi
ram c. Gill, and a recall election is as
sured. Care has been taken that only
voters shall sign the petition. Eight
thousand names are necessary to make
the recall effective, but the league has
hope of obtaining $4,000 signatures.
The council committee is continuing
its hearings of evidence against the
city officials and three separate court
proceedings are on file to compel city
officials to Withdraw their alleged pro-
lection Of vice.
Organized labor thruout the state is
a unit in favor Of equal suffrage, and
at the coming election the members
of the various unions will vote solidly
for the granting Of the franchise to
women.
The Great Northern railroad compa-
ny has filed notice that il will appeal
to the supreme court from the judg-
ment requiring it to pay $1,000 fine in
an action brought by the state railway
commission to have the railroad penal
lied for failing or refusing to install
certain Improvements on its line at diff
ferent stations.
Articles of incorporation have been
filed with the secretary of state for the
Plant-Baldwin holding company Of
Conconully, with a capital stock OF
$875,0O0. James T. Plant, o. w.
Baldwin and Louis J. Plant, incorporat-
ors.
A large number OF the alumni OF the
Washington state university are oppos-
ed to the sale of the university grant
lands within the state, and have organ
lied for the purpose of opposing such
action by the board Of managers. The
proposed sale OF $4,000 acres OF land
in Douglas county precipitated the
movement.
The Olympia postoffice has been Sc
lected by the postofice department as
the one in this state in which the new
postal savings bank is first to be tried.
James J. Hill is planning network
of railroads in western Canada. With
Spokane as the connecting link and the
rich fields of the inland empire and
western Canada his objective point,
the empire builder will make another
invasion OF the northwest. Rather than
sell any Of his existing feeder lines run
ming northward across the international
boundary, the railroad magnate will at
once arrange the construction of other
lines northward from the Great North
ern, on the American SIDE.
In a wedding dress made OF pineap-
pie fiber, handsomely embroidered,
Miss Gail Victor Rhodes of Maize,
Kan, became the wife of Harry N.
Kinsey of North Yakima. The bride
has been teaching school in the Phil
lippines for the past four years and
made the journey home to marry her
Kansas sweetheart by way OF Asia and
Europe. Mr.. Kinsey came to the Yak
ina country two years ago, and has
purchased ranch near Prosser, where
the young people will make their
home.
More than S2,OOo,OOo in gold was
received in Seattle on the steamers
Victoria and Jefferson, the last OF
the seasons boats from Nome and 9th
,;ots in western Alaska. The gold