The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1912-10-25
LOCAL HAPPENINGS AND WHEREABOUTS
NEWS ITEMS
Notes. Personals and Small Items May be Phoned Direct to
The Echo Office :. =. Telephone Number 285

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E. Hewett, travelling auditor for the
Great Northern Railway was here We'd
nesday calling on the local depot force
and checking up the accounts.
A. R. McCallum, representative Of
the Warren Construction Co., who are
doing the paving work in this city spent
several days here this week inspecting
the work.
Mike Pante, an Italian who was
arrested last Saturday near the dam for
giving booze to Indians had his hear
ing in Judge Grants court Tuesday
and was bound over to the Superior
court to await trial.
Jesse Murphy, the democratic can
didate for Insurance Commissioner
dropped off No. Wednesday afternoon
for few minutes, while on his way to
Wenatchee and distributed a few cir
culars to promote his candidacy.
Paul Weigand, who resigned the
agency Of the Seattle Brewing and
Mailing Company to take effect the
first of November. says he will have
the agency of a company owning a
large amount of real estate in central
Washington, and will in the future de-
vote all his time to that business.
Frank Davis, who resigned from the
town council last spring to engage in
the horse business in Grant county was
here this week visiting with friends and
taking a little recreation from work.
He said his stock was doing we'll and
the outlook for future horse business
was never better. He also says he
sowed 800 acres of winter wheat.
The wet weather of the past week
has interferred with the street paving,
which it had been given out, would be
completed by the first of this week,
and would, doubtless, had the rain and
snow not interfered. Monday and
Monday night it showed and rained at
intervals and Tuesday morning the
ground was covered with snow to a
depth of two inches.
c. G. Smyth shipped sack of po-
tatoes to Everett last Saturday. There
is no particular news value in this item.
Potatoes are being shipped from here
every week in very much larger guam
titles, but there is something more
than news value in the item when we
state that 80 potatoes filed the sack,
which was an ordinary potato sack,
and weighed 81 pounds.
Ed Johnson, the man who was ar
rested here couple of weeks ago for
selling liquor to Indians, was sentenced
in the Superior court last Saturday to
serve term of from one to two years
in the state penitentiary at Walla Walla.
It has been the custom quite often
in the past to permit offenders of this
character to get off with fines and short
sentences in the county Jail, but as
this kind of work seems to be on the
increase, the authorities say they intend
to see that more severe sentences are
received in the future.
Employment agents in Spokane state
that wages for laborers in the Inland
Empire are from so to rs cents a day
higher now than they were year ago
and the indications are that they will
advance still higher in the winter. The
prevailing wages paid for outside work
SITS to So day as against 50 and
$2.50a year ago. The Spokane agents
report that there is scarcity Of men
for almost all classes of work and the
demand is increasing. Railroad camps
could use two or three times the num-
Der at present employed if they could
get the men.
c. E. Battles, who is just now
rounding out his fourth year as county
treasurer called on the Echo Wednes-
day and had to say that he was spend
ing day or two among the voters of
this end Of the county. Mr.. Battles is
the democratic nominee for representa-
tive from Chelan county and says if he