The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1915-02-12

was closed. One member of the camp,
a long-termer, was not pardoned. The
men were paid so cents a day and
some of them had as much as 500 to
their credit.
The annual convention Of the Lin
coin county farmers union at Daven'
port, was concluded with the election
of officers. ]. C. Mearns of Wilbur
succeeds P. c. T. Weismann of Almira
as president; James Sullivan of Cres-
ton was elected vice president; Will
liam U. Neeley of Davenport, secre-
-tary-treasurer.
The Aberdeen Brewing company is
planning to utilize its brewery by
transposing it into a clam n fish
eannery. A building permit has been
issued for a dock and cannery build
ing to be erected on the river near its
present buildings. 1t is said the out
put will be 5000 cases of salmon and
clans annually.
Stricken with cerebral hemorrhage
while preparing for breakfast, R.. H.
Alexander, 10 years old, dean" of the
lumber business of the Pacific coast
and head of the British Columbia
Mills and Trading company, one of the
largest lumber concerns in the north
west, died at the home of his son,
Fred w. Alexander, in Seattle.
General w. L. Marshall, consulting
engineer of the reclamation service,
and l. d. O'Donnell, of the reclama-
ton commission, who recently were
designated by Secretary Lane to in
vestigate the Palouse irrigation pro-
iect in eastern Washington, have sub
mitted a conditionally favorable re-
port to Secretary Lane, in which they
express the belief that the project is
feasible and should be built soon.
There were only 81 registered
deaths in Washington for each 100
births during 1914, with figures for
December not included, a considerable
reduction in death rate as compared
with births, deaths being Sc for each
leo births in 1913, State Commissioner
of Health Eugene R, Kelley reported
to the State Board of Health at its an
uual meeting. For the IL months of
1914 there were reported 2O,985 births
and 1898 deaths.
Fifty-three per cent, or 1906 Of the
farmers of Washington employ hired
help, and their annual expenditure for
this item is approximately $15,371,000,
according to a report just issued by
the census bureau. Ten years ago the
YEARLY expenditure for labor by farm
ers of this state amounted to $5,280,-
900. and the increase within a decade
has been 191 per cent. Eighty-two
per cent of the amount paid for labor
6y Washington farmers is cash.
The state board of health has ap-
pointed DR.. Thomas T. Tuttle, of Ga
lena, Mont, secretary of the board to
succeed DR.. Eugene R, Kelly, who re-
signed to become director of the COM
municable disease division of the Mas
saehusetts state department of health.
DR.. futile has been superintendent
of the state tuberculosis hospital of
Montana fo7 two years and for ten
wears was commissioner of health in
that state, a position corresponding to
that which he will in Wash
ington.
Cannon Holding Sway.
Paris.-The French war office is
sued the following statement of the
progress of the war:
THE struggle is confined on almost
every front to artillery combats. The
cannonading was intense at numerous
points. Our artillery has everywhere
secured the advantage"
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