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Newspaper
Leavenworth Echo
Location
Leavenworth, Washington, United States of America
Date
Apr 15, 1910
Page
1
Prof. A L Melander explains codling moth life cycle and the necessity of spraying. Practical timing notes include after petals fall for the first spray and subsequent hatch dates for later applications. Lead arsenate preferred, Paris green as substitute, with thorough coverage and windless conditions to save 90 percent of the crop.
Mrs. Mary E Stifter disposed of the remaining 34 4 acres of orchard land to F A Reynolds of Cascade Orchard Loan Investment Co Leavenworth The entire 74 1 2 acre place was recently sold netting $250 per acre Real estate men call the price very reasonable The land with buildings lies about one and a half miles east of town near neighbors Dove Right Tom Burke and others who are buying and improving land.
A. J. Cook left the head of the Chumstick valley last Saturday and will be away about a month. Messrs. Peake and Bateman, buyers of the old Northup ranch, hired Cook to subdivide the property into five and ten acre tracts. Abundant irrigation water exists and the land will be marketed this summer, likely spurring local real estate activity. This tract is among the oldest and best improved lands in the area.
Abbot of Chikamin creek, twenty six miles west of Leavenworth, reports four foot snow and eight foot deeper earlier winter. He sold four lynx for eighty six dollars forty cents and earned twenty dollar state bounty. He doubts trapping as a full career but considers it a winter side line. Willis-Jones tried to win tax relief by impressing assessors. Willis failed and faces higher taxes as they assessed twice the former amount.
Postmaster General Hitchcock bases his conclusion on the auditor’s postal receipts and expenditures for the first half of the current fiscal year and on preliminary returns for the third quarter ending March 31. He predicts the first year of the present administration will show a deficit drop of more than 10 million, with the six month deficit cut to about 4.07 million from 10.29 million a year ago, and a quarter end surplus near 2 million.
In Leavenworth the season opener drew a big crowd despite intermittent showers. Souder led with a three hit performance and the team, though hindered by errors, beat visitors as Lee and Mahoney starred in a solid all around display.
Rufus R. Wilson denounces claims of a new party and outlines Progressive Republicanism led by Judge Poindexter. The platform calls for strict enforcement of honesty, forest reserves, railroad rate regulation, anti trust vigor, tariff reform, waterways bonds, senate reorganization, and a government protecting the weak against wealth influence.
Sidney Norman of Los Angeles hails Poindexter as a strong West figure in the House of Representatives and a rising force. He notes Poindexter’s stand on relieving Cannon as speaker and the shifting views of insurgents who once supported Cannon. The piece also mentions a personal backstory about Poindexter’s finances returning to the family after his business was placed in receivership.
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