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Newspaper
Leavenworth Echo
Location
Leavenworth, Washington, United States of America
Date
Apr 24, 1914
Page
2
Citizens question if city councils may force improvements without owner consent under 1911 third class city law. Debates center on cost limits, hearings, and potential property forfeiture tied to assessments. The dispute involves charges of overreach and calls for law amendments.
The progressive faction backs J A Falconer of Everett as the strongest mental fit to succeed Senator Wesley L Jones in the fall primary. Falconer has served in the state legislature and is currently among the state’s at large congressmen.
A philosophical editorial argues future wars are inevitable yet undesired. It warns of high costs and moral damage, predicting the day public opinion will abolish war, with a future conflict so brutal that civilized nations will unite to stop it.
The president of the Great Northern Railway lends support to a plan to carve a national park from the Lake Chelan area. The proposal would include the lake, Horseshoe basin, and nearby glaciers, praising the region's scenic grandeur and potential as a health and pleasure resort to benefit passenger traffic and national interests.
The report notes twelve dead in Vera Cruz fighting with Mexicans and cites a separate deadly clash near Trinidad Colorado where fifty killed including women and children in a battle between striking miners and state militia plus mine company guards. It calls for gun control and bans on armed private forces.
Church schedule lists services at 10:00 Bible School 11:00 The Masters Touch 7:00 Epworth League 7:45 Junior League graduation Rev Snowden speaks at Leavenworth May 1 8:00 Modern Methods choir training All welcome Next Sabbath morning and evening preachings What is a Christian Ruth Going to Glean Preaching at Peshastin Gilbert's hall 3:00 All invited W V Davis Pastor
Mission Lodge No. 208 I O O F invites all Oddfellows and Rebekahs of Leavenworth and nearby areas to attend a 1914 anniversary event with Brother Birdseye of Spokane as guest.
Game Commissioner Percy Schebie announced 75,000 eastern brook trout were shipped on Saturday and released Sunday into the Wenatchee River and Icicle Creek. The operation was carried out by Game Warden Ross Watson with assistants Thomas Burke and Marion Carr. More fingerlings have been ordered and ongoing efforts will keep county lakes and streams well stocked with top game fish.
To all our Leavenworth friends we extend our most sincere thanks for aid sympathy and beautiful floral offerings during the sickness and death of our dear wife and mother. I C Varney Amos Varney.
Motorists statewide are asked to join the Seattle reliability tour with a fleet traveling from Seattle to Spokane through the Snoqualmie pass via Wenatchee. The Automobile Club of Seattle leads the effort and the route hinges on the state road completion through the pass, expected by August when the test is planned.
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