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Newspaper
Leavenworth Echo
Location
Leavenworth, Washington, United States of America
Date
Aug 20, 1909
Page
2
Notice to subscribers who are a year or more behind in payments. If arrears continue and no remittance is received, names will be removed from the list to protect postal privileges. The publication will issue a prior arrears notice before suspension.
The Spokane meeting rejected a proposal to issue 5 billion dollars of 3 percent gold bonds to run 100 years for drainage irrigation roads and forestry. Critics warned of graft and mismanagement yet noted potential beneficial returns if honestly handled. The Brewster Herald and Pateros Reporter faced a fire setback but pledged rapid republication and town recovery.
The state highway commission releases a report rejecting the Wenatchee bridge. It notes the structure could be valuable if not for defective piers and minor flaws, leaving a state payment of 182000 plus dollars after Wenatchee citizen subscriptions of 16317.41 were deducted from the original 198524.96 cost.
State Auditor Clausen refuses to pay legislators mileage reimbursements to and from the capitol, triggering protests among lawmakers and heated debate over travel expenses.
The excerpt notes that if the senate or house adjourns for three days or more members lose pay, provoking strong reactions and calls for accountability among legislators. It reflects frustration over perceived allowances and the incentive structure for lawmakers.
Surveyors Joe Shotwell and T. W. Reed headed from Cashmere Monday toward Mad River to lay out an irrigating ditch line to serve lands around Cashmere. The project, long discussed, now seems feasible and may be surveyed and built soon if the route proves practical.
An engine rolled into a pit at the round house disrupting work amid reports a Japanese worker jumped off and possibly wrecked the locomotive in retaliation. Forest fires, including 1200 acres on the Entiat river and blazes on Chi waukum and Icicle areas, have officials busy as campers are urged to fully extinguish fires to save timber.
A vintage Kansas City Journal excerpt lists a deer hunting tale and a rustic料理 menu with jerky meat, bog potatoes, and beaver scented dishes. It adds a macabre recipe for catching and preparing the animal before cooking. The note ends with the obituary line for Mrs Shelby M Cullom and a printery slogan.
Rev. E. T. Raab resigns from Cashmere Presbyterian to accept a Tacoma call. Rev. H. Robinson relocates from Peshastin farm to lead Cashmere Baptist Church. Local families depart Flowery Divide for Cashmere and Seattle while others visit from Kansas. Captain Burbank and others return from the irrigation congress.
National Apple Show will dedicate part of the building for concessionaires to display machinery spraying materials tools and related products and to sell cider baked and raw apples. Last year the area proved popular and more space may be allotted this season.
A compilation of brief items from Mabton to Tacoma covers a bridge fire destruction in Mabton a fatal auto crash near Adria n Washington the club efforts for a state demo farm in Chehalis two 14 year old girls in White Bluffs kill a coyote in Chehalis news of a barbed wire incident injuring a 10 year old Leo Kelly in Bellingham a warehouse plan at Snake River Spokane wheat yield top figures and the Black Hand linked Italians jailed in Spokane a Seattle death by suicide a Seattle couples marriage over a year hidden in Spokane a flag on Baker peak a Milwaukee road branch to Spokane and Yakima land openings near Yakima and Spokane administrative changes at Whitworth College in Tacoma and a major white slave trafficking case with Leplante and Mrs Swain investigated by detectives
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