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Newspaper
Leavenworth Echo
Location
Leavenworth, Washington, United States of America
Date
Feb 04, 1910
Page
2
The piece attacks Mondell and Republicans opposing federal forest and coal land regulation. It claims the party uses state rights rhetoric to cover self interest in coal lands, accusing Mondell of conflict of interest and calling anti conservationists thieves seeking to dodge regulation.
The Echo editor accepts an invitation to attend the February 11 dedication of Wenatchee’s new Commercial Club building. A reception supper and ball will follow. The club stands as a symbol of a growing prosperous town at the confluence of the Columbia and Wenatchee rivers.
An independent Spokane newspaper named the Inland Herald plans a debut around the 8th of the month. It will publish with a full staff and rely on telegraphic service including leased wire reports from the Chicago Tribune and New York Herald. The promoters say Spokane can support three daily papers.
F. W. Baker, treasurer of Seattle Hardware Co., will oversee Judge Thomas Burke's senatorial bid and open campaign headquarters in the Burke building. Active campaigning starts after the city election.
Mrs Jowers snipes at her husband for using the newly made sofa pillow as a headrest. Jowers asks what he did, while she grumbles about the three days she spent crafting the pillow.
Marshall O. Leighton of the United States Geological Survey asserts in a new bulletin that consolidation of water power control in the United States is inevitable and that ultimate control will rest with the government. He notes recent large consolidations and pressures for concentrated action at state or national levels. He cites federal authority to regulate water power on navigable streams and tributaries and to levy charges for power use.
Sixty railroads representing 32 000 employees rejected wage increase demands of 20 to 25 percent and other concessions. They offer arbitration on wages but refuse other concessions, according to a private Chicago dispatch.
The Switchmen held an enjoyable dance last Saturday night. About 150 tickets were sold and nearly 100 were used at the door, with around a hundred couples in the grand march. The Wenatchee Orchestra provided the music and was well received.
Jesse Forrest examined by a medical board and pronounced insane. He threatened suicide around a logging camp near Leavenworth, overpowered with weapons, jailed, and held under observation. He brooded on his mother and brother's deaths in Green Lake Seattle, where Fortier, living with the murdered woman, was later convicted and sentenced.
Reports detail brutal tolls from mining accidents. Primeno Colorado casualties reach 79 with many bodies torn apart. Drakesboro Kentucky disaster claims 35 lives and numerous injuries. In Mexico at Las Esperanzas Palau mine, deaths rise as the toll climbs past 65 with hospital deaths bringing totals.
The Cromwell family expresses sincere gratitude to neighbors and friends for uniform kindness and help during the long illness and final demise of Mrs Cromwell. Chas Cromwell and family.
A Western county teachers meeting was held at the Leavenworth school with Superintendent E C Bowersox presiding. The program covered high school programs reading phonics discipline language geography drawing and manual training with several teachers from out of town in attendance and a closing discussion on text books.
Mrs. Charles Cromwell died last Saturday evening at 8 15 after several months of illness. She had lived in the Chumstick valley since 1892. Born July 14 1851 in Lucerne county Pennsylvania, she moved with her family to Rippen Wisconsin in 1853. She married Charles Cromwell in 1871 at Dodge Minnesota and later resided in Webster South Dakota before moving to Washington in 1892.
The Waterville train known as the Sagebrush Limited ran away without Conductor E. H. Merwin after the engineer gave him a high ball and pulled out before passengers from No. 43 could board. Merwin, left at the depot, was later retrieved when the engine reversed at the Wenatchee bridge to pull him aboard.
The Kettle River Journal reports a rich new ore shoot at the First Thought mine, with assays not below ten ounces of gold per ton and an average value over 400 dollars per ton along a 25 foot wide face. Miner J I McCloud says Orient may become the northwest’s next great mining camp, prompting a stampede rivaling Nome and Cripple Creek.
President Hill of the G N Ry vowed to fight the switchmen's strike but reports from local switchmen indicate a near term settlement. Traffic has been hindered and officials expect the men to return to work next Monday morning unless new trouble emerges.
Residents east of Harrington’s business district complain of long freight crossings. After a cinema closing, a crossing was held 20 minutes. Judge Bethel issued a warrant, Conductor W A Smith fined five dollars. He paid with a five dollar bill after options of bond or jail were offered.
Recreation park officers received a letter from W B Stevens an outfielder who played with Tacoma last year and is described as an all around baseball man. He seeks to manage the Wenatchee team this season and officials weigh the advisability of securing him. It is confident Wenatchee will field a first class baseball team this season.
The Cascade Amateur Dramatic company of Cashmere performed Miss Mosher of Colorado at the opera house last evening, presenting a lively local production with community attendance.
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