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Newspaper
Leavenworth Echo
Location
Leavenworth, Washington, United States of America
Date
Feb 05, 1915
Page
4
Advert for Sloan's Liniment claims quick relief for neuralgia and nerve pain by applying to the surface without rubbing in. It markets a 25 cent bottle as household remedy for colds joints lumbago sciatica and similar pains with a money back promise. Also notes Washington fruit growers seeking relief from labor laws at a state conference in Seattle.
A congressional report exposes severe deprivation on the Crow Indian reservation in southern Montana. Despite a $900,000 tribal bank balance, Indians faced starvation as annual annuities were diverted to irrigation projects with little benefit to them while whites paid no share. The commission notes 500,000 acres of allotted land leased by large interests without compensation to Indians, costing about $25,000 yearly. The 8,000,000 acre reservation is controlled by dominating leaseholders amid contested hearings and alleged editing of testimony.
Governor James B Ferguson of Texas promises cash prizes to the first twins and first triplets born in 1915. He states his goal is to increase stork visits to Texas homes with a $10 prize for twins and a $50 prize for triplets.
La Grange Georgia Dr C E Patillo pastor of the First Methodist church of West Point says the church will fix his salary for the west conference year in line with local distress. He vows to bear his portion of suffering and decline a pay that would strain his people.
In El Centro California a skull found in the Colorado desert sits beside a stalk of Imperial Valley cotton in a museum display. A mouse nesting in the skull caused cheeping noises until W H Compton and others investigated and found the creature had taken cotton to make a nest.
A special correspondent reports the Palace of Peace in The Hague is described as for sale or rent due to bankruptcy. The building could serve as barracks or a moving picture venue with water and gas on every story. applications to the Angels of Peace. The curator could not be located.
A Peace Palace secretary, dressed in evening attire, greeted an American visitor. He notes no Europeans have visited in three months, the last tourists being belligerent August guests who argued and fought in the arbitration hall. The hall features portraits of 26 heads of state from McKinley to Nicholas II.
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