Legislature Confronts Last 11 Days of Session
Washington's legislature tightens on budget details and tax plans as only eleven days remain under the 60 day limit. The general fund may rise about 0.3 mill, with debated millage increases and a proposed Centralia Normal bill stirring contention.
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Senate
Washington
Centralia
Olympia
House
Joint Committee
State Board of Finance
Normal School
Thurston County
Red Cross Mobilizes for War Relief Readiness
Washington directs 265 chapters nationwide to organize first aid classes and prepare hospital equipment and surgical supplies. Committees for finance, hospital work, garments and supplies, packing and shipping, and publicity are set up with volunteers assigned to roles and urgent coordination with Washington bureaus for nursing and instruction. Central committee seeks rapid acknowledgment and full cooperation to ready nationwide relief capacity.
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Washington
American Red Cross
Mittee
Red Cross
Congress
Bureau of Nursing Service
Central Committee
Train carries $100,000,000 in Russian gold to Ottawa
Report claims a train moved one hundred million dollars in gold from Europe via Vladivostok to Canada, then to Ottawa, to dodge Atlantic submarine danger. The source mentions get Butter Wrappe at Echo office.
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Vancover
Ottawa
Canada
Europe
Vladivestock
Atlantic
Echo Office
City ordinance establishes rewards for liquor and gambling law informants
Leavenworth City Council passes Ordinance 17 percent to reward informants who furnish evidence leading to convictions for unlawful sale or keeping of intoxicating liquor and for gambling. rewards capped at 50 percent of fines. funds from fines allocated to Special Police Fund. payments require final judgment and mayoral approval. Published March 2 1917.
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City of
Leavenworth
City of Leavenworth
Qclerk
A. D
A.D
W.L. Hale
A. R. Brown
L. J. Nelson
City Sotrey
Wives to Ride With President and Vice President at Inaugural
Senator Overman announced that the president and vice president will ride up Pennsylvania avenue to the White House after the inaugural ceremonies on March 5. Mrs Taft is noted as the first presidential wife to ride with her husband. Mrs Marshall as the first vice presidential wife in the parade. A third carriage for the inaugural committee will be introduced, each drawn by four horses.
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Washington
Senator Overman
Congress
Pennsylvania Avenue
White House
Capitol
Taft
Marshall
Skagway Club Opposes Daylight Saving Plan
The Skagway Commercial club has gone on record against daylight saving, arguing summer daylight lasts all day and night with only minutes called dawn at midnight. In northern Yukon daylight is so extreme that even chickens would need blindfolding to roost.
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Skagway
Alaska
Yukon
Order to Show Cause Why Distribution Should Not Be Made
Chelan County probate notice filed by administrator Vernon L. Garner for the estate of William Crawford deceased. The court in Wenatchee orders all heirs to appear March 21, 1917 at 9:00 a.m. to show cause why residue should not be distributed. Publication required weekly for four weeks in Leavenworth Echo.
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State of Washington
Chelan County
William Crawford
Vernon L. Garner
Wenatchee
Washington
Leavenworth
A.D
W.J. McCoy
Superior Court
Chelan
Martin P. Spencer
William A. Grimshaw
Sartin P. Spencer
A8neton
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Board of Finance
Okanogan
British Columbia
Calexico
Troop B
Signal Corps
Lister
Centralia Normal
J. E. Lease
Lewis County
State College
Friends of the
University of Washington
King County
Judiciary Committee
Snohomish County
Seattle
Ina P. Williams
Yakima
Secretary of State
Immigration Bureau
Mabel C. Boardman
RED Cross Society
Wilson
Mrs. Marshall
Thos Nolan
Leavenworth Undertaking Co
Amanda C. Towne
Great Northern Lumber Co
Leavenworth, Wash
Crescent Spices
Crescent Extracts
Crescent Manufacturing Co
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