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Newspaper
Leavenworth Echo
Location
Leavenworth, Washington, United States of America
Date
Oct 11, 1907
Page
2
The Leavenworth Echo announces subscription at 1.00 per year in advance and requests all communications be sent to the paper. It states that condolence resolutions and paid promotional notices must run at regular advertising rates, while free entertainments and community welfare movements receive free column space. Friday October 11 1907.
Walla Walla trial of James Gordon ends in one hour with a guilty verdict for a nameless crime against a nine year old Mary Kelly and a jury leniency recommendation. The editor denounces the verdict and calls for harsher justice and condemns the jurors as degenerate citizens.
A man from Quincy was arrested in Leavenworth after breaking into and robbing a Great Northern car. Wenatchee officers delayed and the Quincy officer wired Leavenworth to watch for the suspect while the Leavenworth jail held him.
A. H. Mohler has sold the Cashmere Record to J. D. Corselius who will devote his attention to law. Corselius has been key in the paper’s mechanical department since the Record began and understands the newspaper business well. May success crown their efforts.
Principal Wolf and teachers host a reception tonight to celebrate the new school building. Music and remarks highlight the event as a house warming for the community. Dr. M A Mathews cites education as civilization’s bulwark and urges stronger homes, schools, and discipline to protect the child. S. C. Garrison arrives from the west side as Mrs. Garrison recovers from pneumonia. Ladies' Industrial Aid hosts a lunch at Mrs. Hagler's home, with next meeting at Mrs. Turner's on Oct 17. Ira D. Edwards returns from Lake Wenatchee after four months nearby. P H Campbell, owner of land on Wenatchee Lake, plans to spend winter there after moving from Seattle last spring.
M B Hake, the harness man, yielded to the superior attraction about Spokane and departed for that city, Monday. Chas R Rothen has been painting here but owns a valuable tract near Vulcan with irrigation lacking. He planted water melons last spring and shipped over two hundred to Spokane, selling them well. A Senegambian from Georgia, a top judge of watermelons, confirmed their quality.
R. S. Van Campen secures contract to haul 200000 pounds of freight to Red Mountain mining camps. He now moves 35000 pounds of dynamite to the mine using four teams, with trips taking five to six days. John Conway builds flume for water to turbines powering drills. eighteen hundred feet more of tunnel remain to ore. New manager Hiller, a veteran mining engineer, leads a determined effort to develop a great mine on Red Mountain.
John F. Michael died of typho pneumonia at Dr Hoxseys hospital last Sunday. He was a Great Northern fireman at the Cascade tunnel. He arrived at the hospital September 12. His mother and sister came from Buffalo Minn. He leaves his parents two brothers and a sister. Rev M Rumoly led services at the church. Bodies were in the charge of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows and the Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen and Engineers. A large funeral attendance followed to the burial site.
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