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Newspaper
Leavenworth Echo
Location
Leavenworth, Washington, United States of America
Date
Oct 22, 1909
Page
1
A Japanese man fired a pistol at Omura's restaurant near the railroad, missing his aim and drawing a splinter into Mr. Nichols's hand. Police chased the gunman toward Snohomish. no one seriously hurt. Also described is a 1908 Winesap apple kept for display in Leavenworth.
The Leavenworth band hosted a Saturday dance at the opera house with about thirty couples enjoying six piece music. A second dance is planned for this week in the Odd Fellows hall due to a prior engagement, with the same orchestra providing the music as interest grows in expanding the ensemble.
Eugene Page on Wenatchee avenue owns a highly valued three acre orchard with heavy crops. Purchased in 1902 from L W Wells by Fred Oberwolte for 3800, then sold to Page for 5000 four years ago. Page refused 15000 last year and values the property at 17000 to 20000, excluding picking packing and marketing costs.
The M E church plans a new organ with Rev. Melvin Rumohr transferring the current instrument from Chelan. About 100 dollars has been raised for the fund and organizers expect the remaining balance to be secured soon.
A late letter from Joseph Martelletti also known as Joe Martell reports he bought ten acres near Vancouver Washington. He and Mrs Martelletti are pleased with their new home and would not return to that place.
The article reports boys practicing football and showing talent for a light weight team while girls form two basketball squads. Report cards arrive for six week period and parents are urged to discuss low grades. A fire drill shows the building vacated in one minute five seconds, five seconds over the record, with orderly evacuation and no panic.
Emil Frank plans a fine packing house and cold storage plant near the railroad north of town by the Wenatchee river bridge. The ar rangement allows a whole carload of cattle to be handled at once with equipment similar to large national packing houses. The $5000 cost funds a facility to serve Wenatchee and vicinity meat trade.
The Beal Grain & Milling and Wenatchee Milling companies won silver medals at the A Y P exposition. Wenatchee received on the Peach Blossom floor, Beal on Farina and Sweethearts. The Washington Meteor Mining Company also won for its mineral display. A man named Samuel Marsh was arrested by Marshal Wilcox after robbing a Monitor store. He is jailed in Wenatchee after Sheriff Ferguson transported him from Leavenworth. Mr Green has bought the Dr Triem ranch on the Chumstick and will move in this week.
The Washington state supreme court dissolved the injunction in Woldenberg vs City of Leavenworth on appeal from Judge Steiner’s superior court decision. Councilman Woldenberg challenged the bridge near the passenger station, with Wenatchee trial last December. The high court reversed Steiner, allowing city action.
Leavenworth residents gain a new undertaker facility in the Commercial street building beside the city hall. Mrs. A J Martin offers full funeral services, including removal, preparation, and arrangements, with an on site chapel and fifty chairs, while awaiting state examination to perform embalming herself.
G. W. Perry and A. H. Stowe, Seattle mining men, work a Three year old prospect in Icicle valley near Snow Creek. They have spent years here on assessment and plan active development early spring. Ore shows free milling gold silver and molybdenite.
W F Wright, owner of four bearing acres near the valley, expects 600 to 700 boxes of apples. He will pick box and deliver to the railroad at O B two and a half miles away. Prices for varieties include Delicious 3.25, Grimes Golden 2.50, Spitzenbergs 3, Jonathan 1.90, Wagoner 2, Black Twig 2.25, Winesap 2.50. Wright has 17 years on the property and notes orchard industry changes and past experiments.
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