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Newspaper
Leavenworth Echo
Location
Leavenworth, Washington, United States of America
Date
Sep 04, 1908
Page
5
A Sunday afternoon fire in downtown New Orleans swept across three blocks, destroying wholesale and manufacturing houses and stores. The blaze, worsened by exploding wine casks, caused losses estimated between one and two million dollars as fire crews struggled to contain the flames.
San Francisco reports City Attorney Long issued an opinion to the Board of Education on whether native born Chinese children can attend public schools not set aside for them. He says nativity does not matter, Mongolian status applies regardless of birthplace, and if equal schools are absent, they may attend any school.
In Los Angeles on September 1, H J Daniels a veterinary surgeon reports 11 cows in the Giegerich dairy have gone blind from a likely novel disease. Initial signs suggested knife wounds to the eyes but defects are equal in all eyes. Tumor formation may be causing holes and blindness. further tests are planned to identify the cause.
A northbound stage from the Nevada California and Oregon line overturned eight miles below Alturas California. Passenger Baxter was killed when a heavy iron casting in the express matter fell on his head. A woman passenger was badly injured while seven others and the driver escaped unharmed. Baxter was traveling from Scotland to join his father James Baxter a noted local stonecutter.
The steamer Asia brings 2600 bales of raw silk from the Orient, valued at $2,000,000, destined for New York by a special train waiting at the dock. Prohibition candidate Chafin to speak in Oregon next Friday after touring Washington.
Melbourne hosts the American fleet as Admiral Sperry and thousands of sailors land at Port Melbourne and St Kilda. The party is greeted by Prime Minister Alfred Deakin and Victoria's Sir Thomas Dent with public crowds lining the routes. A luncheon follows a formal welcome by Lord Northcote.
G H Kierstand former assistant general manager of Northern Life Insurance Seattle was captured in Portland after four months on the run for embezzlement. He confessed in custody and sought to return to Seattle to “make good” but received no reply. He told of drinking sprees and wandering before the Coast arrest. Spokane case follows a separate kidnap tale involving Miners Union members and Kellogg millman Frank Gillice who returned from California with claims of ransom plots. Seattle church notices report Dr Eiliv Jansen and Miss Bedil Hammerich finalizing marriage banns following Jansen's divorce and estrangement from his Seattle wife.
In Wallace Idaho on September 1 a 16 year old newlywed, Mrs Frank Buster of Burke, swallowed corrosive sublimate in a failed effort to end her life after gossip about her husband. Relatives and friends wrestled her to safety but she collapsed exhausted. prognosis is very poor.
Frank H. Hitchcock chairman of the Republican National Committee and Secretary Haywood arrived in Chicago with Western executive members. After a New York conference he will return to Chicago for several days and then undertake a hurried Far West tour.
Washington state faces looming deficits as the Auditor’s balances show shortfalls at Western and Eastern Washington Hospitals for the Insane, the State College at Pullman, and the Bellingham Normal School. The state printing fund nears exhaustion leaving no dollars for required departmental biennial reports or election printing, as past legislation expanded printing uses without proper funding.
A blaze at the I O O F hall in Starbuck starting from a discarded cigar spread with the wind, wiping out the town’s main business area. Loss estimated at 40 000 to 50 000 dollars, insured in part, with a large hall dance cited as a possible ignition source.
Olympia officials say only one ballot box is needed for the primary. John H. McDonald, deputy prosecuting attorney of Walla Walla County, reports Republicans Democrats and Socialists will cast ballots in the same box.
Diamonds valued at 2600 to 3000 were stolen from Mrs. Carrie Erne's apartment in Selden Kalama arrests in a robbery at McClintock & Simpson White Salmon. Parkland post office robbed government funds and post office cash. Government surveyors in Cowlitz River area for deep-water ship channel. funding pending. Washington state records show 250000 schoolchildren. 2860 schools valued at 15000000. Longshoremen plan Coast-wide actions from Seattle. Russian fugitive Karlson captured in Seattle after Vladivostok escape. A six-foot cougar hunted near Hoquiam. later killed. Prosecutors prepare oyster land fraud complaints in Pacific county. Joseph Bloch arrested in Seattle on a statutory charge with Mrs Bloch. U S Marshal Perry removed by Roosevelt over Tanana county strike. Fishing law clash Looms as Washington Oregon dispute tests federal oversight on Columbia River fisheries.
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