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Newspaper
Leavenworth Echo
Location
Leavenworth, Washington, United States of America
Date
Sep 11, 1908
Page
2
Special notice outlines paid advertising rules for notices and fundraisers while announcing a push to close Sunday saloons. Henry Crass, Prosecuting Attorney, offers to notify saloon operators to close on Sundays or face prosecution if disobedience is proven.
The editor argues that respecting every law, including Sunday closing, protects business and community order. It cites Texas prohibition efforts led by Adon to unite saloon interests with law enforcement, urging saloon owners to back lawful conduct and oppose broad violations. Labor Day observations in Leavenworth are noted as growing nationwide.
The Seattle Times labeled Perkins a scoundrel and outcast while Perkins retorted with name calling of the Times. Observers note the dispute mirrors the pot calling the kettle black adage.
The town’s saloons closed for the first time in history after the council refused to act and a citizen petition prompted Prosecuting Attorney Crass to issue a closing directive. Crass cites state law as superior and notes taxpayers’ right to county support when city officials fail to enforce rules.
W V and N Railway foreman Mr Duty reports laying about two thousand feet of track daily this month. With ten miles completed and about twenty remaining to Lake Wenatchee progress should finish in two months barring snows. The line runs mostly uniform grade under three percent and material is on hand. The project boosts property values and could turn Lake Wenatchee into a summer resort while opening access to rich timber districts with millions of feet of timber along the right of way to be hauled in spring.
The Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers will spend one million dollars to build a permanent headquarters in Cleveland Ohio. Warren S Stone announces plans for the building at the corner of St Clair Avenue and Ontario Street with ground price included. Plans to be drawn in two weeks, construction to begin next month.
Fred Ellis and Lyman Shotwell return from a horseback journey through Oregon California and southern Washington and appear well. Chelan county fruit growers enjoy a prosperous year with high yields in cantaloupe tomatoes and apples. apple pools expected at 1.25 to 2.25 per unit. Cashmere mails 100 cars of apples toward a 250 car pool as fairs loom this fall. Wenatchee schools set to reopen with about 1000 students. The high school has been expanding facilities and programs.
The district moves to the Whitman school to expand the department with twenty eight teachers overseeing both grades and high school. A new high school building may be built this winter at about twenty five thousand dollars. A ward school is planned for the south end of the city.
Leavenworth public school opens next Monday with Prof E W Emmett of Farris Washington in charge. A strong teaching staff returns led by the principal and several veterans. Mrs Farmer Mrs Farrell Miss Payne Miss Jewell Miss Hinman and Miss Clarabel Amos comprise the roster. Parents urged to ensure children start on day one as much depends on the first week. The board confirms a high school this year expanding to ten grades.
The city council held a regular session with all members present. The bonding proposition committee reported progress and was continued. Bills allowed included L D Store Co 122.48 Geo Keating 3.50 Tumwater Light and Water Co 31.50 J H Bohnsack 35 Pratt salary 75 Bohnsack salary 85 and Woodord Street improvement 67.60.
A wedding took place last Saturday evening at Mrs. M. W. Kelly’s Cascade Orchards home. Justice F. S. Taylor joined Charles Lilligren and Miss Annie Wiehle as husband and wife, followed by a luncheon prepared for the celebration.
The well known and popular residents Mr. and Mrs. Lilligren are praised by friends in Leavenworth. A hostess entertained in their honor and wishes for a long, happy marriage are extended, with plans to reside in Leavenworth.
Joe Debord Jack Ruth John Beasley and Bill Harris four renowned hunters depart with two pack horses to scour the Icicle country for big game eight to ten days. They plan to hunt bear and trout and may also prospect near Nigger Creek amid rumors of rich ore. The Echo force awaits their return for a feast.
Two men were injured in separate threshing- machine accidents near Waterville, twenty miles northeast. Hart Stopp of Wenatchee, an Ogle & Lamb oil er, fell feet first into a cylinder mangling both legs with loss of left foot likely. his brother was telegraphed. The second victim, an unnamed elderly man, fell head first into a cylinder, tearing flesh and leaving him unconscious with uncertain outcome.
Charles C. Harris a young Chicago man walked nearly the Yellowstone to Spokane distance arriving in Spokane on Monday. He is sun browned in health and describes the trek as a pleasure trip with several days spent in Yellowstone Park.
The account describes a nonviolent scam in which F G Harris, traveling with Clarence Harrington, had money taken from his pocket while sleeping. Harris wired for funds to Spokane, traveled on foot and by wagon, then continued to Rossland and Seattle plans, walking most of the way.
Everybody’s Magazine mocks an Iowa Journal editorial that casts the writer as a hero in a vivid scene. The piece describes a knock down fight where the editor falls, rises, and is thrown, ending with a face close to the press bed and a tangle of hair and teeth.
A columnist notes the broad liberty in the United States while contrasting it with how a dog can perform many acts that could land a man in prison for life, suggesting a paradox in legal punishment versus everyday freedom.
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