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Newspaper
Leavenworth Echo
Location
Leavenworth, Washington, United States of America
Date
Sep 20, 1907
Page
2
The Leavenworth Echo announces its status as a second class matter posted weekly on Fridays. Subscription price is one dollar per year in advance and communications are directed to the newspaper offices.
The piece urges Leavenworth to host Seattle business leaders visiting Wenatchee to showcase local industry and potential. It praises Wenatchee’s apples water climate and payroll while noting many residents lack the will to promote opportunities. Captain Burbank and Charles Reed are highlighted for their irrigation congress effort.
This week saw a rare punctual event as the westbound passenger train ran nearly on time on Monday, an occurrence not seen more than six times in the past year.
A westbound freight split in Leavenworth yard, the detached section running east toward Wenatchee at high speed. It passed Cashmere around 1 15 p m and stopped near the reverse grade. no damage or loss of life occurred. The Cashmere Record blames Great Northern officials for overworked crew and questions punishment.
Grover McCormick 23, engaged to be married in Wenatchee, drowned near Moses Lake while swimming for ducks. He, his father, and Harold Deweese were hunting at pot holes when cramps struck him. He cried out and sank despite efforts by relatives to rescue him. Interred in Quincy with Fraternal Brotherhood members nearby. his $1,000 life policy is noted.
A single potato hill yielded 78 spuds weighing a total 35 pounds. Drebis of Cascade Orchards uncovered the hill while visiting D. Felt and two others from Seattle. The lot, set for Spokane fair, suggests vast potential yields though Drebis notes many hills won’t match this. Four men will verify the claim.
Mr. D. E. Heller arrives as Chelan Consolidated Copper Co. superintendent and organizes 20 men to move to the mines. Supplies and bedding are loaded for a winter tunnel project using water power to operate an air drill. Chelan county allocates $8134.27 for the 1907-8 school fund.
A reporter visits the Electric Power Plant site three miles west of town. Six weeks into construction about three hundred workers are employed under sub contractors Coughren and Jackson and Heine and Carleson. Material houses and winter quarters for one hundred men are rising. about fifty have arrived. The company’s engineers supervise the work. the tunnel on the pipe line may be abandoned due to loose rock, with a longer but stronger pipe planned.
Leavenworth lays ground for a new railroad from Ninth Street to the dam. grade nearly complete by Saturday night with ties already laid along the right of way. two miles graded awaiting steel, sixty pound rails to be used, locomotive whistle imminent.
Tony Gallagher was found guilty on both counts by a United States court and received one year in the penitentiary with a $100 fine and costs in each case. Judge Whitson imposed the sentence after rejecting mercy pleas citing conflicting statements by the defendant.
The Overland, due at 2 10, derailed near Vulcan after hitting a sand drift. The engine and two cars overturned and caught fire, burning all but the observation and mail cars. No deaths, only minor injuries reported, but the wreck delayed trains about 24 hours.
A pre daylight fire at Shaver News Co restaurant nearly started a disaster as a night cook, refilling a gasoline can beside a coffee boiler, allowed flames to ignite the container. The blaze spread to the can and two men were seriously burned while a patron nearby ate lunch.
A fire started by a can of oil sprayed blazing liquid onto a diner’s early area. Fireman C. F. Miller hurled the can away, scattering oil as flames climbed arms. The can dropped to the floor and the blaze was extinguished, but paint and fixtures suffered significant damage.
The Town Council in a special session suspended rules and approved J. C. Ruth as councilman to fill G. W. Hathaway’s seat after Hathaway became mayor. They cut D. M. Thomas’s bill to 20 dollars, ordered rail freight paid, and set up a health officer ordinance. The council created a committee to plan a public meeting on town needs.
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