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The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1905-02-17
|. |. B. & W. P. Co.
The Dam Is Being Put in First Glass
Condition.
NEW FLOOD GATES PUT IN
Twenty Men and Three Teams Are at
Work strengthening the Dam
for the Spring Floods.

For the past six weeks the Leaveu-
wort Logging, Boom and Water Power
Company has had from ten to twenty
men 1T work on the dam, strengthen
ing it, widening the flood gates and
otherwise improving the struct ure so
that when the rush of water comes and
the Lamb-Davi Lumber Companys
logs begin to come down the Wenaichee
river in the spring there will be no
danger of its giving away. The dam
stood the test of flood last year in
good shape Work ofthis characterneeds
constant attention and repair. The
never ceasing food of water going
through and over it, night and day, is
constantly finding weak places, form
ing leaks and otherwise weakening the
structure so that the vigilance OF the
company must be exerted and the leaks
stopped before they become menace,
the weak places strengthened .and
such. other repairs made as may be nec-
e-sary.
1t was found that the food gates
were not wide enough to allow the
water to escape so they are being wild
ened. Five waste ways from twelve to
fourteen feet wide have taken the place
of the former which were only seven feet
wide. In addition to these there will
be four or five seven feet wide. 1t is
believed that these viii furnish ample
,utlet for the water. Think of the
amount of water that can rush through
space almost one hundred feet wide
from ten to twelve feet deep and you
will have an idea of the amount OF
water that is counted on. Should this,
however, prove not to be sufficient the
dam will be strong enough 10 allow the
water to run over the top for its entire
length Of about three hundred feet
Don't you forget there will be some
thing doing in the spring when two or
three hundred thousand logs come
down the river.
The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1905-02-17
Daily Cost of Food.

Over 90 cents II day is spent, on the
average, by the workingmen of America
for food for themselves and families, ac-
cording to a b lllttln just issued by the
department If commerce and labor.
o her Interesting statistics as to what
the American aborer does with his
money are given.
On the average he spends mo- c
money for his own than his wife's
clothes. This is accounted for by the
fact that his overalls, shoes, ETC., are
subjected TO more severe wear than the
clothes of his wife. In y normal family
where the children are limited to five
under fourteen years of age, the child
ren's clothes COSTS more than those
either of the workingmcn or his wife.
The average workingman spends as
much money for tobacco as he does for
religion and charity, or about 81 a
vcnr. For into&ic1'inr liquors he
The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1905-02-17
SENATOR SHARP dies
Joint Senator from KIttItas and Chez
Ian Counties.
ELECT SUCCESSOR FEBRUARY 23
w. H. Dickson. Representative from
Kittitas and Walter VI. olive, of
Cashmere After Position.

The news flashed across the wires
last Thursday, Feb. 9th, that Senator
John P. Sharp had died at his homo
near Ellensburg.
Senator Sharp had served two terms
in the lower branch of the Washington
legislature and last fall was the second
time the unanimous choice of the delt-
gat as the candidate for joint senator
from Kititas and Chelan counties. He
settled on q farm near Ellensburg in
1874 and was considered a man OF ability
and held in high personal esteem by
all who knew him. His death was the
result of cold contracted at the open
ing OF the legislature.
Senator Sharp was an untiring
worker in legislative matters and has
to his credit some of the best laws on
The Washington statutes. among which
may be mentioned the Sharp irrigation
law, the STATE dairy law. law defining
the duties OF the state veterinarian and
also the law providing for the holding
of farmers institutes at least once
year in all the counties of the state
and many other laws.
The governor has issued proclama-
tion calling for an election in kittitas
and Chelan counties on the 23d OF the
present month 10 ect joint senator.
1t is reported from Olympia, where
Mr.. Walter NJ. o i've is acting as the
secretary of the senate committee on
irrie at on that he will be candidate
for the place. Mr.. Olive is an old resi-
dent of Chelan county, and quite well
and favorably known and has always
made h home ut Cashmere. 1t is also
given o, that Mr.. Dickson, represen-
Tat We from Kittit IS counts is an aspir'
ant for the pace mad vacant by the
dea h OF Senator Sharp.
The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1905-02-17
THE Low TEMPERATURE
The Coolest Weather Since the Win.
ter of 1895 Says the Oldest
Inha Ditant.

The extraordinary co weather of
the past week when the thermomet, +
fell from eight to t%elve degrees below
zero for three or four nights is quite
unusual and has not been equalled -ince
1895 say the old timers. Frank Lose
kamp says only twice b. fore the
fourteen Years he has lived here has it
been so cold as the past week.
Last winter, which was the writ rs
| first in Leavenworth, the thermometer
was only down to zero over night al
the ice that was put up for use the past
summer was shipped here from Ca-h-
mere and Wenatchee. The railroad
company shipping their supply from
Montana.
Asa result of the cold weather We
are getting all the ice we want right
here at home, and being IA home pro-
duet it is OF course better and cheaper
than the imported article.
Every man who has an ice house l.
having it well filed with a first class
article. AS matter OF 1act we 90 not
need it 10 keep comfortable, our tenn
perature, unlike that which the good
people of Wenatchte are compelled tn
endure during the summer, is delight
fully cool and pleasant. in truth just
about right to make living enjoyable,
but we want ice to freeze cream for our
visitors from Cashmere and Wenatchee.
BY the force of their environment and
summer temperature they are accus-
toned to class ice with the things that
are necessary to support life in the
good old SUMNER" and we want to be
fixed so they will not be disappointed
when they come up here to escape the
torridity of their climate.
The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1905-02-17

Plain and artistic job printing at the
Echo office
The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1905-02-17

spends more than for either Of these
items, or sl2l4. de. pite the fact that
only about half of the families in the
country contribute TO the liquor ex-
penses.
Dues 10 labor organizations are
greater than the amount contributed to
the government in the form of taxes.
The union receive. on an average, SO a
year, while the government receives
1919. Life insurance companies re
ceive more If his money than either the
unions or government, their average
toll being $40. Doctors bulls and fun
eral expenses together average $50 54.
The main expense Of the workingman
is for food. This costs him on an aver
age $4,000 OF this, $50 goes for four
barrels If flour, Sl10.jO for meats, $50
tor milk and eggs, 81 for rice, SO for
coffee, s. for ca. Sl5 6j for sugar, etc.
In an article in the Northwestern
Miller, Prof. Henry Snyder of the state
experimel station says that bread fur
nishes him more than one-half OF his
nourishment, despite the fact that the
flour and bread cost him only one-tenth
of his total expenditures for food. This
conclusion is arrived at by an analysis
OF the food value of the different items
Ia the expenditures for This purpose.
The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1905-02-17

Charles NJ Gardner, the man who is
said to have fired the shot which dis
abled Harry Tracy, the notorious out
law. and caused him to take hi- own life
in wheat field near Creston, Wash, is
dead in an asylum at San Jose, Cal.
While acting as deputy in this state
Gardner was shot in the head by rob
Der whom he was trying to arrest. The
wound affected his brain. and he he
came afflicted with paral sis. 1t was
found necessary to send him to the asy-
lum sume months ago.
The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1905-02-17
BLEWETT NEWS.

The mine and the mill have closed
down for a short time.
DR.. Hoxsey made professional visit
to Blewett TO attend TiIda Flodin, who
has had bad attack of The grip. She
is improving owly.
Mrs. J. A. Griffin has been confined
to her bed for few days with la grip.
Anton Matoblofskey paid a visit to
Leavenworih last week.
Saturday, the l1th, was the coolest
day of the season so far. The therem'
meter registered / below at $50 a. m.
George Milford, who has been work.
ing for the Bad er State Co. returned
to Leavenworth asst Saturday
Mrs. w. II. Resburg has been down
with the grip, but is recovering.
Mr.. Mackay went to Seattle the first
of the week.
James Wilder turned over the post
Office to w. H. Resburg, his successor,
last Saturday.
Our telephone has been in trouble for
the last few days. guess it has the
grip too.
w. H. Resburg has put in a sn all
ock of ca dy. cigars. tobacco and
stat onery in the building occupied by
the pCsloffi.e.
The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1905-02-17
Fraud Exposed.

A few counterfeiters have lately been
making and trying TO sell limitations of
DR.. Kings New Discovery for ConsumP-
ion, Coughs and Colds, and other med"
icines. thereby defrauding the public
This is to warn you to beware OF such
people, who seek to profit, through
stea ing the reputation of remedies
which have been successfully curing
disease, for over 35 years. A sure pro-
ection, 10 you, is our name on the
wrapper. Look for it, on all DIR. King :
or Bucklens remedies, as all others are
mere i'm taiions. II. +. BUCKLEN &
CO., Chicago, H. and Windsor, Canada.
City Drug Store.
The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1905-02-17
Sentimental Justice.

Pr sdent Roosevelt has recommended
an appropriation Of $55, ,00) to 'ver the
exrense of discovering The burial place
the great revolutionary naval hero,
Joha Paul Jones, d the rem val OF
he body and burial on Amer an soil.
After the close Of he war and the in
dependence of the United States was
cepted the adventurous spirit OF
Jones carried him to France where ne
took sick and died and was buried in
Paris on July 20jh, 1899, in the cemetery
Of St. Louis, the b dy being encased in
edden casket. In his recommends
lion the president says
The great interest which our people
feel in the story OF Paul Jones life the
national sense OF gratitude for the serv-
ices done by him toward the achieve
ment OF independence, and the senti'
ment of mingled distress and regret
felt because the body of one of our
greatest heroes lies forgotten and un-
marked in foreign soil, lead me to ap-
prove the ambassador suggestion that
congress take advantage of this uneX'
pected opportunity 10 do proper honor
to the memory of Paul Jones, and ap-
propria,e the sum of $50, 900 or so much
thereof as may be necessary for the pur-
pose above described, to be expended
under the direction of the secretary OF
state
The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1905-02-17
Rxerybody Invited.

A cordial invitation is extended TO the
public TO attend the annual ball on the
18th of March to be given by the en-
ginesrs. Special invitations will only
be sent to the friends of tie members
of the order who live at distance. In
vitations will not be mailed to parties
living In the vicinity "f LeaVenw"r4b.
The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1905-02-17

The Wenatchee papers say the plans
have be, drawn for a new and elegant
hotel building just across the street
from the Griggs block, and that it will
be built at once.
The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1905-02-17

The sena,e last week passed bill
which If passed by the lower house will
take Ferry county out OF this judicial
d strict. leaving it composed OF Douglas,
Chelan and Okanl gan.
The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1905-02-17

Representative Hughes, of Douglas
county, has Introduced bill in the
/, gislature to divide Douglas county
into two counties. The scheme to di-
vide it int three having failed because
the line OF division could not be agreed
The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1905-02-17

County Auditor G llatl.' is out il a
notice of the election 10 be held on the
23d inst, to elect a joint senator from
Kittitas and Chelan county.
The Oakley eagle. [volume] (Oakley, Idaho) 1901-1908, 1905-10-12
EA

We like to pay-out the
money; won't you please
take some?
Your grocer returns your money II yes DOM
nfs Schilling's Best.
The Oakley eagle. [volume] (Oakley, Idaho) 1901-1908, 1905-10-12
Lesson for Women.

Jersey Shore, Pa, Aug 2Sth (Spe-
cial)-"Dodd's Kidney Pills have done
worlds of good for me-" That's what
Mrs. c. B. Earnest of this place has
to say of the Great American Kidney
Remedy.
81 was laid up sick" Mrs. Earnest
continues, "and had not been out of
bed for five weeks. Then | began to
use Dodd's Kidney Pills and now | am
so | can work and go to town without
suffering any. | would not be without
Dodd's Kidney Pills. have good rea-
son to praise them everywhere"
Women who suffer should learn
lesson from this, and that lesson is
cure the kidneys with Dodd's Kidney
Pills and your suffering will cease. y"
Woman's health depends almost en-
tirely on her kidneys. Dodd's Kidney
Pills have never yet failed to make
healthy kidneys.
The Oakley eagle. [volume] (Oakley, Idaho) 1901-1908, 1905-10-12
copperhead Around His Neck.

Monday evening James A. Allen,
who lives in Annandale, went into his
haymow to get a bundle of hay for his
horse. When he picked the hay up he
pressed it against the NOW to get a
better grip on it, and as he did so no.
ticed what he thought was a strap fall
against his. neck with very cold feel
ing.
Just then he reached the light, and
to his horror found that it was not a
strap, but live copperhead snake
that had been caressing his iuglar A
copper is a very quick reptile but in
this instance Allen landed before his
snakeship could strike.
Just what happened Mr. Allen can't
relate, but the snake is dead, and died
so suddenly that Aliens recollections
of the windup are very hazy and con-
fused. Mr.. Allen says he has had
enough copper about his neck to salts
fly him for the rest of his life
Moundsville Herald.
The Oakley eagle. [volume] (Oakley, Idaho) 1901-1908, 1905-10-12

which the great waves dash, to the
highest point in the mountains. where
the air is clear and dry, and hundreds
find the keenest pleasure in climbing
great heights, from which can be seen
vast stretches of country, countless
hills, where nature in all her majesty
stands revealed.
In the White mountains more than
fifty miles of permanent highways
have been built by special acts of the
State Legislature in the most grandly
beautiful section of New Hampshire.
at the foot of the Presidential range,
opening up new and beautiful regions,
and affording more convenient means
of communication with different points
of interest, These roads and the ocean
boulevard in process of construction
along the sea coast strip represent the
most costly stretches of the proposed
State system.
The invasion of the automobile in
recent years has increased the inter
est taken in this work. Last summer
the number of automobiles that went
into the state was larger by hundreds
than ever before, and the present sea
son has already seen a greater inva-
sion.
Attention is also being paid to the
forests, under the direction of the for
estry commission. while sentiment
among the people is being stimulated
by the work of the Society for the
Preservation of New Hampshire For
ests. an organization which comprises
in its membership some of the best
known men in the State. as well as
some of the most prominent of the
summer visitors. For several years it
has kept a trained forester in the field
as a lecturer and adviser. The most
ambitious project so far advanced. and
It is said with good prospects of sue
cess, is to have the national govern
ment make the White mountain region
a national forest reserve.
The Oakley eagle. [volume] (Oakley, Idaho) 1901-1908, 1905-10-12

The custom of having a special cake
at weddings came from che Romans.
This cake, or rather biscuit, signlfied
fruittulness, hospitality and prospect
ty. The rice that was showered on a
bride had similar meaning.
For many centuries after the Ro-
mans left England. the custom was to
break the biscuit over the brides head,
and then the fragments were picked
up and piled before her for distribu-
lion to her friends.
At the restoration Charles II re-
turned with a small army of French
cooks, who speedily converted the an
cient biscuit into a delicious piece of
confectionery, iced 1t with sugar and
gradually adorned it with enblemati.
cal devices, till it lowered into the
amazing structure which the luxury of
later times has developed. - Stray
Stories.
The Oakley eagle. [volume] (Oakley, Idaho) 1901-1908, 1905-10-12
Sneeze Won His Heart.

The expression, falling in love" is
good No man ever got in love unless
he fell in. A. fell in love with Miss
BIS neck; G. fell in love with Miss
DIS ribbons; e. fell in love with Miss
F.'s teeth; G. fell in, love with Miss
HIS hair; l. fell in love with Miss j. S
walk; X. fell in love with Miss L. s
throat; NJ fell in love with Miss n. s
hands; o. fell in love with Miss Ps
ears, etc. But the strangest falling
In ever heard of was by Colonel -,
who was a celibate of As, then sud-
denly married. How did she catch
me?" he says. by sneezing. I had
never seen her in my life. heard
her sneeze. l loved her instantly. All,
such a sneeze! It was so ladylike. so
refined, so elegant Something said
in my heart, Colonel, woman who
can sneeze in that way is a queen,
pearl beyond price, an angelr New
York Press.
The Oakley eagle. [volume] (Oakley, Idaho) 1901-1908, 1905-10-12
Master TommY,s Question

Miss Elizabeth Upiohn, a pupil at a
summer school of philanthropy, gave
the following little experience of her
own at one Of the sessions.
Mamma" said a little fellow in a
tenement home which she was visit
ing, what does the lady have a white
cross on her sleeve for?"
Because she's trained nurse
Tommy" replied his mother.
Tommy was silent for a moment
and then. consumed with curiosity.
asked:
Mamma, does trained nurse do
tricks?"
The Oakley eagle. [volume] (Oakley, Idaho) 1901-1908, 1905-10-12
CUTicURA GROWS HAIR.
Scalp Cleared ct Dandrur and Hail.
Restored by One Box of cutieura
and One Cake Of cuticurz
Soap.

A. W. Taft of independence, Va.
writing under date of Sept. Is. 1904
says: Il have had falling hair and
dandruff for twelve years and could
get nothing to help me. Finally I
bought one box of Cuticura Ointment
and one cake of Cuticura Soap. and
they cleared my scalp of the dandruff
and stopped the hair falling. Now
my hair is growing as well as ever. I
am highly pleased with Cuticura Soap
as toilet soap. (Signed) A. W. Taft.
independence, Va"
The Oakley eagle. [volume] (Oakley, Idaho) 1901-1908, 1905-10-12

Prof Smythe has a grape VINEYARD
Of which he takes great care. Every
fall the boys, whenever they get a
chance, steal few punches Of grapes
One morning the professor was sur
prised to find the vines almost bare
Calling his wife, he said Mary.
what has become Of the grapes?"
Il suppose the hens picked them of
was her reply.
Hens! Hens Some two-legged
hens" said her husband. angrily, to
which she calmly replied:
Phil, dear, did you ever see any
other kind%'-Boston Herald.
The Oakley eagle. [volume] (Oakley, Idaho) 1901-1908, 1905-10-12
! In New Hampshire Hills
EJ~vt~->~>t--vt---~>H,~-~
Especial Correspondence.

Outside of the large cities almost all
OF New Hampshire has become q state
OF rest and recreation. Quiet resorts
in the mountain country, far removed
from the noise of the railroad and the
trolley, are being sought after more
and more. Time is at a discount. Ten
and twenty drives are incidents
in the daily life of the people. Good
roads and good horses make them a
pleasure; but the nerve-trying auto
mobile Is the toy OF the excitement
loving patron of the big summer no.
tel.
Baron Won Sternberg, the German
ambassador, established home on
Governors Island, Lake Winnipiseo-
gee, and became so enthusiastic over
1t that he declared that he had seen
no place even in Scotland or the Ba-
yarian Highlands with which the
Weirs could not hold its own.
Winston Churchill, after he became
famous as a writer of historical nov
els, travelled all over the country in
search of a spot for the ideal home.
- III wi AioHy ne dl OAAG AdQC
up his mind that he had found what
he was looking for. He bought an old
estate, and by the expenditure of
thousands of dollars transformed it
into one of the most beautiful coun-
try seats, and now makes it his home
the year round.
Every year more distinguished
names are being added to the list OF
New Hampshires summer boarders,
and the increase is not being confined
to any particular town. Ex-Gov.
Frank S. Black of New York spends
his summers in Freedom. where a few
years ago he saw what he thought was
the most beautiful place upon which
his eyes had ever rested and bought
1t. Senator j. c. Spooner became en-
thusiastic over the beauties of Pitts
burg, and purchased a large farm,
where in summer he leads the simple
life in much the same manner as Mr..
Cleveland
The Oakley eagle. [volume] (Oakley, Idaho) 1901-1908, 1905-10-12
CHANCE SETTLED TOWNS NAME
Toss of Coin Resulted In Selection OF
Portland.

! oss OF Coin Resulted In Selection CT
Portland.
Frank w. Pettygrove OF Seattle has
the penny that named the city OF
Portland. Ore. On the toss Of this
coin depended the question whether
the Willamette metropolis should be
known as Portland or Boston. Twice
the coin turned tails" and the town
was named after Portland, Me, the
former home OF Mr.. Pettygrove's
father
A. L. Lovejoy of Massachusetts,, a
member of the party that laid out
Portland, desired to name it Boston,
after the most important city in his
state. Pettygrove wanted TO name it
Portland, after the most important
city in Maine, his native state. They
agreed to toss penny, heads to be
Boston, tails to mean Portland, the
best two in three to be the choice.
Pettygrove won the first toss; Love-
Joy won the second, and the third
proved to be tails. and Portland it was.
The younger Pettygrove still has
the identical penny and would not
take any amount of money for it. His
father kent 1t for a pocket piece. anu
1t has been handed down to the son,
who bears his fathers name. It is
dated 1885, and is one of those large
coins in vogue at that time. about the
size OF the quarter Of the present day.
The Oakley eagle. [volume] (Oakley, Idaho) 1901-1908, 1905-10-12
Why Farms Are Vacant.

LAS early as possible the malady
was diagnosed and the causes for the
vacant houses upon the farms were
summed up under these three heads:
"First-The children left the old
homestead for other fields of labor
while the parents were in physical
condition to manage the farm, and
upon the death of the aged parents in
later years the children had become
engrossed in business upon other
farms or in other occupations and
of the rural districts of the Granite
State.
could not return. The farms have
passed into the handl of heirs and are
for sale.
"Second-Many farmers, either with
children engaged in some other avoca-
tions or without children, having Sc
cured competency by industry and
frugal habits, ave retired from the
farm to the nea;hborlng city or village
to spend their declining years in a .qui-
ct manner. ana the farm is for sale.
Sometimes the owners of
farms. seeing tnly the bright side in
other occupation as and the dark side in
theirs, have lift the farm for some
The Oakley eagle. [volume] (Oakley, Idaho) 1901-1908, 1905-10-12

The remains of big sea reptile.
said to be the FIRST OF It's kind known
TO scientists, have been dug cut al
the limestone In Humboldt county.
Nevada, and shipped to the University
Of California.