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The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1907-03-08

The Irrigation Age says: II may
sound like boom talk TO many who are
not familiar with irrigated lands TO say
that those who seek new homes can
find some Of the best opportunities Of
fered anywhere in America In the re-
gions where the rainfall is too light for
successful farming and where crops
must be made by howage from canals
and bitches. But the assertion is true,
decidedly so. Almost without excep-
ton, irrigated soils are very strong and
fertile. By turning on the water just
where the crops need moisture the
goes forward unchecked
10 maturity. The result is high grade
grains. rich and luxuriant grasses and
some Of the most perfect fruits grown
in the United States. Where
the water supply is sufficient crop fail
ures are practically unknown. There
are no drouths 10 spoil business calcu-
lations. The irrigated regions are,
almost without exception, healthful,
possessing dry, wholesome atmosphere,
free from malaria, with warm days and
cool nights"
The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1907-03-08
$1,000 PER ACRE
That L. What Six and quarter Acres
~ Brought In WenaIehee Last
Week

The Wenatchee World Of Nednes-
day gives the following account OF the
first real estate sale this spring:
The first deal 10 be made under the
new scale when Thomas A. Walton sold
to Wilbur NJ. Little, Of Peachland, 3.
C., his six and one-quarte1 acre tract
on Walla Walla street for the sum Of
S12,500. The deal was made by
Bower & Nowlan and the purchaser
has already taken possession OF the
place. Mr.. Walton has been a resi-
dent of the Wenatchee valley for the
past five years, having purchased the
tract just sold for $4,000 during the
spring of 1902. The sale price OF
$12,500 therefore represents a gain Of
$500 including the improvements
made by the former owner. The pur-
chaser, Mr.. Little, is a man OF family
and means and expects TO engage IN
some line Of business in this city after
getting his family established in their
new home.
There is land in this vicinity every
whit as good for fruit raising as the land
Mr.. Little paid $1,000 per acre for.
II there was some one here 10 bring il
10 the attention OF the public II would
only be a short time until land in this
neighborhood would sell as readily as
that near Wenatchee, with exactly the
same soil, q little more snow in the win
ter it is true. but q good deal less
wind and heat in the summer.
The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1907-03-08

Watsrville. and the inexplicable apathy
Of our own people TO thank fo1 Il
To charge the editor Of The
Echo with 'ra1torOus conduct
and be IN possession OF the facts
IS to make a false and unwH-
ranted charge. To make the
charge without knowing the facts
IS to make II ignorantly.
For the purpose in hand II vii
be assumed the charge was
made in ignorance OF the facts.
And, since ignorance, unlike
horse stealing, IS no crme-only
a misfortune, a mental debility
to which many Of Us would have
to plead guilty on the witness
stand-the task here entered on
will be to dispel the mental
cloud.
That the editor OF the Echo
favored the free bridge PROPOSE
non advanced by the people OF
Wenatchee from its inception IS
so well known in Leavenworth,
and equally well known by
many IN Wenatchee, that 1t IS
not necessary to repeat the tact.
Right here, too, II may as well
be admitted that selhshness, that
great handspring OF human ac-
ton. was not an unknown guam
tity in reaching a conclusion TO
advocate the purchase OF the
bridge by the state. At the time
the editor OF The Echo talked
with Senator Gum and Repre-
sentative King In regard to the
bridge he did not know that the
Wenatchee Canal Co. had a con-
tract Tor the free use OF the
bridge for It's pipe lines and that
the sale to the state would have
to be made subject to this Tree
use. Had he known this,
while he would not have changed
his position he would have frank
" admitted to these gentlemen
that it was his opinion that this
condition made the sale OF the
bridge to the state practically
impossible. That the charge OF
graft would be raised in the leg
islature and prevent the passage
Of a bill to purchase the bridge.
While the editor OF The Echo
would be only TOO glad to see
the bill pass the Legislature with
the free use," he holds to the
belief that this clause will defeat
1t. He believes, too, that the
great good that will come to
Chelan and Douglas counties
and the state in general, from
putting water on the south side
Of the Columbia river, will out
weigh the value OF the free use"
to the canal company.
The handicap that this free
use" IS to the passage OF the bill
ought to make plain the "inex-
plicable apathy Of some OF the
people OF Wenatchee toward the
free bridge movement.
The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1907-03-08

Notice Is hereby given that the Town
Council OF the Town OF leaNonworth Mash
Will receive sealed bids FOR chemical iro on
gines separate bids to he made on one ~
gallon capacity and one Tor two ~ gallon
GA pacity, said bids must he accompanied hN
pecifications OF equt pmeuts OF said engines
A II bids viii De opened on tho nth day III
March 1897, al O'Clock .. VA, The council
reserves the RIGHT 90 reject any or all bids
tuS A. Hamilton
~ Town Vlefk
The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1907-03-08

Under the headline, "The
Failure OF the Free Bridge" the
following paragraph appeared in
last weeks Wenatchee Repub-
lie:
:" If this is true, We have the traitor
Gus conduct OF Deed H. Magyar, the
editor OF The Leayenworh Echo, the
open enmity Of the heavy interests Of
The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1907-03-08

saved her life, Quite number OF
people as well as some OF the orders OF
the town, offered TO assist the Goereef
family financially bat all offers Of this
kind were declined though the motive
was highly appreciated.
The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1907-03-08
wTLL THE COUNTRY PRESS AC-
CEPT THE DOLE

AFWAhat
Whatever other members Of
the country press Of Washington
may do, tins paper politely de-
cIined last week to accept an
advertising contract from the
Great Northern railway at about
one-fourth the rate II charges It's
local patrons for advertising
space.
Il our patrons found out that
we sold a great corporation ad-
vertising space at one-fOurth the
rate paid by them nine out OF ten
would withdraw their patronage.
The railroad company offered
$500 for what others pay over
$4,000.
The railroad company makes
a freight and passenger rate
which il considers reasonable,
from which it never varies, IN
less il be, perhaps, Tor the bene-
fit OF the sugar trust. We sub
nit that our rate IS just as reas-
enable, and the service we ren-
der our patrons IS infinitely su-
perior. In over three years the
Echo has been on time with less
than half a dozen exceptions. In
the past four months the Passen-
ger trains OF the Great Northern
railway have only on rare occa-
sions been on time. In Novem-
Der OF last year Two passenger
trains lay on the side track IN
Leavenworth eight or nine days.
During February last there was
a complete stoPpage Of both
freight and passenger traffic Tor
twelve days, wherefore we say
the service we render our patrons
is superior.
1t is a notorious fact, frequent
" commented on, that the ser
vice on the Great Northern has
become so utterly poor that no
one uses II unless compelled TO
do so by circumstances.
We can not prostitute the
newspaper business by accept
ing a contract which is very
onerous in its conditions, liable
to be Cancelled without notice,
payment on which will be tardi-
ly doled out every three months
in squibs Of $6.25, provided
neither OF the three free copies Of
the paper, one to St. Paul, one
TO Seattle and one to the local
agent, has gone astray in the
mails during the three months,
in which event the S6.25 might
be cut down to Sl.75.
Oh, no! Thank you. No
contracts Tor us. We will cut
down our railroad riding to the
minimum. The trains are SO
annoyingly irregular, and the
wrecks SO distressingly frequent
on the Great Northern, that the
mere thought OF riding on a
train upsets our nerves. Ii
one in ten Of the country news
paper men Of the state OF Wash
ington accept the advertising
contract OF the Great Northern
railway we shall be surprised
beyond measure. A few, a very
few, may, in an unguarded mo-
ment, sign away their self re-
spect, degrade themselves in the
eyes OF the public, and debase
themselves before their local pa
irons and easily lose more than
$500, but they will regret ii
before the first quarter expires.
The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1907-03-08

Special NOfice--tiere3ifter an resolutions ui
cOndolencti carus of thanks. notices enter
tgiumenls where an udmlssiuH Zee is charged.
and ali notices of uny kiud intended 10 promote
somebody business aust be paid Tor al relu-
lar atyer sing rates when printed Ia the Echo.
o.. you' 81 cl thts paper 10 heip push some
JuIue Iu nuke money you eau AFFORD tu contrib
uIt Ia Doe support All Tree entertainment Of
whaf suge.'r stHu or movements 90 promote She
we'll De. afft' tra-irerify OF Int community a. %
Whstf VIII be- given she free use of It's columns.
NJ deviation Will be- muue from ttil, rule.
The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1907-03-08

FRIDAY. MARCH $. 1907.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1907-11-19

The average grownup who visits the
zoo thinks it rather a dull sort of
show, Ter the fact that the animals are
captive robs them of all the romance
that would attach to them Ia their ma
tive forests
But let the blase sightseer obtain
permission to visit tha zoo at mid
night, and his impressions will be very
different. Darkness hides the bars aid
the boards, and me eyes OF some wake
full creature CLEAN maliciously at you.
For the momen you imagine that you
are In the wilds, on equal terms with
the creatures around.
Poised on the swings and platforms
at the top of their cages sleep the mon
keys, instinct surviving their loss of
freedom, for In the forests they had
to sleep thus to avoid tie beasts of
prey.
Here rests a lloness, prone upon her
back, her legs rigid in the air and her
paws hanging Imply down. There re-
cllnes her lord, asleep upon his side,
bis paws turned in and his general
pose not unlike that Of dog.
The more cunning and more coward
~ Of the animals do not seem to sleep
at all, for as soon as they hear orr APP
preaching footsteps they give us their
greeting with snarls and malevo.cnt
coverings and watch us susplciously
till we depart-Pearson's
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1907-11-19
The Drawing.


The captive was to all appearances
living the last moments Of his life.
With rope about his neck, the limb of
4 tree in close proximity, and the crowd
of excited miners, gamblers and pros
pectors surging round him, he stood.
fearlessly, quiet and resigned.
The leader of the mob was speaking.
Boys, this critter is about to die.
Not because he shot a man, not because
he killed half dozen men, or is a
brlgand. No, because he has done what
no man In this section of the country
would do had he any spark of the stuff
we are supposed to have lost on our
entrance to the West in him-honor.
He has been convicted by common as
sent as a boss thief. To be boss thief
~ the section of the country where we
arr is to be the lowest thing a man
an he amt a man at that-can be.
l amt got much to say, and l Amt
taking long to say it, but he's got to
suffer he penalty of his crime"
Finishing his speech amid the roar of
the mems voices, he stepped from the
log on which be was standing and nd-
dressed the man:
IF you know any prayers. mister,
. say them; cause you won't have long
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1907-11-19
Asked FOR n strinr.

The dear girls were comparing notes
on subjects of more or less Importance
your beau seems rather bashful,"
said Stella.
"Bashful," echoed Mabel why,
bashful is no name for it."
"Why don't you encourage himT
dueried her friend.
Il have tried answered Mabel, ''but
the attempt was measly failure Only
last night l sat all alone on the sofa
and he perched up in a chair as far
away as he could get. asked him If
he didn't think 1t strange that the
length of q mans arm vas the same
as the distance around a womans
waist. and what do you think he did?''
Just. what any sensible man would
have done-tried it, | suppose
Not any, thank you. He asked If I
could find piece of string so we could
measure and see if it was a fact Amt
he the linit?"
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1907-11-19
EARLY DAY PLANK ROAD.
When the Railroads Came This Mis-

When the Railroads Came This Mis-
souri, Highway Was Abandoned
This talk about a highway across
the State recalls TO mind SIMILAR en-
terprise prosecuted in the interior of
the State in the steamboat days" says
the Kansas City Star. 1T was a TWEEN
ty-fve-mile plank highway between
Glasgow and Huntsville" recently re-
marked Milton c. Tracy of Macon, No.,
whose father was interested in the road
and who used to live IN Huntsville.
1.-The road between Huntsville and
Glasgow was succession Of clay hills
the greater part Of the way and In
muddy weather the Christian religion
made scant Roadway in those parts.
We didn't know it then, but we do
now. that those mathematical red hills
were a blessing to Missouri, for they
served to develop the largest and
strongest mules In the world and their
big-boned descendants are now moving
more merchandise than the steam cars.
"Glasgow was the distributing point
for up-the-country merchandise. A doz-
en- hack lines run out from there, the
main one of which journeyed to Hunts
Vile. The traffic over those molasses
candy hills became so great and was
attended by so many difficulties that
something had to be done. Various
kinds of road material were discussed
and timber decided upon because 1t
was plentiful and most OF the pioneers
were skilled In its use. The hills were
cut through and the bottoms raised so
the roadway was fairly level Oak
plank, twenty feet long, two inches
thick and eighteen inches wide were
nailed on heavy stringers. laid close to-
gether. There were five tollgates. with
a tariff rate of a cent head for stock.
3 cents for man on horseback and 10
cents II he Travelled In a vehicle. A
fO0tman paid the same as other ami.
naaIs-1 cent
There keeper at each toilgat e-
md bis jOb With the road company, To-
Sether with cottage and garden do
mated for his use. made him a fair
wing. His rakeof on the tolls vas
% per cent
Work on the plank road was begun
April. 1853. and the .ast spike was
driven In October. 1854 It was gigan-
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1907-11-19
Trapsmutation Now /, .Fact

Prof. Otto n. Witt of the Technical
high school at Charlottenburg, Germany,
an authority on radium experiments, now
asserts that the latest experiments Of
Prof. Ramsay show that under the influ-
ence of the energy contained in radium
carnations well-known elements like cop
per can now be converted into others just
as well known. This proves that the an
cient alchemists were on the right track.
-Four years ago Ramsay discovered that
radium carnations changed to helium and
later that this is the source of all the
inactive elements.
Latterly Prof. Boltwood of Yale has
shown that a new element exists in the
uranium minerals, where radium is found,
and which is the parent of radum. This
new element gives of both alpha and beta
radiations, produces no carnations and
resembles theorium. Ionium is the name
proposed for this substance
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1907-11-19

the inquisitor, taking the suspect I'M
awares, pronounces trunk" there
comes the crucial test.
II guilty the suspect will seek to put
the inluisitor or the track and may
answer strap" leather" railroad"
or something else of a simiiar nature.
But in Ills brain the word trunk" has
within It, He must think of two things
instead of one. That takes time, and
the memorable dial with its indicator
will show what has occurred.
In Prof Munsterberg's article In Nc
Cures he tells of applying the chrome
scope In the case of Harry Orchard in
his cell in the Jail at Boise. Prof Mum
sterberg called out In succession fifty
words. Orchard lent himself to the
researches and replied with the first
answering word that came to his mind.
The first word spoken by Prof. Mum
sterberg was river" orchard an
swered water" Then ''ox." and the
answer was yoke" then mountain"
and he said "hill," then tobacco" and
the reply was pipe"
All this time Orchard did not know
that the time taken for him to reply
was being registered. The time aver
aged seven-tenths of a second. Then
Prof. Munsterberg proceeded to put test
words, such as confession" ''revolv-
err" religion" Jury" death" blood"
prayer" and railroad" "Blood" sug-
gested knife" to Orchard and the 9th
er words similar significant replies, but
there was no hesitation. The case was
made exhaustive and the inference was
that Orchard had reached the point
where, by reason of much rehearsal, he
believed his own confession.
Scientists believe the chronoscope,
now only in the first stages Of its per.
lection, will before long be evolved into
something resembling divers helmet,
which, fitted over the criminals head,
would become the microscope of the
mind.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1907-11-19
E3Saaa6SHHHEEEEEHEHE
Is POLITICS aam
" ==OF THE DAY 81
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.

ranch The average income from wool
for each farmer of Iowa, allowing him
the value of all the wool produced, was
only S-L30 per farmer.
How much does the tariff cost the
farmer? As far as the individual
farmer is concerned, it costs him ac-
cording to what he buys. If he buys
imported manufactured goods. the tar
if tax Is over So per cent on the ay
erage. If he buys domestic goods that
are produced by a trust or combine,
protected by the tariff, the increased
profit the trust or manufacturer
charges is very nearly what the tariff
tax would be on similar foreign made
goods when imported. j is estimated
by tne most reliable statisticlans that
tie increased cost of living through the
tarin, to the average family. is over
$500, of which the government receives
$500 for tariff taxes, and the trusts
ana manufacturers receive about SS4.
From this must be deducted what the
farmer receives In the increased nrice
OF sugar cane, sugar beets, wrapper to-
bacco and wool that he sells. How
much that increase is can be figured
very closely by each farmer. according
to the profit on the amount Of those
four articles he raises. AS said before.
the duty on refined sugar is 1.95 cents
a pound; and from 95-100 Of a cent I'D
to 1.S5 cents on unrefned sugar: on
sugar beets it is difficult to be exact.
as the increased price depends upon
the saccharine matter contained in the
beets; but as all the beets raised in
the United States We're sold to the su-
gar factories for an average of S4.3S
ton, 1t Is safe to say that the in
creased profit to the growers could not
have been greater than SO cents a ton:
for the census report shows that 1t cost
the factory proprietors just over 81 a
ton to grow beets themselves.
SO it comes to this; If those farmers
who raise sheep get all the wool shear
ed as profit, the average value of
which, according to the census, was
about 81 per sheep, and allowing that
the lambs pay for the food and trouble
of caring for his flock, the profit
amounts to 81 head. But to make
the sheep farmer come out even on
what the tariff costs him. he must keep
flock of at least 100 sheep. and have
no losses by disease or the ravages of
dogs or wolves Every farmer can thus
figure out what he gains by his sheep.
and loses by the tariff on what he
pays. But only a small percentage of
farmers raise sheep, or sugar beets, or
Connecticut seed wrapper tobacco,
while all the farmers who do not raise
these protected products are compelled
to pay the tariff tax of about 800
year to support the trusts, and help
out the few farmers who are protected.
Is that Republican policy a square
deal for the average farmer and the
general consumer? No one but a Re
publican standpatter will say it is.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1907-11-19

tic enterprise for that day and the PEG
pie thought it solved the transportation
problem for all time. They didn't dream
that within four or five years steam en-.
gines would be cavorting around IL
these parts and that the bulk of bust.
ness would sweep by regardless of the
river.
"At Huntsville the arrival OF the first
coach on the new road was made a gen.
eral holiday by official proclamation.
The schools were dismissed and but lit.
tie of anything was done until the
mail coach got in. l was among the
crowd Of youngsters that gathered
around in admiration too deep for
words.
1.-The Glasgow and Huntsville Road
Company was duly Incorporated con
Germ and had its officers just like a
railroad company. William Smith, who
is yet living at Moberly, ran the stage
line. A coach left Glasgow and Hunts
vile about the same time each morning
furnishing daily mail each way. Ancll
Bros. operated large freight vans and
did healthy business. The late w.
r. (Bob) Samuel of Huntsville was
secretary for the road an important
position which paid quite we'll during
the days of the roads activity.
Roanoke, in Howard county. was the
biggest town between the terminals. II
grew up into quite a place during the
plank roads prosperity and many
stores were operated there. But by and
by the railroads came, the old road was
torn up for firewood and Roanoke was
marooned far back in the country,
that have become lost or forgotten"
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1907-11-19
800 MILLION OF CHINESE.
Yellow Empire Has About One-fifth
of Globes Population.

Yellow Empire Has About One-fifth
of Globes Population.
The interesting question of the pop
ulation of the Chinese empire has Of
ten been discussed, but 1t is still Inn
possible to say with any degree of GER
tainty what the figures are.
At the beginning of the Christian
era 1t Is tolerably certain that there
were at least 100000 inhabitants,
and 1t must be remembered that the
empire was much smaller than It Is at
the present time.
Most of the censuses taken In China
during the last 1000 years, says the
North China Daily News, have not
professed to take in the whole popu-
lation. Young children and old men,
for instance, were sometimes omitted
the main object Of the census being
to ascertain the number OF taxable
persons
BY common consent the most relia-
BILE census ever taken In China was
that of 1912. This gives the figure as
more than 362.0O0,000. In 1868 the
population was estimated at nearly
4OS.0OO,O00: but in 1881 1t had fallen
to 3S0.O00,000. the great TAPPING re-
bellion, liz which so many millions of
people lost their lives, being one OF
the principal causes undoubtedly, for
this great decline.
Travellers, missionaries and others
who have visited the region devastated
at the time Of the TAPPING rebellion
express the opinion that the loss OF
life during that great CONFUSION has
generally been estimated at too low q
figure. and II is question also wheth-
err the terrible famine more than q
score OF years ago In the province OF
Chile. Shansi. Shensi and Honan. with
population of 100000. is not re
sponsSSle for the loss of more lives
than 1t is usually credited with
II is still more certain that the Mo
hammedan uprising in the northwest
destroyed more lives than 1t is gen
orally supposed to have done. A very
moderate computation of the loss OF
life incurred in these three calamities
makes 1t to be fully 6o,O00000. And
in this connection II would be well
perhaps to remind ourselves that the
hsbitual use OF opium by such large
number Of people has tended to act In
juriously on the recuperative power OF
the nation.