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The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1908-04-10
RED MT. MINING ACTIVITY
Reorganization of the Company Followed
by Visit from the New
York Stockholders

The following special dispatch from
the P.-I.'s Washington correspondent
appeared recently in that paper. It
indicates that an active era of develop
ment will be entered on this summer:
All the mining interests in Chelan
and Snohomish counties in which Rep
resentative Goulden Of New York is in
terested are to be completely reorgan-
ganized, and as soon as the new direc-
tors are installed their properties, upon
which extensive Improvements have
been made during the past year, will
be operated on a large scale. The
most extensive operations will be con-
Quoted in the Red Mountain district in
Chelan county where good roads to the
outside have been constructed.
Representative Goulden will proba-
bly, become the president Of the COM
pany, and Representative Fornes, also
of New York, will be one of the direc-
tors. Immediately after the conclusion
of this session of congress Mr.. Gould
en-, Mr.. Fornes, and a number of
other mining men of the east will visit
their properties to decide definitely up
on the proposed activities for the com
inu 1,eor
The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1908-04-10
In the Id. [. Co. Log Case the Verdict
was for the Defendant

Reporting the case Of the Lamb
Davis Lumber Co. against Deak Brown
the Wenatchee Republic of last week
said
The case which was on trial in the
superior court Monday and Tuesday,
went to the jury Tuesday evening and
a verdict was rendered for the defen-
dant. This suit was the aftermath Of
the big floods of last November year
ago in which the boom of the Lamb
Davis company broke loose and over
100000 feet Of logs were swept
down the river. Many Of the ranchers
along the river appropriated to their
own use logs that were washed up on
their land after the floods had subsided.
Deak Brown was alleged to have ap-
propriated some of these logs to his owr
use and the numbering company
brought suit to recover S210 as pay
ment for the logs used. In the trial
the first of the week, Mr. Brown intro.
duced testimony to show that there
was an agreement between himself and
representatives Of the company where
by the logs were to be removed by ;
certain date and failing in this he wa
at liberty to appropriate the logs to hi.
own use. The jury in the case founC
for the defendant
The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1908-04-10
A Commercial Club is Necessary, Says a
Correspondent

Editor Leavenworth Echo:
1t is necessary that Leavenworth
and vicinity should have a commercial
club, after what was said and done at
the condemnation suit held at the
court house in Wenatchee at the last
session of court.
Ii is also necessary that the com
mercial club should be composed
mostly of hot air peddlers" to insure
it being warm enough to prevent July
frosts.
OF course it takes money to conduct
a club Of this kind, and it takes money
to make frost in July, but if the com
mercial club is run on good sound
principles and the members are ener-
getic it will be a benefit to farmers,
laborers and merchants.
Homeseekers coming west looking
for homes never hear of Leavenworth,
don't know that there ever was such a
place, it is one OF the few places in
Washington that is not advertised out
side of its own city limits. Wake up
and put your shoulder to the wheel and
start il to rolling and see the results.
Robt E. Nickles.
The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1908-04-10

is probable that the last ones will be
sold within a short time. Soil, climate,
proximity to market, and scenic gran
deur all combine to make the new
lands especially attractive both to in
vestors and to those who are seeking
locations for BODYBUILDING, says the
Wenatchee World.
The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1908-04-10

Valued at S1O0 each, four colts
belonging to Gus Klumb Of Mohler,
got at his seed wheat, which had been
treated with formaldehyde for smut,
Sunday night, and ate of it. The four
animals died by o'clock Monday
afternoon. Farmers may profit by Mr..
Klumb's expensive experience by
keeping poisoned cereal out of reach
of their stock.-Harrington Citizen.
The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1908-04-10

Seattle men have been in Cashmere
during the past few days for the pur-
pose of looking over the newly irrigated
tracts at Estes Orchards. The Estes
Valley Orchards are being talked about
quite generally in the real estate Offices
in Seattle and from present prospects il
The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1908-04-10

At the home OF J. H. Scott there is
great rejoicing over the visit Of the
stork bird and arrival OF fine boy.
The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1908-04-10
ST ATE NEWS ITEMS

The town council of Quincey passed
an ordinance which provides that
license shall be granted to only two
saloons until Quincy has a population
OF at least 1000.
The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1908-04-10

Saturday was a great day for eggs,
says the editor of the Waterville Press
of last week. At every store in town
which handles them it about kept one
man busy looking after the eggs, the
total receipts amounting to practically
forty-eight cases. Each case averages
thirty dozen, which at 12h cents-the
market price paid Saturday = means
S3.75 a case or total of $3.50 which
the industrious hens put into the pock-
cts Of their owners in the vicinity of
Waterville in one day. There were
perhaps ten cases more brought in dur
ing the week, which would make $751;
so more, making grand total sum oi
$217.50. The market price until Sat
urday had been fifteen cents per dozen
but the markets in Seattle and Spokane
went to pieces and the local dealers
lost on the shipment made the week
before.
The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1908-04-10

The splendid courage of tiny girl
at Chelan probably saved the life other
mother in the destruction of the home
of Coke Merwin last Thursday by fire,
although the mothers death was ex-
pected hourly. The father was away
at work when the flames were dis
covered by the little girl. The mother
has been sick in bed in an emaciated
condition for several weeks and was
utterly unable to help herself from the
bed. The little girl heroically dragged
her mama from bed and out of the
house. She then rescued the other
smaller children in time. The house
and its contents are complete loss.
The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1908-04-10

Robert Bruce Bryan, state superin-
tendent of public instruction, died in
North Yakima Monday Of last week, of
apoplexy, from which disease he had
been unconscious since Friday. The
deceased was a veteran of the Civil
war, having served with the Third Iowa.
Mr.. Bryan was the first superintendent
of public instruction in Washington.
He was 65 years of age.
The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1908-04-10

f. c. Knappert, a contractor and
builder at Davenport, committed sui
eide by hanging himself in the hayloft
of his barn on Wednesday, April first.
He leaves a wife and several small
children.
The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1908-04-10

The high wind of a week ago blew
down the bell tower of the Wenatchee
fire department and, report says, made
a complete wreck of the structure.
The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1908-04-10

Several cases Of smallpox are reported
near Delrio, in Douglas county.
The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1908-04-10

Miss Mary Fox now holds the
championship belt for lady pedestrians
in Douglas. county, having walked II
miles in two hours and twenty-five min
utes, one day last week.
The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1908-04-10

c. A. Harris of Entiat was awarded
the contract to do the excavating for
the Entiat electric power plant and has
gone to work with 20 men. 1t is
estimated that it will require about one
year to complete the plant.
The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1908-04-10

In letter to the Brewster Herald
last week Superior Court Judge Steiner
announces that after his term of Office
he will move to Okanogan county and
announces himself a candidate for
Superior Judge of the district composed
of Okanogan and Ferry counties.
The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1908-04-10

Miss Nellie Parker, sister OF Miss
Grace Parker, former teacher of the
Wenatchee schools is to commence
term of school at Lake Wenatchee.
The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1908-04-10

The town of Edmonds in Snohomish
county is to have a furniture factory.
Work on the buildings will be com
menced at once, and it is expected
that the plant will be ready for operation
late this summer.
The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1908-04-10

Judge Steiner decided the case in
which Long jim, the Indian, was the
defendant, in favor of R. w. Starr, the
plaintiff. Starr brought suit to quiet
the title to a valuable tract of land
located on the shores of Lake Chelan,
which he claimed the Indian had
transferred to him, and which the In
dian claimed was being wrongfully
taken in that the white man imposed
upon him.
The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1908-04-10

Mr.. and Mrs. Thomas J. Hollowell,
pioneer citizens of Waitsburg, cele-
brated their fiftieth wedding anniver-
sary at that place on the first of April.
The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1908-04-10

The boiler in the Garmon & Emmons
shingle mill, near Everett, exploded
Wednesday of last week killing FIVE
men. A. o. Garmon, one of the
owners, T. B. Ambuhl, the engineer
and Edward Olson were killed instantly.
James Hopkins and Charles Larson
died later in the day. Peter Carlson
the only other mill employee escaped
with broken arm.
The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1908-04-10
COUNTY NEWS ITEMS

Col. Huston, of Cashmere, it is said,
is intending to promote another tele-
phone system for Cashmere to compete
with the Farmers Telephone company.
The county is becoming networked
with telephone lines. The Wheeler
hill company was formed last week.
The Colockum people have their line
almost ready for connecting with the
local line. The Southside people are
also almost ready for connecting and
several more localities will have lines
during the summer.
The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1908-04-10

The town of Sedro- Woolley is doing
some profitable advertising by holding,
semi-occassionally, what they call a
dollar bargain day." On these days
each merchant offers some particular
bargain for dollar, no two merchants
offering the same articles. 1t no doubt
brings many buyers to the town, and
stimulates trade to a considerable ex-
tarnt
The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1908-04-10

The Harrington Citizen says c. W..
Bethel recently sold two 3-year-old un-
broke mules for $500.
The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1908-04-10

w. T. Clark, builder Of the high line
ditch and president of the First
National Bank of Wenatchee will remove
his family from Spokane to Wenatchee
soon, says the Republic. He will
this summer build a handsome home
on a hundred and ten acre orchard
near the town.
The Glenwood post., 1908-07-04
TEACHERS SELECTED.

The Glenwood school board has
completed the selection of teach
ers for the ensuing year, the com
plete list being as follows:
Elmer Underwood, superintend-
ent.
Charles s. Thompson, principal
high school.
Miss Ella Allen, high school.
Miss Minnie Conway, high school.
Miss Blanche Mahoney, eighth
grade.
Mrs. Edith M. Bailey, seventh
grade.
Mrs. Elizabeth NJ. Tully, sixth
grade.
Miss Bessie Brown, fifth grade.
Mrs. Laura Bledsoe, fourth grade.
Miss Belle Johnston, third grade.
Miss Alice Finley, second grade.
Miss Helen Fleming, first grade.
The Glenwood post., 1908-07-04

nominated Henry Clay for presi-
dent and John Sergeant for vice.
president. In the following May
the Democrats met in the same
city, ostensibly for the purpose Of
selecting candidate for vice
president, but it assumed the re-
sponsibility for nominating a
candidate for president, Andrew
jackson, and Martin Van Buren
for vice-president.
No platform was framed by the
Democratic convention Of 1882,
but it adopted resolution which
provided for the perpetuation Of
the delegate convention system Of
selecting the party candidates for
president and vice-president. The
two-thirds rule was then adopted
In 1885 the Democrats met
again at Baltimore and nominated
Martin Van Buren for President
and Richard M. johnson Of Ken.
tucky for vice-president. The op-
position declined to make . nom
nation in convention, hoping Il
throw the slsction into the house
Of representatives. Van BuEer
was sneees1fhl in this selection
The Glenwood post., 1908-07-04
BANDIT USED GIRL FOR SHIELD

From Wednesdays Daily Post.
Fresno, Calf, July Using
the body of pretty 16-year-old
Edna Bomencine, whom he had
kidnapped, as shield, Cleve Rog-
ers, an outlaw, this morning stood
off a posse that surrounded him
for more than half an hour. He
was finally overpowered, and the
girl rescued from the dangerous
position.
The girl is the daughter of
Frank Bomencine, wealthy coal
dealer of Coal Springs. Last
night about II O'Clock the family,
which was staying at ranch 70
miles east of here, was aroused
by a volley of shots, fired by two
men.
Looking out they saw the des-
peradoes, Tony Loveall and Clevc
Rogers, by the lurid light of a
burning barn which they had fired
before shooting their guns.
The family was ordered out Of
The Glenwood post., 1908-07-04
THE DElGoCRATIC
NATIONAL CONVENTION
From Thursday's Daily Post.

DIOm AAuA 0~A"y
Washington, July AT this
time, on the eve of the Democrat
ic national convention, it is in
teresting to recall the great con-
ventions that have been held by
that party in the past. The con-
vention which opens at Denver
next Tuesday will be the twenti-
eth national assemblage Of the
Democratic party, while the one
held recently in Chicago was only
the fourteenth Republican nation
al gathering. But the Democrat
ic party surpasses the Republican
in age much more than this differ
ence would indicate. Born in
1871, and christened by Jefferson
a year or 20 later, the Democratic
party has long since passed the
century mark Of its life.
The convention system OF
choosing candidates for president
and vics-president superseded the
congressional caucus method in
1881, In December Of that yeaI
~ whigs nst in Baltimore and
The Glenwood post., 1908-07-04

When we have Strawberry day
here, Shoshone closes down, Mar
BILE does likewise and the men
come to Glenwood Springs and
spend the days. 1t is the least
thing we can do-to return thai
courtesy, and to return it at the
earliest possible date.
Get out, then, and visit those
towns; it doesn't matter to which
one you go, but go and tell them
when you arrive that you are
from Glenwood Springs and have
come to return one Of the calls
they have made in the past six
months.
It should need no second appeal
to our citizens to follow this out
There is nothing especial doing
here on that day, and our neigh
bors have provided vast variety
of entertainment for us.
Get out and have a good time.
The Glenwood post., 1908-07-04

the house, and, covering the gir'
with their guns, made her show
them through the house and
where the family kept its money
concealed. They demanded s.,
900, and when told by the head OF
the family that he had no such
amount on hand, took the fright
ened girl, their idea being, appar-
emily, to hold her for ransom.
Tossing her up before him on
the saddle Rogers rode away in
the darkness, while his companion
kept the rest of the family, con-
sisting of the father, mother and
two sisters, covered with his rifle
and prevented the giving of an
alarm.
With the approach of daylight
the lone bandit rode away in a
southerly direction, and has not
been seen since.
When he departed, the frantic
father notified the police Of this
The Glenwood post., 1908-07-04
TAFT poFrs ROBES.

Washington, July 2.-At the
conclusion of a lengthy confer
ence between Secretary Taft and
Congressman Burton of Ohio.
Mr.. Burton announced that Ar
thur Vorys would not be made
chairman of the Republican ma
tiOnal committee.
He added that while he could
not say who would manage the
campaign, he was sure the party
would be satisfied when the name
of the man selected was officially
announced.
Mr.. Taft admitted that there
had been a reference to political
matters during the conference.
but made no statement concern
ing its purport.
The Glenwood post., 1908-07-04
GARFIELD COMING HOME.

San Francisco, July 2.-Secre-
tary Garfield of the department
of commerce and labor, who has
been investigating conditions in
Hawaii for the past month, is ex-
pected to arrive here tomorrow
on the cruiser st. Louis. Secre-
tary Garfeld's business in Hawaii
has been in connection with har-
Dor improvements, commerce
problems, labor situations and
similar matters which have hith-
erto been settled at long range.
The Glenwood post., 1908-07-04
Fro. w.a..sd.y's Daily Pest.

From Wsdassday's Daily Pest.
The above resolution is one
which undoubtedly voices the SEN
timents of the majority of the
business men of Glenwood
Springs. The merchants of this
town should not hesitate to close
on July 4, and, as the movement
is one that will be generally OBJ
served, they can lose nothing fl
nancially.
There may be good and suffi-
cient reasons why the stores
should be kept open half day OH
Sunday, and that other holidays
should be ignored if the shop
keepers see fit, but July 4 is the
one day in all the year when ev-
eryone should take a holiday and
make merry.
There is a stronger reason why
this town should close down, and
that is so clerks and employees
generally may take advantage of
the opportunity to visit neighbor-
ing towns.
The Glenwood post., 1908-07-04

Washington, July 30.-"I'm in
process of sloughing off my Off
cial robes.
This was the laconic descrip-
tion of his condition given by Sec
retary William II. Taft Tuesday
evening as he sat at his big, fiat.
topped desk in his private Office
at the war department.
He had been working like an
East Indian slave during the day
in TIE disposition of more or less
important department business.
He gave notice early in the day
that he did not propose to discuss
politics in the last hours of his
administration as secretary of
war, because of the enormous
amount of routine matter which
he necessarily had on hand.
Throughout the day he was in
consultation with Gov. Wright,
WIN 10 W NC ulS SuCCSSSOI io CA-
ecutive head of the war depart
ment and with bureau chiefs of
the department.
The only real political confer
ence he had during the day was
with Representative Theodore E.
Burton of Cleveland. The confer
ence was prolonged. Mr.. Burton
discussed with the secretary the
details Of the convention and the
practical situation as it has de-
veloped since the convention ad
iourned. They devoted particular
attention to the political condi
tions in Ohio, Mr.. Taft's native
state, concerning which he is spe
cially solicitous.
The Glenwood post., 1908-07-04

the opposition voting generally
for General Harrison instead of
Henry Clay, who was the idol Of
the Wing party. In 1874 the two
thirds rule was used for Van Bu-
ren's overthrow. Though he had
been defeated in the election four
years previously by General Har-
rison, the nomination Of Van Bu-
rem was conceded by most OF his
enemies. But the ex-president,
on the eve of his nomination
wrote a latter on the subject of
Texas annexation which offended
a large portion Of his southern
admirers and resulted in his de
feat in the convention. On the
first ballot Van Buren, had a ma
jority in the convention, but less
than two-thirds. On the eighth
ballot, James K. Polk, ex-gover-
nor of Tennessee, received the
nomination, and in the following
November he was elected.
In 1848 the Democratic conven-
ton at Baltimore nominated Lew
is Cass, who was defeated in the
election by General Taylor, the
Wing candidate. In 1852 the
Democratic convention again as
sembled in Baltimore, this time
on the first day of June. General
Cass led at the beginning of the
balloting, but on the forty-ninth
ballot the nomination went to
Franklin Pierce, dark horse. In
1856 the Democratic convention
went West for the first time,
meeting in Cincinnati. James
Buchanan was named for presi-
dent and John G. Breckenridge
for vice-president.
The most fateful convention in
the history of the Democratic
party was that held in Charleston
in 1860, which split the party in
to northern and southern sec
ton, each of which held a cor
vention at another place, put up
a ticket of it's own, and made a
seperate canvass. Stephen a.
Douglas was the candidate of the
regular convention" which met
at Baltimore, and at Richmond
the seceders from the Douglas
convention nominated Breckin-
ridge. Abraham Lincoln was the
successful nominee of the Repub-
licans. In 1864 the Democrats
met at Chicago and nominated
General Mcclellan for president
and George H. Pendleton for vice
president. In the convention OF
1868, the only one ever held in
New York, Seymour was nomin-
ated, but was easily beaten by
Grant in the election. The 1872
convention accepted Horace Gree
ley, and Grant repeated his vic
tory of 1868. In their convention
of 1876 the Democrats, meeting
at St. Louis, nominated their
strongest and ablest man, Tilden,
and came within one vote in the
electoral college of electing him.
and in 1880, with General Han
cock as their standard bearer,
they made an active canvass.
which was decided against them
by the vote of New York. Cleve-
land and Hendricks were nomin-
ated at Chicago in 1884. Cleve-
land was nominated the second
time at st. Louis and the third
tina at Chicago. William j.
Bryan was nominated the first
time in Chicago and the second
time at Kansas City. At St. Lou
is in 1904 the Parker and Davis
ticket was named.
The Glenwood post., 1908-07-04
e|enwood Owes Much To Nearby Towns
and Should Take Opportunity To
Even Up Scores. Visit Them
MANY WILL KEEP the FOURTH

Resolution adopted meeting of the advisory board of the
Glenwood Springs Board of Trade held go 1908:
Resolved That Glenwood
Springs that their all day July that
urge all Genwood citizens holiday neghborng
join acknowledgement
which neghbors visit every opportunity
Messrs shain ST. Clair appointed committee
present the resolution
general closing
The Glenwood post., 1908-07-04
IOWA DEMOCRATS MEET

Sioux City, Ia, July 2.-Dele-
gates representing the Democratic
party in Iowa rounded up in state
convention here today to ratify
the results of the recent primary.
The state ticket to receive in
The Glenwood post., 1908-07-04

John Linesle, prominent bust
ness man, and for twenty years
one of the best known and most
highly respected citizens of this
town, shot and killed himself be-
cause of i'll health at 6 O'Clock
this morning at the family home.
His wife was just getting up when
she heard the shot fred, and rush
ing into the kitchen saw her hus-
band with blood streaming from
his head.
Linesle was a member of the
Republican state central commit
tee, and one of the leaders of the
party in this section. For years
he has conducted a cigar store and
was well fixed financially. He
was prominent Odd Fellow, anil
at the last meeting of the grand
lodge had conferred upon him the
degree of chivalry. 1t was at this
meeting, also, that he was elected
senior warden of the lodge. He is
survived by a wife and two sons.
The Glenwood post., 1908-07-04

dorsement will be headed by Ere
White as the candidate for gov
ernor. The convention will ais,
adopt platform of resolutions