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The Ellensburg dawn. [volume] (Ellensburg, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1908-11-06

James Bowers, who last fall
bought the B. +. Dozier property
III the northwest part of town,
moved on to the same this week
and will at once proceed to beautify
it.
Mr.. and Mrs. II. Monahan of
Liberty, stopped off few hours
Monday while enroute to North
Yakima on business.
T. A. Davis of North Yakima,
was in the city Monday and Tues
day on business.
Capt. A. G. Steinman of North
Yakima, came up Tuesday after
noon to be on hand to cast his vote
for the republican ticket.
The city campaign is now OH and
a warm time is anticipated.
The Ellensburg dawn. [volume] (Ellensburg, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1908-11-06
G.. L. COLLINS
JUST AROUND CORNER 3RD AND PEARL STS

for another four years will have its
own way and will or will not be
held responsible for its acts by the
voter. Many want to go with the
majority simply because they think
it popular, regardless of the action
Of the party having that big ma
iority.
The Ellensburg dawn. [volume] (Ellensburg, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1908-11-06

LOOK AT YOUR LAST WINTER S OVERCOAT
AND SEE If THE CLOTH ABOUT THE SEAMS IN
THE BACK AND AROUND THE CUFFS is NOT
BADLY WORN. If YOU TUCK YOUR SLEEVES
YOU WILL MAKE THEM Too SHORT. If YOU
LENGTHCN THEM OR LEAVE THEM AS THEY
ARE YOU CANNOT GET AWAY FROM HAVING
PEOPLE KNOW THAT YOU CANNOT AFFORD A
NEW OVERCOAT. THEN is THERE ANY REA-
SON WHY YOU SHOULD NOT BUY A NEW ONE?
RESPECTFULLY,
The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1908-05-01

construction would begin within 30
days. This is good news, if authentic,
and will cause the people along the
Okanogan river, who have patiently
awaited the arrival of the iron horse, to
prick up their ears and look pleasant.
Conconully Record.
The estimated value of Washington
orchards is said to be sixty million of
dollars.
Fruit, says recent report on the
condition Of Washingtons chief indus
try has apparently not suffered injury
from frosts and the horticultural outlook
is not only excellent, but the prospects
for increased returns from any previous
year is practically assured. Returns
from the commissioner OF horticulture
show continued enormous expansion in
orchard areas, a condition that has been
prominent for several years, and COM
mercial estimates based upon general
averages for the state show that Wash
ington's fruit crop, when the total
present acreage has come into bearing,
will be in excess Of $50,000,000 an
nually, with a practical assurance of
exceeding the returns from the cereal
crop within the next decade.
The big Weyerhauser lumber mill
at Everett resumed operations last
week after a shut down of four or five
months.
The State highway commission went
to Deception pass last week on the
Utopia, says the Puget Sound Mail,
having come down to inspect the stone
quarry near Canoe Pass, which the
state established recently and where
convict labor from the state peniten-
tiary at Walla Walla will soon be en-
gagged in getting out rock, for the
Alaska-Yukon Pacific exposition
grounds at Seattle.
The news was received yesterday
morning that the Snohomish Valley
trolley had received its first installment
of $500,000 on the bonds sold, and
simultaneously with the news there
came wagon load Of men with tools
and proceeded to Rocky Point, about
five miles above town, and commenced
TO make camp.-Monroe Monitor.
S. A. Osborn a prominent Wilson
Creek merchant who disappeared last
August and was supposed to have been
murdered for $500 which he was
known to have had, has been found at
Bellingham and recognized by his son.
He has been to China and when found
was employed as an engineer on
steamboat, going by the name of
Snyder. He had shaved his beard and
mustache, indicating that he did not
want to be recognized.
The barn floor" dance last Satur-
day night was a rousing success both
socially and financially. There was
large attendance, and all thoroughly
enjoyed themselves. The hall was
appropriately decorated with hay and
ferns, and the gentlemen were pre-
sented with little bouquets Of timothy
heads tied with yellow ribbon. Liberal
quantities of doughnuts, apples and
sweet cider were provided.-Monroe
Monitor.
There was recently placed in saw
mill at Tacoma, what is said to be
the largest leather belt that was ever
made. It is ia feet long, eight feet
wide and three ply thick. 1t weighs
$500 pounds and there were required
in its manufacture the hides Of 225
large steers. The hides after being
tanned were stretched under great
tension and cemented TO each other
under a very heavy pressure, so that
there was no need for stitch or rivet
in the whole belt.
The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1908-05-01
A School Boys Prize Story
erty.

A teacher in a western school wrote
to the Ladies' Home Journal that
she asked each boy in her class
to write an original story on a subject
Of his own choosing. The teacher
had promised that each story was to be
read aloud by her to the class, and the
best one should be published. Here
is the story. Bear in mind that it was
written by boy Of nine, and was called
Virtue has its Own Reward:
"A poor young man fell in love with
the daughter Of rich lady who kept
candy store. The poor young man
could not marry the rich candy-lady's
daughter because he had not money
enough to buy furniture. A wicked
man offered to give the young man
twenty-five dollars if he would become
drunkard. The young man wanted
the money very much, so ne could
marry the rich candy lady's daughter,
but when he got to the saloon he
turned to the wicked man and said:
Keep your money. I will not become
a drunkard, even for great riches
And as he turned around to go home
he saw lying on the side walk a pocket
book containing a million dollars in
gold. Then the young lady con-
sented to marry him. They had a
beautiful wedding, and the next day
they had twins"
The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1908-05-01
AN OKLAHOMA SUCCESS
The State That Has So Many New and
Untried Laws

An observer Of the working Of Okla
homa's law providing for the insurance
Of bank deposits says it has been in
operation less than a month but, so far,
all indications point to its success.
-Four hundred and sixty-six state banks
took out insurance certifcates-certif-
Gates being denied to twenty-six banks
that could not pass the rigid examina-
ton. There are in the state 500
national banks. OF these, twenty-nine
had, by the tenth of March, received
certificates, seventy-three had been ex-
amined by the bank examiners and
will go in as soon as the stockholders
ratify the contract. More than sixty
national banks have requested examin-
alton and others have called stock
holders meetings to determine the
policy of the bank.
It is predicted-by those in position
to know-that within a short time prac-
tically every bank in state will have
taken advantage Of the insurance.
The Bank of Commerce, Of Shawnee,
Okla, on the 29th Of February, in
serted the following advertisement in a
local paper:
Before the Depositors' Guaranty
Law went into effect, we had on Feb
ruary u, 1908, deposits, $23O,544.54.
Seventeen days under the protec-
ton Of the Depositors' Guaranty fund of
the state OF Oklahoma, our deposits
have increased to $27O,3248o.
AN increase of $50, ,78O.35.
No reason to worry.
What more do you want?"
Who will say that the Oklahoma plan
is not succeeding? 1t has been said
that the banks would go out Of bust
ness rather than to incut the risk OF
having to pay the depositors of other
banks. Experience does not support
this. The state banks have come in,
and the national banks are trying to get
in, and deposits are already increasing.
The people feel that they have safe
place to deposit their money.
The deposits are going to be pro-
tected; the big bank will not much
longer be permitted to build up
prestige" at the risk Of the depositors
of the country and the welfare of each
community.
The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1908-05-01
TAX MONEY AND CREDITS
State Tax Commissioner Advises Assessors
to Disregard The Gum Law
An Olympia dispatch of recent date

An Olympia dispatch Of recent date
says:
The state tax commission is mailing
letters to all the county assessors in
the state directing them to disregard
the act of the last session OF the legis-
lature, chapter 48, laws 1907 exempt
ing all moneys and credits from tax
alton.
The letter is sent to the assessors
upon the advice Of the attorney general
who gave the commission a voluntary
opinion on the law and instructed it to
notify the assessors to disregard the act.
This chapter OF the session laws re-
lates to exempting moneys and credits
from taxation. The assessors are noti-
fed to assess everything, as under the
old law, and exempt no personal prop
ertv
The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1908-05-01
Lillian Tells a Broad Story

Lillian Braythwaite Hill, the very
successful writer Of humorous adver-
tisements, spoke at a business mems
dinner in Chicago on Fun in the Ad. J"
say the Chicago Post.
Miss Hill began in this way:
Does It pay to advertise? Well,
l should say so. A man came to an
editor in the town Of Shelbyville one
day and asked that question.
Does it pay said the man, to
advertise in your paper?'
Does it pay to advertise in my
paper? You just bet it does, the editor
replied. Look at Sands the cash
grocer, for instance. Sands advertised
for a boy last week, and the very next
day Mrs. Sands had twins-both boys. "
The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1908-05-01
THE DEGREE OF HONOR VISIT
Twenty Eight Members Go To Cashmere
Monday Afternoon

Twenty two ladies of the Degree of
Honor, which is known as the working
team, together with some half dozen
others boarded the train here Monday
afternoon for Cashmere where they
held a joint meeting with the ladies
who compose the Cashmere lodge OF
this order, and initiated some new
members. The party returned on the
early morning train Tuesday.
The ladies are most enthusiastic over
the royal way they were entertained.
In speaking Of the gallantry Of the
gentlemen Of Cashmere who escorted
them to the train and helped them
aboard, one said, Il have to acknow-
ledge they are just ahead Of our own, -
and then she hastily added, but then
you know our men are so busy"
A bit Of lodge history which has not
before been told is the fact that the
D. Of H. lodge Of this place was
awarded the $4,000 prize offered by
the grand lodge for showing the
largest addition to the membership for
the past year.
The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1908-05-01
BIG MILL RUNNING FULL BLAST
Now Making One Hundred and Fifty ThOus-
and feet of Lumber Each Day

During the winter, while the big
mill was idle, Geo. A. Daily, millwright
of the Lamb-Davis Lumber Co.'S mill
had force of men at work remodeling
and making Improvements in the saw
ing department so that the output OF
lumber at present is fully $50, 900 feet
for every days run.
Up to the first of this week only one
of the double cut band saws had been
in operation but on Monday both saws
were started. There is a fairly good
supply Of logs on hand to which are
added every day those brought down
by rail.
If the supply Of logs holds out, and
there is good reason for believing they
will, the mill will run continuously
until next fall.
The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1908-05-01

The news was received yesterday
morning that the Snohomish Valley
trolley had received its first installment
of $500, 900 on the bonds sold, and
simultaneously with the news there
came a wagon load Of men with tools
and proceeded to Rocky Point, about
five miles above town, and commenced
to make camp.-Monroe Monitor.
The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1908-05-01
COUNTY NEWS ITEMS

Miss Grace Parker is talked OF as a
probable candidate for county superin-
tendent subject to the coming repub-
ican primaries. At least this is the
rumor that is going the rounds Of her
friends today. Miss Parker has been
teaching in the schools of Wenatchee
for the past two years, and during that
time has proven herself to be one Of
the most popular instructors now in
the city. No announcement has as
yet been made by the present incum-
bent, F. C. Bowersox, but it is gener-
ally understood that he will be candi-
date for a second term.-Wenatchee
World.
The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1908-05-01

The estimated value of Washington
orchards is said to be sixty million Of
dollars.
The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1908-05-01

The big Weyerhauser lumber mill
at Everett resumed operations last
week after shut down of four or five
months.
The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1908-05-01
STATE NEWS ITEMS

George Kendall, stage driver
between Riverside and Okanogan,
brings the report that one Of the firm
Of Nayler and Norwin, railroad con-
tractars, who have been engaged in
construction work on the line Of the
Chicago, Milwaukee and St Paul, came
as far as Okanogan last Monday from
Brewster and stated positively that the
contract for the building Of the entire
Washington Il Columbia railroad from
Oroville to Wenatchee had been let;
that his firm had taken the sub-con-
tract for that part Of the road from
Oroville to Riverside, and that active
construction would begin within 80
days. This is good news, if authentic,
and will cause the people along the
Okanogan river, who have patiently
awaited the arrival Of the iron horse, to
prick up their ears and look pleasant. -
Conconully Record.
The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1908-05-01

The demolition Of the big rock and
the removal Of the fragments is making
employment for some eight or ten men
for ten days or two weeks. There is
enough rock for the foundation walls Of
a half dozen good sized buildings.
The Big Stone Gap post. [volume] (Big Stone Gap, Wise County, Va.) 1892-1928, 1908-10-28

Entered according 20 postal regulations
Al the post-ofBce at Big Stone Gap as sec
end class matter
The Big Stone Gap post. [volume] (Big Stone Gap, Wise County, Va.) 1892-1928, 1908-10-28
MORE INFORMATION on GOOD ROADS.

When the farmers learn to
economic as systematically as
it is necessary for large indus
trial enterprise TO economic in
order 70 meet competition and
make profits. farming will be a
much more renumerative calling
than il now is. One form of
economy is the construction of
good roads.
In a recent address Allerton
5. Cushman, Of h e United
States Department Of Agricul-
ture. pointed out that there are
100000 miles Of public roads
in America, and shat about z
per cent. Of this mileage is i'm
proved. During a year about
Sc. 900, o0o, 900 pounds of produts
from the farm are hauled TO
market or TO shipping points.
The cost oflhauling a ton Of pro
ducts a mile on the country
roads is upon the average 25
cents Stone roads ia good con
dition reduce the cost 10 s cents.
Dirt roads In bad condition
necessitate an expense OF So
ceufs, wet. sandy roads 80 cents,
and dry, sandy roads ga cents.
About $3.50, ooo, 900 would be
saved annually ~ reducing the
The Big Stone Gap post. [volume] (Big Stone Gap, Wise County, Va.) 1892-1928, 1908-10-28
ABOUT CARPENTERS SQUARES.

The large steel squares used
by carpenters are such a com
mon tool chat perhaps few
know when and where they
were FIRST made. and how they
came 60 bee used. or even given
the matter of "a thought. The
making OF them is "a great in
dustry now. but when the last
century came i'm there was not
one in use.
lhesinventor was a poor Yer
mont blacksmith. Silas Howes.
who lived in South Shaftsburv.
one duh, rainy day "a peddler
of tinware called at hisshop to
have the blacksmith fasten "a
shoe on his horse. These ped
diers travelled mp and down the
country, calling at every farm
house and buying everything
IN the way of barter. This one
had number of worn out steel
saws that he had picked up in
various places. Howes bar
gained for them, shoeing the
peddler's horse and receiving
the saws i'm payment and each
thought he had made an excel
lent trade. His idea was TO
polish and weld two saws to-
gether at right angles and thus
make a rule or measure superb
The Big Stone Gap post. [volume] (Big Stone Gap, Wise County, Va.) 1892-1928, 1908-10-28
A TOUCHING STORY.

In the rugged Cumberland
Mountains. which bound Dick
enson county ON the west. the
stranger is pointed 90 "a cliff or
cave. where i'm the bleak month
of December 1866. a little boy
who had passed only his third
milestone OF the road of life.
was frozen TO death The cliff is
situated i'm "a seQuestered place.
and looks as If 10 would afford
some shelter OF protection from
the rigors of winter. The sur
rounding country has the APP
pearance. imagine, that il had
IN those primitive days, when
the wild beast roamed the for
est unmOlested 10y man. Ii is
true that some invasions have
been made upon these wilds.
and little farms have been OBJ
ened here and there. and rude
log cabins are sighted by the
passerby This story is "a touch
ing one, and will go straight TO
the hearts of the parents who
have these little prattlers about
their knees.
The mother was at a neigh
boring house, weaving upon a
handloom, as was the custom.
when the three of her children.
the little boy OF whom i write.
and two elder ones, followed
her. When she saw them her
instincts so far for.
sock her that i'm something of
3 passion she sent the children
away, telling them to go back
home, and strongly reproved
the elder ones for venturing out
in the saow storm which was
then prevailing. AS they turned
to retrace their steps homeward,
the little boy asked his mother
Tor some breud and milk, but
she rather impatiently told him
10 go on home. (Alas. that a
feeling like this should be in
mothers heart when such a
'ate is impeding The child.
zen left; il was growing near
i'ghtfaii. the storm became
more violent. IN fact binding.
The Big Stone Gap post. [volume] (Big Stone Gap, Wise County, Va.) 1892-1928, 1908-10-28

or TO anything then iE use. AT
ter a few attempts he succeeded
in making a square, marked it
off into inches and fractions of
inches and found that it ans
wered every purpose that he
intended il for.
In the course of a few weeks
he made quite a number during
his spare hours. These he sent
out by the peddler who found
every carpenter eager TO buy
one. Soon he found orders
coming in faster than he could
supply the demand. One of his
steel squars would sell for s. or
(Which was five times as much
as it cost him.
He applied for and obtained
a patent on his invention so
that no one else could deprive
him of the profit it gave him.
lt was just after the war of
1912, and money was scarce
and difficult TO get. But he
worked early and late and as
be earned money he bought
iron and hired men to HELM him.
In a few years he was able to
erect "a large factory and put i'm
machinery for the making of
squares, which by this time
had found their way an over
the country and had made their
inventor famous.
Such was the small beginning
of a large and important in-
dustry. People came miles to
see the wonderful forges. the
showers of sparks flying from
beneath tine heavy hammers
and listen to the din OF the
thousand workmen. Elk.
The Big Stone Gap post. [volume] (Big Stone Gap, Wise County, Va.) 1892-1928, 1908-10-28

In an address on"The Natural
Wealth Of the Land and its
Conservation MIR. James J..
Hill made the following state
ments:
1--WE turn out over $4,000. 600
tons of pig iron every year. and
the production for the first half
Of 1907 was at the rate OF o.
100000 tons. This is two and
one-half times the product of
Great Brittian liz is nearly
half the product of the whole
world. And the supply of this
most precious Of all metals is
SO far from inexhaustible that
il seems as if iron and coal
might be united in their disap-
pearance from common life. "
The Big Stone Gap post. [volume] (Big Stone Gap, Wise County, Va.) 1892-1928, 1908-10-28

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The Big Stone Gap post. [volume] (Big Stone Gap, Wise County, Va.) 1892-1928, 1908-10-28

cost TO II cents per ton per mile.
The saving would be, like the
present loss, so widely distribut-
ed that The computation of the
totals may seem like an idle
Juggling of figures, yet it is by
such figuring that railroads and
other corporations learn where
and how TO cut expenses effec-
lively.
The Washington Herald re-
duces the figures quoted by Mr..
Cushman TO this form:
at seems easy to write the
figures 81 10000 a day; that is
the amount Of loss, or rather
that is the loss Of gain the farm
er would get if he had good
roads. He would get 81 900, 600
a day more forshis products than
he does now. His bad roads
simply a loss of about So a
year for every man, woman
and child in the United States.
If we can add shat $3.50, 600 600
to the purchasing power of the
farmer 10 is not likely that we
should hear so much about hard
times; there would be bound TO
be "a proportional increase in
prosperity and our agricultural
assets would be largely in
creased. "
These figures do not, of
course, take into account the
increased value of farming
lands resulting from good roads
being constructed in the vicin-
ity. The owners ofcity property
are more ready TO take Of an
opportunity for the improve
ment of streets that will en-
nance real estate values than
are owners of country property,
yet both i'm the country and i'm
the city 10 lis sometimes amaz-
ingly difficult TO awaken the inn
terest of property owners in inn
that cost a dime I'M
taxes and net a dollar i'm in
creased values.
The farmers freight expenses
is fixed infpart by the railroad
but the expenses begins at the
farm, and the haul TO the rail-
road rs expensive or inexpensive
In accordance with the condi-
ton of n e. roads Courier
Journal.
The Big Stone Gap post. [volume] (Big Stone Gap, Wise County, Va.) 1892-1928, 1908-10-28

During our national existence
we have used "a billion tons of
coal and wasted g billion tons.
In the decade of 1896 90 1905
almost as much coal was mined
as had been produced during
the whole previous history of
the country. Ia 1906 the con
sumption OF coal was l6 per
cent greater than that of the
average for the preceding ten
years. In 1907 we produced
$50 million tons, 66 million tons
more than was mined In 1906.