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The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1908-10-16

teams were entered for 1880 in
prizes.
Policeman ]. J. Sturgis last week
shot and instantly killed Frank
Lenox, young man, whom he found
prowling in the rear Of q saloon at
Everett. Sturgis chased the man for
a block and a half and fired in the
air several times to brighten him.
The last time he shot at the fugi-
tiye's legs. but the bullet pierced the
Ia ter's brain.
new pattern refrigerator car
ago with a load of pears. arrived in
New York with its cargo reported
in good condition. The shipment
was in the nature Of an experiment
to test the new car, which was not
re-iced during its Il days trip. Be
fore leaving North Yakima the car
was cooled and then iced. At Chi
cago it was found that three-fourths
of the ice was still in the bunkers.
When all the receipts are in, the
returns Of Spokane's first tag day,
which was observed Saturday, will
not fall short of $4,000. and 1t was
all done by 100 women. They sold
1900 tags. If 200 more women
had volunteered their services the
receipts would have been nearer
$4,000 than $4,000 The money will
be divided among the Sacred Heart,
st. Luke's and the Deaconness' Home
hospitals.
Charles Kellogg, a Pullman farm
er, was shot through the right lung
last week The shot was fired
through the door of Kellogg's house
by someone inside. He has a chance
for recovery The shooting is a Sc
quel TO a dispute over possession of
the farm of Thomas Savage. Kellogg
rented the farm three years ago for
a term of three years, with the priv
ilege of two years more. A few days
ago Savage is alleged to have moved
his family to the farm and took pos
session of the house while Kellogg
was in the field seeding.
The Washington Waterpower Com
pany of Spokane has awarded a con-
tract TO the |. p. Morris Company,
of Philadelphia, for the installation
of the largest and most powerful set
of water-wheels in the United States,
with the possible exception of a set
in a power plant at McCalls Ferry,
Pa. The set consists Of four wheels,
each weighing $4,000 pounds, and
each having capacity of 5000
horsepower, with head of water 68
feet. The plant will be built on the
Spokane river 5 miles west of Spo-
kane, to furnish electric light and
power for towns in the vicinity of
Spokane.
The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1908-10-16
WASHINGTON NOTES

Jesse G. Webster. accused of en-
bezzling 5000 in Seattle, has been
arrested in Oakland, Cal.
Ernest Olson, a 13-year-old Ia
coma boy, found stick Of dynamite
last week and held it while another
boy applied a match to see If it
would burn. Olson lost both hands.
Mr.. and Mrs. Robert Wood, of
Renton, celebrated their golden we'd
ding last week In which happy event
Mrs. Wood oyertaxed her strength,
dying a few days after.
Ben Bolk, laborer, shot his wife
and turned the gun on himself In
their home in Seattle Saturday. Both
are dead. The shooting was the out
come OF a quarrel over divorce pro-
ceedings started by Mrs. Bolk.
DR.. Henry w. Coe, of Portland,
editor of the Medical Sentinel, was
last week elected president of the
First National Bank of Kelso to fill
the vacancy caused by the death OF
s. s. Strain.
Leander Cox, the aged rancher,
residing near Seattle, was charged
with murder In the first degree in
an information filed In the superior
court last week. He broke down and
confessed to the killing OF his wife,
Sarah, at the family home Septem-
Der 81.
The hop yield OF the Yakima Val
ley this year Is between 1900 and
5000 bales. Nearly 5000 have al
ready been disposed of. so that there
remains In first hands not more tnhn
1000 bales. There is every indtca-
ton that the price of hops will ad-
vance.
Sensational rock-drilling was done
at the Spokane Interstate Fair last
week by McNlehol and Pickens, OF
Butte, Mont. who drilled a hole
Sc " inches deep in solid granite in
Is minutes So far as known, this
IL a worlds record In granite. Seven
The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1908-10-16

Services Is 1s1zl II Frzt=rnzi hzn
nen Sunday.
Prayer meeting every Friday even
ing a the parsonage.
The stone Eork io- The bzssmsa. Of
the chzrch Is about completed Car
penteT Eork IS begun. On wednesday
egening Al o'clock VII occ1r the
ceremonies connected with the coner
stone laying. Al ue invited 70 Dc
present
We would Ike 70 have Ege MN
Der Of men % come 1ezt Thursday
and help Is raise the trzne-zork Of the
church. Everything VII De IL readi-
ness 50 that = gang Of Is o. % men
can get the entire frame Eork up
in one day. The Ladies Aid viii serTe
free dinner.
EOTICE-At the request Of z MN
Der Of people 4 meeting IS called ior
next Saturday night in Frztenzl hall
for the purpose Of organizing N Anti
Saloon League. Al men interested in
the determination Of the liquor business
are urged 10 De present.
(Signed) Melvin Rumohr
The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1908-10-16
Farmers Institute Meets at Cashmere DC
tober 2 and

Mayor Sampson received letter this
week from Prot. Thatcher, who is con
nected with the state agricultural col
lege at Pullman, advising him that 4
meeting Of the fruit growers will be
held at Cashmere, Oct. 2nd and Sd.
Prof. Melander will be present. One Of
the important matters 10 be discussed
is the best method to deal With fruit
pests. Too much importance can not
be attached to this question, as on its
freedom from imperfections largely rests
the reputation Of Washington fruit. Our
fruit growers should keep the date Of
the meeting in mind and attend.
The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1908-10-16

In the frst-page story OF the Great
Northern power plant we omitted to
mention the names OF some Of the men
who have taken prominent part in the
undertaking. Mr.. Hoagland, the chief
engineer Of the Great Northern system,
had the general supervision Of the
work and was ably assisted by Assist
ant Chief Engineer Alex Stuart, who
has devoted much time to the super
vision OF the construction. Mr.. Cobbs,
an employee Of the General Electric
Co., came here TO oversee the installa-
ton Of the electrical machinery, but
had the misfortune TO shoot himself in
the hand three weeks ago thru the
careless handling Of a pistol. He is
recovering from the effects OF the
wound, but has not been able to de-
vote much OF his time to the object for
which he came here. w. ]. Coventry,
who has been with the railroad COM
The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1908-10-16

One day the pas. Eeek lady came
IN and szid her husband had instructed
her TO say that when then subscription
70 The Echo expired they wished II
stopped Until after the election. II
Bryan IS elected We are sure We can
not afford TO take the paper" she said.
Il enough voters feel this way, and their
number IS not uncomfortable, there
should be 10 apprehension Of the re-
suit Of the election. We agreed to
send the paper On and take the chance.
We could not help bat wonder how
many people would allow some senti-
mental notion to outweigh their judg-
ment. How any man whose memory
runs back few years, contrasting
things under democratic government
With things under the past eight years
Of republican rule, can hope and work
and vote for democratic success is a
puzzle past our understanding.
The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1908-10-16

pZy II nzy yes, hzs been c.
nected Nth th= 5z5di1g & ;h= PINT
a gszsrzl iorezz1 q co-1r-ctioz
E1cs re EE zhoT=l q DR. zzs -zised-
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EzpeTzioa Ct II exper L Is SPECIAL
E1e Ehile The entire construction Las
Z: A. tines been u1d=r .h= direct -
psTisioa q A eEpsr representing ne
rzikozd company.
The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1908-10-16

the Eound q eZpediency. Eeye-the-
less, Il would have resulted in inter
uirzble difficulty had the reYeze
opinion been held.
Those Eho attempted 70 ger into
Office By having the az declared m
constitutional vii noz feel cheap, and
me public vii not soon forget their IL
ordinate and unseenly zeal.
The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1908-10-16

The editor Of this paper acknowl-
edges the receipt OF an invitation 10
attend the marriage OF Miss Louise
Grace Thompson and Mr.. James De-
Koyen Corselius, at Cashmere, at high
noon, Wednesday, Oct. 2lst, 1908, at
the home Of the brides parents, Mr..
and Mrs. Charles Asbury Thompson.
The bride is the daughter OF one Of the
substantial residents OF that garden
spot OF the universe, the vale Of Cash
mere. The groom is editor and pro-
prietor OF the Cashmere Record.
The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1908-10-16

The writer returned last week from a
brief visit 10 Spokane, his first visit by
the way, to that thriving inland merop-
oils. While there he attended the fair,
which has grown TO be one Of the fred
institutions Of that city. The fair was
excellent in every way and well worth
the cost to any citizen OF the inland
empire who desires to familiarize him
self with the varied resources OF this
matchless country. The fruit exhibit
We should call unusually fine. Some
counties were represented by large and
varied exhibits that we had not hereto
fore heard mentioned as fruit-growing
sections. Which convinced the writer
that good fruit can be grown in every
county Of the state. Chelan county
again carried of the two most coveted
apple prizes. In this connection we
might also add that Chelan took the
grand apple prize at the Yakima state
fair.
The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1908-10-16
The Primary Election Law Sound

Very properly, as we believe, the
supreme court has held the law gov
erning the holding Of primary elections
valid. OF course il was not so held on
The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1908-10-16

We acknowledge the receipt of
tabulated statement OF the recent prim-
airy election returns from the Office Of
Secretary OF State Nichols.
The Republican. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1903-1909, 1908-01-23
One Dollar for Every Foot,


Some years ago woman was re
turning late at night from a socia
function took to the tracks of the Ole
Colony railroad as the shortest way
home, and in crossing trestle above
country road made a misstep, fell
through the timbers and broke heI
neck, relates the Boston Globe.
The next day her husband called
upon the superintendent and stated
that he thought he was entitled to
some compensation for the loss of his
wife, as she was a hard worker and
assisted materially in meeting the do.
nestle expenses.
She was trespassing," replied the
superintendent, which relieves the
company from all responsibility"
II know it," said the man, but she
was good woman about the house,
and hardly know what | am going to
do without her"
well, upon what basis will you
settle?"
''She fell how many feet?"
About IL, should say"
do you think dollar foot is too
much?"
The superintendent nearly fell from
his seat, but upon recovering he paid
the man $12, which he charged to his
own account, as he felt that the ex.
perience was well worth the price.
The Republican. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1903-1909, 1908-01-23
TIE RSWf.Rp OF Po-irENEss.
Enciishn. ans OBJECT Lesson That
F,.iIed Of Desired eject.

Pres!d2n Harahan OF the Illinois
Central at a dinner in New York com
pared foreign with home railroads.
And another thing," he said. "our
railway servants are more courteous
than lorei N ones. Foreign porters and
ticket sellers are a very crusty lot,
An American ana a Briton were
once riding up to London in a first
class carriage The American, at a
certain station, leaned out and said
to the porter on the platform:
What station is this, brother?
birmingham, of course, said the
porter in surly tone. Can't you see
the name posted up?
The American, after drawing in
his head, said to the Englishman
Now that was a piece &C dis
courtesy you wouldn't meet with in
America. An American porter would
have answered me with polished po-
likeness
The Englishman smiled
All but it was your own fault
that rebuff he said Pardon me for
mentioning it, but your manner was
too bluff, too rough and-ready. The por-
ter took you for a-er-a bounder.
Now, at the next station | will myself
ask porter some question, and I'll
ask 1t in the gracious, condescending
way we do such things over here.
warrant you I'll receive the most cour-
teous of answers
All right, said the American
shortly, a little hurt at having been
mistaken for a bounder
We'll, at the next station, the car
riage drew up near porter, and the
was a typical, rotund,
rosy old John Bull-put his head out
of the window, showed all his false
teeth in glittering smile, and purred;
Porter, would you kindly tell me
the name of this station?'
THE porter glanced up, and then, as
he slouched off, called back over his
shoulder:
All, shut tina trap, tina bacon-faced
old buffer! Put tina daft fat head in
before | knock it off for thee"
The Republican. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1903-1909, 1908-01-23

It's f-f-funny how you slide and wildly
gravitate
TIL f-f-frst time you tackle 1t and put on
skates to skate.
| t-t-tried it Yesterday down by tn bayou
bridge
Gist run your hand along me there and
f-f-feel that ridge!
l s-s-strapped them on my feet as brave
My s-s-skates they split apart and kept
a-goin' Gee
l b-b-braced myself right back but some
thin slipped away
And down | come upon my-side. It's
s-s-sore today!
| c-c-crawled upon tn bank to git my
breath-Oh my!
And then | s-s-started off to do tn trick
er die.
Th-this time | gist skinned along as
light as any bird
Until | st-st-struck a stick-then some
thing else occurred
TIL r-r-runners slipped and slid and
split up like ~"
Tn w-w-world was rocking like ship
upon tn sea.
And th-th-then 1t thumped me one upon
my bullying head
| seen a million s-s-stars and flames of
darling red.
And next a little BIB bird came out upon
a tree
And s-s-sang tn sweetest song, all filed
with ecstasy.
TIL n-n-neXt thing l recall house fell
on my nose
A nd J-J-Jnpk tbi Ciapt Man uao haat.
ing me with blows
When / wwwolle up twas in my room
/ f-f-felt first rate
And / amt s-s-stuttered much since l
learned how to skatel
Pa s-s-sez he h-h-hopes, b'gosh II
s-s-such a thing kin be.
These p-p-pesky s-s-skates will knock tn
s-s-stutters out of me!
The Republican. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1903-1909, 1908-01-23
Apprentice Schools.

The system of apprentice schools
of the New York Central lines Is cor.
sidered by railroad men to be the
most important departure ever insti.
tuted by the motive power department
of any railroad system in the United
States. 1t will not only improve labor
conditions and add efficiency to me.
chanics, craftsmen, master mechanics
and officials of the operating depart.
ment, but it is expected to solve the
yexing question of strikes. 1t has
been found, too, that since the
schools were established there has
been much less spoiled work in the
shops and the men take greater care.
There are now nine schools on the
system, $50 apprentices being enrolled
as pupils.
The Republican. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1903-1909, 1908-01-23
NEEDED ON DAIRY FARM.
A Good Plan for Dairy with lceheuse
and Water Tank

Every farmhouse needs three things,
a dairy room, cool. clean, sanitary,
convenient, a store of ice and an abun.
dant supply of water Fortunately all
OF these can easily be secured in one
building, and that may be very
slightly and even pleasing building in
appearance. We will of coGrse, build
1t of concrete. the sides may be OF
plain plaster effect, if rough all the
better, and afterwards covered with
vines and creepers. A foreword about
the finishing of concrete walls. They
may be plastered after the forms are
taken away. This is not the cheap
way, nor does it always look best
They may be etched with acid to take
away the newness and rawness; ~
gives a very pretty effect. Or they
may be hammered with a rough faced
hammer, similar to what cooks use for
making tender beef steak; this also
gives a nice roughness. The plain
plaster wall looks better, usually than
the wall made of blocks initiating
stone; the latter is too monotonous.
1t is not practicable to color the
whole mass of concrete to initiate
brick, since it would take too much
coloring matter The best color is the
dry iron ore red. 1t might be put on
as a wash after the wall was complete.
have given this building much
thought to make it come within the
cost that can be afforded by any well.
TODD farmer, continues Joseph Il.
Wing in Breeders Gazette. We will
make 1t 13x13; wall six inches thick,
which will be ample as they will be
reinforced with steel. The walls and
floors will take about 40 yards of me-
terial-that is, DO yards of coarse stuff
for concrete and as many barrels of
cement
Ample reinforcement will be pro-
vided for the walls If there Is verti-
cal one-half inch rod each "a inches
of wall, and horizontal one of the
same diameter for each foot of height.
Better thin wall SO reinforced than
thick one without reinforcement.
Build up to the level of the bottom OF
the icehouse floor and erect also a
pillar Of concrete, well reinforced,
l2x12 inches, in the middle of the
The Republican. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1903-1909, 1908-01-23
Remarks.

The editor of the Hollandale wis J
Review, under the heading Local
Events, says Keep your shirt on
How can we? This is wash-day.
An Iowa editor mourns the fact that
instead of meeting the returning he.
roes Of the football team with a brass
band, the citizens were compelled to
meet them with an ambulance.
Ignorance always can be trusted to
speak in loud voice.
Bees dispose of their honey by cell.
ing it.
Whether or not you belong to the
400 these days depends upon the kind
of perfume you use in automobile gas.
oline.
In a Tennessee newspaper | read
that Mrs. Henry BOWS has been chill
ing, but is better at present" She
must come originally from Boston.
A Nebraska correspondent says,
ASK Cora Bates how she likes to
write with colored pencil" How do
you, Coray
Never ask the bald-headed man how
he lost his hair He may tell you he
was born that way.
An English museum freak of the
name of Allshot, whose professional
name was the Mummy Man." commit
ted suicide the other day because OF
clause in his agreement in which he
was prohibited from becoming intoxt-
Gated. Prohibited from being half-shot,
he raised the ante and now he is All.
shot no more!
The Republican. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1903-1909, 1908-01-23
Hill Made Money for Friend.

A good story about James j. Hill
was told to a group of his friends by
Norman w. Kittson, man who was
years ahead of Hill in the Red River
country, and who, to use his own ex-
preston, packed my kit from La
Cross to Winnipeg and back" This
was distance of about 600 miles, and
Kittson went on foot and traded in
furs all along the route with the In.
dians. He was another wonderful man
of the early west. Kittson became
rich, as riches went, when Hill was a
clerk in a steamboat office in st. Paul.
When Hill began his great career by
buying railroad and extending it
northward, he interested Kittson in
his enterprises. Hill needed credit,
and Kittson allowed him to use his
name
Il knew" said Kittson, that | had
Endorsed more paper than was
worth; but I had confidence in him
most of the time. Then | got scared
and felt that everything was gone, and
that it didn't make any difference, and
| signed anything that Hill brought"
1t is almost unnecessary to say that
the smash never came; that Hill used
Kittson's name with good effect in the
east, where he was reputed a much
weather. man than he really was; and
also that Kittson had a great deal
more when he closed up with Hill
than when they first began business
together.-The Sunday Magazine.
The Republican. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1903-1909, 1908-01-23
leehouse, Dairy and Water Tank.

milkroom, then put a girder across
from wall to wall of strongly re.
forced concrete, the girder eight inches
thick and IL inches deep. There
should be two rods in the underside
of this girder, each one one and one
fourth inch In diameter, and the ends
turned up into the thickness of the
wall few inches. These will be all
the heavy reinforcing irons needed
| Over this girder lay the concrete floor
| to hold the ice. 1t must be well rein.
! forced. Use one-half inch steel bars,
| the best are the corrugated sort, and
space them eight inches apart in each
direction, crossing each other Lay
these bars on the wooden floor, but
hold them up from it about three
fourths of an inch by driving little
nails under them On them lay your
concrete floor six inches thick Make
it of good strong concrete using about
one part cement, two parts clean
coarse sand and FIVE parts clean
coarse gravel or broken stone Finish
it with face Of one inch of good stuff
that will make it water tight and
smooth There will be need of putting
through this floor three pipes, they
should be in the corners. one for fill
ing the water tank, one for overflow OF
the water tank one for drainage OF
the iceroom. This latter may as well
be over the water trough for the milk
When this floor is laid the walls
may rise above it to the bare of the /.
arch under the water tank Here +
very thorough reinforcement must be /,
given so that the arch will not by it's .
thrust bulge the walls The thickness 4
of the arch need be no more than six
inches and the reinforcement as for
the floor below.
The cost of It all in good finish
should be between $500 and $500
The Republican. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1903-1909, 1908-01-23
STRUNG ON CABLES
NOVEL METHOD OF SUPPORTING
TEMPORARY TRACK.
inventive Engineers Found Kew Way
of Making Fill Across Marsh
Expense Saved by the
Operation.

An interesting use of a galloway
to support a temporary track used in
making fill across a marsh is de-
scribed in Engineering News New
York, October 100 The writer notes
that although the suspended galloway
with travelling bucket is a standard
method of making long, inaccessible
railway fills, galloway has rarely
been used as the framework on which
to lay a track for the carrying of
dump cars. The railroad on which
this method was used in two places
is the Lake Shore & Pittsburg rail
road now under construction from
Cleveland to Pittsburg We read:
Although the same general princi
pie was utilized in each one of these
examples, the local conditions were
different and the details of construc-
ton were independently solved. The
first was made over a deep marsh of
The Republican. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1903-1909, 1908-01-23
AT THE ECONOMICAL HOUSE..

I'VE have to be awful economical
down at our house." said the boy
there's such big family"
"Yes?" inquiringly.
That's so, for fair! My biggest
brother Is bartender, and of course
has to wear a white coat; so ma buys
a whole suit for him, says wearing
the overalls saves his pants. When
they've been washed a few times, of
course they don't look nice enough for
a bartender, SO ma gets him new ones
and hands over the others to Bill. Bill
works in a meat market"
Gets two wears out of them that
way, eh?"
Then dads painter; when the
white suit gets too dirty for Bill, dad
wears 1t as long as he can to paint
1t. Course, in time they get pretty
well caked up with paint; then ma
uses EN- for kindling the fire, and be-
ing soaked with paint they burn fine"
so that's the end of them? Well,
you certainly do"
mo! Ma uses them again along
with the wood ashes to make soft soap
of"
you don't say!"
yep! After that she pours the soap
suds on the back garden. Best thing
in the world, she says, to make things
grOw."-Puck.