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The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1909-05-07
SEATTLE NEWS LETTER
Judge Burke Wants to Succeed Senator
Pies-ImpresSiOn Gains That
Nichols and SchiveIy
Are Guilty


club man, orator, lawyer and globe
trotter would like to succeed S. H.
Piles as United States Senator from
King county. If Mr.. Piles should
remain in the fight it may be that
Judge Burke would not be candidate
for he does not care to enter the race
unless he feels reasonably certain that
he will come out victorious. For man
who has never filled a public Office in
recent years Judge Burke is as well
known as any individual in the state
and that he has exceptional ability is
generally admitted. Judge Burke is
not the richest man in Seattle but he
is sufficiently well of to make the run
for the Senate. He owns two modern
skyscrapers in the heart of the retail
business district OF the city to say
nothing of beautiful home on Seattle's
swell First Hill'' and many acres Of
Lake Washington water front. These
are but part Of his real estate holdings.
His wife, the daughter Of the late
Judge J. J. McGilvra, has a fortune in
her own name. Years ago Judge
Burke represented a big railroad in
Seattle, but of late years he has become
SO rich that business cares have been
showed to one side. He divides his
time between club life in Seattle-he
is president OF the Rainier club-and
globe trotting. The life of a United
States senator would be entirely to the
liking of Judge Burke and his charm
ing wife.
Judge Burke will not say that he is
an avowed candidate but admits to
friends that to close his career in the
Senate would be very pleasing to him.
Judge Burke has always been known as
a gold democrat but in this modern
day of progressive repubicanism that is
not supposed to make any difference.
AS stated in the foregoing, if Mr..
Piles should desire to run again Judge
Burke may not be candidate. There
is growing feeling that Mr.. Piles will
not be a candidate. He has repeat
eddy said that he was making sacri-
fee by remaining in the Senate. The
impression that Piles made a fortune
out of the bad smelling Sullivan estate
is not altogether true. He got consid-
cradle Of cut up but it did not make
him rich. Senator Piles is said to have
declared recently that unless there was
a demand on the part OF the people
that he enter the race to succeed him
self he would not do so. To date the
voters seem to manifest no interest in
the matter and other candidates are
grooming themselves or being groomed
for the race. Judge Burke is one Of
them.
One OF the remarkable features OF
the Observation-Disclosures exposition is
the large number Of people who want
to work on the fair grounds. Exposi-
ton officials state with all seriousness
their belief that at least one half of the
people in the state of Washington have
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and have but few settlements within
their boundaries, it is necessary to
provide these rangers with quarters
convenient to the districts over which
they have charge. These quarters
consist of a small house, stable for
his saddle horses, a fence enclosing a
pasture for his stock, and occasionally,
the fencing of small garden patch
and small piece of hay land to pro-
vide fodder for the stock during winter.
The Forest Service also cooperates
with the states, counties and COM
munities, in the construction of wagon
roads, trails and bridges, which will
make accessible bodies OF mature tim
Der, and otherwise assist in the control
and use of the Forests.
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REAL ESTATE TRANSFERS
AS Furnished for Week Ending May list,
by the CheIan County Abstract
Company

G S Merriam to c Shepherd 6 b
7 Merriams ad Leav, 81.
U S to Frank A Reynolds ga swA
seq | Q sec 12-26-16.
PIP Holcomb to M H Basore d.
28-29-3O IS G N plat Wen, $4,000.
Earl Young to w B Dodd seA neA
nwA IT way on ne "a ne d nwA sec 49,
22-21, $1,000.
Clarence Wheeler to NJ Rae pit
sec 14-22-2o, 81.
A E Augerson to Chas H Dow p
int in seA nwA S 14-24-18, $40.
L G Myerberg to E F Stowell ny
nwA sec 27-23-18, $1,000.
Oscar Allender to L J Crollard l b
81 replat 1st ad Wen, $500.
w D Lowell to Valley Power Co pit
| l pit 8 sec 27-24-18, 81.
Maud A Wantz to E A Wyman part
swA swA sec 1850, $500.
LID Lbr Co to Adams & Can pit | l.
2-3-6-7-S-o-10-11 1-24-17, 81.
MY Co to J B Adams IT
wy on 1879 1.24-17, 81.
Grace Riste to Geo w Wine 7-8-
24-25 b 43 replat 1st ad Wen, 81.
Oscar Redfeld to Dora Slocum 7 b
9 Peachey ad Wen, S..
Oscar Redfeld to NJ P O'Connor .
b 81 replat 1st ad Wen, $3.50.
VIM G Myer to E V Martin 7-8 b
"a G N plat Wen, $500.
E Eikelberner to VIM B Dodd 7
b 81 replat 1st ad Wen, $500.
&c Peterson to Nels Peterson 2-3
seq nwA neA swA S s-2s-22, $3ooO
C. Chapman to M F Peake pit lot 4
sec 6-24-1S, 81.
Franz Freund to Jno Seaton s1ase a
swA S 30-25-28, $500.
IA Gellatly to Martha McCroskey
1-2-3 b II Burrells ad Wen, 500.
P P Holcomb to Amanda Palmquis
l 14-1s b 8 Mob Hill ad Wen, $1450
Mary F Wells to H w Fletcher p
nwA seq pit neA swA sec 3-25-20
$4,000.
o D Finley to P B Packwood par
nwA swA sec $3.50, $500.
Samuel Neher to Edward Shock 68
81, Sunnyslope Farms, $4,000.
NJ E Hines to Jas H McGohan IS
l4-15 b SO G N plat Wen, $1,000.
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In this building will
play WI" galleries
lures be the
from Corcoran Washington
Chicago Art Institute from
wealthy In the United
the collection OF famous old paintings their hobby Paris
have
At the AaskaYukon
be limited
competitions all will
and already
able paintings institutes of
G. L. Berg art director
galleries United
Seattle
The Fine Arts Building
buildings
100000 building
The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1909-05-07

An amount ofrailroad building which
a few years would have attracted wide
spread interest in this state, but which
today is going on quietly and almost
unnoticed amid the general growth
and prosperity, is being conducted by
the Great Northern at half dozen
points in Washington, and the Hill
system is spening many millions on
construction work, without the usual
whoop and hurrah which accompanies
railroad building. The Waterville
branch is almost complete, the Oroville
to Brewster line is about to be started,
work will also be opened soon between
the latter point and Wenatchee, and
plans are under way for a line
from Wenatchee to connect with the
North Bank road at Kennewick, ulti-
mately creating a water level haul from
the Canadian bounday to the Pacific
Ocean. Construction is being pushed
on the Victoria Vancouver and Eastern
which will tap rich timber and min
ing districts, and surveys have been
made for a branch from Spokane to
Republic. Washington is destined
to be covered with as excellent a rail-
road system as many OF the more pop
ulous eastern states.
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Narrow Escape from Drowning in icicIe
River

Marrow Escape from DroWninS Ut tCCit
Mrs. George Briskey had a narrow
escape from drowning in the 1cicle
river last Friday. She was crossing
the stream in a small boat and taking
hold of willow bush to pull the boat
closer to the bank when the current,
which is very swift, took the boat from
under her, precipitating her into the
icy water. She chung to the willow
and shouted for help, attracting the
attention OF Mr.. Briskey who plunged
into the river several rods above and
floated down to where she was clinging
to the bush, only her head and should
ers above water, and almost exhausted
from cold and fright, and brought her
to land. Mr.. Briskey thinks if he had
not arrived promptly and exercised
the prudence to enter the water
several feet above where his wife was
he never could have rescued her. The
Icicle is most appropriately named.
Its waters are icy cold even in mid
summer and one can not long remain
in it without becoming benumbed. Il
was a narrow escape.
The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1909-05-07

The investigation OF Messrs. Schively
and Nichols hardly bears out their
statement that they are being perse-
cuted by their enemies. Or if that is
true, the gentlemen under fire seem to
have very few friends. Most Of the
testimony at Olympia has been very
unfavorable to the past and present
Insurance Commissioners, and it is
now reported that unless one or both
of them resign, a special session OF
the Legislature will be called to inn
peach them.
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IMPROVE NATIONAL FOREST
Government Co-operates With State County
and Community in Road Building

Six hundred thousand dollars will be
spent during the fiscal year 1o08-l909
for the construction of roads, trails,
telephone lines and other permanent
improvements on the National Forests.
Congress has appropriated the same
amount for this purpose during the
fiscal year Of 1o09-1910.
In order that the forest rangers may
cover the large area contained in the
district, 1t is very necessary that a
system OF trails be constructed along
routes which give the best control OF
the areas to be patrolled. In many
districts telephone lines have been
built between the Supervisors office
and ranger headquarters, and to promi-
nent peaks which are used for lookout
stations to observe fires.
To fight forest fires effectively it is
of the utmost importance that a force
of men be rushed to the fire as soon as
possible, as these fires can be con-
trolled and put out if taken when they
are small, where it would be almost
impossible to check them after they
had spread over a large area. For
this reason the telephone lines and
trail systems are of vital importance
and have played no small part in the
patrol system which has resulted IN
the remarkably small area burned over
since the Forests have been under
Government supervision.
Among other necessary improve
ments provided for, the Service takes
I'D the matter of the betterment OF
range conditions. First, by the con-
struction of drift fences, which are
for the purpose Of keeping stock within
the area allotted to them and to save
the time of the herders. Second, by
the improving of springs and watering
places. In many sections of the west
large areas have been of no value on
account of the lack Of water during a
large portion Of the year. By the
fencing and piping Of the springs and
providing adequate storage, the Service
has been able to conserve a supply OF
water which enables it to be used turnout
the season. Third by the fencing OF
bog or mire holes. As fast as possible
nlaces where the loss of stock from
miring in bog holes has been heavy
they are being fenced so that the cat
tie can not get into them. Fourth,
by the fencing Of poisonous areas. In
certain section of Colorado there is a
poison larkspur which, during the
spring season, will poison stock that
craze on it. These places are being
fenced and the stock kept away from
the areas until the poisonous season IS
over, when when they are opened FOL
grazing.
All Of the National Forests are di-
vided into districts which are under
the direct supervision of forest ranger
who looks after the timber cutting and
grazing matters, and patrols his district
to detect and prevent forest fires. As
the National Forests are located II
mountainous and timbered country
The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1909-05-07

Seattle has awakened to the fact that
she possesses Superintendent of Pub
lie Utilities. His name is A. V. Boullion
and he was appointed to that newly
created Office a year ago. Nobody
thought much about Boullion until he
began to enforce ordinances regulating
crowded street cars, dangerous methods
Of switching trains across public streets,
crossing regulations, fiat wheeled cars,
slot machine gas meters and other little
annoyances which the public service
corporations have been perpetrating on
the city for years. Now everybody is
noticing Boullion. He is thorn in
the side Of the corporations, and has
created a stir in political circles by
asking for the resignation of Secretary
Bagley, Of the Board Of Public Works,
who has held that job since the old
city hall was built. Mr.. Boullion says
that Mr.. Bagley is incompetent. But
Mr.. Bagley has held Office for so long
that to speak Of ousting him seems
almost sacreligious. Seattle politicians
don't know but what the city could be
run along Just as well without any Super
intendent OF Public Utilities.
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Mrs. z. H. Carroll, Of Sedro-W ooley,
disappeared last week after having in
vited a number Of friends to spend the
evening with her. A thorough search
failed to find trace OF her. An umbrella
was found near a slough, which led to
the surmise that she might have com
mitted suicide.
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Cooper Gulch. The case is typical Of
the early day partnerships in the North
land, when friendships were made and
broken in day, and fortunes gained
and lost in a night. Capt. Johnston will
contest the case, declaring that McIn-
tyre has no claim on his wealth.
The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1909-05-07

Another million dollar grub-stake
suit has been started in the local courts
over an Alaskan gold mine. Capt. E.
w. Johnston, the Nome millionaire, is
being sued by Josh R. Mcintyre for a
half interest in the rich property known
as No. 8 on Cooper Gulch, worth at
least $750,000. Mcintyre claims to
have owned a half in a steamboat
used by Johnston and himself in the
towing business at Nome, which John
ston traded later for the mine or
The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1909-05-07

One OF the remarkable features OF
the Alaska-Yukon-Pacifc exposition is
the large number Of people who want
to work on the fair grounds. EXPOSE
ton officials state with all seriousness
their belief that at least one half Of the
people in the state of Washington have
applied for positions at the big show.
Ten thousand have applied for work as
exposition guards, where $40 are
needed. The same proportion rules
everywhere. One reason for the
demand for jobs at the fair is the fact
that no passes to the exposition will be
issued except to the press and to en-
ployes who work inside the grounds.
Many people are willing to work for
almost nothing, in order to gain the
coveted pass. The exposition, how
ever, will pay reasonable salaries to its
employees, and will select the best
obtainable. An estimate of the execu-
tive committee on the expense Of
operation OF the fair fixed the cost at
So, 900 per day, or more than $780,
900 for the season. 1t will take II, 900
admissions daily to pay expenses Of
operating alone, but the exposition
officials hope to average more than
10000, while special days will bring
out from one to two hundred thousand
people.
The Columbus journal., 1909-03-17
EI0N'T REALIZE
How Injurious Coffee Really Was.

Many persons 60 on drinking coffee
rear after wear without realizing that
& is the cause of many obscure but
persistent ailments.
The drug-caffeine-in coffee and
tea, is very like uric acid ard is often
he cause of rheumatic attacks which.
when coffee is used habitually, become
chrcnic
A Washington lady said, recently:
Il am s;xty-five and have had a good
deal OF experience with coffee. / con-
slider il very injurious and the cause
Of many diseases. am sure il causes
decay Of teeth in children.
When | drank coffee l had sick
spells and still did not realize that
coffee could be so harmful. till about
a year ago l had rheumatism in my
arms and fingers, got SO nervous ]
could not sleep, and was all run down.
AT last, after finding that medicines
did me no good, decided to quit cof
fee entirely and try Postum. After
using it six months l fully recovered
my health beyond all expectations. can
sleep sound and my rheumatism is all
gone" There's a Reason"
Name given by Postum Co., Battle
Creek, Mich. Read the famous little
book, THE Road to Wellville," in pkgs
Ever read the above letters A new
enc appears froa time to tine. TAey
are Geauines true and fuA q hnnaa
interest
The Columbus journal., 1909-03-17

the other of opposite mountains
while the greatest distance between
any two of them is scarcely 500 feet.
A few miles above Casapalca, and
nearly opposite Anterangra, the mar
row valley of the Chin Chan opens
suddenly from the north, and divides
two towering ridges crested with per.
petual snow. Here the route crosses
the Rimac and advances up the Chin
Chan for 21z miles, where, making a
sharp detour, it returns above the first
line and reappears on the right bank
of the Rimac. 1000 feet above the bed
of the valley. From this natural for
tress to the dividing crest of the Andes
the line Of the road is often lost to
sight amid desolate masses of snow
and ice. One can perceive that ex-
tremely heavy work had to be done
and great obstacles overcome, but the
line advances on higher and higher,
winding the sources of the Rimac,
which it has followed from the Pacific
ocean. until at last it reaches the DESC
late summit OF the Andes and enters
the Galera, or tunnel de la Gina" as
the Peruvians style it. This tunnel is
LIB meters, or 3,S4S feet long, and
enters the mountain about $50 feet be
meath the apex of an undulation lying
between Mount Meiggs Q7.5OO feet
above sea level, and two gigantic
peaks on the left. IT is 1O4k miles
from Callao and 1855 feet above sea
level, or only 1876 feet less than the
altitude of Mont Blanc. The rest of
the route to the village of Oroya, %
miles beyond. is on gradually de
scending grade. the construction OF
which was relatively easy compared
to the ] ee-'.lSan labors already accom-
plished.
The Columbus journal., 1909-03-17
'HXfERNZLO"A RxO0E

the Cordillera, with the familiar Rimac
river still near for a very considerable
portion of the journey. while snowy
peaks that are 10000 feet high over.
look it's tempestuous and roaring
course. Continuing amid Andean seen
cry, already above the lowest limit of
perpetual snow, the road gains from
Tambo de Viso to the station of Infer
milo. a distance of 10h miles, an as
cent of 1883 feet. The name Infer.
milo" little HelD has been bestowed
on this region because the Rimac
thunders and foams down a narrow
gorge. the cliffs of which reach hun.
dreds of feet toward the sky and shut
out the light of day. The line, after
leaving a tunnel, crosses the river on
a bridge of 100 feet span and at a
height of 165 above the water. and
then enters another tunnel.
From any point of the valley no less
than five almost parallel lines are
vfsible-three on one side and two on
The Columbus journal., 1909-03-17
Billy suIser Came Through with Hi.
Half Of the Account.

Got any work this mornin', Mistah
Boyd?" asked old Billy Bulger, safe
in the knowledge that no work would
be entrusted to him.
NO." was the response; and tnen,
before Billy could ask for the custom
ary contribution: But wait a min
lite. Lawyer Phillips has owed me
$50 for 20 years. Collect it and I'll
give you half And the merchant,
knowing how bad was the debt,
winked at a waiting customer.
The old man found the lawyer in
the middle of a group of prospective
clients and influential citizens.
Thrusting through the group, he
called. in stentorian tones:
"Mistah Phillips, subj"
"Well?" queried the lawyer, much
annoyed.
"Mistah Boyd done tell me that
you've owed him $40 for about hun.
bred years: and he wants to know
hin you pay him, sub"
The Columbus journal., 1909-03-17

| The OrOya railroad has been called
"A railroad among the Clouds" In
order to construct 1t, the chief engi.
neer. Mr.. Ernest Mallinoski, and his
assistants resorted to the most ex.
traordinary devices and methods. The
height ascended by this railway is
within 1856 feet of that of the summit
of Mont Blanc. Switzerland. The road
bends upon itself with sharp angles
as it ascends the mountain sides, like
staircase with many turns. 1t pierces
the obstructing peaks with 80 tunnels.
which often come together so closely
that they seem continuous to the trav-
eler. Great gOrges had to be trav-
ersed and tOrreut streams spanned by
bridges that seem to hang in mid-air
The mountain sides were in several
instances SO precipitous that the work
men could only reach the point at
which a tunnel started by being let
down with ropes from the edge of the
cliff and held there till they had cut
for themselves foothold in the rock.
The diamond drill was used in many
of the borings.
Engineers were often compelled to
triangulate from the opposite side to
mark out the course of the road. while
in one case they and their men were
conveyed across a chasm over the
Rimac on wire ropes suspended sew
eral hundred feet in the air between
the two opposite cliffs. The upper por-
ton of this narrow and tortuous river
RACES down >through the bottom of
gOrges and chasms walled in with
mountainous, overhanging bluffs, some
times over 1000 feet high.
A considerable portion of the rail-
way follows the Rimac in its windings,
or crosses and recrosses it at the
sharpest angles. The grade from Lima
GAS feet above sea level to San Bar
tolOme, 80 miles inland, is constantly
up, and at the latter station the eleva-
ton is 1910 feet above the Pacific
0cean-an astonishing ascent for that
distance. Here occurs the first of
many retrograde developments, rem.
dered necessary by the increasing rise
up the gOrges, ravines and slopes of
the Andes, where the line takes the
form of v, and, recedipg upon an
ascending grade. reaches the elevated
plateau on which the village of San
Rartolome stands. Thence, crossing
and recrossing the Seco, a tributary
of the Rimac, it makes two complete
detours and ascends on the opposite
side past point overlooking San Bar
tolome Station. The road clinss to
the rugged sides of the ever-towering
ridges, passes through two tunnels
and crosses a deep mountain gorge on
the famous Verrugas viaduct. This
was regarded in the Meiggs epoch as
the highest bridge in the world.
A notable feature in the section of |
the railway from Verrugas on to
Surco is tunnel through a precipi- ]
tous side of the mountain, about SIS |
feet above the bed of the river. In
some of this there is a curve of 1916 |
feet radius. The Oroya railroad now
continues onward and upward through
a wilderness of mountain heights in
The Columbus journal., 1909-03-17
FATHER HAD A GRIEVANCE.
Some Excuse fer His Violent Assault
on Managing Editor.

Lima Cavalieri. the beautiful Roman
prima donna. said recently OF her
beauty parlorr in New York:
Beauty is woman's most important
attribute. She who increases beaut,
is woman's greatest benefactor. Hus-
bands, brothers. even fathers-fn their
Utmost hearts beauty is the thing they
desire most to see in their feminine
relations"
She laughed.
Only the other day." she said, "a
gray. fat old gentleman entered q
newspaper Office and said:
Are yOu the managing editorr
Yes. was the reply.
u suppose that on you. then said
the visitor. rests the responsibility for
this mornings reference to my daugl.
ter Patty as Fatty. Take that"