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The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1910-03-25

A Holstein COW owned by the dairy
department of the University of Mis-
souri, in one produced more human
food in her milk than is contained in
the complete carcasses of four steers
weighing 1850 pounds each. This
statement, impossible as it seems, is
not only true, but does not even do
full justice to the COW. The solids in
the milk which are completely digested
and used by the body are counted
against the entire carcass OF the steer,
which is only in part edible.
The COW that performed this feat ol
producing the equivalent to four steers
is Princess Carlotta. In the year she
produced 18, ,405 pounds of milk.
The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1910-03-25
INCREASED LOGGING EQUIPMENT
New Mileage and General Prosperity Aid
Development in Oregon and Washington

A big amount Of new equipment for
the Hartman lines in the Pacific north
west will be bought this year, requisi-
tions having been honored by the east
ern offices for rolling stock valued at
$4,630,000. This is divided between
the Oregon and Washington divisions
Of the o. R. & NJ, the Oregon &
Washington, and the Southern Pacific
lines in Oregon. New engines, pas
senger, mail, baggage and freight cars
make up the orders just placed, but
the greatest in number are the freight
cars. This large order for new equip
ment indicates the faith the railroads
have in the northwest and that pros
poets are good this season for big crops
throughout the territory.
A. L. Mills. the president of Port
lands biggest bank, evidently knows
what he is talking about when he says
the Pacific northwest is the most pros
porous section of the United States.
He says capital of the country is easy
and it is coming this way for invest
ment in large quantities. Prospects for
this year are the best, he says, the
northwest has ever known. He natur-
ally attributes very large part of the
activity and hustle hereabout to the
large amount of railroad building now
under way. This work, he says, is
showing the confidence the leaders in
the financial world have in this section,
and it naturally breeds confidence in
others.
John F. Stevens, president of the
Oregon Trunk railway, now under con-
struction up the Deschutes to central
Oregon, says 5000 men are at work on
the 100 miles now under construction,
or nearly as many men as ever were
employed on the construction OF the
$40 miles OF the North Bank road. He
says the new line is of the most mod
ern construction and the whole thing is
being pushed with the utmost possible
energy. The present plan is to build
south only as far as Bend, although
maps have been filed from Bend south
to the Klamath Indian reservation.
The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1910-03-25
Floods in Spokane

On Wednesday the Spokane river
was running wild, overhowing its banks
and creating thousands Of dollars's
worth Of damage within the city limits
of Spokane.
Three feet of water was eddying
through the ground floors of houses at
the foot Of Water street in Peaceful
Valley. The engine room Of the
Phoenix sawmill was a seething mael-
strom and the mill was put out of COM
mission.
The heating plant at the city hall
was drowned and the building and Jail
had to resort to oil stoves. The water
was within foot of the arches of some
of the bridges above the falls.
The warm days Of the past week
have melted the snow on the mountain
peaks and the Spokane river responded
with the highest water since 1894.
The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1910-03-25
NEWS OF CHELAN COUNTY

Wenatchee's twilight baseball league
will present strong organization this
aeason. 1t will be composed of either
six or eight clubs, and among the can
didates for places in the association
are the Firemen, Bankers, Printers,
Apple Packers, Electrics, Tammany,
Cannery and real estate men. Its
schedule will begin May IS.
The Chelan county commissioners
are considering the purchasing oi
property for a poor farm. There is now
little need for an institution OF this
kind in the county, but the increase in
the value Of land is developing SO rap
idly it is thought it will be to the best
The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1910-03-25
May Assign Homestead Entries

The senate bill permitting home
steaders within the reclamation projects
to assign their entries after five years ol
residence and cultivation has been or
dered favorably reported to the house
by the irrigation committee.
To prevent indiscriminate specula-
ton the bill was amended to prohibit
homesteaders from assigning entries
except to persons qualified as home
steaders and therefore entitled to buy
assignments.
The committee agreed upon a SEN
ate bill authorizing the leaves of alb
sence for homesteaders on irrigable
lands for which no water is available.
The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1910-03-25
CAN'T PROSECUTE WoLAToRS
Forest Service Placed in Peculiar Position
by Tie Decision

II the Forest Service had not been
so confident that the United States
supreme court would sustain its alleged
right to make and enforce whatever
regulations it saw fit for the govern
ment of forest reserves, it today would
still be in position to criminally prose-
cute those persons who violate its reg
ulations.
But the Forest Service, in its zeal
for ruling, made an unfortunate ap-
peal, and now finds itself with lot OF
regulations on hand, and no authority
to enforce them.
The circumstances attending this
The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1910-03-25


int > Of the county to secure a
proper site.
The recent floods in the streets Of
Wenatchee caused more damage than
than at first anticipated. Along sewers
the earth was washed away from the
boulders thrown in the bitches and
heavy loads are being overturned by
the wagon wheels sinking up to their
hubs. Some of the sewers have been
blocked with sand.
The Cashmere council is preparing
to submit to the voters the proposition
of bonding the town for $4,000 to take
up warrant indebtednass and for the in
stallation OF sewer system. Several
of the streets will be improved.
Commissioner Green Kinney an
nounces the appointment of Geo. F.
Grant, ]. ]. Griffith and Geo. Siverly
as road supervisors for the second dis
trict. Mr.. Grants district comprises
Monitor, Cashmere and Dryden. J. ].
Griffith has Peshastin, Blewett and
Leavenworth and Mr.. Siverly the We
natchee Lake country.
Walter Levy, boy between 18 and
10 years Of age, who, for the past year
has made his home with the McMullen
family on Birch fiat, was arrested at
Dillon, Montana, Sunday and Deputy
Sheriff Kenyon left yesterday morning
to bring him back to this city, to be
tried on the charge of forgery. On
February 20 the boy under the name
of Arthur Clay, passed five bad checks
in payment of small purchases made in
Wenatchee.
o. M. Congdon, for almost year
resident OF Wenatchee and associated
for the time with Henry Grass in the
practise of law, is now serving two
years sentence in San Quentin on
the charge Of forgery. Congdon worked
thru California pretty thoroughly and
secured quite a sum by the use OF
fraudulent checks. He was convicted
but thru the intercession of his mother
he was paroled, but shortly after his
parole he again went wrong, with the
result that he was rearrested and sent
to the penitentiary.
Wenatchee business men spent $500
in buntings and other decorations in
honor OF the Elks, who were in the city
Tuesday. All over the city are to be
found such signs as Hello Bill"
Welcome" B. P. o. E. and others.
Many of the automobile were gorgeously
decorated and scarcely business
house which was not profusely dec
grated.
The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1910-03-25

decision Of the court are interesting
and peculiar. The court divided
evenly, four in favor Of the govern
and four against. But the case in
which action was taken was one in
which the lower court had ruled ad-
versely to the government, hence the
tie vote of the court had the effect oi
sustaining that ruling.
How the court would have stood had
Justice Moody been on the bench nc
man can tell. But Moody is i'll; has
not been in Washington all session,
and his absence brought about afirma-
tion Of the ruling OF the lower court in
the manner indicated.
Now that the ruling of the supreme
court has gone forth, and the power oi
the Forest Service been curtailed, it is
not to be presumed that individual de-
PENDANTS, against whom adverse findings
were returned in the lower courts, will
appeal to the United States supreme
court, for to do so would give that
court opportunity to reverse its find
ings.
On the other hand, the Forest Serv-
ice, having been sustained in these
decisions, cannot appeal to the supreme
court, so the law, as it stands, is to be
interpreted as not conferring upon the
Forest Service the right to prosecute
violators Of its regulations.
Just what the effect of this ruling
will be has not yet been determined.
The Forest Service is disposed to stand
by its regulations, to continue to ex-
act fees for grazing livestock on re-
serves, to continue to regulate the use
of range under the permit system, etc.
But the supreme court specifically
held that men in southern California,
who were indicted for driving sheep on
the Sierra forest reserve without per-
nit, cannot be prosecuted for their in
fraction OF the regulation. Hence, il
others, under similar circumstances,
undertake to use the forest reserve
range without permit, the Forest Serv-
ice will not have recourse to the courts
to punish such violators.
The probabilities are that congress
will be asked to substitute laws for reg
ulations, but if this is not done there is
likely to be trouble in the west during
the coming grazing season.
The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1910-03-25
SQUATTER RIGHTS RECOGNIZED
Order is Issued by Secretary Wilson Fa-
vorabIe to Squatters in the
National Forest

Secretary OF Agriculture wilson mas
just issued an order providing for a
more liberal treatment of bonafde
squatters upon unsurveyed land which
has been included within the national
forests since the time of actual occu-
pancy Of the land by the squatter.
Under the homestead law it is i'm
possible for anyone to secure legal title
to unsurveyed public land, but occu
pancy pending survey is recognized as
giving prior claim to the land after
survey, under what is known as squat
ters' rights" A squatter who had, in
good faith, taken possession of piece
of national forest land before the ma
tional forests were created is not dis
possessed of his claim by the forest
service, and if he lives upon it and
cultivates it until the land has been
surveyed, he is able to get his home
stead just as though he had settled on
any part of the unreserved public do
main. But since the passage of the
act of June II, 1906, which permits
the secretary of agriculture to list for
settlement land which he finds chiefly
valuable for agriculture, it has been
possible for squatters to apply for the
listing of their lands under this act and
thus to obtain title prior to the govern
ment survey. The object of the new
order Of the secretary is to provide for
the listing of the full amount of land
which the occupant would receive if he
exercised his option Of awaiting the
government survey, irrespective OF
whether or not the entire area is culti-
vable, provided the claim is bonaide
and the land is not more valuable for
its timber than for agriculture.
Secretary Wilson'S order is as fol-
lows:
"A person who has settled upon
and continuously occupied unsurveyed
lands within the National forest before
its creation and is at the present time
occupying such lands in good faith and
is in all respects complying with the
homestead law, has the right to include
within the lines of his homestead 100
acres after the land is surveyed. There
fore, if the land is occupied for agricul-
tural purposes and is not more valuable
for its timber than for such purposes,
and there are no circumstances which
would in the opinion of the District
Forester tend to discredit the bona
fides OF the claimant, he should be
allowed to make application for the
patenting OF such lands under the Act
of June II, 1906, and the examination
for listing should be made with view
of listing 100 acres Of land where pos
sible. The tracts as listed should con-
form so far as practicable to the form
of the public land surveys. The list
ing of lands as above should not in any
way govern the determination Of the
total area or amount of non-cultivable
land listed for applicants under the Act
OF June II, 1906, who were not resid-
ing upon the land before the creation
of the Forest.
In cases where less than 100 acres
of land has been listed to a person who
settled upon the land prior to the
creation Of the Forest, an additional
area sufficient to complete the home
stead entry may be allowed upon
proper application.
The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1910-03-25
LAST YEARS FOREST FIRES
More Fires, but There Was Less Damage
and Smaller Acreage Was
Burned Over

Fire played less havoc in the wood
lands of the national forest states last
year than it did in 1908, although the
number Of fires was 410 greater. The
department Of agriculture has just COM
pleted the statistics. The protective
value OF the work of the department is
shown in that almost eighty per cent
of the frs were extinguished before as
much as FIVE acres had been damaged;
less than one and one-haf acres to the
square mile of national forest land was
burned over; the amount of damage
done to the burned-over area averaged
but $1.26 per acre.
For the twelvemonth ended Decem-
Der 81 last, there were 1888 fires in
the forests, 1886 caused by locomo-
tives, 431 by campers, 204 by light
ming, 181 by brush burning, 81 by in
cendiaries, 38 by sawmills and donkey
engines, 153 miscellaneous and 758
by unknown agencies. The area
burned over was, in round figures,
100000 acres, of which about $4,000
were private lands in national forests,
as against some 100000 acres in 1908.
Some 10000, 900 board feet of timber
was consumed, of which $4,000, 900
feet was privately owned, as against
100000, 900 in the previous year. The
loss in value of timber destroyed was
less than $500, 900, of which close to
$50,000 was privately owned. The
loss OF the year before was about $780,
900. Damage done to reproduction
and forage shows remarkable de-
crease, less than 100000 being the
record for 1909 and over 100000
that for 1908.
The largest number of fires occurred
in Idaho-991-but the great increase
over 1908 in that state, namely, 573,
is entirely attributable to fires in the
Coeur d'Alene, which were extin-
guished without material damage.
Locomotive sparks were accountable
for Gil of the blazes in this forest last
year. The explanation of the increase
in the total for all forests is to be found
in this Coeur d'Alene increase.
The report Of the Forester for 1909
said of the fire record of 1908: That
year was one Of prolonged drought
during the summer and fall, and of
disastrous forest fires throughout the
country. The national forests suffered
relatively little. About 232, 191, 900
board feet Of timber, or 0.06 per cent
OF the stand, was destroyed. A total
of 2728 fires was reported, of which
2O8o were small fires confined as rule
to an area OF five acres or less. The
cost OF fire fighting, exclusive of the
salaries of forest officers, was $751;
283.33. This sum, added to the pro-
portion Of the total salaries of rangers
and guards properly chargeable to
patrol and fire fighting, was less than
one-twentieth of one per cent of the
value of the timber protected, esti-
mated at an average stumpage value Of
50 per thousand"
The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1910-03-25
Mason Greek News

Nelson Forsythe and wife were visit
ing T. w. Greve and wife of Leaven
worth Friday.
Roy Brooks OF La Grande, Ore, is
visiting with his uncle, A. A. Brooks,
and family.
C. w. Hastings left Thursday foI
Malaga, where he is having ten acres
of land set to standard varieties oi
apples.
A. A. Brooks made a business trip
to Wenatchee last Thursday.
The snow is fast disappearing here.
At the regular school election held
March 5th the following directors were
elected to fill the vacancies: Nelson
Forsythe and T. w. Greve.
Mary and Austin Reynolds were alb
sent from school Friday on account OF
sickness.
F. A. Reynolds spent Sunday with
his family here.
Frank Sullivan, wife, and son Nate,
spent Sunday at Woods Spur with
George Mead and son.
The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1910-03-25

fruit each year which will be harvested
from the orchards grown by each man,
it is probable that both will be able to
keep the wolf from the door for few
years at least.
The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1910-03-25
Sunday School Convention

At the Methodist church, Monday
afternoon and evening, March 28th,
beginning at 4 o'clock. County Supt.
Bowersox and others, from Wenatchee
and other schools of this district, will
be present. Everybody invited.
]. o. HAWK, Dist. Pres.
The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1910-03-25

How did you attain your eminent
position1" asked the scientist.
Natural selection said Senator
Sorghum.
You mean that you are specially
fitted by your ancestry"
No. Nothing like that. I just
naturally selected the offices l wanted
and went after them"
The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1910-03-25

Tenderfoot (aghast) = You're not
lynching that MANI
Arizona Ike-Well-er-we don't refer
to it in that unrefned way. We call
it showin' i'm the ropes.
The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1910-03-25

Nothing can be great which is moi
right. johnson
The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1910-03-25

If people only said what they thought
there wouldn't be so much talking.
The silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1909-1925, 1910-07-09
A WORD FOR THE PRESS

The public official who has taken an
oath to support the constitution of the
United States must never forget that
the press, under the inspiration of AL.
exander Hamilton, John Jay and James
very state paper they obligate them
selves to uphold and defend. Washing
ton statesmen who are grieved at the
interest taken in national affairs by
the newspapers would profitably ia
miliarize themselves with the over
towering part three men, serving as
journalists, had in this work.
Yates and Lansing, delegates to the
constitutional convention from New
York, contemptuously denounced the
form and matter of the document.
claiming that it would destroy the
|" sovereign power of the states.o
These believers in Estates rights"
began printing pamphlets and furnish
ing letters to the newspapers, signed
"Brutus' and "Cato,' protesting
against the adoption Of "the dangerous
constitution" The impression they
were creating was profound, when
three young men invoked the aid of the
press and supplied the immortal series
of articles bearing the signature
"Publius.' Their vehicle was the New
York Independent Journal, issued by
J. Mclean, at Al Hanover square.
Twice a week these brilliant arguments
in favor of a union of the states, one
and inseparable, were flung broadcast.
They were republished, even by editors
who did not agree with the articles
or who believed they could answer
them. This joint work of Hamilton,
Jay and Madison was sufficiently last
ing to have saved the Southern states
from rebellion, had copies of the col
lected letters of "Publius," under the
title of The Federalist, been in the
possession of every household below
Manson and Dixie's line.-Julius
Chambers, in the Forum.
The silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1909-1925, 1910-07-09
p MARRIAGES

Are the result of knowing the laws of
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young man or woman, wife or daugh-
ter, should have is contained in . the
Peoples Medical Adviser, by R. v,
Pierce, M. d. This big Home Doctor
Book, containing zoos pages with en-
cravings and colored plates, an
bound in cloth Cover 10000 copies for
merly sold for $50 each), is sent FIRE
to any one sending 81 one-cent stamps
to prepay cost of wrapping and post
age. There are no conditions to this
offer and the reader must not associate
this book with the advertising pamph-
lets prepared by quacks throughout the
country. Address, Worlds Publishing
Association, 663 Main street, Buffalo,
N. Y.
The silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1909-1925, 1910-07-09
NOTICE OF APPLICATION FOR
UNITED STATES PATENT
Serial Number O5I42.

Serial Number Uol4Z.
United States Survey Number 380S.
United States Land Office, Carson City,
Nevada, June 20, 1910.
Notice is hereby given that the Auto
Hill National Mining Company, of
California, a corporation, by ]. l..
Workman, it's attorney in fact, whose
postofice address is National, Hum
boldt county, Nevada, has made appli-
cation for patent for 600 linear feet,
1896 linear feet, $685. linear feet and
1895 linear feet, on the Cheefoo
Lode Mining claim, survey number
3s0s, with surface ground, situate In
the northwest quarter and the north
east quarter and the southwest quarter
and the southeast quarter of section 80
township As north, range 80 east, Mount
Diablo Base and Meridian, in the Ma
tional Mining District, Humboldt coun
ty. Nevada, and described by the off
cial plat and field notes on file in the
IA ID office at Carson City, Nevada, al
follows, to-wit:
CHEEFOO LODE. Beginning al
corner No. /. A pine post, Az fee
long. = inches y, uare, set 2 feet In ths
ground, with a mound Of earth ant
stone, described Chic. 1-3S0S; whence
the south quarter section corner sec
ton 33, township 46 north, range 81
east Of Mount Diablo Base and Me
ridian bears south 0 degrees Il min
utes, 80 seconds west 2566.9 feet; thence
north Q degrees "a minutes east 754.'
feet to corner No. q; thence north
degrees IL minutes east 1883 feet T.
corner No. 3; thence north 80 degree
25 minutes west 5S3.5 feet to corne
No. A; thence south 10 degrees d
minutes west 1888 feet to corner Nc
s; thence south 9 degrees 25 minute
west 1853 feet TO corner No. q; theme
south so degrees rs minutes east 90
feet to corner No. l, the place OF be
ginning.
Variation 10 degrees 26 minutes east
Containing a net area of 2o.Sol acre
The adjoining claims are unsurvey
ed and belong to claimant. They ar
the High Speed, Transmission, Fras
/ on and the Round. Said claims ais
contain the nearest known lodes.
The record Of location certificate o
said Cheefoo rode may be found
Book I'M" of Mining Notices in III
office Of the County Recorder OF sal
Humboldt county at page l45.
LOUIS j. COIN,
Register
William Fl. Jorda-, Attorney "a
Claimant. 49,
FIRST publication June a. 1910.
The silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1909-1925, 1910-07-09
GOLD SOLVENTS

Gold solvents are few in number, as
compared with the solvents of all the
common metals, except platinum. The
two cheapest solvents are potassium or
sodium cyanide, and chlorine. The lat.
ter used in solution for teaching gold
is growing in favor. 1t has been ap-
Piled in that way at Mount Morgan,
Australia, with brilliant success, for
some years. Such open-vat l~ixiviation
with chlorine water is also being used
at Goldfeld, Nevada. There are no
other solvents available at moderate
prices to which gold is as sensitive as
TO these.-Mining Science.
The silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1909-1925, 1910-07-09
THOSE PIES OF BoYHooD

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