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The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1910-09-16
Democratic State Convention

The democratic state convention will
be held in Tacoma, Sept. %, the del
egates being selected by the county
committeeman who were chosen at the
direct primaries OF Sept. IS. The con-
vention will nominate judges for the
supreme court, but whether or not the
entire quota will be nominated is not
yet determined. 1t will be up to the
convention. Party leaders have con-
sidered so far the naming OF but two
candidates for the supreme bench.
One of these will be Judge jeremiah
Neterer, of the superior court of What
com county. The other will be Will
liam Hickman Moore, former mayor of
Seattle, former superior court judge of
King county, and former state senator.
The democrats believe that these
two men, both we'll known and expert
enced iurists, will have an excellent
chance of election, and the leaders
may therefore oppose the nomination
of any more candidates, unless the
eastern Washington men demand at
least one name on the judiciary ballot
The result of nominating the supreme
court judges by convention instead of
in the regular primaries has been to
rather take the judiciary out of politics
and put it in the pocket of politicians;
but the democrats are planning a dig
nifed campaign in behalf of whatever
candidates the convention at Tacoma
dominates. A platform for the demo-
Gratis of the state will also be adopted
at Tacoma. The results OF the pri-
maries of Sept. IS may have some eff
feet in determining the issues on
which the democrats will make their
state campaign this fall.
The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1910-09-16

The department of agriculture has
been devoting a great deal of attention
to cotton and cotton seed products,
and the department of commerce and
labor has looked with diligence for
new markets and bigger outlet for the
latter. 1t has become very hopeful
for the future OF the oil of the cotton
seed.
Cotton seed oil is growing in esteem
as a table oil. 1t is used to consid-
cradle extent in olive producing coun-
tries, especially when the olive crop
is short. In some countries, as in
Spain, cotton seed oil may not be i'm
ported unless it be first denatured, so
that there shall be no danger OF its be-
ing mixed with olive oil, lowering the
quality OF the latter. France has put a
duty of slightly more than one cent a
pound on cotton seed oil. Italy has
put duty of $6.85 per 220 pounds
The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1910-09-16
CANADA NAY JOIN UNITED STATES
In Movement to Open Columbia River
from Head to Mouth

The creation Of new international
highway of commerce was the project
laid before Sir Wilfrid Laurier several
days ago by an American deputation,
reinforced by the Nelson (B.C) board
of trade.
An open Columbia river from source
to sea providing $50 miles of naviga-
ton, $50 of which are in Canadian ter
ritory, was the slogan. With the open
ing of the Panama Canal, the Ameri-
cans and Canadians propose to link the
heart OF the Rockies with New York,
London and other markets Of the world
on a water rate basis providing new
highway commerce. Supporters OF the
plan pointed out that the United States
government, aided by the states OF
Washington and Oregon, had already
undertaken the opening of the river
some distance from the sea.
Replying, Sir Wilfred stated that the
idea appealed to him. He believed
the Canadian government would look
with favor upon the project. He also
expressed his appreciation at meeting
the United States representatives.
The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1910-09-16
Record Land Clearing

What appears to be somewhere near
a record in clearing logged-off land for
cultivation is described by Seattle
man, who cleared 200 acres of average
stump land in Clallam county for S.
638.14, an average of $43.25 per
acre. The modern methods OF land
clearing are rapidly working toward a
settlement of the fertile logged-off
lands of the state, and no other form OF
development can do more for the
northwest. The sample of clearing
mentioned has been described in de-
tail in an article in Pacific Northwest
Commerce. He gives the following as
the distribution of the expenses OF
clearing the 200-acre tract:
Labor, IS, 287.77; powder, $685.
Al; fuse, $85.77; caps, $500; re-
pairs and supplies, $319.S9; incident
ais, $23.40.
The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1910-09-16
The Conservation Congress

The National Conservation Congress,
which met in St. Paul last week, split
over the very question which has been
of greatest interest to people in the
northwest when conservation has been
discussed. The question was federal
versus state control of water power
sites. The advocates of federal con-
troll won the day, defeating the group
of western governors who met in Salt
Lake City previous to the convention
and declared in favor Of state control.
With such leaders of thought as Col.
Roosevelt, President Taft, James ].
Hill and a score of other noted men
expressing their views on the subject,
the problem of conserving our natural
resources and at the same time making
intelligent use OF them, ought to be
worked out in time along fair and
satisfactory lines. The doctrine Of
state rights precipitated the war of the
rebellion, and right prevailed. 1t will
prevail again.
The St. Paul convention gathered
more notable speakers than any event
of the year.
The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1910-09-16
Benefits Resulting from the AMP.

A rumor that the effects of the
A.-Y.-P. exposition have not been ben
efcial to Seattle and the Northwest has
been circulated in some parts of the
country, presumably by rival cities.
Winnipeg, which will hold an exposi-
ton in 1914, wired to the Seattle
chamber of commerce to learn the
truth Of this report. The reply follows:
THE fact is that Seattle and the en-
tire Pacific Northwest have derived I'M
told benefit from last years exposition.
The current tourist travel exceeds that
of any year prior to the fair. Notwith-
standing the consolidation of four of
Seattle's banks into two, the clearings
to Sept. LIST this year amount to $685.
900, 1000, compared with 100000, 900
for the same period last year. The
building permits issued this year ex-
coed those issued for the same period
last year. AS matter of fact desirable
houses for rent are scarce in Seattle
and the vacancies are confined to un-
desirable buildings. The school cen
sus and voting population are now the
largest in the city's history"
The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1910-09-16
Esperanto in the Schools

Efforts have been made, following
the holding Of the International Con-
gress of Esperantists in Washington, to
induce the board of education to have
that substituted for other languages
taught in the public schools. The adj
vantage of universal medium for the
exchange of thought among the differ
ent nations is generally recognized,
but in view of the many previous fail
ures to introduce a manufactured Ian
guage, esperanto will have to prove its
worth. The sentiment in Washington
seems to be that language like French
and Spanish are at present more neces-
sary than the new aspirant for favor, and
it is not likely that esperanto will be
added to the curriculum. Still, there
was much interest over the esperanto
congress, and without doubt a large
number of persons felt induced to take
up the study Of new kind of talk.
The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1910-09-16
REAL ESTATE TRANSFERS
Furnished BY the Chelan County Abstract
Company, for the Week Ending
September 10, 1910

Jennie Larson Sinclair to II X klng'
man, lots SO, blk IS, Chelan, $275.
RIP Harris to Lake Chelan Land Co,
lot a, 1921, 81.
Eagle Livery and Transfer Co to c c
Griggs, lots 1918, blk /, Peachey ad
to Wenatchee, $500.
BIC VanMeter to VIM H VanMeter,
lot 81, blk 6, Lakeside, $135.
EP Carpenter to L L Harm, VIZ
SCI s15ne d, 1892, $4,000.
LII Harm to E P Carpenter, lot 8,
Dickson's add Wenatchee, $500.
EA Wyman to c c Bacon, lots IS
and 81, blk 1, Playground add Wenat-
chez, $1400.
Paul Weigand to E w Johnson, part
lot 9, blk a, Leavenworth, $1,000.
F Clay to John T Ford, 10 acres
in swA swA, 22-23-20, $500.
Alonzo Nuetzel to Ella L Miller, lots
14-15, blk 10, 1st add Leavenworth, ST..
u S to T E Smith, lots 3-4, seA sw
a swA seq, 18-27-18.
C H Ballard, trustee, to Minerva
Boyd, lots Hip, blk %, Chelan, ST..
R Musser to M A Larson, lot l, blk
Q, Capital Hill plat Mission, $3.50.
Edith Poe to Wen R E & I Co,
water for blk "A, Millerdale, $625.
Wen RE&ICo to C F Black, part
lot Dc, blk /, Peachey add Wen, $500.
H B Kinney to w H Foster, lot II,
blk 10, Wenatchee Park, 10000.
Jay Wyckof to W G Chapman, e1a
swA, 24-23-19, $3.50.
EFF Cadman to Katherine Merriam,
nHnwA Sc a seA, 15-22-20, $500.
A A Pesch to M F Peake, lots 20
81 %, blk 7, Leavenworth, 81.
A B Flagg to P ] Hamstrom, lot S,
swA seA 7-27-22, $4,000.
AIDA Mahar to c T Benjamin, lots
1920, blk G, part lot II, Cascade
GaTuenS, @oOO.
Louis Crollard to w B Gregg, 81
nwA ne d neA, 5-22-20, 81.
Alex Brons to L ] Crollard, same
property, 81.
Ell Warren to c w McMullen,
919 acres in seAseA, 21-23-2O,
$4,000.
Wen Dew Co 10 Cora B Ridgway,
lot IL, blk IA, Col Bridge ad Wen,
SIPS.
Hugh w Fletcher to c M Olesen,
s1ane d -, 4-2520, 81.
w w White to Wen Hts Orch Co,
tract Q, blk Q, Wen Hts Orch tracts, 81.
IA Gellatly to w H Sharp, lot /,
blk D, Gellatly's Orch tract, $4,000.
USto H w Fletcher, sAneA, A.
$500.
Wv McMullen to E H Warren,
part NV neA 21-23-20, $4,000.
CIV McMullen to E H Warren, "a
acres of swA n, 21-23-20, $12, 500.
ia Wallace to G D Brown, lots IL,
blk Q, Vromans 1st add Chelan, $40.
Mary Kellum to Thomas Burke, 1-8
acre in swA swA, 5-24-18, $25..
US to ] C Lloyd, neA, 20-21-22.
JR Campbell to H w Patrick, 8 e
acres in neA neA, 19-23-20, $4,000.
JR Campbell to H w Patrick, lot
IS, Sunnyslope Farms, $4,000.
The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1910-09-16

Approximately 100000 acres of land
in Washington west of the Cascades has
been burned over by the destructive
forest fires so far this season. Close to
100000 has been spent up to date,
and altho copious rains have fallen, the
danger limit for fire has not yet passed.
The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1910-09-16

Having decided the ground on which
the Northern Pacific station at Spokane
now stands, and the triangular plat just
north OF the station, to the company
several years ago in return for passes,
H. T. Crowley now asks that the in
strument be cancelled.
The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1910-09-16

The Indians of the Hoquiam reser-
walton secured a large black whale
which drifted ashore there. After strip
ping the blubber from the upper side,
the carcass was turned over with a
charge of dynamite.
The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1910-09-16

Chehalis wants to vote at the coming
election on the question of abolishing
saloons in the county outside the in
corporated towns. The petition con-
tains 900 names, and 800 is sufficient
to secure the submission of the ques-
ton.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1910-04-13
REDWOOD BOY
TERRIBLY HURT
Earl Woodwork Loses Both
Legs While Switching at
Oskaloosa, Iowa.

Earl Woodwork, a former Red
wood Falls boy, was run down in a
switch yard at Oskaloosa, Iowa, and
had both of his legs cut off below the
knee. A telegram to this effect
came Monday evening to Mrs. Frank
Notion, no further details being
available, except the statement from
Mrs. Notion that the condition of the
unfortunate young man was serious.
Earl has been working in the switch
ing yards at Oskaloosa for over a
year past, and was reported as doing
well by his relatives. Aside from his
sister, Mrs. Frank Notion, all of the
family are now residents Of Montana.
It is sincerely hoped here that no
worse calamity may befall Earl than
the loss of his lower limbs.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1910-04-13
Winners at State Industrial Contest,

Supt. BebefTneyer handed in a. list
of Redwood county winners at the
recent state industrial contest, with
the explanation that the corn exhibit
was over week in transit, arriving
a few hours after the other samples
of corn had been judged.
Wheat Alfred Enestvedt of Bel
view, SIS for 9Th, Oliver Olson of Wal
nut Grove. So for 7th.
Sewing Mabel Anderson and June
Aiken of Redwood Falls, 3-cornered
darn and work apron, each 81; Clara
Brake of Milroy, fancy apron, So.
Cooking Birna Lyman of Red
wood Falls, first on white bread, SIS !;
Hazel Aune, I'd on fruit cake, So !;
jeanette Stevenson, co'nut SOC ;
Adeline Brown of Delhi, 1st on same,
50; Edna Brown Of Delhi, 9th on
white bread, 81; Martha Simondet of
North Redwood, graham bread, SOC.
Henry Jensen and VIM. Carity of
Redwood Falls, each 2 premiums, on
late potatoes, yellow and red onions.
ST premiums Hazel and Geo. Davis
of Seaforth, So and ST premiums on
early and late potatoes.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1910-04-13
Leslie King Will We'd.

A lot of friends of Leslie King will
be interested in the following notice
clipped from the Rockford Morning
Star of April I'd. and will wish Leslie
and his bride all the happiness that
they deserve. Leslie is native of
this town whom everybody liked and
respected:
Mrs. N. S. Smith, 1125 North Main
street, announces the engagement
and approaching marriage Of her
daughter Myrtle Mae to Mr.. Leslie
Martin hing, formal announcement
of the affair being made by Miss
Smith to company Of a dozen girls
friends at her home last evening.
Hearts was the diversion Of the gath
ering and roses lent their charm and
fragrance to the setting. The nup-
tials will be celebrated early in the
month of roses. Miss Smith and
Mr.. King have wide acquaintance
to whom their wedding plans will be
of interest. The bride-to-be is a
popular girl of charming personality
and for two years has been in the
office Of the State of Illinois Insur-
anee company. Mr.. King is the son
Of Mr.. and Mrs. Walter B. King and
Is bookkeeper for the Rockford Iron
Works. He attended Rockford high
school and represented the red and
back on the gridiron, being one of
the strongest players that ever rep
resented the team behind the line.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1910-04-13
Jonas Johnson Dies IN Oregon.

Thos. johnson Of this city received
notice last Wednesday Of the dan
gerous illness Of his brother Jonas,
at his home. Freewater. Oregon.
and little later received a second
dispatch informing him OF his broth
er's death. on the 9Th. Mr.. johnson
was pioneer resident Of Vail town
ship, removing with his family to
Oregon four or five years ago. He
leaves a family consisting Of the wi
dow, a daughter Of Jas. Allen, and
two daughters, besides his brothers
William. who lives at Freewater,
James and Thomas OF this county.
bis surviving sisters being Mrs.
David Alexander. Mrs. John Long
bottom. Mrs. Frank Barnum and
Mrs. James Garner Of this county
and Mrs. Palmer Of Albert Lea.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1910-04-13
GASOLINE POWER ON THE FARM.
Big Traction Engine Does the Work of
Dozen Heavy Draft Horses.

Alderman Wilcox took a party of
five out to the VIM farm last Fri
day, to enjoy the combination of a
15-mile joy ride in his Mason car, a
generous and satisfying dinner in
the country and an inspection of a
20-horse international traction en-
CINE speeding over the fields and
leaving six smoothly-turned burrows
from as many. plows in its wake.
The party returned early in the af-
ternoon at a. 20-miles an hour gait,
in we'll satisfied mood.
Last year The Gazette predicted
that the traction engine would come
into more general use in this vicinity
and already Mr. Wilcox reports the
sale Of two of the big tractors, the
second one going to Joe Fischer,
over in Renville county.
On the VIM farm, Harry Winn's
two sons, Is and 10 years old, man
age to get as much satisfaction out
of their motor car and the pulver-
izing of as much ground every day
as could be accomplished by dozen
stout horses and three or more men
to drive them, as the young scions
of wealthy parents get out of joy
rides in $2500 tonneaus. The VIM
rig is earning every day almost as
much as the joy riders are spending,
and at the same time solving the
problem of how to run a large acre.
age with the minimum of expensive
hired help.
The VIM farm management is a
concrete example of the advantage
of family cooperation ON the farm,
the members Of the family coming
here nearly thirty years ago without
one of them knowing so much about
farming as how to hold a pillow, but
they were willing to learn by expert
ence, to help bear one another's bur-
dens and stick together to the end Of
the ehapter, and have thus acquired
over 800 fertile Redwood county acres
with valuable buildings and stock,
including a herd Of registered short
horns. Best of all, they have main
tanned home conditions much more
enjoyable than is the lot Of the aver
age family in either town or country,
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1910-04-13
Why not Help Home Merchants?

Mr.. EDITOR: AS am in hearty
cooperation with the lady whose
article appeared upon the editorial
page Of your valued paper last week,
I trust that you will grant me the
space to publish these few words ex-
pressing my sentiments upon that
subject. In the writer's judgment
the article was a good one and one
every body should profit by, man as
we'll as woman. If / knew the lady
who wrote 1t | would be tempted to
take her by the hand and pat her on
the shoulder and say, we'll done thou
good and faithful woman. But sup
pose we 80 little farther than say
ing why not help home merchants,
and say in addition, why not the
merchants help themselves? The
question might arise, How can they
do this? There may be more ways
than one but the writer wishes to
offer here one way that was very
successful in putting down and out
the mail order business i'll a town in
which he lived.
/ trust that the merchants will
look upon this kindly and not think
/ am trying to tell them how to run
their business, for be assured this is
written with no such feeling. | only
feel it my duty to do something to
assist home trade and simply offer
this as a suggestion.
A few years ago | was living in
quiet, peaceful little town, until a
man came along distributing mail
order house catalogues. Every one
got one, and the result was mer-
chants began to lose trade, 50 they
got busy. How they could do it |
never knew, but every merchant
had a Sears Roebuck and Mont
gomery Ward book on their counter
and advertised, There is the book
pick out what you want and pay as
cash in advance, same a. you have
to with the mail order house, and
we will get it for you and save you
the freight on it." A hardware deal
er in the town told me he could
do this and still make a small profit.
The result was, they got their old
trade back and more with it. If
such could be done here it would, |
believe, soon but the mail order bus
mess out Of Redwood Falls and more
cash in the tills of our home mer-
chants.
Yours very truly.
AN OBSERVER.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1910-04-13
Low COIonist Rates To Pacific Coast,
Daily Until April IS.

One way tickets at special low
rates from all points on the North
Western Line to San Francisco, Los
Angeles. Portland and Puget Sound
Points,
a tri-weekly service of Pullman
tourist sleeping cars through without
change via diverse routes from Nan
kato, Alton and Sioux City to Los
Angeles, affords a most comfortable
and economical means Of travel.
For full particulars apply to ticket
agents The North. Western Line.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1910-04-13
A Symposium on Cooperation.

Last Tuesday evening the Mems
Club Of the M. E. church observed
as sort of open house reception for
a considerable number of their fell
low citizens outside Of the club mem
bership, and it was the good fortune
of the writer to be among those pre-
sent. To say that he passed a de-
lightful evening is not overstating
the facts. And if the reader will
take into consideration the difficulty
of epitomizing the atmosphere of
welcome and good fellowship which
contributed to the pleasure of the
evening, we will try to transfer few
impressions made at this meeting in
to cold type.
To begin with, the club members
arrived between the bours of six and
seven o'clock and cbatted in the spa
cious antefooms of the cftb, in the
church basement. Dinner being an.
nounced, no time was lost in filing
into the dining hall, where the church
ladies served satisfactory founda-
ton of good things gustatorial as
foundation for other good things
social and mental.
Chairman King, after the tables
were cleared by the young ladies in
waiting, called upon DR.. DUBOIS to
give an outline Of the trend of Che
discussion at the first meeting two
weeks ago, The doctor responding
with a plain tafk on the tendencies
of to-day in the line Of cooperation
the world over, and the progress
made at the opening meeting Of the
club, in endeavoring to apply these
principles to conditions as they exist
IN our own town to-day. The doctor
took it for granted that the thought
OF cooperation was all right and was
making rapid progress all over the
civilized world. AS announced by
the chairman. Mr.. Gold followed,
as basis Of his remarks the
statement Of a prominent business
man at the cities, who quoted the
head Of the credit department of one
of the large jobbing houses at Mime
apolis, as saying that at this time
ninety out of every one hundred re-
tailers throughout Minnesota were
not able to make anything more
than bare living. Mr.. Gold
thought it well worth while to dis
cuss the cause of such state of af-
fairs. Conceding that business was
not in such a bad state as this in Red
wood Falls, it was matter of COM
mon knowledge that business men
were not as prosperous as they ought
to be and he believed that properly
applied cooperation and consolida-
ton along some lines offered a solu-
ton to some of our difficulties. He
wanted to hear from the business
men and farmers present what they
thought about it.
Following these Introductory talks.
there was a rapid fire of comment
and no lack Of dissent on the part Of
those called upon to speak. Strong
protest was made against mercantile
consolidation BY Senator Clague, At
torney Howard and others, the d.