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The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1910-05-27
S1.OO Per Year
To Let BaIIinger Down Easy

A plan to abolish the department Of
the interior and create new depart
ment to be known as the department
of public works will be considered by
President Taft during the summer, ac-
cording to reports current at the ma
tional capital. The papers publishing
the report took pains to say that the
trial. of Secretary Ballinger had moth
ing to do with the plan, although it
was limited Ballinger might not be the
head of the new department.
According to the tentative plans the
new department would have charge of
the construction of the Panama canal
and would control irrigation projects
and conservation work. The work of
the forest service would be transferred
to the new department The bureau
of public lands it is declared, would
also be a subordinate branch of the new
department.
The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1910-05-27
KEEPS UP WINNING STREAK
Return Game With Skykomish Results in
Another Easy Victory for
leavenworth

The return game which Leavenworth
played at Skykomish Sunday was a
most one-sided and uninteresting affair,
Leavenworth winning easily by score
Of II to l. Sky's lonely score was ac-
cumulated in the sixth, when single,
stolen base and another single saved
the impending whitewash. In no other
inning but the third did more than
three men face our Mr.. Miller. Leav-
enworth, as usual, showed to advantage
in both batting and team work.
A nice little stunt was pulled off in
the sixth inning Bee felded slow
grounder that was really out of his ter
ritory, getting the ball too late to get
to the base with it. Coulson had
started from second to back Bee up
and he sprinted to first, getting the
ball from Bee in time to put the batter
out.
Sky showed lack of practice and too
The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1910-05-27

If you want the news, read The Echo.
The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1910-05-27
BaiIinger Investigation Costly

The Ballinger investigation has cost
the government at least $32, 500 for
printing, payment of stenographers,
mileage for witnesses and like expenses.
Chairman Nelson has estimated that
the miscellaneous expenses will amount
to SIS, 1000 additional, and that the
cost of printing about 1000 pages of
testimony will cost $17,500 more.
Another feature of the hearing is
that the government, in addition to
bearing the brunt of the costs, is throw
ing its archives open to inspection of
attorneys acting for men who now are
out of official life.
The cost of bringing witnesses to
Washington alone was large one.
Many of the witnesses came from Sc
attic and others from as far as Alaska
and Porto Rico.
Besides spending money the govern
ment gave a great deal of the time of
its officials and employees to the inves-
tigation. While the senators and rep
resentatives on the investigating COM
mittee were able to attend to their
other duties in congress, many officials
of the government were taken from
their tasks to testify before the com
mittee.
The investigation is unique in the
history of the country from the fact
that both the prosecution and de-
fense," with the exception of the at
torneys' fees, are financed by the gov
eminent. The cost of legal talent,
however, is borne by those involved in
the inquiry who found it necessary to
be represented by attorneys at the
hearings of the committee.
The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1910-05-27
MASSIE TO GUIDE BIG PARTY
Mountaineers of Seattle Will Go to Buck
Creek Pass Country

Joe Massie will guide the Noun
taineer club of Seattle into the noun
tains north of Leavenworth this sum-
mer. He received word from the Sec
retary of the club that his services were
desired and he has decided to accept.
The club is one of the best known
of similar organizations in the west.
Annually the members make trips to
remote sections of the northwest, and
the selection of the Leavenworth man
as guide of the expedition this summer
is testimonial Of his familiarity of the
region to be penetrated.
The start will be made from Chiwau-
KUN July %. The first camp will be
at Lake Wenatchee, the second at
Chikamin creek, the third at Phelps,
and the main camp will be on the Sc
attle side Of Buck creek pass. From
the main camp parties will explore the
adjacent sections of the country.
One of the characteristics of the ex-
peditions of the Mountaineers is the
absence of firearms. 1t is rule of the
club that the members go unarmed,
thereby avoiding the danger Of mem
Der of the party being mistaken for a
deer and being injured by a bullet from
the gun Of one OF his fellow clubmen.
The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1910-05-27
EAGLES FLY TOO FAST
Firemen Defeated Sunday in a Thrilling
Batfest, Runfest and Umpfest

A good crowd, out for fun, enjoyed
the batfest between the Eagles and
Firemen at the ball park Sunday. 1t
was mostly hit and run affair, and in
spite of the big score still remained
close enough to prove exciting to
those who think the bases were made
to run around. The score sheet
showed final score of 26 to 81, in
favor of the Eagles.
Some of the spectators, however, are
of opinion that the score must have
been about 90 to 90, and the deep
trail worn around the base line would
seem to confirm this theory. 1t is
feared the infeld will have to be re-
leveled and re-rolled before Sundays
game can be played.
1t is thought that if more of the fire.
men had been drafted from the passen
ger department, instead of relying al
most wholly upon the freight and drag
service, the result might have been
different. The fremen, however, are
inclined to blame the umpire slightly,
for their defeat, though this may be
inherited prejudice, for it is the popu-
lar belief that engineers don't like fire.
men, nohow, and one caught showing
favors to the other would be inconti-
nently and forever disgraced in the
eyes of his fellows.
The only supernatural features of the
game was home run by Jack Cigar
maker Heffernan and a three-bagger by
Bill Roach, both of the Eagles. Mr..
Blocksedge, for the Eagles, pitched
clear through the contest, while the
Firemen tried out several perspirants
with varying results. Engineer Nc
Grath oficiated with the incicator.
1t is now planned to have game in
the near future between the fats and
leans, and it ought to be a scream.
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nuch dependence upon their erstwhile

much dependence upon their erstwhile
famous Indian pitcher, Harmon, he
who last year helped Sky to give Leav-
enworth one of the few bad wallopings
they received during the season. Our
boys this year, however, are batting in
big league style, and besides, the big
Indian was not in form and was not
there with the goods. Although the
first two men who faced him struck
out, after that it was a hit and run
affair. In one inning three attempts
to sacrifice bore fruit but once, the
others reaching first with no one out
on the plays.
At the end of the fifth inning Har-
mon was relieved and Thompson, a
young fellow said to be playing his
first real game of ball, was put in the
box, and he proved surprise to even
his own teammates. With the excep-
ton of the first inning, when he was
slightly nervous and let run in by a
wild throw, he was almost unapproach-
able, allowing but four hits distributed
evenly through the four innings.
The game was made somewhat in
teresting from the fact that the ball
park at Skykomish is used, in the long
ish interims between games, as a bou-
The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1910-05-27
Washington Roads Make Money

Railroads in Washington earn
$1,000 per mile per year more than
they earn in any other state in the
northwest" declares A. w. Perley,
state inspector of railroads. That is
particularly the case with the transcon-
tinental roads like the Great Northern
and Northern Pacific" +"
Mr.. Perley stated that the commits
sion saved for the state in lower rates
and increased taxes on railroad property
about 81 100000.
The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1910-05-27
The higher up the valley you Bigger apples

doir and siesta spot by all the towr
COWS who had to be shooed around the
lot frequently to give the fielder q
chance to romp. This is all in the
way of an Introductory to the only SEN
sational play of the game--a catch by
Smith of a hard fly that would have
been a home run if there had been a
fence or couple more COWS.
Smith pranced over logs, thru black
berry bushes, skidded down some hol-
lows and over hillocks, tackled sharply
to starboard around the stern of an
ecru-colored COW with a pink nose, and
captured the ball just as it was about
to plunge into one of Skykomish's fa-
nous trout streams.
This great catch was deservedly ap-
plauded by even Sky rooters, tho the
aforesaid bovine, who swallowed her
chew in fright and dashed into the
creek when Mr.. Smith galloped around
her, still stood in the purling waters
when the game broke up and mooed
reproachfully at every Leavenworth
uniform that crossed the log footbridge.
Two of Seattle's leading amateur
teams have taken umbrage at Manager
The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1910-05-27

tnat accumulated wealth is entitled to
special consideration, special influence
and special favors at the hands OF con
gress.
Progressive Republicans contend and
know that the main purpose OF govern
ment is the protection of the weak
against the strong, and that while all
interests should be treated with justice,
the central principle of all legislation
should be the public good and not
private aggrandizement. 1t is the diff
ference between a real republicanism
and a bogus class system.
We have come to point when the
doctrine of liberty has been construed
as license not more by some of the
lowest elements of society than by
some of the so-called highest. We
have come to a point when some pri-
vate interests vested with government
franchises have become more of men
ace to individual rights than the gov
eminent ever was, and the peculiar
spectacle is witnessed of a people,
jealous of its liberty, seeking to enlarge
the powers of the central government
as matter of self protection. 1t is
the only recourse, and unless that gov
eminent, in all its branches, is kept
perfectly free from the control of the
great powers which it is sought to reg
ulate and restrain, there is no redress
at all.
The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1910-05-27
OTHERS MISFORTUNE OUR GAIN
Destructive Frosts in Middle, Eastern and
Southern States will Turn Attention of
Fruit Growers to Northwest

On the 18th and 18th of April one
of the most widespread and destructive
cold waves hit all that region east of
the Rocky mountains which the old
est inhabitant" remembers. 1t was the
most disastrous because the most wide
spread in its effect. 1t covered the
widest area ever known, and as a re-
suit the Northwest will attract atten-
ton for the next few months because
of its escape from this destructive cold
wave. AS if to destroy what might
have been left by the former cold
weather and to emphasize the fact that
this section of the United States is
practically immune from frost, another
cold wave passed over the central states
last Sunday, when heavy snow was re-
ported from New Mexico, which the
papers report will result in large loss to
the cattle owners as we'll as the fruit
and vegetables.
He would be an unfeeling wretch
who would rejoice at the misfortune
that has fallen on the people who re-
side in less favored section than the
state of Washington, but we can not
close our eyes to the fact that this unfor-
tunate condition will turn the eyes of a
great many people to the northwestern
states where large crops and high prices
will prevail this year. We confidently
look for more prospectors and home
seekers from the middle of August to
the last of October this year than we
have ever had before.
The prospect of an abundant crop
and even better than fair price for our
prodocts will surely stimulate move
ment in this direction.
The following letter, dated April 25,
Columbus, Georgia, was written by the
sheriff of Muscogee county to his sis
ter, Mrs. George Briskey of this vicin-
ity, and is published to show how Sc
verely the residents of the frost-visited
section have suffered:
Dear Sister: 1t has been a long
time since I have had letter from
you, and as this is one of the most
wonderful days I have ever experienced
in this country, I thought it good
time to write. We have been having
some delightful weather. All vegeta-
ton is in full bloom. The fruit on the
trees is as large as pigeon eggs, and we
have great quantities of strawberries
out of our garden and plenty of most
every kind of vegetable. Oats are head
ing out. But here comes the wonder
full part of the story: Yesterday the
weather began to turn cold, and today
we are having more snow than I have
seen here in five years. We predict
that every kind of vegetation, such as
fruit, corn, wheat and oats, will be
killed, and it is possible that good
deal of the large timber will be killed.
So things look very discouraging.
The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1910-05-27

Mrs. Mode has just returned home
from the country, to discover her pre-
vious well-stocked wardrobe empty.
Good gracious, Herbertl' she cried
to her husband, where are all my
clothes2 And what in the world is
that big black patch out on the lawn7"
Nelly" he replied mournfully, after
l had starved for two whole days, you
wrote me that the key of the pantry
was in the pocket of your bolero.
Well I don't know a bolero from box
plated ruffle and I was desperate, SO l
took all the things out on the lawn and
burned them. Then found the key
among the ashes."
The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1910-05-27

A little girl, incorrigibly given to
slang, went with her mother to the fu-
neral of an aunt. The latter had been
strikingly handsome in life and her
features retained all their attractiveness.
How do you think Aunt Blanche
looks1" asked the mother, after they
had viewed the corpse.
Enthusiastically the child replied:
Dead swell, don't she, mother7"
The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1910-05-27

Summary: stolen bases-Tholin, Miller 2,
Raymond, Thompson. Twobase hits-Kep-
pier, Ooulson. Tholin. Double plays-Miller
to Bee to Keppler; Dooley to Loomis; Wat
son to Dooley to Loomis: O. Kelsey to
Loomis. Innings pitched-By Miller 0, Har-
mon 3, Thompson 4. At bat-Against Miller
81, Harmon 80, Thompson Is. Base hits-Of
Miler7, Harmon ~ Thompson 4. Struck
out-By Miller 5, Harmon ?, Thompson 8.
Bases on balls-By Miller l, Thompson l.
Hit by pitched Dall-Bee by Harmon. Wild
pitch-Thompson. Passed balls-R. Kelsey
2. Elder /. Sacrifice hit-Raymond. Um-
pire-Williams. Time-lh. 45m.
The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1910-05-27

Elliott's def to any amateur team with
in 200 miles Of Leavenworth and they
will cross the mountains in few weeks
in the hopes Of ditching Leavenworth's
triumphial chariot.
The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1910-05-27

Bliggins puts a great deal OF
thought into his work."
Yes; he works ten minutes and then
thinks about it an hour and half.
The Sauk Centre herald., 1910-11-24
GOLDEN RULE is
GOOD IN TRADE.
Buy From Those Who Help You
Along Is the PreceDt.
DO YOUR TRADING AT HOME.
Otherwise You VIII Have No Right to
Object When Your Neighhors Fail to
stances Cited.

An earnest plea for reciprocity in
trade is made in an editorial article
printed recently in the agricultural
southwest.
The points made are well worth the
attention of the men deficient in pub
lie spirit who spend their money away
from home without taking the trouble
to ascertain whether or not the local
merchants can serve them as well as
those of the outside cities. The az
ticle reads:
'Grocers in small towns expect that
the good farmers of the community
shall trade at home rather than at
the catalogue houses in the large far
away city. The farmers, too, think
that it is hardly right for the mer-
chants to send to some commission
house in a large city for their sup
ply Of potatoes
Both are right. Yet we find farm
ers buying from mail order houses.
and merchants in many cases buying
from distant places products of the
iAi LII thdI OCltCi DC
home. Not alone this, but how many
engaged in the grocery trade overlook
the Importance of buying furniture,
clothing. jewelry and other things from
their brother merchants at home?
How many in the furniture and hard
ware business buy groceries from some
distant house? How many of them buy
their clothing from other than home
stores?
"At an implement dealers state con-
vention in one of the western states
the catalogue house competition was
being considered One of the dele
gates was strong in condemnation Of
those who bought implements from
the mail order houses. He happened
to throw his fur lined overcoat over
the back of chair, and plain to be
seen was the label of one of the noted
catalogue houses of Chicago. Still he
had the audacity to appear in state
convention and criticise the farmers
who bought farm implements from the
same concern from which he had pur.
chased his overcoat instead of buying
1t from his home store. Thus we find
the helpful principles Of reciprocity ig-
nored by many inconsistent trades
men"
The Sauk Centre herald., 1910-11-24

in weight and were divided into fifteen
prints The dimensions Of each block
of cheese We're 11.5 by 1926 by 2.5
inches, each print being 21a by 2l2 by
AZ inches. At the Wisconsin station
no difficulty was experienced i'll cur
ing these cheeses in the same way as
cheddar cheese is cured.
The bottom and sides should be
creased and the cheese turned occasion
ally, although it should not rest on
the printed surface for a very long
time. By exercising little care in
handling these cheeses during the cur
ing process, according to Professor
harrington. they can be kept clean and
attractive in appearance, and if well
made from good milk will develop an
acceptable flavor that, together with
the trademark branded into each
pound, will be helpful in protecting
the reputation of certain make of
cheese. Professor Harrington thinks
it very likely that print cheese may
be satisfactorily cured in cold storage
and that the cheese so cured will pos
sess a minimum of rind, with an ex.
cellent flavor and texture.
The Sauk Centre herald., 1910-11-24

hold sheep and the mud is frequently
fatal at lambing time. There are many
farms, Of course, where there is no
mud, even if the soil is of that nature
that makes mud whenever it rains.
The gravelly or rocky knoll makes the
ideal sheep yard, and here the lambs
can be taken care of very well. AS to
fences, they can be made, and more
farms are being fenced hog tight every
year, which also means sheep tight.
After time we may be raising more
sheep than now. Sheep raising is a
new thing to almost every prairie
state farmer, and as long as cattle and
hogs prove money makers and furnish
all the choring the average man cares
to do there is no likelihood of any rad
ical change. Every farmer recognizes
the weed killing habits of sheep, how
ever, and knows that it would be bet
ter for his farm on this account to
keep a few of them around, yet the
bother of keeping few at times in the
year when they must be sheltered and
fed seems to keep many from embark
ing in this profitable line of stock rails
ing
The Sauk Centre herald., 1910-11-24
SHEEP PROFITABLE
i FOR EVERY FARM.

A gray whiskered farmer stood ad-
miring the sheep that were exhibited
at one of the state fairs. After awhile
he was Yaoved to this remark: How
much cleaner would be the farms ii
every farmer had at least a dozen or
fifteen of those things! They would
eat up the trash every farm ought to
get rid of, and it would be converted
into a profit instead of remaining as a
curse on the farm" Every farmer ex-
pressed those as his sentiments. but
every farmer went home with no more
idea of getting sheep than he had be-
fore, says the Iowa Homestead.
We are often at a loss to understand
why so many farmers talk sheep, but
do not keep them. Mention sheep to
almost any man and he'll say, 1--WE all
ought to keep some to clean up the
weeds" but when it comes to getting
and keeping them scarcely any one
makes that kind of move. The peo-
pie seem to be great on talking the
virtues of sheep, but the talk is sell
dom if ever followed out in practice.
There are two reasons why sheep
are not more plentiful on the average
farm-fences are not good enough to
The Sauk Centre herald., 1910-11-24
The Minnesota
Grasshopper Law.
BY E. L. Washburn, Entomology
icaI Division, Minnesota Ex-
pertinent Station.

Y y = y = = = = = = = = y y = y :
This is the season of the year fol-
farmers to find out whether any un-
used land, or land which has reverted
in their vicinity, is dangerously infest-
ed with grasshopper eggs. If it is
found to be in this condition, the Min.
nesota law (See Revised Laws of Min.
nesota, 1905, PIP. 449 ct seq.) provides
that notice of this should be sent to
tigates the land, and if the complaint
of farmers has been found we'll justi-
fed, he notifies the board of county
commissioners, which, in turn, is au.
thoriZed to direct the owner or person
in charge to plow any designated part,
or all, of said land before a prescribed
date. The county auditor causes an
order to be Immediately served upon
the owner or occupant of the land de-.
scribed, Or, if the land be not occu.
pied, and the owner be nonresident,
service may be made upon any person
having charge of such land, and resid.
ing in the county; or. if the owner be
a nonresident of the state, and has
no agent in the county, such notice
shall be published. If parties repre-
senting the land fail to obey the order,
the board of county commissioners
shall cause the infested land to be
plowed at the expense of the county.
In case such plowing shall be Of value
the season Immediately following, the
parties so benefited shall be liable to
the county for such value, and the
auditor may demand payment of the
amount; and if it be not paid upon
demand. the county attorney shall
The Sauk Centre herald., 1910-11-24
TURON's RECORD.
Town of Six Hundred Has Built Four
Miles of Cement Walk.

Hs
In the southwest corner Of Reno
county, Kan, where the Ell Paso di.
vision of the Rock Island railroad
crosses the Larned branch of the Mis-
souri, Pacific railroad, is the town Of
Turon, which the 1910 census report
gives a population Of 612. Some eight
cen months ago a commercial club was
organized in Turon. Its roll now num-
bers 103 members. Since its organizai
ton four miles Of four foot cement
sidewalk have been built in Turon. A
sidewalk on both sides of the street
extends from the Missouri Pacific de-
pot to the Rock Island depot, dis
tance of half a mile. All the side streets
are improved with similar walks.
Some time ago Turon built new
schoolhouse. 1t was located about nine
blocks from the business section, and
as soon as it was finished cement walks
were laid from the business part Of
town. That's the way they do things
in Turon and may in part explain why
Turon has increased in population 62
per cent since the last census was
taken.
Can you beat Turon's record? Are
you trying 70? If not, why not?