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The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1910-12-02
Railroad Accidents

The number Of persons killed In train
accidents during the months Of April,
May and June, 1910, as shown in re-
ports made by the railroad companies
to the interstate commere commission
under the accident law Of March 3,
1901, was 1877; Of injured 2,64l. Ac-
cidents Of other kinds, including those
sustained by employees while at work
and by passengers in getting on and of
the cars, etc., bring the total number Of
casualties up to 2O,65o (755 killed
and 1884 injured.
Accidents to employees resulting In
slight injuries, which do not prevent
the injured employee from his accus-
toned service for more than three days
in the aggregate during the ten days
Immediately following the accident, are
not reported. The reports deal only
with employees on duty and with pas
sengers.
The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1910-12-02
CENSUS RETURNS
Figures for Seattle and Portland Are Cut
Down Materially

The census bureau has announced
the population of Seattle as 237 1914
and of Portland as 207 PA. This is a
growth of 156,523 in Seattle since
1900, or 1914 per cent. Portland's.
growth in the same period was 1858
r 1922 per cent.
Ten years ago Portland was the forty
second city in size in the United States
and Seattle the forty-eighth. Today
Seattle is the twenty-irst and Portland
the twenty-eighth. No city Of their
size in the United States has shown a
greater per centage Of growth in the
last ten years than Seattle and Portland
with the exception Of Los Angeles.
1t is stated by Census Director Du-
rand that the original returns from Sc
attic and Portland were padded, and
that Portland was worse than Seattle.
AS a result Of the Investigations made
by the Census bureau special agents,
the population of both cities has been
cut from the original figures of the
enumerators, II, 1873 names having been
cut off the Seattle returns and 1884
off Portland.
Director Durand states with regard tc
both cities that the evidence indicate
that most oil the enumerators whose re-
turns proved inaccurate were not con-
sciously guilty Of fraud; but there are =
few enumerators who manifectly padded
their returns deliberately, and these
few men probably will be prosecuted
for fraud.
The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1910-12-02
THE GOLDEN GATE SHOW
California Is Making Ready for the Panama
Canal Exposition in 1915

The sum of $47, 500, 900 provided
by California for the Panama canal ex-
position at San Francisco in 1915 is
the largest ever gathered by any state
for any exposition anywhere.
The sum Of $18, 900, 900 in bonds
voted for a system Of state highways
assures the greatest project Of its kind
ever attempted west of New York,
which is east Of nearly all of the United
States.
Then $40, 900, 900 for San Francis
co.'s harbor and 81, 500, 900 for San
Diego's,i is an,evidence that Californians
will be ready to take their part in the
effort Of America to gain the CONNER
cial supremacy of the Pacific when
Uncle Sam opens the locks at Panama.
Rich and liberal California has shown
her faith in the canal and in her own
future.
From the northern line Of the Golden
state to the Mexican boundary is 800
miles. By 1915 over this sweep Of
mountains and valleys and plains a sys-
TEN of highways-broad, we'll paved,
we'll kept-will give easy access to
every beauty and richness in the state.
These thorofares will furnish a new at
attraction, by making the natural won
ders of California we'll within the reach
OF the motor car tourist.
1t must be a rich and fruitful state
that can do these things. San Fran
cisco since 1906 has spent more than
$500, 10000 in reconstruction; yet
her citizens raised by private subscrip-
ton $500, 900 for their exposition.
The city Of San Francisco is construct
ing her own water supply system, build
ing her own fire protection plant, put
ting in a municipal railway, restoring
her public buildings, and yet the mu-
nicipality votec SIS, 900, 900 for the fair.
The state exposition tax of $5.0000o0,
will not be felt by California's citizens.
Such is the bid California makes for
Americas jubilee in 1915, at the com
pletion and opening Of the Panama
canal. California will pay her own bills,
and be ready to entertain the world in
a way that will be a credit to the whole
California does not ask n
cent Of aid from the government.
The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1910-12-02
The Divining Rod

Everyone has heard Of the divining
rod. Some persons believe implicitly
that by its aid one may determine
where water and mineral lie beneath
the surface of the ground. The gov
eminent, however, through the geolog-
ical survey, has punctured the super
stition about the divining rod, and has
declared it is a fraud and a delusion.
In a report on Underground Waters
for Farm Use," M. L. Fuller touches
on this subject, saying:
NO appliance, either mechanical or
electrical, has yet been devised that
will detect water in places where plain
common sense will not show its pres
ence just as well. The uselessness OF
the divining rod is indicated by the
facts that it may be worked at will by
the operator, that he fails 10 detect
strong water currents in tunnels and
other free courses that afford 40 surface
indications OF water, and that his loca-
tons in regions where water flows in
well-defned channels are no more sue
cessful than mere guesses. In fact, its
operators are successful only in regions
where ground water occurs in a definite
sheet in porous material. In such re-
gions few failures to find water can &C.
cur, for wells can get water almost any
where"
The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1910-12-02
Confirmed His Own Estimate

Merely because a nan is a general
passenger OF freight agent Of a railroad
is not necessarily a guarantee that he
is deeply versed in railroad lore. One
Of these officials recently wrote to the
Interstate Commerce Commission to
complain about a ruling by that body
on joint tariffs. He promised his kick
by saying in a self-deprecatory way that
he was merely a small railroad man on
a small railroad, but that he believed
because of his 25 or 80 years expert
ence on various railroads that he could
tell the Commission something which
might make it better and nobler and
less inclined to wreak on the poor rail-
roads its revenge because they cluttered
up the face Of the earth. At any rate,
that was just about the essence Of his
plant. Now, all communications are
received with respect by the Commits
sion. Anyone may write and make
complaint, and his letter will be an
swered and his complaint looked into.
The forms required to get action are
the simplest possible, but in this case
the self-deprecatory railroad mans
letter was handed over to an official
who read it and remarked that this
mar has merely a rudimentary knowl-
edge Of railroading," and instructed
a clerk to write and explain to the gen
eral freight and passenger agent as
gently as possible that there was moth
ing to his complaint; nothing at all.
Aid that closed one incident.
The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1910-12-02
The Screen Is Lifted

The announcement was made No
vember "a by the filing at Salem, Ore,
of articles of incorporation of the newly
formed Oregon & Washington Railway
& Navigation Company. This has re-
vealed in the most unexpected manner
the long-drawn-out mystery OF the real
hackers of Robert Strahorn and the
North Coast railroad, says the Wenat-
chez World. The articles plainly indi-
cate Hartman methods and Hartman
ownership from the start.
They provide for a large new corpor-
alton, with a capital of $4,000, 900,
controlled by the Union Pacific system,
which shall absorb all the present and
prospective lines and other property Of
the Oregon Railway & Navigation
Company, the Oregon & Washington
Railway Company, and the lines of the
North Coast Railroad Company; also
many smaller lines in the Pacific North
west which have been built or acquired
independently Of these three main com
panies.
This is not only a big milestone in a
unique, carefully planned and brilliantly
executed operation in railroad history,
but it is far more important in its bear
ing upon the transportation interests Of
the Northwest, both on account Of its
being the largest railway corporation
ever formed in this field and Oh account
of the revelation of the vast provision
being made for new work in all parts
Of Washington and Oregon-in the
Spokane country especially.
The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1910-12-02
COUNTY REAL ESTATE TRANSFERS
Furnished by the CheIan County Abstract
Company, for the Week Ending
November 20, 1910

Company, for the Week Ending
November 20, 1910
VT Clark to The Clark Co, Its l to 4.
8, IS to II, 20 b 5, Columbia Bryce
ad, 81.
M Koran ct al to o A Leedy, 1t 4 b 81,
Wenatchee Cemetery, $40.
u Nelson to G N Railway Co, atrip
so feet wide in ne AneA 1-24-17,
S125.
A E Spurgeon to E F Cadman, p int
in pit It 8 b 81, 1st ad Wen, $1,000.
U S to c P Cooke, nwA, 20-21-22.
G Richardson to J Myers, pit neA
neA, 23-23-18. $1,000.
H Toellner to w S Becker, Its l Q b
80, G N plat Wen, 81.
State of Washington to W T Graham,
swA SEA, 16-23-20, $500.
D N Gellatly to G H Ellis, Jr, u int
in 1t 9 b 40, replat 1st ad Wen, 81.
NJ Fitz to w J Gull, It IS b 3, Ralston
ad to Leav, $3.50.
Otto Green to Norman McPhee, Its 6 7
b 10, Ralston ad to Leav, 81.
Peter Rosen to F a Reynolds, 1t l and
seAneA, 4-25-16, $1,000.
John Noak to F A Reynolds, 1t 8 pit
1t g. Cascade Orchard, ST..
John Noak to F A Reynolds, water IT
purtenant to 1t 8 pit 9 b 7, same, 81.
B D Steward to T M Stewart, 1t II of
"a e-H c1
c F Dixan to c c Warren, seAsAne
d, 15-22-20, $4,000.
Grace Stevens to L R Bailey, blks IS
10 and e go feet blks Is II, Haley's
I'd ad to Wen, $3.50.
Eugene Page to P P Holcomb, 1t 3 b 3,
amended G N plat Wen, $1,000.
Same to same, n13nwA, 7-21-21, pit
nRnRnhnwA swA, $4,000.
J G Debord to F A Reynolds Its II Is
b 8, I'd ad to Leav, $4,000.
L J Wentworth to Wallace Kinley, pit It
4, 16-2S-21, 81.
E L Thompson to Frank Dorm, 1t II b
D, North Cashmere, $500.
w NJ Olive to P V Brown, pit swAnw
Il, 30-22-21, 500.
F A Reynolds to Peter Rosen, Its u to
IS, b 9, Merritt, $500.
A L Hill to Anna w May, 1t II b 10,
Wen Park, $3.50.
w F Anderson to T w Cowan, Its 8 9
81 ID D., Garden Home ad to Wen,
$4,000.
D A Beal to H NJ Maxwell, 1t 8 b e.,
Mob Hill ad to Wen, $2228.
J A Murphy to A T Martin, 1t IS b IS,
Wen Park, 1878.
Mes Jensen to F ] Brady, Its l . b /,
Northrup ad to Leav, 81.
Jnmes Homly to Mes Jensen, 1t l b l.,
Northrup ad to Leav, SIS.
Grace Norton to w NJ Caldwell, ehn
Hn1ane AseA, 21-23-20, $40.
F w Hoffman to same, pit seAseA,
18-23-20, $9804.
Hattie C Kellogg to o B Fuller, pit b
%, Millerdale, 81.
J H Geyer to L A Taylor, w13seA sw
HswA, 33-23-20, ST.
Conrad Rose to ] H Gamer, nHneA
seq n1aswA sea sHneA and 1t D,
4-21-2O, pit seAseA and pit 1t /, a
21-20, $500.
U S to J F Daniel, sRswA, 1921.
w o Par to S NJ Mills, 1t 7 b 10, G N
plat Of Wen, $10500.
w M Caldwell to Willet Fay, eRnEn
HneA swA, 21-23-20, $500.
D E McMillon to L D Merritt, pit Its
IS 90, Sunnyslope Flat, $1,000.
w w Gray to John Quinn, pit Sc seq
5-22-20, $1,000.
J D Alexander to c R Lodwick ct al,
w1aeHswAneA, 3-21-21, 81.
o b Fuller to Jay Wyckof, 1t 3 b 6,
Peachey ad to Wen, $1,000.
Mountain Home maverick. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1906-1911, 1910-09-08
The Roise Enir.

The coming inter-mountain fair
promises to be the most important
event in the history of Idaho. The
splendid crops in the state this year
give the farmers and orchardists d
great opportunity to make fine
display of their products, and very
much interest in manifested bl those
who contemplate placing exhibits at
the fair. The attractions will be of
the highest elias. and the races prom
Use to be far beyond any meet yet
held in the west
A great many distinguished men
of the Pacific coast states have sig
nifed their intention of being pres
ent at some time during the fair
which will swell the attendance and
add to the enthusiasm of the occa-
sion.
No effort is being spared by the
fair association to make this the mos
extensive and complete exposition ev
er held yet between Portland an.
Salt Lake.
Mountain Home maverick. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1906-1911, 1910-09-08

A notable feature of the present
primary campaigns, which Will end
with the direct primary elections
of September 10, has been the in
fuence of the Taxpayers league ana
other organizations of citizens which
have made a study of conditions in
public offices, and are working for
the reduction of taxes by the cut
ting down of expenses wherever pos
sible The cry for economy and an
end of the eXtravagances of public
office has been heard all over the
northwest, and candidates every
where have pledged themselves to
effect reforms that will reduce ex-
penses. This work in the various
counties will be supplemented when
the legislature meets by the efforts
of the state Taxpayers league, which
will keep an eye on the various APP
preparation bills. and seek to pre-
vent the rather free expenditure of
public money that was INDUCED in
by the lawmakers two years ago. In
this Connection several candidates
have suggested reforming the method
of procedure by the legislature with
the appropriations bills. They would
have the budgets of all state Officers
made up ten days after the legisla
ture meets, so that the lawmakins
body can have lots of time to con
slider it, and the committees will ge
a good chance to Investigate any
items that look too big. and Gu
them down. Two years age the ap
preparations bill was rushed through
at the close Of the session. and car
ried a great many items which care
full taxpayers believe might havi
been eliminated to the advantage o
the state treasury.
This cry for economy is not con
fined to any one state or county, bu
it seems to be general in the north
west, and the days when successful
candidates may split up the patronag
among their friends, doing out ia
Jobs with public salaries attached. ar
rapidly drawing to an end. TIL
watchfulness of such organization
as the various tax payers league
will prevent extravaganza in futur
Mountain Home maverick. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1906-1911, 1910-09-08
Butter and Butter Substitutes.

The great majority of people eat
butter and much prefer it to any of
the substitutes which have been put
upon the market However, great
many people muct use a substitute
on account of the high prices which
prevail during certain months of the
year.
Oleomargine is the most common
substitute for butter and millions
of pounds of this product are consum-
ed each year The difference in cost
of production between oleomargarine
and butter is so great that when but
ter retailed at forty cents per pound,
oleomargarine may be retailed at
twenty cents per pound at as great
a profit to the dealer.
The person who chooses to pur-
chase the substitute should be allow
ed to do SO and he should be requir-
ed to pay only the price of the sub
stitute. The difference in price be-
tween the genuine product and the
substitute is so great that dealers
are tempted to sell the later for the
former Only be requiring that the
consumers may differentiate between
the two articles can honest traffic in
the substitute be insured.
This was contemplated by Congress
when the present internal revenue tax
of ten cents per pound was levied up
on "artificially colored oleomargar-
ine' Many people think that all oil
eomaragarine is taxed ten cents pei
pound This is not a fact Oleomar-
garine which is artiicially color
ed" so that the consumer cannot dis
tinguish it from butter is the only
oleomargarine that is thus taxed
When it is put upon the market u
its natural color it is only taxed one
fourth of one cent per pound.
1t is only when the product /.
made to look like butter so that il
may be fraudently sold as butter
that a burdenson tax is imposed up
on it. The imposition of the tax i.
not to suppress the sale of oleomar
garne or to make it more expensix
10 the consumer, but to prevent fraur
in its sale.
Mountain Home maverick. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1906-1911, 1910-09-08

that the cheap diets which / recon-
mend I have lived on myself, and
am living on them continually. Also
! would explain that to me the cheap-
ness is purely incidental. ] do not be-
lieve that anyone ought to live on
twenty cents worth of food a day.
unless it can be shown that he is
healthier and stronger than he could
be if he had thirty or forty cents
worth Of food a day
viii cut the college professors
proposition squarely in half and
will offer to tell any workingman or
workingwoman how to live upon an
expenditure Of ten cents a day for
food, and be able to maintain not
only ones present working efficiency
but perhaps greatly increase it, I'm
less he is different from ninety-nine
per cent of the workingmen with
whom l have lived and talked he
should be able to double his strength
and efficiency. and to set himself
free from innumerable illnesses. both
present and future From Septem-
Der Physical Culture.
Mountain Home maverick. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1906-1911, 1910-09-08
Upton Sinclair on Diet.

saw in a newspaper article the
other day a calculation by some col
lege professor, showing how a work
ing man could live on twenty cents
day. ! do not remember the complete
dietary, but the principal items were
white flour and oleomargarine.
don't know whether the college prof
essor had ever tried living upon the
diet which he recommended. but
suppose he is of the opinion that
workingmen's stomachs are Of coars-
er fibre. 1t is a favorite trick of some
Of the closest hygienists to analyzs
the number Of calories in foodstuffs.
and to map out dietaries which CON
tain the proper amount of proteid.
fats and carbohydrates. without ever
stopping to consider the palatability.
digestibility and wholesomeness Of
the foods / have never yet heard of
any chemist who has burned saw
dust in a retort and calculated its
calorifc value; but personally. if
had to make my choice between a
diet Of white -four and oleomargarine
and one Of sawdust am sure that
! would choose the sawdust for at
least a while
IN set myself apart at once from
the college professor by explaining
Mountain Home maverick. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1906-1911, 1910-09-08

The Fifth Annual Dry Farming
Congress. which will be held in Spo-
kane October 80 in connection with
the Interstate Fair and Dry Farm
ing Exposition. viii attract thousands
Of people from all over the west. and
the railroadse are already advertis-
ing special rates to the city of the
Inland Empire, for the dates men
toned. The Northern Pacific has is
sued an attractive little booklet tel
ling about the forthcoming events
which gives the following facts about
the Dry Farming Congress:
An active list of $4,000 actual
farmers in the non-irrigated districts
of the United States and Canada is
being covered with official calls and
formal invitations to attend and par
ticipate in the Fifth Congress and
Exposition.
The governors of all the states
are invited to attend and participate.
The governors of several states haze
accepted and others are expected to
accept.
1t is expected that Secretary James
Wilson of the Department of Agri-
culture will attend and address the
convention.
All United States senators an
congressman are invited and some
will accept and participate.
All presidents of agricultural col
leges and of universities where ag
riculture is taught have been invit
ed.
A number of federal experts vii
be present, and the Dry FARMING
Directors of the several western
states have accepted.
The ministers of agriculture of al
foreign countries have been invite
to attend and participate. either per
sonally or through regularly accred
! tied representatives.
Assurances have been given tina
5 delegates from several of the easi
= ern states will participate in the cor
! vention. as much the same method
that are advocated for the so-calle
t dry farming territory of the west al
= Nv being advocated and studied
t all states where there are over-worl
= ed soils and possibilities Of droutl
4 The commercial bodies of the for
= western provinces of Canada are O
e. ganizingf delegates and exhibits.
e Australia and Hungary have prom
f ised to send federal exhibits.
r. The fruit crop of Washington ar
t Oregon is exceeding even the grea
l. est early expectations, and Will pr =
Il a big asset to the state this yea
e when the wheat crop Will run belo
It the average. F. w. Graham, mort
e west industrial agent of the Gre
e Northern, in an interview with Il
IS Post lntelligencer, declares that Il
IS output of the Wenatchee valley W
e be worth S2.5OO.O0O this year. NJ
Mountain Home maverick. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1906-1911, 1910-09-08

ct have world of confidence IN
Chamberlain Cough Remedy for
have used it with perfect success, -
writes Mrs NJ. l. Basford Pooles-
Vile. Md. For sale by r. w. Smith
Co.
Mountain Home maverick. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1906-1911, 1910-09-08

Graham is in close touch with the
situation. as the railroads are can
stantly at work getting advance in
Foundation on the crop and preparing
TO handle it, With Wenatchee shi.-
ping $500 to 5000 cars this year.
the states crop. if other regions are
equally prosperous. will far surpass
and previous yield. And only about
one-fourth of the planted trees are
in full bearing this year. With new
trees coming into bearing each year,
and the railroad bringing new settlers
into the fruit districts almost as fast
as their trains can carry them across
the continent, Washington is Ger
tain to develop into what nature in
tended her to be, one of the worlds
great fruit centers.
A special train load of Seattle
business men, under the auspices OF
the Seattle Chamber of Commerce.
will make a tour of the principal cit
les in Washington during the last
week in September renewing bust
ness acquhintances. promoting the
trade of Seattle with other cities OF
the state and enjoying what will be
at once a vacation and a compliment
airy call on the cities whose pros
perity is in turn contributed to by
Seattle's prosperity. The special train
will carry 100 business men. ans
will leave Seattle for Gray's Harbor
Thence the route will be to Soutl
Bend. and from there to Portland
The itinerary provided for trip N
the North Bank to Kennewick, Pasc
and Spokane, and then by the North
ern Pacific to North Yakima, Ellene
burg and home again, with stops a
all cities and towns of Importance o
route.
Mountain Home maverick. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1906-1911, 1910-09-08
NEWS FROM THE
NORTHWEST
DRY FARMING CONGRESS AT
SPOKANE TO BE GREATEST
EVER HELD

Washington Wants to Cut Down En-
penses of Running State Business.
Immense Output of Fruit win
Total Coast States $4,000 900.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1910-11-24
MODERN WoODMEN's BALL
Eleventh Annual Dance Most Success
fuI Ever Given

The Modern w lodmen of America held
their lllh annual ball last evening at the
armory. The affair was the most sue
cessful yet, since the first bail was held
II years ago, and the attendance was
greater than ever before.
The evening opened with concert by
Lessons orchestra, which also furnished
music for the dancing. The concert in
Guided four selections and was followed
by q dances. Refreshments were served
during tho evening,
The various committees in charge were
made up as follows:
Committee OF arran3emcnts-Josc
cote, William Thyme, Henry H. salls.
f. NJ Walker c. A. Shortslceves, J. "
Douglass; finance. Henry Ii. Sails; floor
George Alien. manager, Andrew Char
land, assistant; a. F. LimOgc, second
! assistant; alds, Charles II. Mnrengo.
| VIM. j. Riley, Jr., Charles Boleau, Jacob
Yeti, Amos DrCckney Joseph st. Ger
| main; Introduction, Frederick Nlchnls
s. W. Frazer. William Mimeau A "
Chase. Benjamin Frank, r. G. Jacku,nr.
reception, A. O. Palmer, j. E. Burke
a. 4. Childs DR. O. ". HeininRer. r @
Miles, Or, L A. Widbor. j. j. E,rluht
Is, T. Tousley; advertising, l.. c. Euch-
, ner. II. 6. Jerome