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The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1911-04-21
Some Baseball Records

The greatest number OF stolen bases
was made by Harry Stovey Of the Ath-
letics in 1888, when he pilfered 156
bags.
The longest distance throw Of 426
feet o1a inches was made by Sheldon
Lejeune, now a member of the Brook
lyn Nationals, at Cincinnati, October
II 1910.
Greatest number of games pitch
ed in a season were 70 by Rad
bourne Of Providence in 1884.
Curve pitching was first used by
Arthur Cummings in 1876.
Overland twirling was authorized in
1884.
First no hit game in history of game
was played in Iona Mich, August II,
1876, between the St Louis Reds and
the Cass club of Detroit. Jim Calvin
pitched for the Reds.
The record for the shortest game is
80 minutes, played September II,
1910, between Antlanta and Mobile
teams at Antlanta, full nine innings.
The greatest number of victories in
a season was made in 1906 by the
Chicago Nationals when they captured
116 games.
The strikeout record for a season is
held by Walter Johnson Of the Wash
ingtons, that of $40 made by him last
year.
George Gibson holds the record for
consecutive games caught; in 1909 he
was behind the bat 140 days without a
letup.
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LEAVFNWORTH DRAMATIC CLUB
day and Thursday Nights Draws a Large
Crowd

1t was large and appreciative audi
ence that gathered at the opera house
Tuesday night to witness the Leaven-
worth Dramatic Clubs presentation oi
Hello Bill" The play was laugh
from start to finish, and one of the best
ever given by home talent.
w. B. Simpson, the leading man,
who took the part Of the bogus Gen.
Fuller, acted his part to perfection, and
kept the audience in a continual scream
of laughter. He gets into many scrapes
and predicaments but, through the aid
OF his friend, Mr.. Cutting, manages to
pull through all light. Harry Maston as
Chris Cutting did his part well.
c. E. Davis as DR.. Hastings, the En-
glishman who just came over" and
was looking for an heiress, was excep-
tionally good.
Howard VanBrocklin as Ned Hem
ingwav, aide de camp to Gen. Fuller,
surprised his friends by the excellence
Of his acting.
Miss Goldie Case as Isabelle Dare,
the trusting wife, did her part in a
most creditable manner.
Miss Leo Davis, playing the part Of
Dorothy Dare, fiancee Of Ned Heming-
way, acted the role with her usual
charm.
Miss Edna Featherstone as Harriet
Sterling, who didn't get left" would
have been hard to beat.
M. A. Marley, the genuine Gen.
Fuller, appears in the last act and
makes things hum for while. He is
finally taken with fit of laughter which
would have been hard to tell from the
real thing.
Miss. Nellie Betz, Rose Rhodes and
Frank Meeker, who had minor parts,
did very nicely. The management as
whole deserves much credit.
The Kid Band, under the direction
of Prof. Mcdaniel, played between
acts and received much applause.
The play was repeated Wednesday
night tn a crowded house. The com
pany is -nearsing several other new
plays, which will be put on in the nea
future.
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PUBLIC SCHOOL NOTES

The public school children observed
Easter last Friday afternoon by setting
out thirty trees in the school yard. To
each grade was given the planting and
future care of three trees.
Miss Evangeline Peterson taught the
third grade Thursday and Friday, dur
ing the absence of Miss Rhodes.
The following new pupils have been
enrolled so far this month: Alice Reilly
formerly of Pearl, Wash; Inez Everig
formerly Of Seattle; Pansy Jenkin, form
erly Of Waterville, Wash; Lucille Tice,
formerly OF Wenatchee; Hazel, Ray
mond and Viola Feley, formerly Of
Quincy, Wash; Charles Wedell, form
erly of Litchfeld, Maine.
The school was favored with an unusu-
ally large number Of visitors on April
IA. Following are the names: Mrs.
Logan, Mrs. Duncan, Mrs. Wallace,
Mrs. Cline, Mrs. Meach, Mrs. Pinch,
Mrs. Jacobsen, Mrs. Hartman, Mrs.
Albright, Miss Ralston, Mrs. Ahearn,
Mrs. Lindsay, Mrs. Franklin, Mrs.
Jones, Mrs. William Titus, Mrs. R. E.
Simons, Mrs. l. c. VMney, Mrs. J. R.
Meath, Mrs. M. Murray, Mrs. T. J.
Grant, Mrs. S. J. Anderson. Mrs. M.
Hutchings, Mrs. P. Heinrich, Mrs. c.
J. Sutton, Mrs. J. w. Ewing, Mrs. J.
Null, Mrs. P. H. Graham, Mrs. P.
Van De Grit, Mrs. Carter, Mr.. Van De
Grit, Mr.. DeBlois, H. E. Carr.
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A WOULD-BE LIEUT.. GOVERNOR
]. f. Ferguson of CheIan County May Be a
Candidate for the Office-Few Aspirants
Have as Yet Made Themselves Known

J. E. Ferguson, sheriff Of Chelan
county, is doomed as a candidate on
the Republican ticket next year for
lieutenant governor of the state Of
Washington.
Last Sundays issue Of the Seattle
Times contained the following:
81. E. Ferguson, sheriff of Chelan
county, probably will be candidate
for lieutenant governor next year.
Ferguson does not want the posi-
ton and probably never would have
thought of seeking it but for the i'm
portunities OF friends who believe he
can be nominated at the Republican
primaries. Ferguson likes the work in
the sheriff's office, but he is compile
ing his second term and will have to
move out.
Politicians attempted to launch
boom for Ferguson for secretary OF
state when he attended the last state
convention of sherifs held in Olympia
this year. The Chelan County sheriff
refused to listen to such a suggestion
and probably never would have thought
of state office had not the lieutenant
governorship been passed up to him.
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GOLD FROM THE ENTIAT MINE
Two-Stamp Mill Turns Out Eight Hundred
Dollars in TE;rty-three Hours - Owners
of the Property Smiling Compls entity

The Entiat gold mine is paying big
money and, from present indications, it
bids fair to become one OF the important
industries in Chelan county, says the
Wenatchee World Of Monday. Man
ager Sorensen, who is now working with
a crew Of FIVE men, has just sent down
$500 worth of amalgam. This amount
of gold was run out Of a two-stamp mill
in 33 hours time The main ledge is
now from 10 to "a inches thick and is
getting wider. The assay shows it runs
from 500 to $375 worth Of gold per ton.
Aside from this there are a number Of
small leads which carry high values.
The members Of the company owning
the mine are elated, and the question
of putting in fve-stamp mill is being
considered.
The mine was discovered 10 years
ago by E. J. Crum and Burns Yocum.
For a considerable time A. P. Clayton
and his associates had control Of it, but
could not make it pay. Subsequently
E. J. Crum continued doing assessment
work. The mine is now owned by the
Wenatchee Gold Mining Company Of
Seattle. The principal stockholders are
Jack Lillis, Percy Scheble, Tom Nc
Cough, Jess Bonar, M. P Spencer, w.
7. Gulledge.
1t has developed that close to $4,000
worth of gold was taken from the mine
by E. J. Crum while doing the assess
ment work.
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Young People Marry

The marriage of Miss Emma L.
Hamilton to Mr.. Louis A. Meeker oc-
cured at the home of the brides parents,
Mission and First streets, on Saturday
at o'clock. Rev. M. L. Sanders Of
the Methodist church oficiated.
The groom was formerly of Peshastin,
but for the past year has been engaged
with his brothers in the dairy business
in Wenatchee. The bride is the
daughter of W. H. Hamilton. Both
parties are among the younger set Of
the city, the groom being eighteen,
and the bride seventeen years Of age.
-Wenatchee World.
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Coal Strike Does Not Interfere

The strike among the miners in the
Crows Nest mines will not interfere
with the operation Of the great North
ern Railway, as was enormously re-
ported -ntly. Although that rail
road gets a large part Of its fuel from
the northern fields usually, it has other
sources Of supply in Wyoming and at
the head of the Great Lakes. M. J.
Costello, assistant traffic manager OF
the Great Northern, says that the COM
pany also has a vast coal reserve on
hand.
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NEW REAL ESTATE COMPANY
viii Operate On a Large ScaIe-Buying
Tracts and Cutting Them Up

An unconfirmed rumor foated around
town last week that a new real estate
firm was about ready to be launched.
This week it has been confirmed.
The name Of the new company will be
The Adams Real Estate Company; and
will be composed OF J. B. Adams, D..
Mackay and F. S. Jacobsen.
All the parties are well known and
considered among the live and ener-
getic business men OF the town. Mr..
Adams has been associated with H. E.
Carr in the real estate business for the
past three years. Mr.. Mackay is man
ager Of the Lamb-Davis Lumber Com
pany, and Mr.. Jacobsen has been con-
nected with the same company for the
past seven years, at present being fis-
cal agent.
1t is understood that the company
controls ninety acre tract Just across
the Wenatchee river south Of the town,
which is being cut up into acreage
tracts and will be placed on the mar
bet soon
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LEAV[NWORTH LOSES ANOTHER
A Big Crowd Attends the Game Sunday at
the County Seat-Tholin's Home Run the
Feature of the Day

the County Seat-Tholin's Home Run the
Feature of the Day
Before one OF the largest crowds that
ever turned out to ball game in Wen
atchee the champs got their second
walloping of the season last Sunday.
For the past three years the home team
has won majority of the games played,
and the defeat of last Sunday was
bitter pill to swallow.
Over 200 fans went from here to wit
ness the opening game, along with the
Kid band which served to cheer up
some of the disheartened.
The day was windy and dusty and
the weather a little chilly; but at no
time in the game did the fans lose in
terest. The way the first inning opened
up the prospects were good for the
champs, and the game looked as tho it
would be real easy. Tholin, first up,
raped out a nice hit. Mahoney sac
rifced him to second. Miller followed
with a clean single, and stole second.
Kelso slammed out two-bagger and
scored two runs. Foster evidently woke
up about this time, as the next two men
up went down in short order.
Up to the fourth inning not man
had reached third base; but an error on
the part of Souder proved fatal. Ames
hit high infeld fly that wasn't caught.
Souder recovered the ball and threw to
first, the ball going wild and the runner
going to third. Lano errored at third
and Ames came home. Quigley came
up next and hit safe; was soon around
to third, coming home on a hit by Fuller
which tied the score. This, however,
was the end for the present.
The fruiteaters got busy again in the
sixth inning, scoring one more run.
The following inning was regular hit
fest. Everybody up slammed the ball,
four runs coming in before the side was
retired.
In the eighth the Wenatcheeites
again got man over the plate, which
left the score 8 to Q.
The ninth inning opened with the
situation looking very gloomy. There
was hardly a chance left. But the old
spirit which has won so many games for
the home team still prevailed. Fromme
went in to bat for Lano, and Lee for
Taylor. Both men reached first safely.
Then the unexpected happened. 1t
was Tholin's turn with the stick. The
second ball thrown proved to be the
one Ed was waiting for, and he met it
fairly. Far out into the left field it
scared, nor did it stop after striking the
ground. Rose took after it Immediately
it was hit, and was just picking it up
when Tholin crossed the pan. 1t was
pronounced the longest hit ever made
on the Wenatchee diamond. Had the
hit been made on the home grounds it
would have cleared the fence easily.
The score now stood 8 to S with no
one out, and the chances were fairly
good. But Foster proved invincible for
the next three men, and they went out
in quick order. The hopes Of the Lea
venworth fans were shattered.
Kelso proved to be the same man
with the stick. Out of four times up
he secured triple, two-bagger and a
single.
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Il is unlawful for a school director to
employ his children to do janitor work
and to issue warrants to pay them, &C
cording to an opinion Of the attorney
general, who holds the law prohibits
school directors from having any pecu-
mary interest in money expended by
them and, as a parent has right to the
wages of a minor child, he has pecu-
mary interest in the money expended
for such services.
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JURY GIVES BRISKEY DAMAGES
Assessed Six Thousand Eight Hundred and
Thirty Dollars Against the Lamb Davis
Lumber Company in the Superior Court

The damage suit against the lumber
company came to a close Tuesday
evening in the Superior court, We
natchee, by the jury bringing in YER
dict for $6,830 in favor of George
Briskey. The suit grows out of the
building of the lumber company's dam,
causing plaintiffs land to overflow.
The plaintiff was represented by
Martin and Barrow, of Wenatchee, and
the lumber company by Reeves and
Reeves, of the same place. The
ju.v stood eleven to one for Briskey.
Biskey contended that previous TO
1905, when the dam was built, there
were IS acres in cultivation, and that
since then 65 acres have been practi-
cally worthless by the back water from
the dam, which covers the land a por'
ton Of the time. Prof. TrumDle, o.
Wenatchee, well known here, gave
! expert testi-' 2ny for the lumber com
pany, but Judge Martin, representing
Briskey, appears to have turned the ex
pert testimony to his own use before
the jury.
The case will probably be appeal
| ed TO the supreme court.
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Score by innings:

Score by innings:
Wenatchee 0 0 0 3 0 l 4 -8
Leavenworth . 0 0 0 0 0 3-5
Summary: Home run, Tholin. Three
base hit, Kelso. Two-base hits, Ames
(2), Perry, Kelso. Sacrifice hits, War
ren, Fuller, Foster, Souder. Stolen,
bases, Conner, Ames, Quigley, Fuller
(2), Miller 90. Bases on balls, of
Foster, D; off Taylor, 5. Struck out,
by Foster, 8; by Taylor, 8. Hit by
pitched ball, Miller. Wild pitches,
Taylor, Q. Left on bases, Wenatchee,
6; Leavenworth, 7. Time Of game,
1:50. Umpire, Green.
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Kennewick has intervened in the suit
started by the local bodies of Spokane
against the Great Northern, Northern
Pacific, o. w. R. & N. railroads for the
reduction OF rates, and alleges it is en-
titled to the same class rates as Spo-
kane, Walla Walla, North Yakima, and
other jobbing centers, and that it will
be able to serve a larger territory and
more people than any other city in the
Inland Empire.
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ket soon.

A. A. Hannah, the Peshastin ranch
owner, who was taken to Seattle for
surgical operation some five weeks ago
underwent the ordeal and is rapidly
improving at which his many friends
rejoice.
The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1911-04-21

In a recent opinion the attorney gen.
erals office holds that unmarried women
who are supporters Of children or fami-
lies are not to be regarded as heads Of
families and are not entitled to receive
$500 exemption allowed heads of fam
lilies under the law.
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Mrs. A. J. Martin and Mrs. John
Koerner returned the first Of the week
from Seattle, where they spent the
past week.
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In the first three months of the year
1911 the insurance department turned
in to the state treasury 1922, 1880,
according to the report of ]. H. Schively,
insurance commissioner, who also shows
that in the last eleven years there was
collected from insurance companies the
sum of S1.458,50 and in the same
period the amount appropriated for the
maintenance of the department was only
1882, leaving a profit to the state OF
81, 403, $50. The amount collected
has climbed steadily each year, going
from SAC. .727 in 1900 to $264, ,479 in
1910.
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A Washington State Branch Of the
Association for the International Con-
ciliation will be organized, as a result
Of the recent visit OF Baron D'Etour-
nelles de Constant, the distinguished
French peace advocate to the North
west. The committee in charge of the
organization is headed by Judge T.
Burke, VINO is also a member Of the
Carnegie Worlds Peace Movement.
The French Senator said he had
heard SO much about the japanese
menace to the Pacific that he came to
this country to learn for himself what
the prospects Of war were. He left
firm in the belief that there will be no
conflict between the Mikado and
Uncle Sam.
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That the Northwest is destined to
become as great a manufacturing sec
ton in time as New England is today,
is the belief Of Leslie M. Shaw, former
secretary Of the treasury. Mr.. Shaw
has been on the Coast for some time
making investigations for "lstern fnan-
cial interests, whom he represents.
While here, he condemned the recall
Of public officers and deprecated the
tendency toward the election of United
States senators by direct vote. He
said he took this position because the
people are moved oftener by an appeal
to passion and prejudice than from a
sense Of justics
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1t is announced by Governor Hay
upon his return from a trip around the
state that there is practically no senti-
ment in favor of special session OF the
legislature, and the people as whole
do not want the state put to the expense
OF an extra session. The governor said
if the supreme court should hold the
employees compensation act unconstitu-
tional, and point out the defects, it
might be advisable to call special ses-
sion in order to give the voters chance
at the next general election to vote on
a constitutional amendment; but he
says that is most remote, and there IS
no excuse for considering the calling OF
a special session.
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During the year 19 Auditor Otto
Case Of King County saved the taxpay-
ers $24,575.42 in Office expenses as
compared with 1908. These years are
taken for comparative purposes because
both were election years. This record
is of interest to the whole state, as it
shows what can be done in the way Of
official economy, when sincere effort
is made; Auditor Case was able to effect
this saving OF 16 per cent over 1908
because he has always opposed ring
politics and therefore had no army
Of henchmen to take care Of at public
expense. He installed modern meth
DDS utilizing all mechnical labor saving
devices and built up an efficient cleri-
cal force, increasing salaries in proper
ton to the ability displayed. Auditor
Cases conduct of his Offices has been
commended by the Seattle Taxpayers
League, the Chamber Of Commerce
and the King County Grand Jury.
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tuberculosis Sunday has been set for
April 80, according to a proclamation
by Governor Hay, in which he requests
sermons be delivered in the churches
on that day on the prevention and cure
OF tuberculosis.
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'otals .-36 5 7 "a 10 6

sFromme batted for Anderson ninth.
s+Lee batter for Taylor in ninth.
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SCRAPS FROM STATE CAPITOL
The Echo's Special Correspondent Has
Prepared a Popouri of Interesting State
News Fresh from the Records
Olympia, April II, 1911.

olympia, April IL, l9ll.
Articles Of incorporation Of the Hav-
creme Irrigation Company were filed
with County Auditor Burr Of Thurston
county, the incorporators of the new
concern being E. D. Cowen and Kath-
eryne Cowen. Olympia is made the
principal place of business and the cap
italization is $4,000. The company
expects to do general development
work in Chelan county.
It is shown by the report of the state
land commissioner that there is in every
county of the state more or less agricul-
tural land under lease which belongs
to the various state funds. In the state
there is 1oo, $40 acres under lease, and
it brings the state $l10, 1924. The av-
erage rental per acre is only 55.3 cents.
In Chelan county there are $40 acres
of agricultural land under lease, and
this pays to the state 1926 year. The
average rate of rental is 37.4 cents per
acre. There is also 4,o86 acres Of graz
ing land under lease, which brings in a
total OF $466.15, at an average rental
Of "a cents per acre. In the entire
state there is 245, ,222 acres Of grazing
land, leased at at average rate of 80
cents an acre, bringing in to the state
$24,441 a year.
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FROM ALL OVER NORTHWEST
DistributNe Rates - House Committee AS
signments - Quarantine Diseased Orch
a ds-Great Ma acturing Center
Seattle. April 1o, 1911.

SSatsl'rs n EIiii ~ ~ l.
One Of the most important cases ever
considered by the Washington State
Railroad Commission will come up at
Olympia May l. Ii concerns distribu-
tive rates and affects all railroads and
rates in the state. Twenty defendants
and intervenors are on record, as a re-
suit Of which a complex and exhaus-
tive presentation is expected. The
leading commercial organizations OF all
the larger cities will participate. The
commission has also spent some time
in preparing for the hearing.
Washington's new members OF the
lower house OF Congress did not fare
very well in the committee assignments
Representative Warburton Of the Second
District was assigned to the committees
on Indian Affairs and War Department
expenditures. Representative LaFoll-
cite OF the Third District drew mem
berships on the Committee on Coinag
Weights and Measures and Canals.
None Of them are regarded as very
important, because they give little op-
portunity for trading, so that neither
Congressman will have much leverage
to use for the advantage of his constit-
uents.
Diseased orchards ought to be quar-
antinel the same as people suffering
contagious ailments, 2"cording to some
of the leading fruitgrowers of the
Northwest. This propaganda is max
ing headway, particularly in the Yakima
valley, where Dr. J. G. Speicher has
come to the conclusion that there is
a great similarity in the diseases of
plants and animals. He advocates
quarantining orchards infected with
woody aphis and blight. Like con-
sumption and cancer in the human,
these plant ills defy treatment. The
only way to handle such orchards is to
uproot the trees with woody aphis and
destroy them, while blight infected
branches should be cut out and burn
ed. Prevention and eradication is the
only effective way OF handling.
The record., 1911-03-02

Not for an instant expecting to
win the fame of Scott, who wove
the tales and traditions learned
when boy at his grandmother's
knee, into the most wonderful of all
novels, or even thinking that the
reader of this simple sketch will de
rive the pleasure from its perusal
that was mine as | listened To the
tales, tinged by the glamour of ro-
nance and tradition, of which it is
composed, but knowing that the
only way to preserve the traditions
and facts connected with the foun-
dation of any hamlet or city, is in a
printed form, and believing that the
perusal of the incidents as related in
the following sketch will help the
reader to pass of few moments of
the winters gloom in as commend
able a manner as that of social con
versation are my sole excuses for
writing.