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The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1911-11-03
Many Automobiles in This County

E. ]. Koors, secretary OF the state
tax commission has just completed a
statement compiled from figures sent
in by the various county assessors show
ing the number of automobiles in the
state to be 5,185 and that the actual
value of these machines is Sc, O65, 1877.
This would be at the rate of one ma
chine to every 200 persons in the state
or allow each person the use OF an auto
for one day if evenly distributed. The
average would be five machines fol
every 1000 persons in the state,
while figuring on the basis of the last
federal census the average amount in
vested in automobiles by each person
in the state would be $3.50 or $5,-
3O2.o3 for each 1000 persons. The
statement shows that San Juan county
has no automobiles this being the only
where there are none, altho Skamanla
and Franklin counties have but 8 and
Wahkiakum only Q automobiles. Che
Ian county has 88 machines and as the
last federal census gives Chelan coun-
ty population of IS, 104 that makes
an average of cars for every 1000
people. The actual value of these 80
cars is $75,267, or each 1000 people
have $4,o83.25 invested in automo-
biles, which is an average of $4.98 fol
every person, which is slightly below
average for the state.
The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1911-11-03
PESHASTIN ECHOS

Ida Coons is very i'll with typhoid
malaria fever.
A. ]. Amos of Dryden was business
visitor here Tuesday.
Miss Irene Wilson departed Sunday
for Wenatchee and Entiat to visit
friends.
The Christian Endeavor will serve a
pie supper next Friday evening.
Everybody come.
Walter and Edwin Young spent Sun
day at Blewett, taking pictures and
enjoying the scenery.
]. C. Schultz has the job OF paperlng
and painting the D. Nc. Co.'s store
which is nearing completion.
On account of the teachers attend
ing the teachers institute at Wenatcnee
there was no school this week.
Mr.. Cappack's family arrived Tues
day from Everett and are at present
living in ]. N. Hobson's house across
the river.
Adele Banks is very sick with typhoid
fever at the home of S. P. Beecher.
This is the second case of fever in Mr..
Banks family this fall.
sc. Woldenberg of Leavenworth
was down here Saturday night helping
to organize a socialist club. They met
at the home of T. M. Jones with g
membership of about twenty.
The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1911-11-03
Many Suits Against County Officials

A suit has been started in Pierce
county against certain county officials
to recover the money they drew as
salaries when the county was raised
from the second to the first class in
1905, by the attorney generals office
on information furnished by the state
bureau of inspection. A suit to col
lect $1,700 has also been started
against one of the county commits
sioners who charged that amount for
the use Of his automobile. 1t is be-
lieved that the officials whose bonds
were paid for contrary to law by the
county will reimburse the county with
out being compelled to by suit. There
are more than 1000 cases turned ovel
to the attorney generals office by the
bureau of inspection.
The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1911-11-03

Mrs. I. M. Hannah went. to Wenat-
chez Tuesday on business.
H. A. Harvey is attending the
teachers institute in Wenatchee this
week.
H. w. Otis came down from his
home on Mason creek Tuesday on
business.
Several mining men passed through
here on their way to Blewett Monday
and Tuesday.
Harry Krollpfeiffer came down from
Leavenworth Tuesday visiting H. H.
Starke and wife.
G. B. Kinney, family and Mrs. C.
L. Barker drove to Blewett Tuesday
for pleasure trip.
Mr.. Mahoney of Leavenworth is SUI
fering from an attack of packeritis
contracted at Peshastin.
G. B. Kinney is walking on clutches
this week as the result Of a bad sprain
received while hauling fodder.
Mr.. and Mrs. Behan returned Tues
day from Mason creek where they have
been visiting at the home of H. W.
Otis.
Walter Craig and L. S. Robinett
have taken the contract to dig some
eight hundred sacks Of potatoes fol
West and Moore.
The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1911-11-03
Commissioner Must Stand Trial

Former Highway Commissioner Jos.
M. Snow, who was charged with grand
larceny by embezzlement must stand
his trial according to decision OF the
supreme court which reversed the
supreme court OF Thurston county and
orders the case to trial. When Snow
retired from Office he refused to turn
over 50, 100 of state money paid by
the Milwaukee railroad for the road
through Snoqualmie Pass, of which ne
was appointed trustee in order that the
money might be used on another road
in the same district. The state after
repeated demands for the money
started suit in the criminal and civil
courts, but Snow won out on the Thur
ston county superior court in crlmi'
nal suit started by the state.
The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1911-11-03
CANDIDATES STAND
ON THE BOND ISSUE
CONTINUED from first page)

attorney on the citizens ticket: I
decline to discuss the bond question in
connection with my candidacy for the
Office of city attorney. My opinion
on that subject has nothing whatever
to do with my qualifications any fitness
for that office. The bond election will
be over and done with and out of the
way before the primary is held, and if
the proposition to bond the city is
carried, the city officers will have no
other alternative but to carry out the
wishes of the people as expressed, un-
less some legal objection is interposed,
no matter what their private opinion
or wishes might be in, the matter. If
I am chosen as the city's legal adj
visor, any opinion 1 may render to any
city official will be based on law and
will have the sanction of the law. l
am in this race on my own merits as
a lawyer, and will be elected on my
merits, il elected, and not because l
am either for or against the bonds"
w. c. Woldenberg, candidate for
councilman on the socialist ticket: Il
am emphatically opposed to the bond
issue"
John Koerner, candidate for re-elec-
ton to the Office of city treasurer: I
favor the bond issue for the reason that
under it the people will get water for
drinking purposes of which no one
need be afraid he is swallowing typhoid
germs with every drink. We will also
have water for fire protection on the
north side, which everyone knows is
badly needed"
Charles Anderson. candidate for city
treasurer on the socialist ticket: Il
am in favor Of municipal ownership of
the water system, and would favor the
bond issue if it is contemplated for the
city to buy the present water system"
The following named, o. B. Robert
The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1911-11-03
Preston Offered COmmissiOnership

Attorney Harold Preston of Seattle,
has been offered by Gov. Hay the
place left vacant in the public service
commission by the death of H. A.
Fairchild, but Mr.. Preston has declined
the appointment. He is one Of the
trainers of the industrial insurance law
and was also one of the original workers
for the railroad commission law.
The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1911-11-03
Starts More TrnnnIe

If all people knew that neglect of
constipation would result in severe in
digestion, yellow jaundice or virulent
liver trouble they would soon take DR..
Kings New Life Pills, and end it. It's
the only safe way. Best for biliousness
headache, dyspepsia, chills and debil-
ity. Csc at all druggists.
The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1911-11-03
500 Reward. 500

The readers of this paper will be pleased to
learn that there is at least dreaded disease
that science has been able TO cure in all its
stages, and that is Catarrh. Halls Catarrh Cure
is the only positive known to the med
ical fraternity. Catarrh being a constitutional
disease requires constitutional treatment.
Halls Catarrh Cure Is taken internally, acting
directly upon the blood and mucous surfaces of
the system, thereby destroying the foundation
of the disease, and giving the patient strength
by building up the constitution and assisting ma
ture In doing its work The proprietors have
SO much faith in its curative powers that they
offer One Hundred Dollars for any that 1t
fails to cure. Send for list of testimonials.
Address F. ]. CHENEY & CO., Toledo 0.
Sold by all Druggists, 75c.
Take Halls Family Pills for constipation
The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1911-11-03
Saved Many From Death

w. L. Mock OF Mock, Ark, believes
he has saved a great many lives in his
25 years of experience in the drug bus
mess. What I always like to do he
writes, is to recommend DR.. King S
New Discovery for weak, sore lungs,
hard colds, hoarseness, obstinate
coughs, la grippe, Group, asthma or
other bronchial affection, for feel sure
that a number of my neighbors are
alive and we'll today because they took
my advice to use it. I honestly believe
it's the best throat and lung medicine
that's made" Easy to prove he's
right. Get trial bottle free, or regu-
lar SOC or $1.00 bottle. Guaranteed
by all druggists. Nov
Goliath was not the first man or the
last to be laid low by a sling.
The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1911-11-03

son, and Peter Sauer, on the citizens
ticket, and Evangeline Peterson, ]. B.
Bowers, w. H. Studebaker and VIM.
Harris, candidates on the socialist tic
ket could not be seen, for which rea-
son their stat ement is not given.
The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1911-11-03

pect to control $4,000 votes. j..
Allen Smith, the head of the ticket,
was several years ago the subject of
considerable comment on account OF
his socialistic teaching and there was
some talk OF having the regents dis
miss him
The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1911-11-03

The man selected to head the So
cialistic ticket at the coming state
campaign is reported to be ]. Allen
Smith, of the University of Washing
ton, and it is said that the socialist
party will have full ticket and ex-
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1911-11-13
DIED OF BLOOD POISONING
Mrs. DANES S. Ito Passed Away l:arIy
This Morning-i1ad Been Ill
q Month.

Mrs. James L. Leo, aged "a wears.
died at the family home, 1917 lone
avenue. at 3 O'Clock this morning aft
er an illness of about IL month, blood
poisoning being the Immediate cause
OF her death. Tho deceased was talk
en- ill about Il month ago, and in. spite
of all that medical aid and the low
Ing caro- of Il devoted family could
do. she gradually grew weaker until
death came early this morning to
claim one who has always been a de-
voted mother and wife, and who had
u host of friends in the city.
Mrs. Leo was born in Charles City,
iowa, forty-four years ago. About
thirty years ago she came to the Red
river valley will. her parents, who
settled near C~rookston. Twenty-three
years ago she. then Miss Sarah Brcy-
cite. was united in marriage in Grand
Forks to James p. Leo, shortly after
which they left the city and resided
on Il farm until about ten years g
when they returned here.
Vii children, her husband and a
large circle Of friends remain to
mourn her loss. The children are,
Mrs. Frank Shuc. Mrs. Roy Bliren,
Edward, Marjorie. Henrietta. Howard,
Ethel. Ellen and Lclian. The tuner
al will be held from st. Michael's
church at . o'clock Wednesday morn
ing.
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1911-11-13

the city during the day for the pur-
pose of making Il purchase of winter
cluth1nG. TWO companions had gone
To Powell III :: o'clock but Dudley did
not catch the train. About 4:30 he
called tli" l.Arivur farm by telephone
seeking t. learn whether or not MIR.
l.;irlN"" was coming to tho city. and
'llalnS that he WAS not. hi, tried to
Walk ont. The L;irivcc residence is
located Just seven rallies from Grand
Forks on til" road II mile north OF
the Great Northern right of way.
The discovery uf tho hody was made
lay Il man aud his family WHO had
stopped ut the Larivrc farm over
night Will" driving from t;ilby to
Grand Forks, they also being caught
i'll the storm.
1t is believed that Du,llr, had Il rirl,
brother RESIDING, in illinois. as he had
spoken "f Il '%n:illionlirr brother to
ether m,iI' rnl.,l"Hcd on tho Larivre
farm. lie had '"n employed there
"nlN Il month. and had previously been
located 1T Reading, Cal, and kalis-
pei. Mont.
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1911-11-13
FROZEN To. DEATH ATTEMPTING To
MAKE SEVEN NILE Walk IN STORM
Farm Hand Employed Near Grand Forks Overcome by
Blizzard--Reached Point Five and a Half Miles From
City Before Worsted.

Attempting to make Il walk OF cvc
miles through the Saturday night
blizzard, John Wesley Dudley, aged
about -. w;,s overcome and frozen TO
death utter rcH"Iing II point within Il
milo and II hall nf his destination. lie
left Grand. I'vrl.,i Saturday afternoon
at 5 O'Clock far the Henry Larivcc
farm. one mi!r Horth of Powell, :rnd
was found SundIE morning about 10
o'clock lying OH the prairie.
Dudley had made i; brave tight
against the storm which WIS prevail
ing 1T The time, but had been unsuc-
resSfuI. When ir left the city it was
showing hard. ;lWl out on the prairie
the conditions became wen worse.
With. the temperature constantly tlil-
ing. Tho task proved too great.
The unfortunate mans body was
brought tn the citN and placed at tile
Brcscc undertaking parlors. IN i'll
quest being held in the afternoon and
resulting in Il verdict OF death from
exposure.
1t appears that Dudley had been in
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1911-11-13
GRAFTON MINISTER { .DEA7H IN
TRAGIC manner SUNDAY MORNING
Found at Bottom Of Well After Entire Male Population of
City Had Prosecuted Search-A Long Period of Ill
Health Was Responsible

Death by falling into IL we'll while
seeking relief from insomnia is the
finding OF tho coroner's jury that in
vestigated sensational details sur
rounding the tragic demise of REV.
John ~. Ofstcdahl, pastor of the Unit
cd Lutheran church of Grafton,
whose body was found in u we'll about
200 feet from his home Sunday morn.
ing after a. search in which Company.
e. of the North Dakotn national guard
and almost the entire male population
of h city had participated.
Leaving his home about . o'clock
in the morning and returning a few
minutes later only to 20 out once
more. members of the family became
alarmed when he failed to again re-
turn. Tho first search was commence
eel within fifteen minutes of his dis
appearance. and though n%cighbors
were called to assist. nothing was
found. About S:3O o'clock Company
G Of the national guard was called
out to assist in the search, and at 9
o'riock II general alarm was given.
For two n q half hours the en-
tire city Of Grafton was searched for
the missing mali. Squads were form
trict, but !. was lot until 1880 O'clock
that Mr. ..ie}guard, agent of the STAN
dard OIL company. was successful in
locating the dead body lying in IL well
OH the II. Q. l'inklc property, only
about 200 feet from tho residence.
The we'll in which the minister met
his death had only Il few feet of wa
ter in it, and ice had formed over it
between the time Rev. Mr., Ofstcdahl
had gone through it to his death, and
the time the first searchers arrived
on the Gene. Previous to the time
that the successful searclhcr had look
cd into the we'll and had discovered
That the ice had been broken once
that morning. other searchcrs had
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1911-11-13
ELEVATOR CASES
ARE DECIDED
Railroads Can Charge More
Than Actual Cost For
Service

Washington. Nov. 1".-Thc long
stubbornly fought contest over the
power "f the interstate
commission to prohibit railroads from
paving to operators at elevators all
commission for %'cleNating grain i'll
transit" was finally decided today
when tic United states supreme court
held the commission possessed no such
power.
The decision w;lS ncccssitatr,l by the
commission III 1905 iSSuin" an order
exercising this power and l,y the Unit
cd Suites circuit court for the western
Missouri subsequently, holding the or
der null and void because beyond the
authority OF the commission To issue.
Til" supreme court held that the or
der of The commission reducing the al
loW;lnrc for elevation tn the cost OF
the service, namely thrrc-fourtlls of
one cent. should he allowed to stand
The court also allowed ln stand the
su-callrl Peavey order OF 1908 in So
far us il confined the allowance tu
grain rc-silippcd within ten days.
Except ms to these two points the
decree of the United States circuit
court for the Western Missouri district
in regard to the elevation charges WAS
affirmed. Associate Justices Mrkcnnu
and Hughes disScntcd.
Returned To Grand Forks.
Mrs. III. L.. buckingham and son,
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1911-11-13
VALLEY EXHIBIT K
VERY IMPORTANT
TO FARMERS
They Must Make It a Success
Value to District Is
Unusually Great

Every farmer and land owner j..
the Red river valley has "a parson;
interest in The big northwestern Ian.
snow to be hcid in the st. Paul au
purpose of the show is to call a1tc..
purpose or the show is 1 Orail aztec,
ton to the farm lands of the "l'ru:.
perity States of America" which ~,
Minnesota. North DAKOTA, South ID.
kota' Montana, Idaho. Washingto.
ana oregon, and to attract now SCI
tiers TO these states . Being held il.
st. Paul. the show is conveniently 10
Gated to reach prospective settler.
from southern Minnesota, Wisconsin.
II Indiana and Iowa.
FOR various reasons, the most i'm.
portant of which is the fact that tn.
RcdCriver valley is Il district pcculi.A
to itself and specially favored ahoN,
all other general farming districts o.
the northwest, 81 group of booster.
from the six valley counties of Nur,,.
DaEota have organized and will ar
range for and show Il special Rcu
river valley exhibit. The purpos on
the special Red river valley SHOW
which will mean IL lot of work ana
expense is made for tho purpose o..
attracting settlers to the valley ana
every new settler means more stuni,
land values and better values. That
Is why every farmer and land owne,
In the valley has IL personal interest
in the exhibit and why every farmer
should help in the collection of the
necessary products that will make I'LL
the valley exhibit.
The committee in charge OF the ex-
hibit desires reports OF heavy Yields
In various localities and reports OF
specially fine quality products OF all
sorts. Every farmer or other person
Interested in boosting for the valley
is asked to report ut once any infor-
nation covering these points. Reports
may be made to NJ. G.. Rachcll~r,
Grand Forks, superintendent of cx-
hibits, or to the following committees
men: Rlchiand county. Albert Weiss
or Il. j. Hughes. Wahpeton: Cuss
county. \. Amerland. Fargo: I'rain
county. IL. y. Sarles. lIillshoro, or NJ.
county, NJ. G. Bachcllcr. Grand
Forks; Walsh county, j. L.. Gray,
Grafton; Pcnlbinu county, u. j. Lax
dal, Cavalier.
Fine samples of all kinds of valley
products should he sent to these
county representatives or TO AIR.
Bachelor at once. that the committee
may know what is available and fur
thcr that there may be time to pre-
pare fpr exhibit,
Corn will be- specially featured and
all valley boosters are urgently re-
qucstcd to send The best ten car sam
pies available to their county repre-
scntativcs Or to Headquarters ut Grand
Forks. The committee will USE all
tho good ten car samples it can get
and prefers tho dent varieties.
Individual farmers may compete
Tor three handsome cups that are of
fered. One is for The best busl,al
of spring wheat raised in North pa-
kota this Year, Another is. for the
best half buslel Of. fax raised in
North Dakota this ~vtar aud IL third
is. for tn. hest busllal Of. winter wheat
raised in the nIrtIlwrsi. lI viii be
specially valuable to the valley Ia
have this winter wheat cup won by
II Rcd river valley farmer.
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1911-11-13
GRAND FORKS HAS
new RAILROAD
IN VIEW
Watertown Boosters Seek
Local Cooperation in the
Proposed Movement

Grand Forks has All opportunity of
taking n hand in the selection of the
route that will be taken by the Min
ncapolis Il st. Louis railroad from
Watertown. s. d., tn some point in
Canada, according to advices received
from WatertUwn. The special railroad
committee ot the Grand Forks Com
mcrcial club, of which I. II. Griffith
is chairman. has already taken the
proposition up.
From Watcrtown ONE the follow
ing press dispatch telling of the pro-
posed movement:
"Tnuugurating q movement to CO.
operate with the Minneapolis 4. ST.
Louis Railroad company in building Il
road north from Watertown to Il point
beyond the Canadian border, and to-
further the project of extending the
inc south through Sioux Falls. Sioux
City. Omaha. and on to the gulf, 200
business men of Watertown held an
enthusiastic mass meeting last night
at which plans We're perfected for
working in harmony with the other
cities Interested in II great booster
campaign.
'Thc presence of Il corps of st.
Louis engineers north OF Watertown,
together with the published state
ments of Newman Erb. president of
the road, that such an extension is to
be built, is the handspring of this ac-
tivity. The st. Louis already has on
file surveys of projected lines north
from this city for about forty miles.
These profiles were. made as the first
step in the old Watertown & Webster
railroad, a move which was swallowed
up when the st. Louis built west from
Watertown. The surveyors now i'll the
field have taken up the work where
the record leaves off, and arc carrying
the line north from that point.
General Manager Bicrd has been
in the field. the reconnaissance being
under his personal direction accord
ing to the orders of the president.
AT the big meeting here a commit
tee of seven prominent citizens was
appointed TO supervise Watcrtown's
part in getting this line. and to work
in conjunction with like committees
from Grand Forks and Fargo in North
Dakota. These combined committees
will interest workers in all towns
Which arc likely tn be on this line
when constructed. IT is also expected
that working committees will be
named ut Sioux Falls and Sioux City.
RESOLUTIONS assuring the road of
NiltertoWn's hearty support were
adopted with IL. whoop after several
addresses by leading railroad spirits.
The general committee will get into
action at once as it expects to see
grading done on the line north carly
next spring."
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1911-11-13

looked into the place, but had failed
to discover anything.
Tt a with the aid Of a rake that
Mr.. B%elguard Tvs successful In bring
ing to light the body Of the unfortu-
nate man.
~ clad when he left his home, being
without Il coat and his protection
against the intense cold which prevail
cd ut the time WAS meugre indeed,
Explanation for his action in wan
dering about at that hour of the norm
ing is found in the fact that he has
been i'll for Il number of months, and
had only recently recovered sufficiently
to return to his home from a hospital
where he vas treated for Il general
nervous breakdown.
He had recently attempted to re-
new his pastorate but was compelled.
because of broken health and his gen
"ral nervous condition, to give up the
work. and Rev. i. Jorgenson of this
city had occupied the pulpit for the
last three weeks.
Only last week arrangements had
hccn completed whereby Rev. Mr..
where it was hoped his health would
be benefited.
Tho deceased minister was one Of
the best known workers of the United
Lutheran church in this state. and had
been prominent in the affairs Of the
general organization. He had been
pastor Of the church ut Grafton for
twenty-five years. a brother was
formerly engaged in the ministry but
resides at Fertile. Mimi, now
His, parents resided ut. ;Zumbrota,
Mimi. for a number of years; making
their home there upon arrival from
Norway.
Rev. Mr.. Ofstcdahl was about SIS
years of age and leaves a wife and
seven children, The funeral arrange
ments have not been. completed.