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Valdez daily prospector., 1912-03-14

FOR SALE--Two good work dogs, harness and sled. Apply prospector. if
Valdez daily prospector., 1912-03-14
The Seward Gateway is on sale at the Valdez Drug Co. If

Take the little ones to the Ma jesiic tonight to see Memo.
Valdez daily prospector., 1912-03-14

If you want your rurs repair ed see Silverman, phone i98.
The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1912-05-03

Blank Notes and Receipts
Placer and Quartz Location Blanks for sale
at The Echo Office.
The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1912-05-03
Church Services
Methodist Church Notes

Do you know that we are having
good services at the Methodist church,
Yes, we are, its the way the people
sing at the evening service. Good
crowd last Sunday. We want you
there this Sunday. Sunday school,
Epworth League and preaching SER
vices every week. The following new
league officers have been elected:
President, Dan Nicholson; 1st vice
president, Herman franklin; End vice
pres, Ed Krom; Sd vice-pres., Minnie
Sauer; 4th vice-pres., Ethel Masten;
sec., Mary Sauer; treas, Alpha Wells.
Come and enjoy lite with US.
Max A. Jeffords, pastor.
The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1912-05-03

tween the 4oth parallel and the Gulf
of Mexico. The Budget, printed in
Baltimore for the Maryland Casualty
Company, says that the bureau, rep
resenting 90 per cent of the casualty
companies doing business in the
whole country, will furnish any agent
= as many copies as he will agree to
place in the hands of employers, legis-
lators and others" of infamous, lying
bulletins hostile to this law and de-
signed to prevent it from being ad-
opted by other states.
Don't pay too much attention to
the casualty companies or their paid
agents. They're interested. They've
got lot at stake and they loudly,
frantically and tearfully object to hav-
ing their lips removed from the veins
and arteries OF commerce, where they
have lived so long and waxed fat on
the likelihood of the Industries of this
state"
The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1912-05-03
NOTICE OF ELECTION

Notice is hereby given to the qualified
voters of the Oity OF Leayenworth that q
special election will be held In said City on
the 2lst day of May, 1912, for the purpose of
submitting to the qualified voters the fol-
lowing propositions:
plans and specifications for the construc-
ton, purchasing and acquiring of water
works system for the City of Leavenworth.
according to the plans and specifications
prepared by o. H. Green, Engineer. which
have been approved by ordinance of the
City Council and are now on file with the
City Clerk for inspection.
Also the question of issuing the neRo-
table coupon bonds of the City of Leaven-
worth to the amount of Forty Thousand
Six Hundred Dollars 100000 to provide for
the construction, purchase, and acquiring
of a water works system, the said bonds to
thereof with interest at the rate of six go
per cent per annum, payable semi-annually,
to bear date of their ISSUE and to be of the
denomination of One Thousand Dollars
$4,000 each.
The voting places at said election shall be
as follows:
One at the City Fire Hall. situate on lot
seven "a block six go of Leavenworth Gar
dens Addition to City of Leavenworth, at
the Great Northern Railway Companys
right of way within the corporate limits of
said City, shall vote, and
One at the City Hall in the City of Leav-
enworth, at which place all electors resid-
ing south of the Great Northern Railway
Company's right OF way and within the cor
shall vote.
The polls at said election shall be opened
at O'Clock a. m. and closed at O'Clock D.
m.
The following named persons shall act as
Judges and Clerks at said election, to-wit:
At the polling place above named situate on
lot seven "a block (6) Leavenworth Gardens
Addition, and at the city fire hall the fol-
lowing named persons shall act: j. Il.
Schubert as Inspector; Bert Gutherless and
John w. Burns as Judges; Fred Marble and
H. X. Featherstone as Clerks.
AT the City Hall on the south side of the
Great Northern Railway Oompany's right
of way, the following named persons shall
act: Edwin S. Shortley as Inspector; But
Ter Sampson and A. K. Dickinson as
Judges and j. d. Wheeler and Max Krin-
gle as Clerks.
The ballots to be used at said election
shall be for each proposition respectively.
as follows, to-wit:
shall the city of Leavenworth adopt for
the purchase. acquiring and construction
of the proposed water works system the
plans and specifications prepared by @. III.
Green. engineer, which have been approved
by ordinance of City Council, and are now
on file with the City Clerk?n
The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1912-05-03
Peshastin Pickups

Mr.. Mondon of Tacoma was here on
business last week.
o. D. Reeves is on the Sound on
business this week.
Bert Mccoy was a business visitor
here last Monday.
Miss Ella Markham was in Wenat-
chez Saturday on business.
G. B. Kinney was business visitor
in Wenatchee last Saturday.
Miss Davis of Leavenworth was an
over Sunday visitor at Mrs. Behans.
Jessie Mohler OF Cashmere visited
her sister, Mrs. Sussex, last Sunday.
Miss Kazee of Wenatchee is visiting
her sister Mrs. w. N. Love this week.
Mrs. ]. N. Hobson came up from
Wenatchee Monday to spend the sum-
mer.
Miss Eva Wilson returned last week
from Seattle where she has been visit
ing.
]. H. Smith ssand H. H. Hart are
decorating their orchards with new
fence.
Leonard Harvey who has been hunt
ing on Mason Creek returned last week
bringing a bear home with him.
Miss Coral Dow came up from We
natchee Saturday to visit few days
with her cousin, Miss Ida Young.
Mrs. Thos. Owens, Mrs. o. D.
Reeves, and Mrs. A. c. Gilbert were
Leavenworth shoppers last Thursday.
The ball game here last Saturday
between Peshastin and Cashmere was
won by Cashmere, the score being IL
to 6.
Mr.. and Mrs. Chas. Hungate of Sc
attic stopped off on their way to Walla
Walla to visit over Sunday with Mr.. and
Mrs. D. Mccoy.
On account of an open switch here
last Thursday. One train ran into an
other, requiring the assistance of the
wrecker for a few hours.
Mr.. and Mrs. Thompson came up
from Cashmere last Saturday to visit
over Sunday with Mr.. Thompson's
sister, Mrs. H. M. Luttrell.
Carol Hinton returned last Friday
from Krupp, where he has been under
the Doctors care for some months.
He is greatly improved.
Among those attending the ball
game at Leavenworth last Sunday are
D. Mccoy, c. Hungate, B. Luttrell,
w. N. Love, E. Battin and Mr.. and
Mrs. Bert Golf.
Last Friday when ]. Q. Gilbert re-
turned from Blewitt, he left his team
standing while he went into one of the
stores. The team became frightened
and started to run, going towards the
depot running into o. H. Green's bug
gy completely demolishing it and
knocking Mr.. Green down injuring
him quite badly about the head and
one side, also breaking the tongue in
Mr.. Gilbert's hack. Fortunately they
were caught before any more damage
was done. None OF the horses were
injured.
The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1912-05-03

A thousand tongues could not ex-
press the gratitude OF Mrs. ]. E. Cox,
of Joliet, ILL.,, for her wonderful de-
liverance from an awful fate. Ty-
phoid pneumonia had left me with a
dreadful cough" she writes. Some
times l had such awful coughing spells
I thought I would die. / could get
no help from doctors treatment OF
other medicines till I used DR.. King
New Discovery. But l owe my life
to this wonderful remedy for I scarcely
cough at all now" Quick and safe,
its the most reliable of all throat and
lung medicines. Every bottle guaran-
teed. SOC and $1.0O. Trial bottle
free at all druggists.
The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1912-05-03
You Will Lose Your Right to Vote

If you are not registered when the
bond election is held, May 2lst, you
can not vote. Therefore if you want
to vote go to Guy A. Hamilton's Office
and have your name enrolled. If you
are registered ask your friend if he is
registered, and urge him to do so.
Women can and should vote as well as
men.
The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1912-05-03
Congregational Church

Regular services next Sabbath morn
ing and evening at the Congregational
church. All are cordially invited.
Mothers day will be observed the 18th
of Nav.
The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1912-05-03
M. {. Church, Peshastin

Regular Sunday services next Sunday.
Prayer Meeting Thursday 7:30 p. m.
A cordial invitation to all.
]. c. Hawk-Pastor.
The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1912-05-03

Don't be surprised if you have an attack
of rheumatism this spring. Just rub the
affected parts freely with Chamberlain's Lin
iment and it will soon disappear. Sold by
Kings City Drug Store.
The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1912-05-03

The elector shall prepare his ballot by
marking a cross in the square opposite the
words yes" or mo" after each OF the above
so that his ballot in each case
shall express his vote upon said questions.
Done by order of the City Council of
this 4th day of May, 1912.
II. E. CAOLQUIST. Mayor.
Attest: Guy A. Hamilton City Clerk
mays 10
The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1912-05-03
Yes

shall the City of Leayenworth issue its
negotiable coupon bonds to the amount OF
Forty-thousand six hundred Dollars (s40.-
600.l to provide money for the construction
and purchase of the proposed water works
system?"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-10-29
Passing of the Spells System

President Cleveland was a practical and consistent civil service reformer. He extended the application of the civil service law to thousands of clerks in the departments at Washington and to the clerks and letter carriers in the large postoffices throughout the coun- try.
 President Mckinley and President Roosevelt made further extensions, and President Taft has recently placed 35 ,000 fourth class postmasters under the civil service or merit rules. That was a sweeping change which Presi- dent Taft made and now nearly all the fourth class postmasters belong to the classified service. The merit sys- tenn today applies to something like 160, 900 federal positions.
 As might have been expected the civil service law was unpopular with the politicians. Party patronage had been an important part of the business of every administration since Jack sons day. As early as 1871 civil service reform movement had grown sufficiently strong to induce Congress to pass civil service law, but in 1874 Congress failed to vote an appropria- tion for the civil service commission and the law became a dead letter. In 1883, however, Congress passed the civil service measure which empowered the President to extend the merit system by executive order. From that time the classified service theory steadily gained ground and it is safe to say that the spells system will never return. Looking back over the past it is hard to realize how the great body of the people outside of the office seeking class tolerated the unbusiness-like spells system as long as they did.
 The consular service has been under the classified rules only few years, but it's efficiency has been greatly i'm proved already The next extension should include all diplomatic appoint ments below the rank of ambassador or minister; and the time should come before a great while when the presi- dential postoffices will be placed on the classified list. Then the last of the "pie counter" will have disap- peared.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-10-29
The Presidential Election

notwithstanding the test votes pub lished by enterprising northern papers and the betting in New York, all in dicating that Wilson will sweep the country, I find many intelligent men who say that Wilson will fail to carry New York and that therefore, he will be defeated in the electoral college,' said S s. Antram of Chicago.
 q spent last week in New York and I met several democrats who told me that Wilson's election was by no means assured; and the curious thing about 1t is that there is very decided diff ference of opinion as to which would get the larger vote, Taft or Roosevelt met quite a number of New York men and two or three Pennsylvania men who said that Roosevelt had a good chance of being President. My idea is that if Wilson, by any chance or ac- cident, should fail to win Taft would be his own successor"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-10-29

From the Washington Post.
 Tt may be that some persons are fed better than the sailors of the United States navy, but surely no one could ask for better food than the men on the ships of the navy are given" said Edward Benton of Toledo, O., at the Raleigh II was my privilege to be guest Of the officers of the fleet during the rendez- vous in New York, and I took occasion to visit a number of the big battleships and mingle with the enlisted men. I ate at their tables as well as at the boards of the officers, and I tell you l really en- joyed more the meals at which the sail ors sat down than the more pretentious repasts of their superiors. It was good, wholesome food, well cooked and vel served.
 q was truly surprised at the class of men 1 found on board the battleships them, in fact-I found to be men of in telligence and education. Most of then were Americans from IS years upward and in many instances l discovered thai the boys had joined Uncle Sans navy for the opportunity it gave them to visr other ports of the world.
 "Scrubbing the deck on board man. o'-war may sound like menial task, but as matter of fact it is no worse than sweeping out ones office.
 "The fellows in the navy evidently have a good time. Their daily labors are not arduous, and they have lots of time to themselves, which they employ in read ing, singing, and playing cards. great many of the sailors and petty officers arg conversant with political affairs. I found several who had decided views in matters of great concern to our country. and there were a lot who could talk better than some members of Congress about a two battleship programme.
 'There are surely no finer specimens of manhood to be found in any navy in the world than those on board the United States battleships."
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-10-29

sinuate that speculative activity is sustaining prices. We need not stop to analyze these positions. The farm CT who has bales of cotton to sell cer- tainly will not. The latter will cer- tainly accept what fortune brings him and let the theorists do the rest. He will not quarrel with a situation that brings him remunerative prices.
 The country, too, is content, for the immense exports of American cotton are strengthening our credit abroad and keeping the balance of trade in our favor. When the right time comes it will lead no doubt to very considera- ble gold imports. Cotton backs up the country's grain exports, ,and the two are keeping us independent of all the world and the rest of mankind.
 The boil weevil travels repidly and the staple shows stubborn strength. It also refuses to present smaller figures of production. A record crop was grown last year, and the belief is that the crop of the present year will just about be equal to the demands of a naked world The accepted figures range all the way from 14,000,000 to 15,000,000 bales.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-10-29
A BRAND NEW swINDLE

From the New York Times.
 In Second avenue, where one never can tell what the next variation of the fa- miliar three pea or gold brick game will be- they have just discovered a new way of eoaxing dollars from the unsuspecting.
 The newest trick took week in the working, and a small boy known in the neighborhood played the familiar role of go between. The victims were a gener- ous hearted baker and his wife, who have a bakery shop at Second avenue and Six ty-eighth street. They started out to give some cakes to poor lad who said his mother was sick at home and hadn't any money and before they were through with the transaction they had given the lad $25 in addition, and are now holding an oil painting in the faint hope that it will be called for. The hope, however, is diminishing.
 The bakers wife was the first to walk into the trap laid by the bunko. man, who now has her $25, while she has his oil painting, worth less than one-twentietk part of what she paid for it. The small boy who begged for the cakes brought the painting in last Monday. He said his sick mother would be back next day to pay for the cakes, and would the good baker woman kindly keep the painting until the mother should come in The baker woman obliged, and furnished the boy all the cakes he wished. She hung the painting behind the counter.
 And then things began to happen. A man came in who insisted that the oil painting was a masterpiece. He was so taken with it. in fact. that he insisted on buying 1t right off for s25 in cash. But, of course, the baker woman could not sell until she could communicate with the lit tie boys mother. She thought how fine $25 would be to the poor sick woman without any funds, and so she sent for the boy. Would his mother sell the paint ing for S25? The boy said he would run and see. He came back bearing a mes sage that the sick mother was willing, and also large white envelope in which the money could be placed. The baker woman sealed up two Slo bills and s5 in the envelope and patted the boy on the shoulder. She thought she was doing a fine bit of service and then the bakers wife told her husband what she had done and how a man would be back in an hour or two to buy the painting for the sum she had sent to the sick mother.
 Somehow the baker himself was not 1 impressed. He went out to Inquire after the boy. and was told by neighbors that they had seen him meet a man around the corner from the bakeshop and had seen both go away very rapidly after the boy had handed the man large white envelope. So far no purchasers have ar rived for the oil painting The baker has found similar pieces of art on sale at sl and less.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-10-29
Hitchcock,. Presidential Chance

The New York Sun reproduces from the Journal of Civilization this Mach iavellian project: We have received
 from an alert political observer in Washington the outline of a deep laid plot to continue President Taft in of flee four years more. This is the plan; l. Throw the election into the House. g. The House is to fail to elect Presi- dent and the Senate is to make no choice of a vice president. 3. On March 3 President Taft and Vice President sherman are to resign, and Secretary
 Knox is to be sworn in as President. I. MT. Knox is to appoint MT. Taft Secre- tary of State 3. On March MT. Taft ! is to become President under the sue eession act.
 ".It is all quite simple, and seems | all right, technically But for various reasons whose enumeration appears
 hardly necessary we guess it won't happen
 | The Sun adds that the "astute schem- err seems to have overlooked a posi-
 tive fact. According to the revised
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-10-29
CHAFING DISH NOT MODERN

Fannie Merritt Farmer, cookery 2, tor of the Woman's Home Compani' publishes 15 new chafing dish recipes the November number of that perid ical and writes of the chafing dish:
 "The chafing dish is not a utensil
 modern invention. Looking backwd over history's pages, many allusid arc made to it's use. Among the rul of Pompeii have been found bror chafing dishes of unique designs al Mommsen, in his Romische Geschich| asserts that in those days a we wrought cooking machine came
 cost more than an estate. Louis I took much delight in cooking, and, d oording to Goncourt, often amua himself by making 'quintessent stews in silver pans The palate
 Louis XVI was often tickled by 'pipi hot dishes, brought in on chafi dish Napoleon Bonaparte, when layi down the affairs of war and enjoyi home life for a short period, cook in silver chafing dish an omelet the enjoyment of the empress and hil self. Madame Recamier. the beautiI and intellectual society leader. used { chafing dish while Madame de Std the greatest woman in literary histo| when exiled from her beloved Franl took with her the chafing dish. \ of today are doing much to keep all the true spirit of hospitality by brirl ing the chafing dish into popular usI
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-10-29
Voting Machines in Various LocaIitie

Voting Machines in Various Locali'ies
 Buffalo and Milwaukee are proud of their voting machines. Life Tn those cities on election day is not worth liy- ing without them, but Chicago with Its system of group and cumulative vot- inc is distrustful. 1t has just purch- ased nearly 1000 machines at cost of nearly S1000 each, and the people are not at all sure that they will prove satisfactory in their city
 The doubts on the subject are due in part to the experience of New Jer- sey. "An offer," says the Newark Evening Star, "of $10 each for the voting machines owned by the state for which the state paid $55O apiece, is the highest price that has been of- fered to the custodian of the state house. who was authorized by the statehouse commission to sell the ma chimes. The figure ofIered IS the Pliee of funk. If it is accepted the machines, which cost the state upward of $20o,- 900 will be disposed of for about S3OO0. If the job by which the ma chines> were bought had not been halted in the legislature there would be more than 1900 on the states hands at first cost of $66O,000, and the receipts by sale at $10 each would be s12,000, a net loss of $64S,000. As it is, the state gets out of the job the loser on the original investment by about $197, ,00O. This makes no account of the thousands of dollars paid Tor insurance, storage, repairs, transpor- tation and handling"
 In the light of New Jerseys ex- perience the Chicago people think their election commissioners should have tested the voting machines on an order of a dozen instead of an or der for 1000.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-10-29
IN HOTEL LOBBIES
The Grories of Indian summer

'eThe Indian summer Is verify here-au- tumn in cloth of gold and green, said an enthusiastic lover of nature.
 "I wander in the fields very often these lovely afternoons and I think that the the dark green background of the water oaks in hedges or small pieces of wood land form glorious picture. Just about half-hour before sunset the golden glow of light fills the whole earth with beauty And standing upon an elevated spot con- templating nature In her quiet woods, the harmonies of invisible choirs seemed to be In the voices of the waters of the clear stream that flowed near by. A mocl1ing birds song burst forth in such fullness and gladstone note that l wondered, for had always thought that they sang their happiest note in nesting time. Presently the plaintive cry of quail was heard as they called to each other-evidently they had been scattered by hawk or man or dog. Here three fast-flying doves, on the wings of mercury they seemed, sped rap idly towards the sunset. the shadows and the roost in the pines away over wonder.
 "Strolling honeward I noted the purple morning glories just folding, and l wonder that Jack Frost didn't close them for ever, but he didn't. Then there were the small yellow field flowers blooming fen nel, starring the wide seas of dark dead weeds that the frost marked for it's own.
 And still the light shown, but 1t was not twilight, for the pale yellow disc had come up over the tree tops and verify twas the harvest moon."
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-10-29
Cotton Refuses to Decline

With the Servians marching on Sa- ibnica and the Bulgarians pressing steadily toward Constantinople-with soldiers who are born fighters in the field by hundreds of thousands--the Balkan war is not a small war, or even a war that can in the long run be localized. It is big and impor- tant war, and such wars generally de- press the price of cotton. This has not however, been the case this year. Some of the financial centers in western Flu rope are demoralized, and yet all cot ton is firmly held, and the farmers are receiving good prices for their bales.
 Some say the strength of cotton is due to an underestimate of the worlds needs, while some say the crop has ~aen overestimated, and a few in