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The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1912-02-16
Best Attended and Most Enthusiastic Meeting That has Been
Held in Several Months
UNUSUALLY LARGE CROWD ATTENDS SMOKER
Business Men Make Interesting Talks the Past and Future Development of
The ly--he Coming Year to be the Best in History

the inside Mr.. Nelson inquiries if it is
lunatic asylum. "Oh, no, replied
the Colonel, that is only Leaven-
worth and Wenatchee playing game
Of ball. This closed Mr.. Nelson's ad-
dress and also brought the Colonel to
his feet, who remarked that there was
only one thing wrong with Mr.. Mel
sons narrative, that when he landed in
the city, had there been ball game in
progress it is not likely he would have
been found on the depot platform.
H. E. Carr, the newly elected presi-
dent, then made a short but interest
ing talk.
]. B. Adams, one of the oldest set
tiers in this section, gave some remin-
iscenses Of the past. When he came
to this part of the state, about twenty
years ago, the town was known as
Icicle and was located near the mouth
OF Icicle river, about a mile south OF
the present corporation, later it was
moved across the track to where the
old Catholic church formerly stood.
This was still unsatisfactory and the
present site was finally decided upon.
Mr.. Adams says there was very little
law and order in those days and when
anything was to be done it was up to
citizens to do it. Mr.. Adams has seen
many changes in Leavenworth in the
past fifteen years and sys he expects to
see great many more in the next de-
cade.
o. S. Sampson made short talk on
club affairs and of his regret in seeing
Mr.. DAILY leave our city. Mr.. DAILY
has resided in our city about FIVE years
and has always been prominently con-
nected with any movement toward the
upbuilding and boosting of Leaven-
worth.
Mr.. DAILY made farewell address to
those present and said he was sure that
his thoughts would often wander back
to Leavenworth. He also suggested
that the initiation fees and dues Of the
club be reduced in order to get larg-
er membership and thought much good
would come about in this way. The
suggestion seemed to meet with the
approval Of those present and it is
thought that it will come up at the
next regular meeting OF the club.
J. w. Corcoran spoke on adverti.ing
and said he thought the club ought to
set aside a fund for that purpose. This
matter has been under consideration
for some time and will probably be tax
en- up at an early date.
The baseball subject was again
brought up by R. B. Field, who said
immediate action should be taken. On
motion of o. S. Sampson the meeting
was adjourned until Wednesday evening
when the matter was to be again taken
up.
The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1912-02-16

Judge Victor c. Martin, Of the law
firm Of Martin & Barrow, Of Wenatchee,
came last Saturday evening and spent
Sunday here.
The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1912-02-16

Prosecuting Attorney Sorensen was
in this city Saturday and Sunday on
business.
The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1912-02-16

The state tax commission in letter
to the assessor Of Chelan county holds
that fruit trees are private property and
as such should be assessed for taxation.
The letter says that the constitution and
the supreme court decisions are to the
effect that the legislature has no power
to exempt any property from taxation,
and says that although the supreme
court has never passed on the exemp-
ton Of fruit trees, it has passed on other
exemption laws and held them to be
unconstitutional.
The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1912-02-16

Complaints have been filed asking
for review Of the recent public service
commission order putting into effect a
joint rate to South Tacoma, by the
Great Northern and the Chicago, Mil
waukee & Puget Sound railroads. The
complaints allege that the majority of
the commission as now constituted did
not hear the testimony which was taken
before Commissioners H. A. Fairchild,
now dead, ]. c. Lawrence, resigned,
and Jesse S. Jones. Mr.. Jones is the
only member of the commission who
heard all the testimony, and the rail-
roads contend that the orders of the
commission are not effective except
where the present commissioners heard
all the testimony. Should the supreme
court uphold the contention Of the rail-
roads the resignation Of Lawrence will
cost the state thousands of dollars, for
it may make invalid the distributive
rate order which has recently been en-
tered by the commission. The hearing
on the matter of distributive rates COW
cred period of more than year and
much money was expended in obtain
ing evidence, and the commission
would be set back a year or more in its
work as well as the cost in dollars and
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-08-18
For Good Entertainment

w 7ALLY JONES odasiioned kind Of love story tod
w in Ia modern way by Lloyd osbourne, which is fne
combination. All love stories good, and The Old
fashioned kind best OF all in spirit, But lev Of them have beer tod
with the lveliness the charm the auraln Of modern good
writer's The things themselves haven: hanged all ta, there
has very great change The way Of interpreting them
Some modern writers who q tie at Of putting words
on paper get all twisted in their notions; that The effect
is very different from the od-fashoned story. Mr.. Obourne
doesn't But then he trained y Q; the words masters
in literature and storytelling, Robert Louis Stevenson
You will ike Way Jones who is II way remarkable because
YOU always like natural, wholesome not too periel H
know but whose weaknesses aatle IL is ve human
in the smaller things but dependable in he zig Especially
will YOU ike Stella Patton, because SIC he kind gil that adds
to the Joy Of living Just know her Whn Wy and Ntel reach
the cimacteric point where their onversa1oa Truly i"por
YOU will have the iveost delight in listening 70 what hey are
saving; for that exactly The efe Mr.. Osbourne give II
real triumph writing, and +; vastly dhent IRON reror. o.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-08-18
Four Times as Porous
as Bread

Thc,c l-riou, grains-puffcd to eight times morn
are composed oi a myriad cells
Each cell is surrounded by thin, toasted walls
a. the touch of moisture.
So each grain is a wafer that's crispcr than crackers
times rs ,orou, q, bread The taste is like toasted nj
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-01-28

1 on the main line of the Long Island road,
 in a smiling country rich with woodland | and meadow.
 Then MT. Denlow proceeded to organize
 an office force. He was 56 years old, had
 no experience In the real estate field, and
 was going to enter into competition with
 some of the brightest men in that depart
 ment of industry in America He did not
 have any too much money, but he had
 ideas, and these he proceeded to put into | commission. There never was a man with
 more energy than Denlow
 l First of all he and his men went round
 the city of New York visiting storeleep- CTS. Within month or two he and his agents had visited 5000 small merchants in the Borough of Manhattan and 5000 in other boroughs, and enlisted them as sub | agents for the sale of lots in his property. To some of these storekeepers he sold lots. fair number of them went as his guests to look at the land. They thought well of it after seeing it.
 Others thought well of it, too. One of these others was oscar of the Waldorf Denlow was a student of men. He put in lot of time on the lists of persons to be approached He wasted none of his ener- gies on those persons who did not look to be good prospects. His land proposition was one that might appeal to a man mak- ing enough money to maintain home q good distance away from New York on a sort of semi-country estate basis. Oscar went out with him to see the country and before he got back to town he was purchaser. That sale was worth many thousands of dollars to Denlow in an ad- vertising way.
 Denlows office force consisted of 100 clerks. He got out 100000 booklets that cost him cents apiece. His money, with all his successful selling, was running low. 1 All that had been done so far was done
 before one penny was spent in any other l line of advertising.
 | Then Denlow centered his attention upon one advertisement that would stir the imagination of every man and woman in New York who opened a morning news paper. He spent three weeks on the writing of this one ad. He wrote 1t and rewrote it. After it was in what seemed perfect form. he rewrote it 25 times At last he got it exactly as he wished it.. Then he staked every dollar he had in the world on it.
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it was supposed he would be a plain, or
 dinary professional man, with New York
 as his stamping ground. But he had other
 notions. He went west. The first great
 shelter in America was built by him. Through him the Guggenheims turned | from silk to the metal industry and boz
 come the powerful factors they are in the | world today. Next he turned an eye to-
 ward politics, but not for long. The re- publican nomination for governor of Col | orado was offered to him and declined. h | the decline in the value of silver in the nineties he lost part of his fortune, and then he came east. The opportunity for | profit in the tobacco business caught his | fancy He established a plant, made a success of it, and was right in the rising | tide when the fierce contest for control of
 the industry began. He might have sold
 out with a handsome profit, but Denlow | prefers action Tn the head of the Tobacco | Trust he had man of his own character to meet. Both of them have strong jaws both of them strike hard; both of them are as game as fighting men can be. James R. Keene, with his millions and his ex- perence and his wonderful strategy, found himself unable to cope with that silent warrior from the North Carolina hills. It
 is not surprising then that Denlow, less
 powerfully equipped in a financial way,
 could not prevail against the crushing
 force of the Tobacco Kings money and the Tobacco Kings resources.
 MT. Denlow walked out of the financial district $2000,O00 poorer than he went into
 it. He had little left, but not much. He
 had played the game, and, like good looser, he made no complaint. Most men Of Denlow's s age who meet crushing defeat are overwhelmed by it. But MT. Den
 tow was not of that type. No sooner had
 he been wiped off the map by MT. Duke | than he began to look round for some
 other field in which to reeoup his fortunes.
 He wasted no time looking backward; his
 gaze was forward.
 For six weeks he journeyed about the
 neghborhood of New York with his eyes | open, his mind intent on his purpose He
 went down to Staten Island, over to New
 Jersey, up the Hudson. Into Connecticut | and out up Long Island. At last he found
 what he was seeking. Within few days
 he closed a deal for a big tract of land more than 40 miles from the city. It was
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Every piece of advertising matter was | prepared by his own hand. He wrote and rewrote, studied and criticised his work, destroyed and reconstructed and polished and strengthened until at last he got it exactly right Nothing was satisfactory until it was perfect.
 When, some time between a. m. and 3 a. m., he closed his desk, taxicab usually
 was waiting outside, for a bright chauf- l feur had come to know the mans routine. 1 Mir Denlow was whrled away to a Broad way restaurant, where he ate a modest meal, drank a pint of champagne, and, when he finished the last glass, the head | waiter gave a signal to the man at the door. The chauffeur was waiting with the door of the car open. Then Denlow stepped inside and was speeded to his rooms. For five hours or so he slept. Then he went to his desk and to work.
 For three years he kept up this pace. The way he sold lots was marvel. In one dull season, when little was done by other men in real estate, he sold 200 of his Long Island plots of ground. 1 Gradually he showed signs of wear and tear and showed them plainly. His friends spoke to him about it, but he would not heed Then one day he fell suddenly from his chair to the floor of his office. The utter collapse had come.
 A doctor was summoned; a cab was called. DenloW was takeH to HIS lous- ings, and all that night his Jap valet and his physician worked over him.
 The clerks knew this was the end of Mir Denlow, so they took their time about arriving next morning. Some of them got to the office at 9:30. some at 10, some struggled In at 10:30 and a few arrived at Il.
 The first person in the office was Den low, who was 30 minutes ahead of his reg | ular schedule. The first clerk to enter was rebuked for his tardness and for unfaith- 1 fulness to his duty. So was the second. So was the third-so was every last ono of them, the rehuke gathering force with the coming of each delinquent.
 Denow put in his usual IS hours that day. and for months there was not the slightest change in his habits of work. Regularly each night, or rather morning, I he went in the taxi to the Broadway res taurant, and his modest repast, his two glasses of champagne, and then was | cpaeded home
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He had one ambition and he meant to see it fulfilled. He intended to sell every lot in that great tract and clear a million dollars before he stopped. And he did
 But, with the achievement of this ann bition there came another collapse, anc with this one there was hemorrhage The heart af Denlow had been strong, but the lungs proved weak.
 It's hard to win and then lose in such way. The doctors told him there was nc hope. He simply had worn himself out He had broken down his constitution and must pay the penalty with his life.
 Denlow did not think so. He went from one physician to another, from one great specialist to another great specialist. Each confirmed what the other had said, that he was doomed.
 MT. Denlow thereupon put his house In order and one day got aboard a train bound for the west. He was weak and had to stop off at various places to rest It was ten days before he reached the point he had started for. That was it. tie town near San Antone. Tex. He rent ed a cottage and then after a day or two of rest, he went to livery stable, bought horse and buggy and engaged man tu drive it. Next morning he began his struggle. It was systematic fight that he had all worked out in his mind There were other men in that portion of Texas who had come from the east to fight for life. They were thin, weary men, with the hungry look of the expatriate in their faces But Denlow did not look like them nor did he, like the others, give up when the fight seemed too hard.
 The third morning after he arrived he drove a half mile out of town, got out of the buggy and started to walk back He had not gone far before he had to ask the driver to help him into the vehicle and take him home. Next morning he went out again. Once more he had to call upon the driver for assistance.
 Every day for two weeks that thing was repeated There was some days when t seemed he hardly could stand. But he did, somehow.
 In three weeks he instructed the driver to go three quarters of mile out of town Denlow was able to walk nearly all the distance back. Before the month ended he did succeed in covering the full three quarters of a mile. Then he tried a little
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could hold up the government and stop all the salaries.
 There are two political parties, and each stumps the country In behalf of It's canidate. The assembly meets at Manila. and its members. who are dressed in spotless white, form a fine looking body The speaker stands behind the and over him on the wall hangs the American flag and Uncle Sans coat of arms.
 The Civil Service
 great majority of the government employees are natives. This Is not only at Manila, but throughout the islands All are appointed by civil service rules and most of them have to take examna- tions in English or Spanish or both. Promotions go by merit. and a record Is kept in every office showing the relative efficiencN of the employees, so that a mans record determines his advance ment, Personal habits, physical condition and personal morality are a part of the tests. The laws require work to the amount of six and one-half hours daily from each clerk except during hot wealth CT, when the time is cut down to five hours. Clerks are also allowed from 20 to 30 days vacation according to salary and rank Those who get the most money have the longest vacation
 Most of the clerks are honest. At this writing the loss by defaulters among the employees has only been about per cent.
 Justice and the Courts
 President Taft says that the supreme court of the Philippine Islands Is equal to the courts of any state of our union. This is in ability and honesty l doubt
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Every newspaper in the city of New York carried it. And they carried 1t many times On this one advertisement he spent S6O.0Oo And it was a winner if ever there was a winner. Tt was, in fact, so much of winner that he had to employ a fly ing squadron of 25 wagons to keep his 10, GOO sub-agents in literature. That adver- tisement flooded his office with people for weeks.
 No man ever worked harder than Den low. Seven days in the week he was at hrs desk from IS to IS hours out of the "A. He never reached his office later than a. m He rarely left it before or a. m.
 No one except a person who has been in the real estate business knows the tremen- dous amount of detail there is attendant to it. especially in big operation such as Denlow was engaged upon. He worked his office force in two sections, because employees are few who will labor like 3 hard driven boss. His subordinates mar yelled at his energy. He never seemed to tire.
 The real estate business-at least that branch in which Denlow engaged-requires a patience that is most trying courage that is next to absolute daring and a keenness of vision far above the ordinary if a man is to succeed. The periods of great acIlNlty, the times or harvest, are few and far between. Only after conh- dence is restored in almost every other branch of endeavor does the real estate man come into the flush of prosperity. The man who reads the signs alright, who has good property to sell at the proper time, and whoh has the organization to handle it makes money--makes it so fast that it is marvel. But he may read the signs alright and have the good property to sell and make little profit If his organ ization is considerable of an undertaking it is costly, too. No one but those who have been through the mill know the cost of maintaining such an organization in times of dullness, and appreciate the courage it requires when there is nothing coming in but hope, and mighty little of that
 Without experience in the real estate line Denlow read the signs of the times right, selected a good property to exploit and got together an excellent organization He had a patience that was marvellous To get thing exactly right he would labor hour after hour or day after day
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more of a journey and overtaxed himself and had a setback. The blood came again, but he would not give up.
 When he was in western Texas two months he was able to walk two miles, When he was there three months he was able to walk three miles and to jog trot the last quarter of mile. This cheered him as none of his former successes had done. He seemed to get little color in his cheeks, a little flesh on his bones, and a little healthy blood in his veins. The way he picked up after that was glorious He had tsrned the corner. The fires had been revived
 Before six months of the vigorous train- ing Denlow was able to travel five miles at a jog trot His chest, which had been flat and sunken, now was a measurable quantity. His muscles .were hard, his flesh firm, his appetite vigorous. He was, in short, new man.
 Back to New York came Denlow. He was little grayer, a little heavier, his chin, if anything, little firmer than be- fore. He was eager for action.
 Once more he went scouting. He went down into Staten Island, out into New Jersey, up the Hudson, over into Connecti- cut. down Long Island. He prowled the hills and skirted the shores. He studied conditions and he studied maps. He filled his mind with statistics. One day no found Just what ne Wdnleu.- HIS llIne ll was in New Jersey. He bought another big tract of land just as he had out in Long Island, He made a, deal with great railroad official of Jersey to take over all the railroad mans holdings. Then he started to work on his maps, his bird s. eye views, his advertising matter-every- thing on scale as big. if not bigger. than his first great operation,
 Today, with more than million dollars' cleared on his Long Island transaction. Denlow, past 60 years of age erect. strong, clear of eye, is at his desk each morning, but he does not have to work IS hours not yet. Each night he seeks out his res- taurant in Broadway, where he has his modest meal and his two glasses of cham paigne. He is waiting for the first rum- ble of the real estate boom he knows IS coming And when it comes no one will be better prepared to welcome it and make million or two or three out of it than the man who wouldn't stay down. Copyright, 1912, by Richard Spillane)
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River Causes a Lawsuit

From the SC Louis Globe-Democrat.
 The alleged freak actions of the cur-
 rent of the Mississippi river play a prominent part in a suit filed recently The Cliffdale Land and Farm company seeks to wrest alleged title property on two small islands lying south of Bruce island. in the Mississippi river. near Ste Genevieve, Mo, from John R. Boaz n St. Louis attorney. and to bar by in- junction erection of fences on the land. The land company contends the two small parcels which Boaz has fenced to prevent the company landing boats, is . part of the Missouri land purchased by the concern. from Boaz. He contends the islands were formerly part of Illinois
 by accretion, and that the Mississippi shifting its course caused the island to become adjacent to the Missouri sido
 and Bruce island.