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The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1913-12-12
SeeIey, the Tin Man Has Moved

Mr.. Seeley moved his business the
first of this week from Front street,
where he quickly outgrew his limited
quarters, to a building on CONNER
cial street near the Congregational
church, where he has abundant room
to expand, which he says he means
to do. He is the designer and builder
of the electric sign which adorns the
front OF the Grand theater, and its a
beauty. Vastly better than some Of
those that have been imported from
abroad, and probably cost less.
The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1913-12-12
THE BUSINESS MEMS
ASSOCIATION ACTIVE
thoroughly Organized for Protection
and Mutual Benefit-WiII Take up
Civic Matters

The Leavenworth Business Mems
Association which was recently organ
lied and put on solid financial loot
ing promises to do some good for the
town as we'll as for members OF the
association. The officers are: o. S.
Sampson, president; J. B. Adams, vice
president; r. L. Parker, secretary; j.
A. Hearst, A. P. Snyder and F. T.
Motteler, trustees. The membership
at present numbers So and includes
every business and professional man in
the city.
The secretary is working on and
will soon have complete credit rat
ing' of everyone within trading rad
ius of Leavenworth. He has at the
present time a rating on over one
thousand who are customers OF our
merchants. The system adopted and
the methods employed in keeping the
records up to date are commended by
all who have given the system care
full examination.
The association will handle collec-
tions OF every nature for its members,
and in a manner which will be for the
best interest OF the members.
Aside from this the association is
accomplishing good results in the
elimination of beggars and all dona-
ton schemes, and also the elimination
of fake advertising schemes. Nearly
all OF the members have signed an
agreement that they will not subscribe
to any charity or advertising scheme,
until same has been endorsed by the
Association. Violators of the agree
ment are fined. The members will
refer all solicitors for charity and ad-
vertising schemes to the Secretary Of
the Association, who will take the
matter up with the trustees before
same will be endorsed.
The Association will from time to
time take up matters of any kind what
soever which will be of interest to its
members. This Association now being
the only commercial organization in
the town, therefore all questions oi
economic importance will naturally
come before it. such as the matter oi
better transportation facilities, the bet
terment of the telephone system, the
securing of better street cleaning by
the city, the matter Of urging upon the
city the passage Of proper ordinances
regulating the running of dogs at large
and many other problems in which the
interests of the town are involved.
The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1913-12-12

The unusually mild weather so far
this winter has made building possible
that would not otherwise have been
udertaken. Usually, because at this
time of year there is from one to two
feet of snow on the ground, no new
buildings are undertaken after the first
of October. Some half dozen resi-
dences are now receiving the finishing
touches of the builders that were be-
gun in October and November.
The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1913-12-12
New Garage for LeavenwOrth

w. B. Patton who has conducted a
garage at Cashmere for several years,
and T. E. Paine, whom baseball fans
will remember as pitcher for the Cash
mere team, were here to-day and
called on the Echo. Mr.. Patton says
he will open a garage here March IS,
and has already ordered eight Ford
machines to be shipt here for the op-
ening. Mr.. Paine will move his fam
lily here and have charge of the Lea
venworth branch.
The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1913-12-12
FRANK A. IOSEkAMP IS
CONTfSTING BROTHERS WILL
John D. losekamp, Pioneer Merchant OF
Montana, Left Estate Valued at
Over 100000.

In view of the fact that F. A. Lose
kamp was former resident OF this
place and still owns much valuable
property here the following dispatch,
dated Dec. S, published in the daily
press, will be read with interest in
Leavenworth.
The contest over the will of John D..
Losekamp, a pioneer merchant OF
Eastern Montana, brought by his
brothers, Frank, Of Seattle; Gus W., of
San Diego, CAL; and George of Spo-
kane, opened in district court here
yesterday, when several dispositions
were read.
The will left all of the property to
Mrs. Florence Yates, Of Billings, sis
ter with whom the elder Losekamp had
resided for several years. 1t is alleged
that undue influence was brought to
bear on the testator and that he was OF
unsound mind at the time that the will
was made.
The estate involved about 5000, 900.
In former will the brothers each were
bequeathed $4,000. but in the will
found after Losekamp's death the lega-
cies were reduced to $40, 1000.
Nearly 100 witnesses have been sub
poenaed from various parts OF the
Northwest and from Montana.
The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1913-12-12
Business GfOwing-Needed More Room

Joe Massie, the progressive Com
mercial street merchant has needed
more room for his growing business for
some time and the past month put his
ideas into concrete form by building a
large warehouse back OF his store which
gives him the room which he has long
needed to handle his expanding trade.
He handles, in addition to groceries
and dry goods, hay, grain and feed
stufs in car load lots. He also i'm
proved his store front by putting in
large plate glass windows which adds
to the attractiveness Of his sales room.
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S. {. Richie Sold Out

Mr.. Richie closed trade yesterday
with c. B. Gordon for his half inter
est in the saloon business Of Churchill
& Richie and his residence on the
north side OF the railroad. What Mr..
Ritchie's intentions are for the future
we have not learned.
The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1913-12-12
UNCLE SAM INTERESTED
IN THE ROTHERT STEEL
Gives Highest Test for Armor Plate
Product Turned Out Past Four
Weeks-MuCh Went East

F. w. Brainard, of Chicago, superin-
tendent of agencies for the Western
Union Telegraph Co.. was here last
Tuesday and visited the steel plant.
He said he heard more talk in Chicago
about the Rothert process of making
steel than he heard right here in Leav-
enworth. On two occasions recently,
he said the Chicago dailies had full &C
counts Of the discoverer of the process
and his method Of making steel from
ore that had hitherto had no value be-
cause the art Of reducing it to iron and
steel was unknown, when it was yet
known to scientists that iron and steel
made from this refractory ore was su-
perior to all other. Mr.. Brainard prom
ised to return and make further and
closer inspection of the plant.
The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1913-12-12

Mrs. Geo. L. Gardner returned to
Spokane last Monday afternoon, after
visiting few days with her husband,
who is general manager Of the LAMB
Davis Lumber Co.
]. w. Corcoran arrived from Seattle
Thursday where he has been for the
past month. He says business on the
coast appears to be quiet.
The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1913-12-12

.u saw II in the Echo" Yes that
is what they all say and let us re-
mark right here. that you are the
loser If you do not read everything
m the Echo, ads and all. Every
wear around Christmas time, to
ibe great majority of people, IL is
A study, what kind of presents TO
huv for their friends and relatives.
The ads in the ECHO this week
are chuck full of suggestions OF
what to buy for your sweetheart,
mother, father, brother sister or
friend, and you will save money
by reading what the merchants
have to tell you.
The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1913-12-12

We only need nine hundred and
fifty three more new subscribers to
make that thousand we said we wanted
two weeks ago.
The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1913-12-12

J. B. Violette went to Wenatchee
Thursday to attend a big meeting Of
the Moose lodge Of which ne is a
member.
The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1913-12-12

c. E. Anderson and A. L. Haines
were in Wenatchee on business the
forepart Of the week.
The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1913-12-12

Mr.. and Mrs. I. c. English OF Pc
shastin, spent Wednesday here on a
shopping expedition.
The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1913-12-12

Ernest Hedrick made a trip to Cas-
cade tunnel Tuesday, returning We'd
nesday on No. 4.
The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1913-12-12
The Lutheran Church

Regular services in the morning. L.
]. AveLallemant, pastor.
The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1913-12-12

The plant was in operation Monday,
Tuesday. Wednesday and Thursday OF
this week. One or more charges were
run out every day. 1t is not likely,
says Mr.. Rothert, that the plant will
run after this week until everything is
in readiness torun full blast with ex-
pert help, which will be about the first
of the year. For the past month the
furnaces have been charged almost
every day, the furnaces used are un-
like any used in the iron industry and
certain problems connected with their
use had to be worked out and some
minor changes made. Mr.. Rothert
also desired to make test runs with ores
from different localities, all OF which
has been done to his entire satisfaction.
On Monday OF this week a large in
got, weighing over one hundred pounds,
was made and shipt to Spokane on
wednesday. In the past three weeks
sample ingots have been shipt to all
parts Of the United States.
Agents OF the United States govern
ment are now negotiating with the
Washington Iron and Steel Co. for some
of its output for the purpose of making
armor plate, as tests have shown it to
have greater resistance to impact than
any steel now used for making Srmor
plating for its war vessels.
The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1913-12-12

Mrs. Chas. Taylor went to Seattle
Sunday afternoon to visit for few days
with her sister.
The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1913-12-12

Mrs. Fred Reeves came up from
Wenatchee yesterday TO spend few
days with her mother Mrs. S. A.
Potter.
The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1913-12-12

Mrs. Charles Ellinger spent several
days in Wenatchee the past week visit
ing among friends.
The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1913-12-12

Gus Harding Of Cascads Orchards
left for Seattle Thursday where he will
spend the next three weeks visiting
friends.
The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1913-12-12

Mrs. E. Crawford left Thursday for
Seattle where she will visit her daught-
er for the next week or ten days.
The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1913-12-12
CITY COUNCIL MEETS
IN REGULAR SESSION
Decides To vaCate Part Of 14th St.,
and Allows Usual Number of Bills

NuCu tuC SuhulduS Vi TIC Clty
welfare met last Tuesday evening they
found quite an accumulation of business
had piled up since the last regular ses-
sion two weeks ago.
After going thru and approving a lot
of bills against the city the first busi-
ness to come up was the vacation OF
portion OF Fourteenth street which leads
to the Wenatchee river bridge. The
city attorney was instructed to draw up
the necessary papers. The street va
Gated will accrue to the adjoining prop
erty which was recently purchased by
F. S. Jacobsen.
The application OF the Wenatchee
Valley and Northern railway for city
water was turned over to the water
committee and the city attorney with
authority to fix rate.
The council authorized the city clerk
to pay the insurance premium on the
city hall.
Being advised by the Industrial In
surance Commission that some eighty
odd dollars was due the state from the
contractors who did work for the city
the past summer, and that the city was
liable for the payment of the money
under the law, the clerk was instructed
to notify the Columbia Engineering
and Construction Co.
A resolution granting to Jas. Nc
Daniels and c. E. Beeson free water
for a period of so years as compensa-
ton for the right Of way for the city's
pipe line was read and after some dis
cussion was granted. The city attor-
ney was instructed to draw up the nee
essary right OF way deeds. Figuring
on the lowest basis of $150 month,
both men will have received 5000 for
letting the city's pipe line cross their
land.
The street commissioner was in
structed to put down board walks from
the Front street sidewalk to the rail-
road tracks.
The Great Northern Railway COM
pany made a proposition to take 5000
for the triangle of land on Front street
near what is known as the Big Rock
corner which the city wants to improve
the grade and eliminate the danger Of
collisions in coming down Front street
from the depot. The parcel of land
consists OF 1904 square feet. The
matter was referred to the Street and
Alley committee for investigation.
After opening the returns of the re-
cent city election and declaring the
result the council adjourned.
The following bills were allowed.
Yakima Bindery, $3.50.
Mutual Mer. Co. $3.50.
E. H. King, 1885.
c. w. Seeley. $50.
L. T. Richards, 81. TO-
Leav. Transfer Co. 400.
J. E. Faulkner, 500.
T. c. Yocum, AIS.
J. B. Adams, 1000.
Boston Lunch, 1880.
Leav. Report, 1000.
o. B. Robertson, 1890.
Tumwater Light & Water Co.,
156.25.
Election board, 5000.
E. z. CornWell, $500.
c. E. Tolbert, 2o.35.
Leav. Lbr., Co. All.
Herman Stoltze, 20.65.
P. Heinrichs, 1875.
L. c. Brender, 200.
Hamilton & Peake, $3.50.
Total, 617.00.
Mrs. E. Crawford left Thursday for
CnnAAla .uhn-o H. ill .r;r;4 he. dn,.uL
The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1913-12-12

Weather forecast-Cloudy tonight
and Saturday, probably rain or snow.
The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1913-12-12

J. L. Torkelson, of Spokane, one OF
the directors in the company was here
several days this week. Mr.. Torkel-
son is something Of metal expert him
self which accounts for his faith in the
Rothert process Of making steel from
magnetic iron ore.
The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1913-12-12

E. B. Foss, OF Spokane, who has
had charge of the Steel company's S
tram at Barring was here this week and
witnessed the process OF making Roth
ert steel.
The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1913-12-12

That unusual interest is taken in Mr..
Rothert's process OF making steel from
magnetic iron ore is vouched for by
an agent of the Western Union Tele-
graph Co., who was here this week
and was astonlshed to find that less in
terest was taken in the enterprise in
the west than the people of the east
ern states take in the conversion OF this
ore into steel. He said Mr.. Rothert's s
process was most remarkable and would
reyolutionize the steel industry.
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As an advertising med
ium this paper is unsur-
passed.
1t is read every week by
5000 people in the Wenat-
chez valley.
Others are usinig IL and
getting results. SO Will
you. Try 1t.
The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1913-12-12

DIR. A. G. McKeown.
U. 5. Local Observer.
The Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1912-1917, 1913-01-24
Something To- Be Thankful For.

Michael Meehan was the proud pos
SCISSOR of a brand new silk high hat.
At the wake of his dearest enemy he
had guarded it carefully, and as a
consequence was strolling home with
the tile unscathed. AS he passed the
site of a building operation, lady
acquaintance nodded pleasantly.
With an DESTINATIONS wave OF the
hat, which exhibited it to excellent ad'
vantage, Michael bowed At the same
moment brick sailed down from an
upper floor and bounced from his
barred skull. Upon coming to he in
quired anxiously for the hat. A by
stander restored it unframed, Mike
felt the egg-sized lump on his head
occasioned by the impact of the brick,
and then regarded his unchanged
tile. 'Begorry," he sighed in salts
faction, cts lucky it is l saw the
loidy in toime!"
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MPNy"ESAzzlN AAR1Zy CzZ1N5 C4Z5ARZz2

er similar print was produced fourteen years
after bmy the Nurnberg engraver, Johann Sib
macher, who etched nine other sporting plates
Then follow in rapid succession, half dozen
portraits" by Tempesta, the pupil OF Stradanus
one of which prints reproduce. 1t shows IN
what awe the gigantic wild bull was held, for IT
depicts a formidable-1ooking machine wherewith
the bull could be attacked and brought down
Tempesta's pictures need not be taken seriously
for his Roman studio was nothing but work
shop where apprentice hands turned out vast
mass of prints of little value in an enquiry
of this sort. His English contemporary OF the
pen Edward TopselI in his illustrated natural
history hodge-podge called the Historic of Foure
Footed Beastes' $500 only added to the exist
ing confusion. "A Bison, he says, is beast
very strange as may appear by his figure pre-
fixed which by many authors Is taken for UTus
for Bugle wild oxe Others for a
Rangifer, and many for the beast Tarantus or
Buffe.' And to show that he really meant what
he said, he afhxes a picture Of what is unmistak
ably reindeer, Fortunately, however, he adds
as pictures of the bison and of the aurochs,
pleas of the two prints by Hirschvogel out OF
Herberstein's "Rerum Moscoviticarum Common
tarii,' which, have already mentioned,
among the most correct representations pub
lished at period when the aurochs still existed
In England the belif that tn aurochs was a
hison-libe creature continued throughout the
eighteenth century. The picture taken from Sam
uel Carke's Julius Caesar published in 1872
shows what extraordinary ignorance still pre-
vailed the animal with antlers like inverted
umbrella being bison, Bos germanus and
the beast in the center aurochs. The graver
Of Holzab Of Zurich, continues the misconcep-
ton; indeed, goes one better for the bison is
here turned into American aurochs." OF
numerous other illustrations of two beasts,
we have not the space to speak at length. One
of the most characteristic of the latter type Is
the so-caled Hamilton Smith picture of the au-
rochs This is painting dating 1t is believed
from the first quarter of the sixteenth century
discovered In Augsburg not quite hundred
years ago.. This painting has mysterousy dis
appeared, but an accurate copy was made Fer
the first modern" picture Of the bison that ap-
peared in England we have also to go to Ger
man sources, and, strangely enough, to the same
city, for it was Augsburg's most famous animal
painter, Ridinger (1697-1767) who drew the first
life-like picture. countryman of his one J. S.
Muller. who lived many years in London. engrav
ed in 1858, fine set Of plates representing wild
animals after Ridingers drawings from nature
Among them is Of the bison called by him
the buffalo and underneath is a lengthy and
fairly correct description in English which he
also copied from Ridinger. But this and other
isolated efforts have not entirely prevented the
dissemination of the old mistake, for living a,-
thorites still tell US, quite seriously, that they
have grassed aurochs
The Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1912-1917, 1913-01-24

aurochs the bison by much word. As
the authors of these classics great sports
men and close observers this would support the
theory that both these animals had already then
become quite extinct in western Europe.
In the sixteenth century when Europe, far
art was concerned had at last been aroused
from it's medieval stupor by the invention of
printing, and extraordinary demand had
sprung up for pictorial matter illustrating
cent exploration Of new worlds and the various
forms of the chase there were produced quite a
number Of pictures Of the aurochs by artists,
very few OF whom had ever set eyes upon live
wild specimen though they may have cap
tive ones. The artist of whom positively
know that he had before him at least a stuffed
specimen was the Viennese engraver Augustin
Hirschvogel (born in Nurnberg about 1909, who
illustrated the famous travel book of Baron Her
berstein the authority most frequently quoted In
connection with the aurochs, for he absolute
ly the last intelligent observer who saw the beast
in It's wild state and left pictorial records of his
impressions. Herberstein gifted with pres
cient eyes, for he foresaw that the aurochs
doomed to speedy extinction. Hence on his sew
eral expeditions to the unknown interior of Rus
STA as the ambassador, first of Emperor Maxi
milan in 1868, then many different occa-
sions Charles VS. and Ferdnand's emissary,
he made notes about it. and what was much more
important, actually brought back with him
skins and skulls. which he had mounted in his
house in Vienna. and from which Hirschvoge
PROBABLY drew MS celebrated picture or the
aurochs. To differentiate he drew next it
picture Of bison AS these two PORTRAITS
which have been published scores of times, will
be familiar to all interested in this matter
will merely quote the inscriptions placed by Her
berstein over the two pictures. for it is a per-
fectly correct differentiation. The picture of the
bison has the following: Il am a Bison. am
called by the Poles a Suber, by the Germans a
Bfsont or Damthier, and by the ignorant
aurochs. Over the woodcut of the aurochs: 81
am an Urus which Is called by the Poles a Tur,
by the Germans Aurochs and until by
the ignorant Bison The Inscriptions in the
various edtions-Herberstein's volume appeared
tn several languages-vary trif1ingly, but the
above which are taken from the edition Of 1856,
give the sense in the best form.
Shortly after Herbersten the Flemish painter
Stradanus, who lived and worked for over fifty
years in Florence from 1853 to 160b) produced
drawing Of an aurochs engaged in a terrific
struggle III an arena where he was matched
against a lion, two wolves and bear This
original drawing is not the least interesting OF
the twenty odd ancient pictures of the aurochs
in the writer's collection. In 1878 the Antwerp
publisher Philip Gale published this and
hundred and three other sporting drawings by
the Florentine master, and underneath each of
the engrayings there is Latin inscription. The
one under the plate reproducing the drawing
The Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1912-1917, 1913-01-24
Her Advice.

Reginald" says the beauteous OBJ
ject of his alteration, 81 happened to-
read in the paper that sugar has gone
away up in price, and for that reason
candy is more expensive. just think
you are extravagant to keep bringing
me a pound every time you call"
Il am glad to do it, darling" avows
Reginald.
81 know you are but you must learn
to be economical. Papa told mamma
to buy sugar by the barrel and get It
cheaper, so maybe you would better
buy candy for me the same way"
The Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1912-1917, 1913-01-24
OLD FRIEND
LET GOOD CHANGE GO BY
Buffers Had Perfect Right to Be Mad,
Considering the Extremely In
fortunate Circumstances.

Buffers bounced into the club, JAM
med his hat down on table with a
fierce. resounding bang, and flung him
self into an easy chair.
What's wrong today, Buffers? You
look bad"
I'll never forgive myself. | kicked
: man out of my house last night"
"Humph! Pve kicked out many q
one. Young fellow, l SUPPOSE"
mo; past middle age"
We'll, these old dodgers have no
business to be coming round counting
young girls. | would have kicked him
out myself"
Yes, but | have found out since
that this man wasn't counting my
daughter He was after my mother
in-law."