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The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1913-06-27
No Big immigration Problem

That the State of Washington and
the Pacific Coast generally will not
have such big immigration problem
with the opening of the Panama Canal
as has been generally anticipated, is
the opinion Of Samuel L. Lemon Of
Seattle, formerly Of the United States
immigration service. He says that
while some immigrants will come to
the coast by way Of the canal, most Of
them will continue to arrive on the
Atlantic Coast and come west by rail.
He calls attention TO the fact that con-
ditions in Europe are improving so
that no such large immigration to this
country can be expected in the future,
but that the coast increase in popula-
ton will come from the middle west
and Atlantic seaboad and that our
agreeable climate will be the big draw
ing card.
The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1913-06-27
FOREST WORK IS PUSHED
TO PREVENT BAD fires
The Conservation Association Makes An
nOunCement of Fire Fighting
Plans

With about 800 patrolmen already
in the field, to be supplemented stead
lily from now on, and with trail and
telephone building being pushed rap
idly, the forest protective agency OF
the Pacific northwest are commencing
the fire season OF 1918 with more thor
ough preparation early in June than in
any previous year Although it has
been a wet spring, without fires in
standing timber so far, these same con-
ditions have retarded the cleaning up
of slashing and similar fre-traps, and it
is also feared that the law OF averages
will result in a dry summer. Any
burning hereafter until October must
be with permit from a fire warden.
Considerable complaint is made OF
county road supervisors and contrac-
tors who allow road building debris to
accumulate in defiance Of law. Log
gers are reported more interested in
fire prevention than ever before and
are generally following the suggestion
of patrol associations to post rules
around their camps instructing en-
ployes in precautions and in steps to
be taken if fire breaks out. In many
cases camp superintendent are being
instructed to turn their forces over to
fire wardens on demand, without await
ing instructions from proprietors, since
fire prevention is set ahead Of getting
out logs.
Features Of this years protective
work will be great activity by the gov
eminent and the timber owners patrol
associations in extending telephones
and lookout systems and the perfec-
ton of much closer cooperation be-
tween private, state and federal sys-
TENS under agreements for division Of
patrol territory and fre-fghting ex-
pense. 1t is estimated that not less
than 81, 635, 900 will be spent for for
est protection by all three agencies in
Montana, Idaho, Washington and Ore
gon, distributed approximately as fol-
lows: State appropriations, 100000;
timber owners associations, $3.50, 600;
forest service, s1,25o,000; federal
weeks law fund, $4,000. Should it
prove bad year, the private expendi-
ture, not being restricted like the
others, may be much greater II was
about 100000 in 1910.
The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1913-06-27
Employing Printers viii Meet

The Pacific Coast Employing Print
ers' Congress will be held in Seattle
July IA to II, and the meeting is to
be held under the auspices Of the en-
ploying printers Of Seattle, who have
raised an entertainment and program
fund Of $1,000, which gives an idea Of
the elaborateness Of the coming con-
vention. 1t is to be expected that
there will be about 800 delegates, who
will come from ten different western
states and British Columbia. The
Washington State editors who will at
tend this meeting in body, having
changed TO Seattle from the plan to
hold their 1918 meetings at Gray s
Hmbor. The object of this con-
vention is primarily educational along
the lines Of higher efficiency, more
accurate accounting, better insu-
rance protection, more systematic
training for the apprentice, and gen.
eral uplift of this. the sixth manufac-
turing industry in the United States.
The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1913-06-27

The valuation Of all steam railroad
nrone,ties in the state of Washington
i about 100000 greater this year
than last. according to figures prepared
bv the state tax commission. The
figures show the valuation this year to
~ ss4s.337,sls, as compared with
ss42.s1s, 900, the valuation last year
Tbs valuation is figured out as follows;
NoTtbern Pacific, 1927, 10000 Great
Northern, $40, OO7 ,OOOi o.-W. R. &
The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1913-06-27

N, $4S, $4,000; North Bank, S43,-
367, 900; Chicago, Milwaukee & ST.
Paul, S37, 1860 Idaho, Washington
& Northern, s3.Ss5,oo0; Tacoma
Eastern. s2,o7l,0 900; and the Spokane
international, $1,175,00o. OF the
total valuation on railroad property
SsO2, OBS, o13 represents the value Of
rights of way and tracks, while the
value Of personal property is placed at
Sal, ISL, sos.
The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1913-06-27
A FINANCIAL INCUBUS
MORE THAN HALF WATER
The Financial Hand That Rests on the
Back of the Public

There are sixty billion dollars worth
of American securities, says Mr.. Law
son, and thirty-fve billions of these
sixty Chat is to say. nearly 90 per
cent? are fictitious counterfeit, mas
much as they do not represent any
real capital OF legitimate increase upon
capital"
This means that upon the great
body of business in this country rests
an incubus Of thirty-fve billion dollars.
The world Of honest labor and capi-
tai is forced to carry dead weight
equal to 90 per cent of itself.
We stagger under an old man Of
the sea-" like Sinbad the Sailor, and
are unable to shake him off; he has
his fingers around our throat; at every
effort to rid ourselves Of him he threat
ems our life.
These thirty-fve billions. that stand
for no value, are also privileged bill
ions; they must have their dividends
before the honest billions are allowed
to get theirs.
The American people are getting
their eyes open to the fact that they
are being fim-fammed by the es-
teemed gentlemen who are handling
their finances.
For every dollar we earn we are
handing 90 cents of it over to the
manipulators Of accounts.
It is loot, pure and simple; and the
worst kind, for it is legalized, emf
nently respectable, and custom in
trenched loot. To rob people is
much easier than to rob an individual,
for public intelligence is dull, public
resentment slow, and public indifer-
ence monumental.
Is not this the deep cause Of the
labor unrest? The workers demand
more wage; the employers reply that
more wage cannot be given without
depriving capital Of its due dividends;
all of which sounds well, but so per
cent of those dividends are unfair.
The prosperity Of this country is
enormous. Advantage has been taken
of this by the shrewd managers of high
finance to lay upon prosperity an ever
growing burden.
Since the beginning Of government
the clever have proved upon the many.
Kings, mobiles, Institutions, and all
magnifcencies have ridden on the
backs Of the plain, hard-working peo-
pie. We have changed terms, but the
old game goes on; and it is fully as ex-
pensive to be ridden by plutocrat as
by an aristocrat.
Government ought to govern. And
there is no more vital task for govern
ment to attack than that Of squeezing
the water out of the dropsical business
Of the nation.
We make quite a TODD over the
injustice OF the tariff. The president
and congress are busily engaged in
seeking some plan to prevent It from
robbing the poor and feeding the rich.
But beside the incubus of unearned
capital, false, empty and foundationless
capitalization, the tariff evil is small.
II is time the common sense Of the
people rent in twain the veil OF the
temple where the high priests Of finance
carry on their mysterious ritual, and ar
range matters in justice.
For capital which represents no real
value to earn dividends is as out
rageous as for laborers who are idle TO
draw pay.
The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1913-06-27
The Best Medicine in the World.

sMy little girl had dysentery very bad. /
Thought she would die. Chamberlain's Collie,
Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy cured her,
and can truthfully say that l think ii is the
best medicine in the world" writes Mrs.
William Orvis, Glare, Mich. For sale by
all Observation-Disclosures.
The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1913-06-27

Get butter wrappers at Echo Office
The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1913-10-25
SPORT.

Chicago beat Iowa in their annual
game. 23 to &. at Chicago.
Nebraska sent the Minnesota team
back TO Minneapolis with to de
feat, as result of the Lincoln game.
Sailor Max Stafford of San Francisco
knocked out Pete Daley of Oklahoma
in the seventh round OF scheduled
twenty-round bout at ,Juarez
Miss Loula Long, well known
horse show exhibitor, suffered two
broken bones in her left hand while
trying out a new jumping horse at
Kansas City.
Benny Chavez, Colorado bset ban
tam, will box Eddie Campi, the little
coast biffer. in a twenty-round bout
before Los Angeles fans in the McCar-
ney arena, Nov. 4.
Victor Stoeftler. in a 100-horsepow
er biplane, has beaten the world rec
ord for a flight covering the period
within twenty-four consecutive hours
at Johannisthal. Germany
Prince Albert OF Monaco arrived in
Chicago from Wyoming, where he
hunted big game for three weeks,
With him he took the heads OF elk
deer and bear he killed and color
photographs of wild American life.
The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1913-10-25
''CASCARETS' FOR
A BILIOUS LIVER
For sick headache, bad breath.
Sour Stomach and
constipation.
Get a 10-cent box now.

Get q 10-cent box now.
No odds how bad your liver, stomach
or bowels; how much your head
aches, how miserable and uncomfort-
able you are from constipation. indiges-
ton, biliousness and sluggish bowels
you always get the desired results
with Cascarets.
Don't let your stomach, liver ana
bowels make you miserable. Take
Cascarets tonight; put an end to the
headache. biliousness. dizziness, nerv-
BUSINESS. sick, sour. gassy stomach.
backache and all other distress:
cleanse your inside organs Of all the
bile. gases and constipated matter
which is producing the misery.
A 10-cent box means health, happi-
ness and a clear head for months.
No more days of gloom and distress
II you will take a Cascaret now and
then. All stores sell Cascarets. Don't
forget the children-their little in
sides need a cleansing. too. Adv.
The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1913-10-25
GE N e RAJ.

What was thought TO be slight
earthquake shock was felt at Sterling,
III.
The Traders National Bank Of Low
ell, Mass. was closed by order OF the
comptroller of the currency.
National Apple day was observed
throughout Massachusetts Oct 2l.
That state is the home of the Baldwin
apple.
Four of ten rats caught in an old
building near the water front at Sc
attic, Wash. were found to be In
fected with pubonic plague.
Two of the crew of the Cunard
was entering port at New York after
a voyage from the Mediterranean.
Charles J. Vopicka, new minister to
the Balkan states, accompanied by his
family, left Chicago on the first stage
of his journey to his new post
Three persons were probably fatal
ly injured, four We're seriously hurt
and scores were cut and bruised when
southbound Big Four passenger
train was wrecked three miles south
OF Tiffin, OHIO.
Three hundred and sixty-one refu-
gees from Mexico. number of whom
went through the long disastrous
siege and subsequent capture of Tor
reon by the Constitutionalists, reached
Galveston by steamer from Tampico.
They told stories OF guerilla warfare
and of robbery and cruelty, Thirty
three Catholic nuns who were among
the refugees told of being driven at
midnight. under fire, from their con-
vent, or hospitals put to the torch, and
men killed for the gold in their teeth.
Mrs Mary c. Thaw, who went to
Concord. n. H.. several weeks ago in
order to be near her son. Harry X.
Thaw. departed for her home in Pitts
burg. :
Mrs. Mary Connell of Denver. was
elected one of the wee presidents OF
the Ladies' Auxiliary to the Brother
hood OF Railway Trainmen at Chatta-
nooga. Tenn.
The confession of William r. Russell,
an aged claffvoyant who admitted he
had swindled clients out of more than
$500 900, was made public at Chicago
by States Attorney Hoyne.
The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1913-10-25
sss,ooo,ooo From 1918 Live Stock.

Denver.-Four hundred and fifty
thousand head of cattle, 25o,O00 hogs
and probably 100000 sheep will be
shipped out of Denver this year to the
markets of the world, returning est:-
mated profits to the stockmen and
sheepraisers OF Colorado and the sur
rounding states of more than 3,00O,-
900, according to figures given out at
the stockyards. Approximately $751;
90 900 will represent the value of cat
tie, IS 900, 900 that Of hogs and $s,ooo..
600 the value of sheep.
The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1913-10-25
Seven Victims in Six Aoldups.

Denver.-Six holdups, four of which
took place within an hour, were report
ed to the police. who believe that an
organized gang OF bandits is at large
in the city. Two of the highwaymen
were captured near midnight, and the
highwaymen in three of the robberies
answer the description of men who
bound r. j. Foy, Littleton Santa F.
station agent, Monday night, and rifled
the cash drawer of 81. The operations
Of the holdups netted them less than
800 and a watch.
The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1913-10-25
WHAT CAUSED THE AGONY
voIuminous Telegram From Wife
Worse to Merchant Than Break
in the Market.

The merchant uttered a sharp ex-
clamation and sank back into his
chair. A telegram fell from hos shak-
Ing hand. His eyes were wide, his
face white, beads OF perspiration stood
on his brow.
The men in the outer offlce whis-
pered among themselves.
Touch OF heart disease?" asked one.
No; the old man can't take up
note" said another.
I've heard rumors of that kind. We
fellows will have to be looking for
another place"
The merchant wiped his brow,
fetched a despairing sigh, picked up
the paper from the floor. frowned and
stamped his foot. as II to summon all
his resolution, placed the telegram on
his desk and forced himself to read
the bitter message. This was it:
Dearest James: Please send the
waist for my gros grain suit at once
You will remember the one, as 1t has
revers on the frontage and chained
stitched biases on the back. 1t is in
the lower trunk in the closet beside
the hall room. under your winter over
coat. II not there, it must be in the
sealed box on the third shelf in the
front room closet. II you don't find
1t there, 1t must be somewhere else.
The trunk keys are in the second bu-
reau drawer unless they wWe put in
the chiffonier, and l think the closet
keys are in a vase on one OF the man
tells. Pack the waist SO as not to
wrinkle it. and. oh! James, please do
not swear!
Your loving wife"
The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1913-10-25
FEAST0N BAKED TUBERS
FIVE THOUSAND AT cAReONoALE
POTATO FESTIVAL.
Yields of Western Slope Fields 1hIa
Year Give Farmers Renewed
Hope of Prosperity.

Western Newspaper Union News Service
Glenwood Springs, Colo-With four
teen quarters of beef, 5000 baked po-
tatoes. scores of loaves OF bread and
gallons OF coffee and other good
Things to tempt the appetite, Carbon
dale celebrated her fourth annual po-
tato festival and was hostess to hun
dreds OF Western Slope people who
entered the festivities with gusto
which comes as result of the bumper
crops harvested throughout this sec
tion of the slope.
Never in the history of Carbondale
have such crops of potatoes been gath
cred in the Roaring Fork valley An
idea of the yield is round in the fol
lowing:
Charles Nov harvesteds62 sacks of
l15 pounds each from a measured acre.
He got 800 sacks an acre from fifteen
acres.
George Sievers loaded eight carloads
OF potatoes from seven acres of his
ranch.
Max Grubb. son of Gene Grubb, the
potato expert, will harvest loo cars
Of fine tubers Lou and Frank Sweat
viii do equally as well from their
fields.
Indications now are that the entire
4,jo0 acres of potatoes in the Carbon
dale district will average better than
800 bushels to the acre this year.
But their potato crop is not the only
source of profit, for forty-five cars of
cattle were loaded at Redstone, south
of Caroondale, and ground has already
been secured for the location of a
Misunderstanding mill which will ON
ploy from $50 to 200 men throughout
the year And Carbondale folks made
merry with feasting, dancing and
street. sports. while Rifle and Marble
bands enlivened the affair with con
The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1913-10-25
EIGM,

Charles Teller. eighty-five. inventor
OF the cold storage system for the
preservation of foodctuffs. died IN
Paris
Asiatic ague has broken out at No
yopstroysE, surburb OF Novo-Tcher-
kask. capital of territory OF the Don
cossacks. Eleven deaths have oe'
Cured.
United States Ambassador Page
made inquiries at the British foreign
office to ascertain the attitude OF the
British government in the Mexican
situation
a challenge TO a duel was sent by
General Bose. aged seventy-two, to
General Georges Floretin. aged seven
;y-seven, grand chancellor OF the Lee
zion OF Honor in Paris.
The departure of the czarina's ply
sician for I.ivadia TO join the imperial
family has revived the rumor that
visit of the stork is expected in the
royal household at St Petersburg
At New Westminster, B. c., the jury
disagreed in the trial OF Charles Dean.
accused OF the robbery OF the bank OF
Montreal Sept 10, 1911. The robbery
netted the perpetrators about 32jo.oeO.
The decision OF the American line
to discontinue the conveyance OF first
class passengers on its vessels Will
become effective with the sailing OF
the st Louis from Southampton on
November s.
Miners who have worked the beach
sands at Nome, Alaska Tor their gold
think ii likely that the storm that
half destroyed the city drove ashore
gold bearing sands that viii more than
pay for the damage done.
While conducting mass at Harbor
Grace, y. F. Bishop March, a Roman
Catholic prelate was fired upon by
James Ware believed to be insane.
One shot grazed the head OF the bish-
op. wounding his slightly
The appointment Of Sir Rufus
IsaaCs. the attorney general. as lord
chief justice has been officially an
nounced at l.ondcA. He succeeds
Baron Alyerstone. resigned. Sir J. A
Simon, solicitor general. is appointed
to the attorney generalship. Stanley
owen Buckmaster succeeds to the SO
licitorgeneralship. Baron Alyerstone
has been created viscount.
The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1913-10-25
CAUGHT FROM THE NETWORK OF
WIRES ROUND ABOUT
THE WORLD.
DURING THE PAST week
RECORD OF IMPORTANT EVENTS
CONDENSED FOR BUSY
PEOPLE.
w E S e RN.

The third disastrous fire in three
years swept the business district OF
Ottumwa. la. causing loss OF S4l5.-
900
More than twenty bishops of the
Methodist Episcopal church were in
st. Louis TOR their annual fall meet
ing
St Paul medical experts are puzzled
over the case OF Abraham Branchner,
eighteen. who for twelve DAYS has
been asleep at the city hospital.
Three women were appointed by the
San Francisco police commission, from
a list of 200 applicants, to positions as
police women Eeach will draw a
salary OF $500 per annum.
Actual earnings OF the Atehinson
Topeka & Santa Re Railway Company
for the fiscal year ending June 30
were s22.15$.134 according TO the an
nual report made public at Chicago.
A few minutes after the Progressive
convention met in New York that
nominated him for the assembly. VII
liam Sulzer issued a statement, telling
why he had consented TO come back
TO Albany
A petition to former United States
Senator William I.orimer asking him
10 be a candidate for the Republican
nomination for United States senator
of Illinois next spring was circulated
at Chicago.
Samuel Raber was found guilty by
h.. .Ix.,-
in July OF Cherry De St Maurice, the
richest woman in the night life OF
Sacramento. The verdict carries the
death penalty
In fiercely contested judicial cleo
tion Charles G. Craig. Democrat OF
Galesburg. was elected TO the Illinois
supreme bench to succeed Judge John
=. Hand by majority OF 3,640 over
Judge Leslie d. Puterbuugh. RepubIi-
can.
Mrs Elizabeth Spencer Monnette.
formerly OF Denver. was named at
Los Angeles in divorce proceedings
filed by Mrs Harriet Cole as the
woman in the case" The divorce
action lies against DIR. George l.. Cole
of Los Angeles county
Confessing that he deserted his wife
and daughter in Portland Me, a year
ago, =. d. ChambeTliu, aged thirty
nine, is under arrest at Portland, Ore.
on a charge OF polySam! Miss Eva
Zelmar, aged twenty seven. whom
Chamberlin pretended TO marry, Oct
l., in Marshfield, ore, is his aecuser
The Advance gram elevator at
Front street and Missouri avenue,
East St Louis. Ill, burned to the
ground With loss OF s50G,o00 in
grain, The blaze. crawling up and
down the strip OF land between the
Mississippi river and Cahokia creek,
did 100000 damage to the warehouses
OF the Chicago q Alton, the Baltimore
& Ohio and the Glover Leaf railroad
companies.
The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1913-10-25
Slays Wife With Razor; Kills Self

Denver.-lhe eternal triangle, two
men and woman. took a toll of two
lives when. in jealous passion, Will
liam l.. Fannin, 80, plumber. severed
the throat of his wife in their resi-
dence at 2222 California street, and
half an hour later ended his own exist
ence under clump of bushes in a va
cant lot at Twenty and Califor-
mia streets, by drinking carbolic acid.
The tragedy was enacted before the
woman's terrified child, Pansy Long.
daughter by her first marriage. who
witnessed it, powerless to render her
mother assistance, over the banisters
of a stairwaX
The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1913-10-25
w A ASHINGTON.

Good roads movements throughout
the country are to have the substan-
tial support of the postoffice depart
ment.
Secretary Bryan announces that he
has cancelled his engagement to
speak at the Southern Commercial
congress at Mobile, October - to 81.
Proposed advances in freight rates
between cities in Missouri river terri
tory were held by the interstate com
merce commission to be not uLreason
able
Howard u. Sullivan has resigned
his position as private secretary to
Representative kindel and will return
to Denver. He will be succeeded by
Miss Elsie d. kindel, daughter of the
representative,
Americas doors were opened to
Mrs. Emmeline Pankhurst and dur
ing the few weeks covered by her lee
ture engagements the British militant
suffragist leader is free to go where
she will in the United States.
Anchored in Hampton Roads early
tional fleet ever gathered in Ameri
can waters. assembled in answer to
the invitation OF the United States
government to celebrate the compile
ton Of the Panama canal by making
voyage to the Pacific through the
new waterway.
Mrs b. r. Napier of Glenwood
Springs was the guest OF Secretary
and Mrs. w j. Bryan at luncheon
Mrs. Napier was in the East for the
purpose of attending the Grand Coun-
ell of the Order of Eastern Star. as
grand mistress from Colorado.
Congressman Kindel told the House
that he had taken the responsibility
of notifying the interstate commerce
commission that the new ruling OF
Postmaster General Burleson, chang
ing postage rates on books and
printed matter from third-class to
fourth-class should not be put in force
The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1913-10-25
Crested Butte Men Walk Out.

Gunnison.-Two hundred and fifty
men employed at the Buckley and
Colorado Fuel & Iron Company mines
at Crested Butte, walked out Monday
The Pueblo mine of the Colorado Fuel
&; Iron Company, employing fifty men,
signed up with the union and the men
have returned to work. The Floresta
mine, of the latter company, did not
shut down, The miners have no griev-
ances, merely demanding recognition
of the union.