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Elk City mining news. (Elk City, Idaho) 1903-1913, 1913-03-06
MARKET REPORTS

Dispatches concerning other quota
lions, conditions and phases are as
follows:
Butter steady. Creameries, 800
35hc. Eggs firm. At mark, cases in
cluded, 17@1Sc; refrigerator firsts, 10
@14c; firsts, 19c.
Cattle - Market steady. Beeves
$6.65@9; Texas steers, $5.20@6; west
ern steers, $5.50@765; stockers and
feeders, $6@7.6O; COWS and heifers,
$3.15M7.4O; calves, $7@10.50.
nogs-Market steady. Mixed, $s.O5
@s.35; heavy, $7.85@s.321a; rough,
$7.s5WS.05; pigs, $6.25@s.15; bulk,
$S.25@S.30.
$50; western, $5.25@6.60; yearlings,
$6.65@7.s5; lambs, native, $3.50
s.S5; western, $7.25@S.o5.
Portland.
Portland Union Stock Yards Co. re-
ports market as follows:
Receipts for the week: Cattle, L.
027; calves, Z; hogs, 3,088; sheep,
| $500.
Demand for prime heavy steers was
urgent enough to make a sellers
market and the former top of So was
easily obtained. The bulk of steers
were of good quality and averaged
$7.5O@7.S0. Butcher stock was firmeI
although the prime stuff was scarce
Cows at $685., heifers at $500, bulls
at Sc and stays at $3.50 are extreme
quotations for quality offering.
Ascendency of swine prices oc
| Cured on three different occasions
until SIS was finally reached Thursday
AS the close last Saturday was veal
at $7.45 the upward flight represents
big half dollar.
Wheat-Track prices: Club, $50
sec; bluestem, 93@94c; fortyfold, sec
red Russian. sac; valley, sec.
Butter-City and country creamery
extras, solid pack, 3713c.
Elk City mining news. (Elk City, Idaho) 1903-1913, 1913-03-06
GENERAL TRADE CONDITIONS
Bradstreet's Presents Cheerful Aspect
-Financier Says Money
is Tiuhter


Bradstreet's review of trade says:
While there are many cross-currents
in trade and industry, distributive
business as a whole presents cheer
full aspect and shipments on spring &C
count go forward with alacrity. Rela-
lively most activity is shown in dry
goods, which is running in excess of
year ago. Western reports breathe a
distinct tone of confidence and
strength. From these the shading is
downward to the rather slow condi-
tons reported in parts of the south.
In purely wholesale trade for dis
tant deliveries conservatism is still in
evidence. Strikes existing or prospec-
tive also act as a restraining feature
in trade, but there seems to be rather
less stress laid upon the tariff as a
disturbing feature, either because
preparations have been made accord
ingly or because fuller knowledge
leads to less uneasiness as to pros
pective changes. An interesting feat
ure in the general situation is the
closely restricted volume OF specula-
tive operations witnessed alike in Sc
curities, cereals, cotton and other COM
moditieS.
Business failures for the week end
ed February 10 were 2S5, which COM
pares with 305 in the like week of
1912. There were 81 failures in Can
ada.
Wheat, including flour, exports from
the United States and Canada for the
week ended February 10 aggregate
1854, 16s bushels, against 2,299,137 last
year.
The Financier says: Explanation for
hardening rates in the money market
is afforded by the weekly statements
of the New York clearing house banks
as made February IS. Using the week
! ly statement as basis the banks de-
creased their cash holdings by $601,-
600. The loss in cash was rather less
than anticipated, but the statement OF
the trust companies, made independ
emily of the clearing house exhibit, in
Dictated that the trust institutions are
strengthening their cash position, the
gain in that item for the week having
Jeen approximately $3,5O0,OOO.
The decrease in cash by the banks
was rather more than counteracted by
the shrinkage in deposits and the re
suit was that cash reserves rose $685.,
$50, making the present excess above
the 25 per cent minimum, $3,946,900
The statement of the actual condl
ton of the clearing house banks anC
trust companies for the week Give
days. shows that they hold $S,946,9oC
reserve in excess of legal require
ments. This is an increase of $6s9,55C
from last week.
Elk City mining news. (Elk City, Idaho) 1903-1913, 1913-03-06
MUCH EMPLOYMENT FOR
SkAGIT COUNTY SETTLERS

Seattle, Feb. 22.-H. c. Peters has a
land proposition especially appealing
to the man of limited means. He is
subdividing 5000 acres of the finest
fruit and dairy land in the Northwest,
located near Mt. Vernon, Skagit coun-
'ty, Wash, and adjacent to big mills
that offer abundant work at good
wages. Mr.. Peters solves both the
'Logged-Off Land" and the "High-Cost-
Of-Living" problems. He has offices
with the Seattle Trust Company, 800
Third Ave-, Seattle, and will gladly
answer all inquiries.
Elk City mining news. (Elk City, Idaho) 1903-1913, 1913-03-06

Had queer experience recently"
said the Billville poet. "Robber held
me up on the highway. Didn't have
a cent in my pockets, only a poem
which l was takin' to the editor"
Didn't take the poem, did he?"
mo, Read three lines OF it. handed
it back to me and said: Friend,
here's 50. You need it worse than
do."-Atlanta Constitution.
Elk City mining news. (Elk City, Idaho) 1903-1913, 1913-03-06

"And now" said the police Judge,
you may explain if you can why you
violently assaulted this man.
your honor, l had just paid for a
couple of tons of coal when l met this
fellow and he began telling me about
the time when he lived in central IL
linois and could go out in his own
back lot and get all the coal he need
ed just for the digging. Then l hit
Elk City mining news. (Elk City, Idaho) 1903-1913, 1913-03-06

Aunt Eliza came up the walk and
said to her small nephew:
Good morning, Willie. Is your
mother in?
Sure she is, replied Willie truculent-
ly. D'you s'pose I'd be working in
the garden on Saturday morning if
she wasn't?
Elk City mining news. (Elk City, Idaho) 1903-1913, 1913-03-06
Turkey Must Pay Indemnity.

Sofia-The ministry of finance
states that the payment of an indem-
nifty by Turkey is an essential condi-
ton to the conclusion of peace. 1t is
added, however, that the allies will
not insist upon immediate payment.
Elk City mining news. (Elk City, Idaho) 1903-1913, 1913-03-06

FOR SALE-120 acres in Kootenai
Co., Idaho. Excellent location. Ideal
climate. acres cultivated, balance
pasture and timber. House, barn, out
buildings, orchard, team, tools, etc
Price $4,000. Address Jas. S. Zornes
Occur d'Alene, Idaho.
Elk City mining news. (Elk City, Idaho) 1903-1913, 1913-03-06

"Brudahs an sisters said the old
colored preacher, Use gwine to
preach a powahyful sermon dis
monin'. Use gwine to define de I'M
definable; Use gwine to explain de
unexplainable, an Use gwine to I'M
screw de unscrutable. Buffalo Com
mercial.
Elk City mining news. (Elk City, Idaho) 1903-1913, 1913-03-06

whats new in the news?" "Ter-
rible scandal at Oldport. 1t has
leaked out that Mrs. Wallaby-Wom-
bat, the society leader, exacts a per-
centage of her servants tips
Louisville Courier-Journal.
Elk City mining news. (Elk City, Idaho) 1903-1913, 1913-03-06

No thoughtful person uses liquid blue.
It's a pinch OF blue In large bottle Of
water. Ask for Red Cross Ball Blue the
blue that's all blue.
Elk City mining news. (Elk City, Idaho) 1903-1913, 1913-03-06

Muz, did you hear the stepladder
when it tumbled over?
No, darling. 1 hope papa didn't
fall.
Not yet; he's still hanging on to the
picture moulding.
Elk City mining news. (Elk City, Idaho) 1903-1913, 1913-03-06
EREE

We will send you a 10 days supply of
Bassett's Native Herbs for constipation.
rheumatism and stomach trouble. Ad-
dress Bassett's Native Herb Co. San
Francisco. Cal, or get so tablets for 25c
at all druggists.
Elk City mining news. (Elk City, Idaho) 1903-1913, 1913-03-06

Spratts-Miss Elder is much older
than / thought.
Hunker-ImpossIble
Spratts-Well l asked her il she
had read Aesop's Fables and she said
she read them when they first came
out.
Elk City mining news. (Elk City, Idaho) 1903-1913, 1913-03-06

him."
Whereupon the judge dismissed the
defendant and fined the plaintiff SIS
and costs for using language calcu-
lated to provoke an assault.
Elk City mining news. (Elk City, Idaho) 1903-1913, 1913-03-06
hand fondly, he murmured-
Will you be my wife?

W III you DC IIIy WIG.
The woman did not start or blush;
no maidenly coyness shone from her
dear, cold eyes, as she replied thought
fully
Let me see. You have been here
four years. You have never once
grumbled at the food, or failed to pay
my bill promptly and without ques-
ton. No, sir, 1 am sorry, but l can
not marry you. You're too good a
boarder to put on the free list.
Elk City mining news. (Elk City, Idaho) 1903-1913, 1913-03-06

In the soft freight, even the board
ing house sitting room looked cozy
and attractive. The warmth and COM
fort thawed the heart of the star
boarder.
In an expansive moment he turned
to the landlady, who was his only
companion in the room. Clasping her
Elk City mining news. (Elk City, Idaho) 1903-1913, 1913-03-06

TO CURE A COLD IN ONE DAY
Take LAXATIVE BROMO Quinine Tab
let's. Druggists refund money II II fails
to cure. e. w. GROVES signature Is on
each box. Csc.
Elk City mining news. (Elk City, Idaho) 1903-1913, 1913-03-06
II Cures While You Walk.

Aliens Foot-E Ease is a certain cure for
hot, sweating, callous and swollen, aching
feet. Sold by all druggists Price Csc.
Don't accept any substitute. Trial pack
age FREE. Address Allen S. Olmsted.
Leroy N. Y
Elk City mining news. (Elk City, Idaho) 1903-1913, 1913-03-06

The saddest words
Right off the bat
Are just these three:
'I'm getting fat"
Memphis Commercial Appeal
Elk City mining news. (Elk City, Idaho) 1903-1913, 1913-03-06

PILES CURED IN TO II DAYS
Your druggist will refund money II PAZO
OINTMENT fails to cure any case OF
Itching, Blind Bleeding or Protruding
Piles in to IA days. SOC.
Elk City mining news. (Elk City, Idaho) 1903-1913, 1913-03-06

Mothers will find Mrs. Winslows Sooth-
ing Syrup the best remedy to use for their
children during the teething period.
Elk City mining news. (Elk City, Idaho) 1903-1913, 1913-03-06

Liquid blue is a weak solution. Avoid
it. Buy Red Cross Ball Blue, the blue
that's all blue. Ask your grocer.
Elk City mining news. (Elk City, Idaho) 1903-1913, 1913-03-06

"Pa, what's genius?"
ASK your mother; she married
one"
"Why, 1 didn't know ma had been
married twice. Houston Post.
Elk City mining news. (Elk City, Idaho) 1903-1913, 1913-03-06

]. G. Boyd, sc, of Sacramento, Cal,
boasts of 7S0 descendants.
Elk City mining news. (Elk City, Idaho) 1903-1913, 1913-03-06
Grain, Flour and Feed.

Wheat-Although the market has
taken slight advance over the quo
tations of last week and is holding
steady at the present level, business is
very inactive. This is due, in large
Elk City mining news. (Elk City, Idaho) 1903-1913, 1913-03-06

MIR. ALBERT w. PRICE, of Fredonia,
Kan, writes We use Sloan's Lini-
ment in the family and find it an ex-
cellent relief for colds and hay fever
attacks. 1t stops coughing and sneez-
ing almost instantly"
The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1913-11-21

See Carlquist's Ad. 10
Robt. B. Field will leave tonight
for Dakota and be absent for about a
month.
Have your house insured by having
your wiring installed by Standard FL
ectrical Co. Al
A. c. Barclay, proprietor of the new
Barclay hotel transacted business in
Cashmere Tuesday.
Symphony Writing Paper in White
and colors. Kings Pharmacy, The
Rexall Store. 40
John Clifford, deputy grand lecturer,
for the Masonic fraternity of Spokane
was here Tuesday and Wednesday.
Miss Viola Coyle of Everett arrived
here Wednesday afternoon on visit
to Mr.. and Mrs. ]. T. Mcdonald.
Try box of Liggett's Fruit Cor
dials. Kings Pharmacy, The Rexall
Store. 46*
Mrs. Charles Henry Warren Of Coun-
Gil Bluffs, Iowa, came in yesterday
from the east and will be a guest at
the home OF Mrs. J. T. Mcdonald un-
til after the holidays.
Del Mccoy, the Peshastin merchant
was here last week accompanied by
his father-in-law, w. J. Duncan, who
will spend the winter at Peshastin with
Mr.. Mccoy and his son, ]. B. Duncan.
The Wenatchee Lodge of Elks will
on Sunday, December 7, conduct its
annual lodge of Sorrow. Simultan-
eously every lodge of Elks in the
United States will hold memorial SER
vices for brothers who have crossed the
great divide.
The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1913-11-21

F. H. Freeze, of Seattle, is we'll
pleased with the results he is getting
out of his Wenatchee valley invest
ments. He has young orchard near
Peshastin and another near Cashmere.
From a three-acre tract on which are
us bearing trees he has taken $3.50
this fall. From a dozen Winter Ba-
mana trees II years old he packed out
200 boxes which sold at $500 per
box through the Cashmere union and
Northwestern Fruit Exchange. $500
from II trees is not so bad,
T. S. Davis. Of Leavenworth, has
purchased and will hereafter conduct
the Rainier Cafe on Mission street.
Mr.. Davis has had ample restaurant
experience and an able chef will have
charge of the cuisine. He expects to
make several alterations and establish
himself here OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES
Record.
Chas. Freeman, an instructor in ma
chinery and the use of air, is here
this week meeting the railroad men.
1t is the intention to organize class
here as he is doing at most points on
the Great Northern Railway.
H. F. Ring and wife will leave this
week on a sixty days trip which will
take them to Mr.. Rings old home in
Minnesota.
The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1913-11-21

Last Sunday evening the Epworth
League added Twelve new members.
For gas engines and wood saw out
fits, see Rutherford & Burns. 46"
County Assessor Joe Johnson was in
the city Tuesday and Wednesday on
business.
Eastman kodaks and supplies. De-
veloping and printing. Wheeler's
Photo and Art Shop. ia
Glenn Smith and wife of Pesastinh
are in Spokane this week in attendance
at the apple show.
Cecil Hall left for Seattle last Tues
day where he will spend the winter and
return in the spring to again work in
the big mill.
Rev. Charles Snowden left yesterday
morning for Reardon, Wash, where he
will hold a special ten days service in
the Reareon church.
Sunbeam Mazda Lamps brighten
your home by their brilliancy, and cut
your light bill in half, installed by
Standard Electrical Co. Al
Neil and Volly Franklin went to Sc
attic Wednesday to take in the big
ball game between the New York
Giants and the Chicago White Sox.
F. S. Jacobsen was in Spokane the
first Of the week on business from
where. he left Tuesday over the North
ern Pacific for Seattle to be present at
the big ball game.
Mrs. Orilla Morse was recently
called to Allegan, Michigan. where her
daughter. Mrs. Bertha Miner is very
sick and expects to be absent for the
next three months.
The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1913-11-21

Berg Peterson and Andrew Olson
both of whom have been employed by
the Lamb Davis Lumber Co. this sea-
son left town this week, their objective
point being St. Maries, Idaho.
w. E. Moore, one of the most en-
thusiastic baseball fans in the Wenat
chez valley passed thru the city Tues
day on No. bound for Seattle where
he will take in the GiantWhite Sox
ball game.
Among our callers this week was H.
F. Hubbard, formerly of the law firm
of Parr & Hubbard, Wenatchee, but
now residing at Moore's landing, on
Lake Chelan. where he is improving
an orchard.
If you want only part of the local
news part of the time, take any old
paper; if you want all of the news part
of the time. take a good paper, but if
you want all of the local news every
week, take the Echo.
Edward McPhee, one of the pop
ular employees at the Lamb-Davis mill
the past summer, left Monday for the
coast where he will spend the winter
He intends to return to this city in
the spring when the mill starts.
Deputy Sheriff E. A. Woods has
been quite busy the past week serving
subpoenas on parties who are wanted
in court IN Wenatchee. In trying to
locate one man he was compelled to
make two trips to Cascade tunnel.
w. A. Ryan, chief telegraph opera
tor at the Great Northern yard Office,
and Mrs. Ryan who have been visiting
at different points in the east for the
past month returned home Sunday.
They report a most enjoyable trip.
Joe Melvin, who has been employed
by the Lamb-Davis Lumber Co. this
season has gone 10 his old home in
Florida where he expects to spend the
winter. He hopes to return to Leaven-
worth in the spring when the mill
starts again.
The Junior League held their regu-
lar monthly social in the parlors of
the M. E. chuch last Tuesday evening.
In the social games the following
were awarded prizes: Irene Franklin,
Laura Hathaway, Marie Swartz and
Nellie Hardy.
H. R. Jones, Peshastin building
contractor, came here last Saturday to
take the train for Portland, Oregon,
where he means TO spenQ month OF
more in the hope that his health will
be improved by the change. For
the past few months he has been trou-
bled with bad heart, due, the doc
tors tell him to living in high altitude.
w. S. Gregg, a stationary engineer
who has worked about here for the
past four years left last week for North
Carolina, meaning to stop and visit
friends in Virginia on his way to his old
North Carolinahome. He took number
Of samples of the Big Red apple ftom
the upper Wenatchee valley which he
will use as an advertisement and will
return next spring and hopes to induce
some Virginia and North Carolina peo-
The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1913-11-21
LOCAL HAPPENINGS AND WHEREABOUTS
NEWS ITEMS

Notes, Personals and Small Items May be Phoned Direct
The Echo Office :. :. Telephone Number 285
New-York tribune., 1913-05-25
LONG AND WEkRYlNe HOURS.

1t is maintained on behalf of the
produce men that they work longer
hours, under more trying circum-
stances, for less compensation. than
any other business men in the city.
Owing to the nature Of the business it
is necessary for the receiver and his
assistants to he on the piers at which
are received the food supplies from the
farm as early as 10 o'clock. midnight.
AT some seasons of the year il is even
necessary for them TO be on duty as
early as 1870 and II o'clock at night.
The produce is removed from the cars
in which II is shipped from distant
points, having been ferried across the
North River on car floats and then ar
ranged in numbered sections for dis
play, that the buyers representing job
bers and wholesalers may make their
selection. The produce merchants are
busy throughout the night disposing of
the supplies intrusted to them by the
shippers. and in many cases they are
busy almost throughout the following
day. Thus ii is that the days work"
often extends over fifteen and eighteen
hours. No matter what the weather
may be-in sleet. snow. rain or hail
the produce merchant is required to be
ION the job"
IF the produce merchants were
members of a labor union they would
all he disciplined and fined for violat
ing the eight-hour rule-in fact, most
Of them would have TO be fined at least
twice every day if that rule were en-
forced said a leading merchant in
commenting on the long hours devoted
by the receivers of farm produce to
the handling Of food supplies. "As
matter of fact" said the merchant. we
work about twice as long every day as
does the laborer and at least a third
more hours than the farmer who sends
New-York tribune., 1913-05-25

road. the New York Central and the
Old Dominion Steamship Company
handle the bulk of produce shipped
from distant points. AT times there is
great congestion on the piers at which
produce is received. owing 10 the in
adequate facilities provided. This
leads 10 considerable loss and deprecia-
tion, and there is a movement on foot
TO greatly increase the pier accom-
modations. At one time the Pennsyl-
vania Railroad sought 10 divert the re-
ception of produce from Manhattan
to the Jersey side. This would have
necessitated a removal Of many of the
produce receivers to New Jersey. So
great was the resentment upon the
part of the produce merchants that
they instructed the shippers TO send
their produce by the Old Dominion
Steamship Line in preference TO the
Pennsylvania. This resulted in the
abandonment of the plan by the Penn
sylvania Railroad.
New-York tribune., 1913-05-25

stitutes. but the potent argument OF the
housewives pocketbook is gradually over
coming all the charges OF evil MADE
against the artificial butter. and 1t is
coming into wider use constantly. The
manufacturers of butterine are coming
back at the dairy people with telling ar
guments one OF which is that the process
of manufacture is at all times under gov
ernment supervision, which is not the
case with the country creamery They
also make a point of showing the ingre-
dents used. which are milk, cream.
sweet nourishng oil which is pressed
from beef fat. and a neutral" which is
produced from pure leaf. This is
churned, and after churning the excess
moisture is worked out. salt is added 10
suit the taste and the product packed
into prints.
Tuberculosis among milk producing cat
tie and the danger to adults as well as
children from milk and butter infected
with tuberculous germs have long been
used as arguments in favor of "oleo,
and DR. Harvey w. Wiley. the pure food
expert, is quoted as saying: In all my
extensive analyses OF butterine (oleomar-
garine) nothing objectionable or deleteri-
Gus TO health has ever been found. But
terine (oleomargarine), as made to-day. is
pure. palatable and more nutritious than
butter"
The steady growth in the consumption
OF oleomargarine is evidenced by statis-
tics submitted by one manufacturer
which show that the product. OF b3,l46oos
pounds in 1906 had increased TO l39, 40
pounds in 1910. Early in February last
Paul T. Aldrich. editor Of "The National
Provisoner." suggested that the same
federal law which assures the healthful-
ness and wholesomeness OF oleomar-
garine be applied to the conditions OF
butter making, and the question, why
not?" is pertinently put.
New-York tribune., 1913-05-25
FOOD CHEAP IN PRODUCE DIS.
TRiCTS.

Just now there is widespread interest
in the problem of the high cost of food.
Eloquent speeches are made by those
who maintain that the high cost OF
food is due TO the commission mer-
chant, who is regarded enormously by
some as the middleman. A trip
through the Washington Market dis
trict develops the fact that most OF the
food which goes upon the average
househoder's table. during this season
at least, is very cheap indeed 1t is
fact, however, that this same food
when sold by the retailer brings prices
much higher than few years ago.
For example, d onions grown in Ohio,
the freight on which is - cents hun
dred pounds, have been sold in large
quantities recently as low as % cents
hundred pounds. These same red
onions when purcha-ed from the av-
erage corner grocer cost the house
holder 12Ia and II cents a quart. In
the Washington Market district turnlps
recently have been sold for few cents
a bag-any price the purchaser would
pay in fact-while the retailer is main
tanning about the same prices as when
turnips were selling at ten times the
present prices in the commission dis
trict. The same ratio exists through
out the produce district. Oranges this
year are high in p"ice, owing TO the
scarcity in the supply due to the killing
frost in Southern California. This is
practically the single exception TO the
rule Of remarkably low prices existing
in the produce district. Apples have
been very cheap indeed, though when
the consumer co. -es 10 purchase ms
supply from the grocer or the fruit
dealer he pays about the same prices
as last year, hen apples in the whole
sale district were much greater in cost
than they now are.
Most of the produce and fruit re-
ceived in New York comes in over four
lines Of railroad and one line Of steam
ships. The Erie Railroad has prac-
tical monopoly in handling the Cali
fornia fruits at this end of the line.
Trainloads Of fruits from the Coast dis
trict are foated across the North River
TO Pier 20. where the cars are unloaded
and the boxes opened for inspection,
and then the fruit is purchased by
agents Of the wholesalers. Much of
this fruit is sold at public auction after
insnection. The PENNSYLVANIA Rail