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The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1914-06-26
MINSTREL PERFORMANCE
SCORES A BIG SUCCESS
Everybody Pleased and the Public Ii
brary Fund BOosted-fvery Seat
Was Taken

Of course you attended the minstre
performance at the Scenic last night
Everybody was there. The house wa:
crowded. Every seat was sold long
before the doors were opened, and g
hundred more dollar seats could easily
have been sold.
The program was carried out with.
out hitch. Every number was round
ly encored. All the time the audi.
ence wanted more" 1t was an anna
teur performance strictly; gotten up fol
the public library, and it was all right
Time and space will not permit a
this time to make special mention o
each and every number. Let it suf
fee to say that the entire program was
we'll rendered, for which Mr.. and Mrs
F. S. Jacobsen deserve especial credit
They undertook the direction and get
up of the whole affair.
Following is the program as adver
tised and rendered:
THE Man Behind e. K. Bar
mum, assisted by the Misses Feather
stone, Treadwell, Walker, Castleberry
Sharman and Mrs. Barnum.
Character Sketch, "Niccolini ni"-Mrs
A. R. McKeown and E. P. Sharman
Reading-E. H. Fox.
international Rag"-Mrs. A. R
McKeown.
Way Down South"--Arthur Babst
Peg O. My Heart"-Mrs. L. C.
Brender.
meet Me in Blossom Time"-F
J. Williams.
Take Me Back to Babyland"-
Miss Fern Lynch.
why is the Ocean so Near the
Shore"-Chas. McDermott.
Sunshine and Roses"-Mrs. w. O.
Atwood.
There's a Girl in the Heart o.
Maryland"--M. A. Marley.
Violin Solo-Dr. C. E. Briggs.
Vocal Solo-Miss Mabelle Rudesill.
Song and Fairy Dance-Baby Reatha
Hutchings.
Comedy Sketch, "Masqueraders'-
Miss Gardner, Arthur Babst and w. B.
Simpson.
The seat sale amounted to $231.
The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1914-06-26
leavenwOrth Still Loses

Before big crowd of fans the locals
were again trimmed by the Wenat-
cheeites last Sunday. the score ending
II to 6 in favor of the visitors. Just
what the trouble was we are unable to
say, unless it was that Gill, the visitors S
twirler, had too much on the ball.
Bonehead plays and errors were also
quite noticeable among the Leaven-
worth aggregation. Paine was the
first to go on the mound for the locals
after which followed Smith and then
Brown. From the Leavenworth fans
point of view, it was rotten game,
but at that it was good batting prac-
tice for the Wenatchee bunch and any
way who cares as Cashmere has already
grabbed the pennant.
The coming Sunday Leavenworth
will play in Cashmere.
The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1914-06-26
Chas. Hopkins Sentenced

Charles Hopkins. the tatooed bandit
whose career excited state wide interest
few months ago, was brought into
court at Mt. Vernon, Wash, last Thurs
day morning and sentenced for the
murder of Tony Olson. He took ad-
vantage of the opportunity offered him
to make a statement when asked by
Judge Houser if he had anything to
say why sentence should not now be
imposed. With the same calm -assur-
ance-some people call it gall-he has
shown throughout the trial, Hopkins
replied: There is nothing to say why
sentence should not be pronounced
now. I have had an honest deal in
this court, as honest as any man could
get. am not guilty Of this murder
and could have freed myself Of this
charge by confessing to another muir
der. But it is as long one way as it is
another. So I had to say very little on
the witness stand. I intend to give
the true history of this crime to the
press. am not as black as l have
been painted and anyone looking at me
ought to know it. I realize there is
only one thjpg possible here, so let's
have it and get it over with"
After Judge Houser had pronounced
sensence condemning Hopkins to i'm
prisonment at hard labor at Walla Wal
la for the term OF his natural life and to
pay the cost Of prosecution, Hopkins
grinned and asked for the bill, saying
he might Just as well pay it now while
he was flush.
The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1914-06-26
CITY COUNCIL LOWERS
DAY MARSHAL'S SALARY
Ordinance Reducing Salary Of Marshall
Sampson is Passed over Mayor
WOIdenburgs Veto

One OF the most important acts oil
the council last Tuesday evening was
the passing OF Ordinance No. 1873 over
the veto of Mayor Woldenburg. The
ordinance is the one reducing the
salary Of the day marshall from 500 tc
800 a month over which the council
and Mayor have been fighting for the
past six months. Whether this action
will result in saving to the city fol
some time to come, remains to be seer
as Attorney Fox has ruled that the city
must continue to pay Marshall Samp,
son $100 month up to the first o.
the year when his term of Office will
expire. Should Mr.. Sampson be fired
or hand in his resignation, then the
man who succeeded him would only
draw 800 month. The salary Of Night
Marshall Ryan remains the same, $85
a month.
Ordinance No. 13o vacating a por-
ton of tenth street also passed.
The following bills were allowed:
Crane & Co., $63; A. A. Bryant, lbs
Joe Stevenson, 90; Lee Howerton $50.
The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1914-06-26
viii Be Married in Tacoma

Miss Pearl White and B. Bergenson
left Monday afternoon for SnohomiSh,
from where after a few days visit with
Miss Whites relatives they will 60 to
Tacoma to be married. After the GER
emony they will leave for St. Paul to
be absent several months. On their
return to Washington Mr.. and Mrs.
Bergenson will make their home in
Tacoma. Both parties are we'll known
in this city, having made their homes
here for several years. Mr.. Bergenson
is in the employ of the Great Northern
as firemen.
The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1914-06-26
GREAT NORTHERN SUED
FOR DEATH OF ENGINEER
Mother of Vance H. Th0ms asked $780,
900 Damages of RailrOad-)ury
Awards Her $500

Mrs. Adaline Donaldson, mother o
Vance H. Thoms, the Great Northern
engineer who was killed near Cascade
Tunnel on the 5th of last November,
when his engine blew up, was awarded
damages by jury to the amount o.
$500 in Everett last Friday. Mrs.
Donaldson had sued for $4,000 dam
ages but reports are that she will accept
$500 which it is believed that the
railroad company will pay.
Mrs. Donaldson based her claim fol
damages on allegations that the neg
ligence OF the company was RESPONSE
BILE for the condition of the boiler that
blew up the illfated engine.
The largest exhibit ever shown in Z
Snohomish county court room was
placed before the jury in this case
Tuesday. 1t was the crown sheet al
bulged out OF shape, the giving away
Of which caused the explosion that re-
suited in Thom's death. 1t weighed
1900 pounds and required six men tc
carry it into the court room.
Engineer Thoms was well known ii
this city where he had made his home
for many years.
The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1914-06-26
Masonic Hall Nearing Completion

The Masonic hall, now under con-
struction on the north side OF the track
is rapidly nearing completion and will
be practically completed by the mid:
die of July, says Contractor L. F.
Speidel who has charge Of the work.
When finished the building will repre-
sent an expenditure Of over $4,000.
Leavenworth Masons are beginning to
feel very proud of their new home
since it is the finest building of its
kind in central Washington. Much
interest is being taken in its construc-
ton by the local members, many ol
whom are donating their work and
others unable to take an active part are
contributing in one way or another.
The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1914-06-26
LARGE DUNKARD PARTY
SEE WENATCHEE PARK
Fifty-Odd Make Trip From Here ia Autos
Kansas, Dakota, Pennsylvania and
California Represented

When No. "A arrived here yesterday
morning at 4:20 a. M, fifteen autos
were in waiting to take large party of
delegates returning from the annual
conference of the Church of the United
Brethren, in session in Seattle the past
ten days, for a trip to Wenatchee Park
where a considerable colony OF these
people have already located.
The party left here about seven
o'clock and on account OF the recent
rains found the road in most excellent
condition. The trip to Plain, where
the store and postoffice that serves the
new settlement is located was made in
an hour and half. In the party were
a number of Leavenworth people who
expressed astonishment at the marvel
Gus change that has been wrought by
these people in the short space OF
eighteen months, since the park was
first opened to settlement.
Col. Goding, John S. Mooney, and
w. C. Thornhill of Wenatchee who
took an active part in the develop
ment of the Park lands were in the
party and took number OF the visiting
Dunkards over the ditch line which
supplies the water to irrigate this rich
valley land. Not only did the visitors
find the cultivable area much larger
than they expected, and the land itself
much richer, but they also found that
purchasers OF land in this section are
entitled to, and will get full inch OF
water for every acre OF land, which is
water in abundance for any purpose.
Many have already set out orchards and
others are preparing to set out trees.
but if some OF those who expect to
locate in the Park want to engage in
hay raising and dairying, for which the
land is admirably adapted, there is an
abundance of water and plenty of open
range of the best kind.
The Wenatchee Park ditch is one OF
the best constructed irrigation bitches
in Chelan county. At one point where
a waste gate is located there is splen-
did opportunity at minimum expense
to develop electric power. This, we
are told will later be developed and the
entire section lighted by electricity.
There were fifteen autos in the party
nine coming from Wenatchee and six
from Leavenworth. Among the Leav-
enworth people were O.. S. Sampson,
G. L. Gardner, F. c. Riggs, R. b.
Field, Art Wilder, A. A. Pinch. The
last of the party returned to Leaven-
worth by p. M, where some Of the
Dunkard delegates took the afternoon
train and continued their homeward
Journey. Some of them remained in
the park to visit with old friends before
going home.
The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1914-06-26
Died at an Advanced Age

Patrick Hughes, who has made his
home with Mr.. and Mrs. James Clark
for the past five or six years, died last
Monday night at the age OF "a. He
was born in Ireland in 1880. When
he came to this country or whether he
had relatives here Mrs. Clark does not
know. Funeral services were held in
the Catholic church Wednesday morn
ing and burial took place in the Leav-
enworth cemetery.
The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1914-06-26
Mr.. F. E. Ames, of Portland, Assist

Mr.. F. E. Ames, Of Portland, Assist
ant District Forester, in charge Of the
department OF silviculture left for Lake,
Wenatchee Wednesday morning in
company with Mr.. Sylvester of the
local forestry Office. They will inspect
the timber sale area in that vicinity.
Mr.. Ames will be in this section for
about ten days inspecting Various
timber lands.
The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1914-06-26
S1.5O Per Year

all costs Of growing and delivery,
averaged SIS cents. Sugrue says IS
cents per box annual profit would keep
him in the business even though this
were to be the permanent margin. II
simply goes to show that efficient man
agement can get the money even in a
year like 1912.
The most hopeful sign now is that
the principle of f. o. b. sales which
helped give the exchange remarkable
comparative showing in 1912, is now
more generally applied. Furthermore,
distribution is now penetrating more
remote markets. Lastly, growers are
more inclined after their experience OF
two years ago to put their fruit in good
hands and let apple selling experts do
the best they can. They realize now
as never before that they must protect
the market by refusing to entrust the
sale Of their fruit to novices or un-
scrupulous gamblers"
The disaster of 1912 will not be
repeated" said ]. T. Zerbe, auditor of
the Wenatchee-North Central Distribu-
tors, because growers will not permit
it. They learned a lesson two years
ago. They observed that consumers
paid practically as much for apples as
in any other year. Middlemen did
not get rich, and growers who were un-
unprepared for lean year nearly went
to the wall.
Where did the margin between the
growers price and retailers price go7
1t went into the garbage can. Nil
lions Of boxes and barrels of apples
rotted and were dumped out. They
had been withheld when demand ex-
listed because growers insisted on hav-
ing 1911 prices.
Organization of the North Pacific
Fruit Distributors was crystalized by
the 1912 slump. Growers believed it
their salvation to, unite and put the
bulk Of box apple tonnage under one
management which should be absolute
ly controlled by their representatives,
but not handicapped by machinery and
theory.
The practice of making (. O. b.
sales and returning his money to the
grower soon after his fruit is shipped,
this method resulted in one season in
restoring confidence in the apple in
dustry of the Northwest. We are
distributors in trade mark and in truth.
We have the machinery and tonnage
to keep apples in the mouths OF every
body who wants them anywhere in the
world. We believe that by keeping
the supply constant wherever the de-
mand is, accepting the ruling price,
will dispose of even greater tonnage
than that of 1912 and return good
profit to the grower.
There is no need for growers to
worry this year. They have decided
to keep their fruit out of the hands of
spectators, and to put it into the
hands of consumers just as soon and as
efficiently and economically as possible.
By all the rules of commerce there
must be fair return to the producer"
The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1914-06-26

Rev. w. V. Davis met with serious
and painful accident last Friday while
working on his ranch near Dryden.
He was working on the side Of a hill
clearing land when his foot slipped.
throwing him to the ground. His
head struck on a sharp stick which
pierced his right ear, breaking the ear
drum. Since that time he has been
unable 10 hear out of that ear and it is
doubtful if he ever will, according to
DR.. Judah who dressed the wound.
The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1914-06-26

A delegation of Japanese members
of the Wenatchee colony called on
President Russell OF the Commercial
club in that city this week and asked
him to represent the city of Wenatchee
as guest OF the japanese government
on board its warships June 80 at Sc
attle. The Japanese feet is expected
to arrive in Puget Sound tomorrow.
Mr.. Russell agreed to go himself or
appoint some member of the club.
The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1914-06-26
PATRICK FLAHERTY
WAS ELECTROCUTED
Employed By Tumwater Light & Water
CO.,-Came in Contact with Wire
Carrying $500 Volts

Last Friday evening, between half
past five and six o'clock Patrick Flah-
erty. who has been in the employ OF
the Tumwater Light & Water Co. for
the past two weeks, was killed by COM
ing in contact with the company's
light wires.
The facts, as they can be gathered
from those near the scene Of the acci-
dent. which occurred on Commercial
street, near the Congre gational church
are; Gallagher was engaged in taking
up the slack in the light wires and
assembled the pole with climbers. Mrs.
Burt Williams and Mrs. Linblom were
in conversation just short distance
from the pole when the accident which
cost Gallagher his life occurred. Mrs.
Williams says:
I'VE heard a grinding, or a grating
sound just above our heads, followed
by short groaning sound, and when
we looked up saw the man falling back
ward. He hung by something on the
pole. We at once gave the alarm by
calling the attention of the men in
Brender's blacksmith shop to the man S
condition"
Lou Brender and his brothers, Will
and Otto secured ladders loosened the
foot and by means of a rope let the
body down 10 the ground. Doctors
McKeown and Judah were summoned
shortly after the body was gotten down
and did all they could to revive the
man, and after working for an hour or
more gave him up for dead. He had
quite severe burns on his hands and
wrists, showing plainly where he came
in contact with the wire. The pole he
ascended carried both telephone and
electric light wires, the latter carrying
a voltage, Mr.. Burgett says, of $500.
The light wires are insulated but those
who pretend to know about electric
wires say that insulation is very little if
any protection in the case of wires
carrying high voltage.
The insulation may be imperfect, or
it may be worn by the action of the
wind and weather and subject to the
effects of dampness, and then again,
electricity is most cratic agent, and
lacks whole lot of always doing what
you expect it to do, which is only an
other way of saying electricity is one of
the things we do not know all about.
Gallagher was an experienced cleo
trical worker. He knew the effects of
coming in contact with a live wire.
The supposition is that one of his
climbers failed to hold and as he was
about to lose his balance he grabbed
at something and came in contact with
the high voltage wire and in falling
one of his feet hung on the cross beam.
He remained in this position for from
five to ten minutes before the body
was lowered to the ground.
A search OF his room and clothing
revealed nothing about relatives or
where he was from He had a card
with the name Patrick Gallagher, mem
Der of the electrical workers union of
Portland. The union was wired to and
replied asking that the body be prop
erly taken care Of and guaranteeing all
expenses. The body was taken in
charge by the Cascade Undertaking
Co., Gallagher was about 25 years old
and had only recently come here from
the Coast.
The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1914-06-26

One Of the workmen employed by
Herman Stoltze, the contractor who is
building the sewer system in the busi-
ness district, had a narrow escape from
death Wednesday afternoyn when he
was caught by cavein of sand and
rock. By quick work on the part of
his fellow workmen he was gotten out.
He suffered only few slight bruises.
The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1914-06-26

Edward de Reymonte who has been
employed at the steel plant for some
time says he is going to practice medi-
cine soon. He has his own system of
treating the sick.
The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1914-06-26

DR.. A. R. McKeown was called to
the Curtiss ranch last Saturday to see
E. N. Adams, who while cutting wood
cut deep cash in his left hand nearly
severing the thumb. The doctor
sewed the finger back and says he does
not believe that amputation will be
necessary.
The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1914-06-26

Mrs. Alvin Mitchell is confined to
her home this week with a severe at
tack Of quincy. DR.. Judah reports
that there has been quite an epidemic
OF the disease the past few weeks.
The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1914-06-26

Mrs. D. M. Haney Of Washington,
Iowa, mother OF Mrs. A. Royal Nc
Keown, is here on visit to her daugh-
ter and family.
The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1914-06-26

Mr. and Mrs. Joe Massie and Mrs.
G. w. Sampson returned Tuesday after
week spent camping out at Red
Mountain.
The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1914-06-26

Mr.. and Mrs. M. G. Jones enter
tanned A. P. and D. J. Nicholson at a
seven o'clock dinner Wednesday eve
ming.
The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1914-06-26

DR.. A. Royal McKeown reports the
arrival OF ten-pound boy at the home
OF Mr.. and Mrs. Ernest Moeck.
The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1914-06-26

Lost-Between Peshastin and We
natchee Lake, rain coat. Finder leave
at Echo Office. rs
The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1914-06-26
Maximum and Minimum
temperature for week end.

DR.. a. G.. McKeown,
u. s. Local Observer.
The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1914-06-26

As an advertising med
tum this paper is unsur-
passed.
1t is read every week by
On neople in the Wenat-
nlley.
re usinig IL and
results. SO Will
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Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1914-05-15
NEWS OF THE WORLD
ITEMS If GENERAL INTEREST
FRESH FROM OUR DAILY
NEWSPAPER SERVICE.
GATHERED FROM BOTH CONTINENTS
Happenings National, Historical and
E.iiticaI and Personal Events
Herewith Selected for Our
Many Readers.

The prince of Wales threatens 10
rival the king Of Spain as a partlci-
pant in outdoor sports.
Lieutenants Faber and Kurtz, Ger
man army aviators, were killed recent
ly while making a landing.
Mrs. Thomas ]. Preston, Jr., former
Iy Mrs. Grover Cleveland is in New
York on a short visit from England.
There we're 1922 foreign students in
attendance at colleges and UNIVERSE
ties in the United States in the year
1913.
The untitled tonnage of the United
States Steel corporation on April 80
sotaied Att O6S tons "a decrease OF
376.757 tons over March.
Christian x. and Queen Alexandrine
of Denmark are visiting in England
CHS week. They are the guests OF
King George and Queen Mary.
Colonel Milton Park. one of the foun-
ders of the populist party and lead
Ing llBuTG III INC 1i hhSA NAAAS'HSNf
died Saturday at Dallas, Texas.
Mrs. Hazel Lux, who shot and kill
ed William Garland in February at
Oakland because she said he had re-
fused to marry her, was sentenced to
serve a life term in San Quentin
prison.
4 canvass conducted by the Inter
national Harvester Co. shows that
the probable yield of grain through
out the Inland Empire will exceed that
of the record outturn of 1913 by from
5000, 900 to 100000 bushels.
When willard Laird, street car con-
ductor protested with passengers for
splitting on the car floor in Chicago
recently he was shot and killed and
another man wounded. Joseph Esposi-
10 was arrested for the killing
The average rate of wages per week
I'm 40 of the leading cities of the Uni
ted States for more than 60 of the
principal industries, was higher on
May Is, 1913. than on May 10, 1912
with the single exception of the mill
work carpenters, which showed nc
change.
The recent examinations at the
German schools were again, as eact
year, accompanied with numerous in
stances of boys killing themselves
either through fear that they would
not pass or because of modification a
failure. On single day three suicides
of students, all less than Is years
were reported, and the body of on'
who had drowned himself some day
earlier was recovered. These instan
ces we're In Greater Berlin alone.