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The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1915-07-23
YAKIMA AND HOOD RIVER
APPLES ARE LESS DESIRABLE
From 20 to IS Cents Per Box Under We
natchee Valley Prices This week

Yakima has been selling apples in
the past few days, but the price at
which they had to let go Of their apples
was way under the price at which 250,-
900 boxes of Wenatchee apples were
contracted this week. The following
is taken from the Yakima Republic ol
Monday:
There was filed with the county au-
ditor Saturday the first apple contract
of the year, the parties being George
w. Sherwood, who has tract Of o.79
acres in Lower Naches, and Fred
Eberle and w. w. Scott.
Sherwood undertakes tc deliver to
the second parties Rainier apples at SIS
cents for c grade, 55 to 10 cents fol
fancy and IS cents for extra fancy;
Winesaps at from 55 to 80 cents; Ar
kansas Blacks at SIS to 80 cents;
Red Astrachans and Hyde's King al
IS cents for orchard run.
THE terms are $3.50 paid now and
the balance cash on delivery"
The sales manager Of the Hood
River apple growers association said tc
a newspaper man this week, discussing
the apple situation:
We do not expect any Australian
business this year. The British gov
ernment has issued orders that British
vessels shall give preference to fruits
grown in the provinces, and we do moi
expect to be able to get space. The
Australian buyers know this and as ye'
we have received no queries about
our fruit from Australia. Such a state
Of affairs produces practically boycott
OF American fruit"
Fifty thousand boxes OF the 250,0
contracted for this week it was ex.
pressly stipulated were wanted for the
Australian market.
The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1915-07-23
Hydraulic Mining Near Leaven-
worth

A mining man by the name Of Hin
ton, from Entiat, arrived here this week
with a hydraulic ram and a centrifugal
pump. He has been engaged in
placer mining near Entiat but was in
duced to come here and investigate a
gravel bed in the Wenatchee river
basin about two and half miles east
OF this town. He was so favorably
impressed with the prospect that he
returned and shipt his machinery here
this week and at once began installing
it. 1t has been known for years that
the gravel beds of the Wenatchee
river yielded gold. Some ten years
ago VIM. Smith took out some fifty or
sixty dollars in the same vicinity by
the crudest kind of methods. Two
men about mile this side Of where
Hinton proposes to operate, last week
took out about SIS in five days by the
use OF what is knowl as rocker.
Keep your eve on Leavenworth.
The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1915-07-23
S1.5O Per Year
unarmed merchantmen be not endan-
gered.
Cherry Returns Prove Satisfactory

The cherry shipping season closed
last Friday in Yakima with the ship
ment Of the last car. Last year IS
cars were shipt, this year 131. The
average price was slightly under three
and three quarter cents per pound.
The growers received over 500, 900.
Thirty-seven cars were sold to Gamers
and ga cars for fresh consumption. 1t
easily proved the most profitable cherry
crop ever marketed in the valley, and
is largely attributed to the purchases
made by the Gamers.
Wenatchee reports the sale of up
wards Of $4,000 worth of cherries,
tho does not report as favorably as the
Yakima district. This is attributable
to the fact that Wenatchee would not
sell to the Gamers.
The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1915-07-23
$4,000 BOXES APPLES SOLD
S1.OO PER BOX ORCHARD RUN
Deal Closed with Wagner & Son First of
Week-G0 to Australia and
South America

From ]. B. Adams, who returned
from the lower valley Wednesday we
learned the facts about the first i'm
portant apple sale made here this year.
Ten per cent is to be paid in advance,
the balance when the apples are de-
livered. In car loads it amounts in
round numbers to 400, and practically
makes that as the minimum price that
will be paid for apples here this year.
1t also in round numbers amounts to
about one tenth of the apple crop Of
the Wenatchee Valley. Selling one
tenth OF the crop at this time, when
the picking and packing will not begin
much before the first of October,
points to prosperity for the valley this
year. A considerable number of the
growers will not sell at a dollar box,
expecting to get better prices as the
season advances. In this conclusion
they find confirmation in the reports
from the eastern and middle states,
where the shortage in the apple crop
becomes every day more convincing.
Quite naturally Mr.. Adams is highly
pleased with the sale just closed, with
which he had much to do, having
spent the last week among the grow
ers, laying before them the oppor-
tunity to sell their apples at an ad-
vance Of from zoe to 45c per box over
the prices Yakima and Hood River
apples were contracted for last week.
The following is the contribution
the different districts will make to the
250,000 box pool. the sale OF which
has just been closed: Cashm ere,
$4,000; Leavenworth, $4,000; Peshas-
tin, 5000; Monitor, $4,000; Entiat,
$4,000: Chelan. 5000; Olds, $4,000
Wenatchee and astWenatchee, rs, 900
Trinidad, $4,000. These spples are
all intended for Australia and South
America. The sale was concluded
by Mr.. Adams, acting as the repre-
sentative of the Wenatchee Valley
Central Washington Growers League.
The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1915-07-23
AsiatiC Coins Made Into American Money

Remaking English, Japanese and
Chinese money into American dollars,
eagles and double eagles, has become
a regular task of the government mints
since the balance of foreign trade has
swung so decidedly in favor Of the
United States. Supt. Shanahan of the
San Francisco mint. has recently re-
ceived two large shipments Of foreign
money. There is nearly $750,000
in Japanese coins and a half million
dollars worth OF English sovereigns
from Australia.
In the process Of recoining. the for
eign gold is melted into bullion and
the alloy is extracted before the gold
is rcmolded into American cash. 1t
is accepted as payment by Uncle Sam
only at its bullion value.
Shipment to this conutry Of foreign
coins has been increasing at rate
hitherto unknown, since last October.
The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1915-07-23
Popularity of Kaiser in Germany In
CredSeS

LONDON, July 2.-"The German
emperor's popularity has been undoubt-
edly increased with the war;" writes
"a neutral correspondent" to the
London Times from Germany. He
is considered to be the only man fit
to serve as an example to his subjects
and he is at the same time, the en-
bodiment Of all they most admire.
His outward appearance, his mind, his
piety, and almost all his undertakings
are in accordance with the taste and
wishes Of his people.
THAT he is clever, active and in
many ways brilliant even his worst
enemies admit; most Of his subjects,
in their idolatry, think him infallible.
Among the military caste, however,
tho nothing is openly said against him,
he does not possess the same influence
in directing strategical operations as
he unquestionably had in the early
stages Of the war. His generals seem
to have found way Of preventing him
from seriously interfering with the
campaign"
The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1915-07-23
Thinks There Will Be War Between U. S.
And the Orient

Bishop J. w. Bassford, at the Con-
ference OF the Southern Methodist
church recently held at Junaluake,
North Carolina, said he was convinced
that war between the United States and
the Orient was inevitable in the not
distant future. Bishop Bassford is
stationed in Peking, China, and is in
charge OF the church in that section
Of the world. The peace-at-any-p price
party will now charge the Bishop with
being in the pay Of the war party and
the cannon makers. That's the only
way they can answer him.
The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1915-07-23
Strike at the krupp Gun Works
is Threatened

A Basel, Switzerland, dispatch in the
daily press of the 22nd says: An i'm
portant meeting was held at Essen
Yesterday, according to advices re-
ceived, between the administration OF
the Krupp gun works and the repre-
sentatives of the working men, in order
to settle the dispute which has arisen
over the demands of the men for an
increase in wages.
Directly and indirectly about 100, ZOO
men are involved. Minor cases in
which machinery has been destroyed
have been reported. The military au-
thorities before the meeting, it is said,
warned both sides that unless an imme-
diate settlement was reached drastic
measures would be employed.
The Krupp officials are understood
to have granted a portion OF the de.
mands of the men, which has brought
about temporary peace, but the work.
men still appear to be unsatisfied, and
many have left the works. A strike
would greatly affect the supply Of mu-
nitions, and for this reason the military
has adopted rigorous precautions.
The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1915-07-23
Not for Sapheads or MoIIyooddIes

In speech delivered in Portland,
just before leaving for San Francisco,
where he is to deliver three speeches,
Theodore Roosevelt said last Monday:
From time to time I shall have some
thing to say on matters Of vital interest
to the nation as a whole, but it will
not be for sapheads or mollycoddles. "
The dispatch further says Roosevelt
draws crowds wherever he stops with
his old time magnetism.
The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1915-07-23
Note to Germany not to be Discussed

The president cautioned those with
whom he counseled to refrain from dis
cussing the note in advance Of its dis
patch to Germany. White house Of
ficials particularly requested the cores
pondents to avoid speculation in detail
at this time because the character Of
the document had not been finally de-
termined.
The note, 1t is understood, will be
comparatively brief, expressing the
conclusions OF this government as a
result of Germany's failure to give the
assurances asked for in previous notes,
namely, that the lives Of Americans
travelling on the high seas bound on
lawful euands aboard unresisting and
The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1915-07-23
Alberta Dry Nearly z to /

They had a prohibition election in
the province Of Alberta, up across the
international line Tuesday. Every city
in the province except Lethbridge
voted dry. That place went wet by a
small vote. Edmonton gave drys,
5000 majority and Calgary $500.
The new liquor prohibition act goes
into effect July !, 1916.
The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1915-07-23
RAILROAD RUMBLINGS

Everyone's happy now. Checks
came Tuesday.
Engineer Kingdom who has been
running mallets west has taken work
train near Tye.
For the first time in hi of long
while the switch engine was working
Tuesday night.
Boilermaker C. ]. Carlson was called
to Mansfield last Saturday to make re-
pairs on engine 1852.
John McKinnon is taking Bill Tegt-
meier's place on the 1905, while the
latter is taking his vacation.
Another Mallet engine has been put
into service on the Cascade division to
take care OF increasing business.
Switchman Briggs is taking a two
weeks layoff intending to go fishing.
Burt Hegler is taking his place.
Railroad business is getting better
every day. Officials estimate the in
crease in the past two weeks at $50
per cent.
Ted Eresch will act as roundhouse
foreman during the absence OF K. l..
Smith who leaves Monday on a ten
days fishing trip.
Ed LEM who is working on the local
between Wilson Creek and Hillyard
was in town the first OF the week
greeting the boys.
According to Art Babst chief clerk
at the roundhouse, 322 engines were
handled in the first fifteen days in July.
That's going some.
The roundhouse bunch who fol-
many months have only been getting
in 8 hours day, expect to get nine
in very short time.
l, has been necessary to put on the
Fruit Express" train in the valley to
handle the shipments of soft fruits.
lack Close is running the train.
Brakemen Corbett and Mccain un
able to stand prosperity, boarded No. 4
The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1915-07-23
LATE news NUGGETS

The last idle steel mill in the Wheel
ing, West Virginia, district began op-
erations Monday, when part Of the
force returned to work at the Riverside
plant OF the National Tube Company.
Two weeks will be required to get all
the departments going and this will
give work to 5000 men who have
been idle IA months.
The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1915-07-23
Train Plunged 200 feet off Trestle-
Three Killed

Near Dalhart. Texas, on Tuesday an
Ell Paso & Southwestern freight train
plunged 200 feet into gulch and
killed three men, destroyed the engine
and 10 loaded cars.
The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1915-07-23
Allies Losses in the DardaneIIes

The total casualties OF the Darda-
neles expeditionary force to date in
killed, wounded and missing have been
2,434 officers and men, Premier AS
quith told the House of Commons
Monday. The total includes both
naval and military branches Of the SER
yica
The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1915-07-23
Sweden May Come In.

The Oversee News agency gave out
the following yesterday: The speech Of
the Swedish premier, DR.. Hammarks-
jold, indicating that under certain con-
ditions Sweden might 60 to war, is re-
garded in Berlin as warning to Rus
sia and England.
The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1915-07-23
Russians Sink So Vessels.

Wednesdays papers contained dis
patch to the effect that Russian sub
marines had destroyed 90 Turkish sail
ing vessels in the Black sea laden with
war material and food supplies for the
Turkish army.
The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1915-07-23
The Turks Want to Make Peace.

A Geneva, Switzerland, dispatch
dated July 81 states that the Turkish
minister OF justice accompanied by an
other dignitary and retinue are expect
ed to arrive there today and meet rep
resentatives of the allied powers for the
purpose of entering into peace nego-
tiations on their own account. The
dispatch states they are invested with
official powers.
The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1915-07-23
Italian Forces Still Gaining

A Geneva, Switzerland, dispatch Of
Tuesday states: The Italians have
made large gains since Friday. The
Austrians have lost more than FIVE
miles in Cadore and lesser distances
at various points in Carni.
The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1915-07-23

Mrs. H. L. Kistler arrived here yes
terday from Ritzville on a visit to the
family OF H. F. Williams.
The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1915-07-23
Cholera is Spreading in Europe.

The dread scourge, originating in
Asiatic Turkey, is reported to have
made its appearance in the Balkan
states and Hungary.
The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1915-07-23
The Progress of the War

In the past week there has been
some fighting on the French German
front but it has been of desultory
character, with no great advantage to
either combatant.
The great German-Russian battle
line, about a thousand miles long, is
the center of interest just now. The
greatest army ever assembled, not ex-
cepting the great Persian army Of
three million, led by King Darius
against the Greeks, is engaged in bat
tie in Russian Poland. The German
objective is Warsaw. The Russians
are making a stubborn resistance and
the fighting is most sanguinary.
Italy is making steady but slow pro-
gress against Austria and has not yet
met with reverse.
The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1915-07-23
War Material BY Way Of Wadivostok

Twenty thousand American freight
cars, says Vladivostok dispatch Of the
10Th, and 400 locomotives are due here
in the next two months from the
United States to relieve the congestion
of supplies destined for Russian armies
at the front.
Munitions are arriving by steamer
loads from the United States and Japan
including hundreds OF armored motor
cars. Mountains of cotton bales are
piled high outside the city waiting
transportation to Moscow to be made
into blankets and uniforms.
The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1915-07-23
Greece and ROumania Restless.

The Greek chamber OF deputies met
Monday after two postponements, and
this event promises to bring the ma
ton to its ultimate stand in the war
situation. With Venizelos at the helm,
backed by tremendous majority OF
the chamber, there can be no great
delay in declaring Greece an ally Of
the quadruple entente. The Hellenic
mind is made up, and nothing can
stem the popular demand for immedi-
ate participation in the war. The
Greek army, trained and hardy fighters,
is anxious to get in the campaign
against Turkey. A hundred thousand
men are in training and the reserves
have been notified.
The friction caused by the refusal
OF the Roumanian government to allow
the transportation Of war material in
tended for the Germans. Austrians and
Turks to pass thru their country has
irritated Austria and Germany and
some sharp correspondence is passing.
This may lead the Roumanians into
the big scrap, say the dispatches.
The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1915-07-23

The Echo has a
reading circulation
of over 1000 per-
sons who trade in
Leavenworth. Ad-
vertise and increase
your business.
The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1915-01-14

ARISTocRAT COMES AGAIN
Editor Day Book - This thing of
football between the English and
German soldiers gives me another
great idea: Why not settle the whole
matter that way? Our class is blamed
for neither fighting nor furnishing
money, but what can we do when
they make fighting so rotten danger
Gus? What gentleman wants to get
blown up or jabbed? I was some
good as haf-back at college and
would not mind being of use in that
way. If football rules would not do
for the war game they could be mod
flied; for instance, when you get a
man down stand on him and hold him
a prisoner. Only get rid Of those 'baIy
guns and bayonets, then real
strength and skill will win, and one
side or the other would get ahead
The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1915-01-14
WHY CHASE FOR JOBS?

WHY CHASE FOR JOBS?
Editor Day Book-Will some kind
reader please tell me why everybody,
from the U. S. government down to
the cheapest and most superficial re-
former, in nervous excitement is
turning heaven and earth upside
down these days to get jobs for men
and women whose services are not
needed by society? Also, please tell
me why these men and women
themselves are wearing out the side
walks and perfectly good shoe soles,
as well as obstTucting traffic, in look
ing for nOn-existing jobs.
Instead of nervoUsly seeking work
in closed factories, why don't these
people remain comfortably at home,
enjoying the fruits of their labor dur
ing the past year, and in a peaceful
The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1915-01-14

for breathing spell for Fairgrounds
or for factory site when needed?
But l fail to see where an extra
tax would stimulate the building bust
ness. Buildings are always erected
when business demands them.
At present there are hundreds of
buildings standing idle. Isn't it just
as reasonable to place an extra tax
on vacant buildings as on vacant
lots?
A higher tax on lots would work
hardship on the little fellow who is
struggling along trying to pay for
his lot, hoping some day to own his
own little home.
It would cause much of such prop-
erty to revert back to the big land
grabber. It would place homes just
a little farther out of reach of poor
people.
Now, if you are looking for some
place to levy a tax, why not tax
church property?
There is about fifteen or twenty
million dollars worth of such I'M
taxed property in Chicago.
They enjoy every protection from
the fire department and the law that
belongs to any other institutions.
Why should they be exempt?-Lee
Green, u Ada st.
The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1915-01-14

WHO IS TO BLAME?
Editor Day Book am a reader
of The Day Book and have read so
much about prostitution and who is
to blame, 1 will give my opinion on
who is to blame.
l. The rotten system of our
schools.
2-The board of education.
3-The department stores and low
wages at large.
1.-The parents
5-OUr city government.
6-The courts and judges.
THE high-priced lawyers.
8-CorpOrations.
9-Newspaper trust and adver-
Users.
1O-High cost of living.
11-LOan sharks.
12-An kind of charity organiza-
lions or so-called beggaTs.
If any one of these parties would
like to know how they are to blame
for prostitution can explain to them
my views about it.-Arnold Strauss,
2714 w. Monroe st.
WHY CHASE FOR JOBS? \
Editor Day Book-Will some kind
reader please tell me why everybody,
from the U. S. government down to
the cheapest and most superficial re-
The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1915-01-14

Dooced stupid, standing in wet
trenches and never getting on. But
nothing can be done so long as the
lower classes seem to like it.-Aris-
tocrat.
The times-herald. [volume] (Burns, Harney County, Or.) 1896-1929, 1915-06-19


a man start his WORK with d faint tap
at q clock stroke. and you hear him
drop Il with loud thud at another
clock stroke. ana you know his soul
and his brain are not alive in the thing
that he ~ doing. whyi A thousand
men are a thousand reasons why.
Any man who can be accurately stig.
matised az efficient dreadful wordD
brings all OF himself TO the task In
hand. He brings not merely his sixth
sense and his fourth dimension to bear
on his concerning handful, but every
biz Of vital electricity In the storage
batteries Of his whole being When he
has done his level best he IL, as we
ironically say, "played out" and he IL
supposed 10 take rest. which may as
sumo the form OF harder labor than
ever in a wholly different field Of en-
dcavor.
In fact, the man who has formed the
habit Of work In never happy to be idle.
n n no use 20 extend 10 him the pros
pect OF complete hiatus In the name Of
a vacation. The program OF the null
and void would assure him an acute
uneasiness. There in saying that nn-
ture nbhors vacuum. so does n real
live man, the aon Of nature.-Philadel-
phia Ledger
The times-herald. [volume] (Burns, Harney County, Or.) 1896-1929, 1915-06-19

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