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The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1915-09-03
YOUNG PEOPLE ELOPE
AND MARRY IN IDAHO
John BurmeiSter of BIewett Gets Into
The Tolls of the Law for Marrying
Girl Under Age

The following dispatch from Wallace
Idaho was taken from the Spokesman
Review of Sunday:
Instead Of leading his blushing bride
to the altar yesterday John A. Burmeister
a young miner Of Blewett was himself
led to Jail, where he is now held on a
perjury charge under $1,000 bonds.
John c. Biles, father of the prospective
bride, is the complaining witness and
he took the bride home with him to
Leavenworth. Burmeister and Miss
Doris Biles appeared at the marriage
licence window at the county recorders S
office and secured a licence. The
groom in the joint affidavit required
by law 10 be made in securing a mar
riage licance, swore that the bride was
above the age of Is years, the required
age in the state, and gave his own age
as 26.
AS they walked from the recorders
Office they stepped into the arms of
Sheriff Pfeil. who was armed with
warrant oil arrest for Burmeister and he
was taken into custody. The father
charges that Burmeister knew that
Miss Biles was not Is years of age as
he swore in the affidavit and alleges
that she is but IS years Of age. Bur
meister will be given a preliminary
examination before Probate Judge
Weniger September 8.
Mr.. ]. c. Biles is president and gen.
eral manager Of the Peshastin Lumber
Co., one of the big institutions Of the
western part Of the county, and has
been resident Of this section for the
past six years. The family is we'll
known and highly respected.
The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1915-09-03

II such degree of immunity can be
harmlessly conferred upon a body of
men living under adverse conditions
and whose age renders them suscept
ible, the conclusion is that protection
can just as easily be afforded ordinary
citizens.
Anti-typhoid vaccination is quite as
simple as that for smallpox, and even
children do not complain. There are
no local effects other than a slight
reddening at the site of the injection,
and sore arms are entirely lacking.
In small percentage of cases mild
systemic reaction, accompanied by
headache and slight rise in tempera-
ture occurs, but if the treatment is
given at night the PERSONS rest is un-
disturbed and he is entirely unaware Of
these symptoms. In the majority of
instances, however, there is not the
slightest inconvenience. The immu
nifty probably lasts for several years,
altho its duration is less than that of
smallpox, which frequently persists for
lifetime.
1t is believed that more widespread
recognition Of the benefits conferred
by antityphoid immunization will have
an immediate effect upon the morbid
itv and mortality rates for the disease.
AS result Of sanitary measures alone
the death rate from typhoid has been
cut in half during the last fifteen years.
What has been done in fifteen years of
sanitation can be accomplished in as
many weeks with inoculation. 1t is
conceivable, if immunization attains
the general recognition that smallpox
prevention has secured, and there is
no reason why such acceptance should
not be accorded it, that typhoid will
be a rare disease by 1880. This
means that even many OF the older
physicians of today will live to see the
time when the infection will no longer
be common.
One point must be considered in
making such representation. AS i'm
munity is conferred the necessity for
immunization becomes less apparent
to the general public, and the method
will to a certain extent be neglected.
This is the situation as regards small
pox in the country today, and for this
very reason the disease will persist
until universal immunization is prac-
ticed. Therefore, even with perfect
methods, the entire elimination Of the
disease is not to be looked for.
The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1915-09-03
GOVERNMENT StEkS TO
STAMP OUT TYPHOID FEVER
Experiment Shows Beyond Question of
Doubt This Can Be Done

So successful has been our govern
ment's experiments with typhoid pre-
ventive that the people everywhere are
waking up to the importance of en-
ploying the preventive agent to lessen
this, one OF the most fatal Of all the
many diseases which the medical pro-
fession is called in to combat. The
following government inspired dispatch
was sent out from Washington city last
Saturday:
An enormous increase in the num-
Der Of persons seeking anti-typhoid
vaccination is reported by the United
States public health service. Not
alone is this increase manifested among
the bene6ciaries of that organization
and government employees, but the
general public is also awakening to
the value OF the inoculation. Reports
from physicians thruout the country
indicate that many are receiving the
preventive treatment, and laboratory
establishments have had greatly in
creased demand for the vaccine. So
great is the call among employees Of
the government that it has been neces-
sary to issue a second edition OF the
secretary of the treasury's circular,
stating the localities where the treat
ment may be received. 1t is esti-
mated that during 1914 over 10000
persons thruout the country were i'm
munized, and it is believed that in
1915 the number will exceed 800, 900.
In four counties of North Carolina,
where campaigns are now being con-
Quoted, it is estimated that 10000
people will be immunized.
The public is seldom slow to ac-
cept an innovation Of worth. The re-
duction of the case rate in the army
from $50 per 100000, before the dis
covery of anti-typhoid vaccine, to 3,
since the inoculation was made COM
pulsory, has not passed unnoticed.
During four months Of 1898 there were
over 1000 cases of typhoid among
TO- 900 soldiers encamped in Florida
in 1911. among 10000 men similarly
encamped, there were but two cases.
The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1915-09-03
Notes From the Forestry Office

Forest fires have developed quite
rapidly in the past three weeks. The
one on Mason creek, near the A. D.
Allen place, burned over one thousand
acres of timber, much of which be-
longs to the LID. Lumber Co. 1t is
believed to be now under control.
The Id. Company suffered a small
timber loss near the Charles Shugart
place, on Clear Creek, near where the
company has been extending some
logging spurs. Some forty acres were
burned over in the past ten days. 1t
is now considered under control, but
like so many others may break out
again.
Last Sunday fire started on Rainey
creek, tributary of the Little Wenat-
chez river. Fifty OF sixty acres were
burned over before the fire was brought
under control.
A very large fire is reported from the
Gle Elum basin in Kittitas county.
Over one thousand acres has been
burned over and the fire is still raging.
Upwards Of one hundred forest fires
have been reported at the forestry Office
so far this season, nearly all of which
have been extinguished with slight
loss.
The trail, under construction the
past six weeks, from the head of Lake
Wenatchee to Cady pass is completed
and is in fine condition for the use of
riding parties.
Mr.. Sylvester, who in company with
Mr.. Carne recently returned from
trip over the White river basin to near
Glacier peak and Cady and Indian
passes, says between Indian pass and
Cady pass they found huckleberries
unusually plentiful and OF excellent
quality. He says they will be good
until the first Of October and one per
son could easily gather from eight to
ten gallons in a day. The new trail
leads 10 the hucklebeuy ground.
The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1915-09-03
LOGGING OPERATIONS CLOSED
SAW MILL WILL SHUT DOWN
The Id. Mill Will Shut Down for the
Season TOmOnOw-LOgging 0per-
atiOns Closed Wednesday

From Mr.. Geo. L. Gardner, general
manager of the Lamb-Davis Lumber
Co., The Echo learns that all the log
ging camps of the company were
closed down on Wednesday and that
the saw mill would close down the last
of this week. More lumber having al
ready been cut than was contemplated
when the mill started last spring. The
planer and box mills will continue to
run indefinitely.
Upwards of four million feet Of lum-
Der was shipped out in the month Of
and enough orders are on
hand and in sight to run the Septem-
Der shipments up to over five million
feet.
The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1915-09-03

Null, a barber, for 80 cents that was
worth So or more. Probably suspect
ing that his title to the ham might be
none too good, Null sold the ham to
another man, name not given, for
$1.25. The ham stealer is not yet in
the tolls Of the law, but having a good
description the officers think they can
get him.
While the bacon and ham business
was being terrified out it developed
that Thomas Walsh, a running mate
Of Jones, the man with a bacon taste
and no disposition TO pay, had stolen
underwear from the Leavenworth Mer-
camille Co. He also drew 63 days in
Jail and 800 fine.
The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1915-09-03
Four Bear Seen Less Than Mile of Town

We have heard in the past week or
two of bear being seen on the hill
north OF town, not far from the forestry
station. Sometimes an old bear and
two cubs, and at other times the old
bear and cubs and a yearling bear
They have been seen by half dozen
or more people. Yesterday morning
Will and Lew Brender went out accom-
panied by Henry Miller, cousin Of
theirs, and John Moody, both OF whom
hail from Eudora, Kansas. recently ar
rived, and found the old bear and two
cubs lying under tree, enjoying the
early morning sunshine, less than a
mile from town, on one Of the lower
hills. They disturbed the early siesta
Of the trio by taking few shots at
them, but failed to connect, the
bears making for the brush much
quicker than one would suppose bears
could travel. Some Of these days an
amateur hunter will wound one of those
cubs and then he will bring the old
she bear into town at two-forty gait,
but the hunter will be in front and his
coat tails sticking out straight behind.
The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1915-09-03
FOR WAYS THAT ARE DARK
AND TRICKS THAT ARE VAIN
The Average Hobo is as Peculiar As Was
Bret Harte'S Heather Chinee

Hard were they Up,
And in the hardness Of their Upness
They stole ham.
But down upon them swooped,
And swooping, up them scooped,
The Minions Of the law"
The back end OF the Leavenworth
Mercantile Co.'S grocery department
is used to store the accumulation Of
meat products, including liberal sup
ply of bacon and hams. And thereby
hangs tale.
Last Tuesday Mr.. Rice, an employee
learned incidentally that parties were
taking hams, bacon and other articles
from the back end OF the store. In
the afternoon he found stranger in
the rear Of the store where the hams
and bacon are kept, and noticing some
thing bulky under the ample folds Of
his hoboship's coat, asked him what he
had under his arm. Nothing" he re-
piled. Yes you have, said Rice,
starting threateningly in his direction.
At this the stranger made as if he
would go out the door and Mr.. Rice
landed one OF those solar plexis blows
on his neck, which had the effect Of
loosening his grip on what he had un-
der his arm, and slab Of bacon weigh
ing II pounds fell to the floor. Call
ing Butler Sampson to stand guard over
the man he went out after an officer.
Before the arrival OF the marshal the
fellow tried to get away from Butler
who used him a little rough in order to
convince him that there was no chance.
Before Magistrate Graham the man
gave his name as Harry Jones. He was
sentenced to serve 63 DAYS in the
county Jail and pay fine of 500.
The discovery Of the theft OF bacon
led to the discovery that another hobo,
name unknown, sold ham to Jesse
The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1915-09-03

Complaint having been made ques-
tioning the purity of the ice sold on
the streets it was decided to have a
laboratory test made of the ice for i'm
purities.
Councilman Seeley said there was
complaint about Marshall Sampson, in
which another councilman joined, but
no action was taken. Mr.. Sampson
evidently got word of this as he re-
signed his office before the night was
over.
The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1915-09-03
CITY COUNCIL ADOPTS
1916 EXPENSE BUDGET
Last tuesday Nights Meeting Important
TO Taxpayers-very Few We're
Present

At the special meeting Of the coun-
Gil held last Tuesday evening for the
purpose of adopting budget on which
the tax levy for the coming year will
be based. not half dozen taxpayers
were present. All members of the
council were present except Council
man Wheeler.
Following is the estimated amount
of money needed to run the city for
the year 1916.
The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1915-09-03

North Yakima-Directors Of Selah
Canal Co. are contemplating the ex-
penditure Of S13O,O00 for steel fumes,
concrete ditch work and general re-
pairs.
The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1915-09-03

A Japanese labor union is being or
ganized in Seattle.
The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1915-09-03

Our Job Printing
department. is COM
plete. If you want
High Glass printing
at reasonable prices,
come to this office.
The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1915-09-03

The Echo has a
reading circulation
of over 1000 per-
sons who trade in
Leavenworth. Ad-
vertise and increase
your business.
Evening star., 1915-12-19
SUNDAY MAGAZINE for December 10, 1915

nelu nuncned against the snack wall,
breathless, frozen.
"Mr. Hainlen? Oh-it's your
Shying away the cigarette, leaped to
my feet, probed the thick darkness for
her with dilated eyes.
"Eloise!"
A murmured "Ah-h-h' responded
little sigh of happiness and relief.
where are you?" cried.
She stepped forward out of the aspens
no longer in corduroys, but dressed now
in woman's mysterious rustling light
dress. She reached out her two hands
toward me. l cast myself on my knees
before her, swept the two hands together,
and pressed them against my face. She
did not draw back.
7 DON'T know how long time passed
before / spoke:
"You came to meet me?"
She made tiny motion of withdrawal.
Abashed, rose from my knees. But she
was not abashed.
eyes" she said; II was looking for you.
I'm so glad you've come back-safe."
Then she told me. She'd been watching
out for me, ever since an hour before
dark, from high point of rocks on the
west side of the gulch. She thought she'd
seen man, far off, leading white horse.
But he hadn't come on up the gulch.
Why hadn't 1? She couldn't understand.
And she couldn't seem to wait. 1t had
been such-such suspense. So she'd just
shut her eyes to everything else, and run
down hereto try to make sure
Even with her thin dress, she was still
wearing Whiskeys numbering big Colts
on her hip l asked her to give the whole
beastly outfit to me. Then, opening my
war pack, got out the small Rainbow
belt and holster, filled the belt with
cartridges, thrust my shiny toy Smith
& Wesson into the holster, and handed
them to her. Murmuring, she banded my
first primitive gift about herself.
A sudden uncomfortable desire to see
her face seized me. On the pretext of
examining the cabin, led her inside, and
struck match after match. Her skin had
the kind of pallor that neither exposure
nor freight can make red. Black hair
lustrous and black as obsidian--fiung out
the contrast. Not till I'd dropped my
eyes for a second to her dress did her own
eyes drop before me. Long blue eyes
these were, yet so dark and so heavily
lashed that they too just failed of black
ness. Family flushing, she said yes, she'd
several dresses here. 1t was only after
she'd decided to stay, to be sure, that
she'd changed over to the corduroys.
Leaving Whiskey's gun outfit inside the
shack, we launched on up the gulch. We
idled blissfully along, now deep in shadow,
now out under the living stars. Our
hands did not again touch; but every
word, every thought, that passed between
us was a caress.
Except for swelling still at the back
of his head, Ericsson was as able and
bull-like as ever he had been. And the
beautiful grouse stew he had simmering
on the fire for us, two fine big rock-grouse
cooked with rice, and a pot of coffee, and
slab of corn-breadl
That night Eloise's father was of our
party,--a tall, stopped, strikingly indi-
vidual. heartbreakingly frail man, with a
soft notified beard and whimsical
mouth. There could be no mistake as to
why his students and his daughter adored
him. He was as simple and lovable as
gracious child Rut trapedy--bitter black
Evening star., 1915-12-19
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rolled our blankets on the hard ground
beside the fire.
Next morning we slipped promptly
into the beginnings of q clear and
orderly campaign. As Ericsson was to
remain here at the park, where the shoot
ing range would be short, he took the
shotgun. I, at the wether camp, should
have the Winchester. The Winchester
and both Colts used the same "A car
fridge, which simplifed matters.
One glistening, vivid moment | Law
thinking of Eloise, when I'd walked in the
morning. But already Ericsson was be-
stirring himself over the fire. / sprang up
to help. After breakfast the Swede put
me to work with him tightening up the
ramshackle cabin. He made bully fist
at this sort Of woodland job. One small but
significant detail Ericsson and attended
to in the cabin-the opening Of unobtru-
sive loop-holes in the three blank walls.
Early in the afternoon l set out on
Crow for the lamb camp, to return Doak's
Winchester and to look for antelope,
perhaps. At the gulch-mouth stopped
in at my wether station, to pick up Whis-
keys belt and six-shooter. But searched
the cabin among the willows in vain.
Whiskey's gun was certainly not where
I'd left it.
That little revelation gave me start
We were under surveillance, then-all
the time. A thousand to one, the gun
very park-while we calmly slept beside
the fire, no doubt. Thoughtfully l held
on down to the lamb camp.
There Niger Bill jackson was busy
with batch of sour-dough biscuits for
supper. went to put Doak's rife up on
its regular pegs against the wall, only to
find two other guns already in the place.
l stood the Winchester in corner.
@Who got Whiskeys six-shooter last
night?' l casually asked Niger Bill.
He was a surly, wolfish mulatto, bad
through and through. Not the whisper Of
an answer did he make me.
aWho got the six-shooter?' demanded,
trifling with the lever of my Winchester.
II don't know nothing about no six
shooter. Don't come here bothering me.
don't know nothing about nothing
There seemed no reasonable way around
that. The other smackers would be as
hostile. l was rank traitor to the
cdludIducIl0 VI tAO Outu0, yOu ocCS q
spoil-sport. I'd thrown my 4mates.
Irode off, securing the coulees along the
mountain for antelope; and before long
I'd the good luck to christen my new
rife on young buck.
NEXT day Glendenning, the ehotel-keeper
- at Piegan Springs, put in appearance at
the gulch. Eloise had told me about him
the night before. When she had traced
her father to this Western country she
had stopped at the hotel in Piegan Springs,
and the old man had helped her in her
search. He came now with wagonful
of good grub disguised under tarpaulin:
special things, delicacies in cans, and so on.
We had feast Of it for dinner. Glenden-
ming stayed the night, sleeping behind our
new outer shelter For in the morning
Ericsson and had built up strong breast
high pole-and-log barricade, running across
the entire front of the shack, screening the
doorway, and with space enough between
it and the cabin wall for us to spread our
blankets.
We knew that any attack up here now
would not be directed primarily against
the girl. She'd dropped into the back
Evening star., 1915-12-19

why w yOu Wdut lu6! i Dull.
"You're good hand with sheep. You
don't know nothing, but you're willing to
learn, and you're careful"
"And when will the wethers be ready?"
Gas soon as they're sheared. The first
band, that'll be. Three days, maybe"
"Ill take it," agreed.
Bull went inside for his hat. When
he came out, | walked with him to the
horse corral, and he furnished me with
fresh pony to ride to town on.
Rainbow lay twenty good miles away
twenty thousand, it seemed to me, that
joyful spring morning. Did you ever try
losing whole nine hours night of sleep
out of fine open-air life like this? And
then punch sixty miles in the saddle next
day? Every now and then I'd catch my
self just as l was toppling out sidewise
from between the high horn and cantle.
Waking at last in this dazed fashion,
l stared to find myself on the edge of
town. put my horse up in livery barn,
had hotel bath in wash-bowl, ate and
drank again, then dropped in at the best
stocked of the two Rainbow general
stores. They didn't ask any questions
there Questions were all pretty much
taboo in that Western town., but they
must have given me a passing thought or
so. The way l wallowed in ordnance and
ammunition was like an agent for Cen
trail American revolution. A Winchester,
double-barreled shotgun, two Colts re-
volvers with belts and holsters, belt and
holster for my little 80, and about hum
dred pounds of cartridges!
got back to the Swallowfork at three
o'clock. At the horse corral, where went
first to change back to old Grow, bumped
square into party of six or eight men
shearers. They were moving, with their
tools, from one pen to another. Neither
Whiskey nor Doak was with them, but
anybody could see they knew the nights
story. AS drew near, they stopped and
eyed me. Then taking in my glittering
accoutrements, they all began to grin.
climbed off the bay and returned the
compliment.
"Say," asked hulking black-eyed
fellow called "Jericho." "Has any In
thing that-a-way?"
Just then Bull Dorgan hove in view,
and the shearers struggled off toward their
pen. Bull also had grin, of course, at
my war footing. l gave him back his
Colts with hearty gratitude, and noted
"a highly unusual detail in his own ap-
pearance-the businesslike six-shooter
openly strapped on him.
"I'll ride up along to the lamb camp
with you," he vouchsafed. "Loomis and
Rutty and Harelip and Niger Bills
there. l expect I'd maybe better spot
what's going on.
He hadn't returned Flynn and Doak to
camp, you see. Without being too much
upset by the prospect Of it, he was yet
doing what he reasonably could to fend
off trouble. Whiskey and the boy must
be working in the sheds down here.
told Bull I'd deliver their revolver and
Winchester at the lamb camp next day.
He nodded.
At the camp, while he pushed on out to
look up his smackers, got Ericsson's
traps and mine together. Heaven knows
there was little enough, beyond our beds.
l made up everything into one big blan-
ket-roll, which clumsily tied across the
seat of my saddle. Niger Bill Jackson,
the new camp cook and handy man,