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The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1916-02-18

Mr.. Martin came here in September
last from Lincoln, Nebraska, and made
his home with his daughter, Mrs. w.
A. Cline, wife of engineer Cline. He
was 70 years of age and had been
in poor health and it was hoped that
the change to this climate would do
him good. The severe weather of the
past winter taxed his strength and he
took a slight cold the past week which,
with other complications, caused his
death Monday morning at o:45. The
remains were embalmed and prepared
for shipment to his old home as soon
as regular service on the railroads is
established.
The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1916-02-18
School Notes

Miss Platner-Ernest, what is a tor
nado?
Ernest-Oh, a tornado is worse than
a hurricane.
First student: What happens to a
candle fame when you blow it out7
Second student: Yes, what happens
to your fist when you open up your
hand?
Teacher-What are the kinds OF
thermometer scales7
Pupil-Fahrenheit, Reaumwr and
Centiped.
The new sewing machine fot the
Home Economics department arrived
Monday and was put TO a practical use
at once.
Within the last week the High school
has become veritable workshop
Three distinct divisions are working
in opposition to each other, athletics,
dramatic and musical. Result--the
once harmonious faculty has almost
become discordant. Open war has
been averted however, by the following
arrangement: the athletics have right
Of way to the lower floor, the dramatic
aspirants the first floor and the warblers
the upper floor. From seven-thirty
a. m. until ten-ffteen D. m. if you
should happen to be in the hall on the
main floor, you might hear the groans
Of the piano and the warblings Of grand
opera singers from above, the sound
of dramatic oratory near by, and the
shouts of the ball players and referees
whistle from below. If it happens
that poor indurtrious student, who is
searching for quiet corner where he
may concentrate his mind on Latin or
algebra. finds his way to one OF the
class rooms, he is told by some over
worked member of the faculty that the
assembly hall is the place to study.
Such are the conditions in the High
school. But what about those poor
students who are wanted in all three
places at once? It has been suggested
that the school board put in an elevator
system to save time running up and
down stairs.
The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1916-02-18
EXAMPLE FOR APPLE
GROWERS TO EMULATE
What Was Done for the Berry Growers
of PuyaIIup Can Be Done for
Wenatchee Valley Fruit

The annual report OF the Puyallup
and Sumner Fruit Growers Association,
certified by public accountants, is a
very hattering document. 1t shows
that the association did a business dur
ing the past year amounting to over
one million, six hundred thousand dol
lars. The report does not show when
the association started business, but it
does show that the original capital in
vested was S2678, and that on the first
OF this year it had on hand $40, ,86l.38
in cash, and assets in excess of all la
bilities s105,350.46. The net earn
ings'for 1915 were $40, ,894.61.
The Puyallup Fruit Frowers Associa-
tion is a shining example OF what can
be done by cooperation on the part OF
fruit growers when acting together.
Some years ago the berry growers Of
the Puyallup valley were in much the
same fix as the apple growers of the
Wenatchee valley. They got together.
That is what the apple growers Of this
valley should do. They made start
in the right direction last year. The
fruit growers league made very cred
table showing for the first year. The
organization should be made stronger
and its activities broadeled. What
was done in the Puyallup valley can be
repeated here. The idea that all ex-
cept the highest grade apples should
be converted into some form Of by
product must be rigidly adhered TO. In
this way the keeping quality is en-
hanced and the condensed form will
stand a higher freight rate in getting
the stuff to market.
The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1916-02-18
Questions to Ask Would Be Law
Makers

In some counties the oranges and
farmers unions are asking would be
candidates for the Legislature very
pointed questions:
Will you, if elected. impose new tax
burdens on the people, and create new
Offices, boards, etc.?
Will you use your position to create
commissions or new jobs, and then gel
one for yourself?
Will you help create new judgeships
to make more lucrative places for law
yers7
Will you enact more freak laws and
experimental legislation to hamper in
dustries and keep capital from invest
ing?
The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1916-02-18
Sixteen Operators Laid Off

There is some criticism of the rail-
road company. 1t appears that some
sixteen station operators between here
and Tye, mostly women, have been
laid off because there was nothing for
them to do while the G. N. is tied up
by slides. Mrs. Doris Dillon, stationed
at Mason Creek, walked to Leavenworth
last night, coming down the track and
making her way over one slide near
Drury that was so feet deep and 800
yards long, which she did not dread so
much as the one near town where the
four men were killed Wednesday. She
said that Mrs. Barrett, who was sta
toned at Chiwaukum, started to walk
to Tye in the hope that she would find
a way OF getting to Everett, where she
has friends. All the railroad employees
want to get out of the canyon, feeling
that the danger from slides is by no
means over. 1t is not believed that
the company is wilfully negligent Of
the welfare of its employees. 1t simply
does not know of the danger and dis
comfort OF the operators, else it would
have found way Of getting them out.
The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1916-02-18
HEAVY SNOW BELIEVED
WILL REDUCE THE CROP
Upper Wenatchee Valley Apple Trees
Will be Seriously Injured by
the Deep Snow

The unusually heavy snow fall this
winter has covered all the young trees
and limbs of bearing trees five to seven
years old. AS the snow settles it will
carry the limbs down and split them
from the tree. Many orchard owners
are shoveling out their trees, but as
this is a big job where there is large
orchard, some will nc doubt neglect to
do this.
Only those who are directly inter
ested in orchards and fruit raising are
aware of the extent of the damage that
will be done to the fruit bearing trees.
About the end Of December, when
the snow began to cover the younger
trees efforts were made in some Of the
orchards to dig them out and tie the
limbs together to keep them from be-
ing broken off the parent stem. Since
that time the snowfall has been so
great that not only are the young trees
completely covered up, but six to eight
year old trees in full bearing are al
most entirely under the snow. No
matter how slow the snow melts the
damage to the trees will be consider
able. Should, however, thaw set in
followed by rain the trees will be SO
broken and shattered that it will take
years to bring them again to their
present condition. This applies to or
chards from Cashmere to Leavenworth,
and young trees will suffer all the way
to Wenatchee. A Leavenworth man
who has large orchard in the valley
stated that he expected his apple crop
this year to be reduced one-third by
the damage to his trees.
The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1916-02-18
Shipping Salts from 0rOWIIe

An industry that is giving employ
ment to twenty teams and a considera-
BILE number Of men at Orovile, Okla
hogan county, is being developed by
the Stewart-Calvert Co., a Seattle firm.
1t appears, according to the Gazette,
that an inexhaustible deposit Of salts
has been discovered near that town in
shallow lakes that are covered with
water in the summer. The deposit is
taken out in solid blocks. hauled to
Oroviiie and ground up, sacked and
lshipt east.
The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1916-02-18

the town there have been numerous
slides in the past few weeks. Snow
banks on both sides of the track show
that they were from ten to thirty feet
deep. Inevitably there will be further
slides, as since they were plowed out
some six feet of new snow has fallen.
Every foot OF the canyon is dangerous
for pedestrians at this time. Not only
because of the danger of slides, but be-
cause in most places it is almost i'm
possible to get out of the way of pass
ing trains. There is no snow plow
here. all of them having been sent up
the canyon before the first slide oc-
CURED where the men were buried.
That there are monster slides farther
up the canyon, many of them-perhaps
fifty or hundreds quite probable.
Everybody knows that the snow is
there to cause slides, in quantities
never before known. All that is neces-
sary to bring it down is a warm day
such as was Wednesday. One would
be reckless to guess when the danger
from slides is over. 1t all depends on
the temperature. Warm weather or a
rain, which is not unusual, will be fol-
lowed BY further slides, perhaps larger
than any that have yet occurred.
The name of the Japanese who was
taken out of the slide dead is Komura
Gutaro. The Japanese consul is ex
pected here today or tomorrow from
Seattle and will make an investigation
Of the cause of death.
The names of the Greeks who lost
their lives in the slide are John Jafiro-
poulos, Tom Miller and John Thocas.
Miler's body was found yesterday morn
ing in the water under a log, where it
it was wedged with ice. Late yester-
day afternoan it was released and
brought to town. The injured who
were brought to the hospital Wednes-
day are Rick Stannes, Anest Poulos,
Nick Bertsos, Gust Rigas, George Car
ros, George Kollies, Pete Babbettas,
James Hamilos, John Stannos, Agel Ne
otis. All these men, who only suffered
slight injury, are Greeks, left on the
early morning train yesterday for Spo-
kane where, if it is necessary, they will
go TO a hospital. Pitter Rapples,
Greek, and Y. Okagawa, a Japanese,
are still in the Leavenworth hospital
and in fair way to early recovery.
John Jafropoules and John Thocas,
whose bodies had not been recovered
up to last night, are either in the We
natchee river or buried under the
slide. The latter named, il is said,
was surely washed down the river and
the body may not be recovered before
next summer.
All the Greeks who had been en-
ployed shoveling snow refused to work
in the canyon and left for Spokane this
morning. The Japanese also refused
to work YESTERDAY.
The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1916-02-18
Liability of School Directors

A recent decision of the state su-
preme court holds that school directors
are directly liable for accidents TO chill
dren from swings, slides, bars and other
recreation devices on school grounds.
and that in any action for damage suits
the district becomes the defendant.
The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1916-02-18
Two Women Crushed by Falling COrnioes

Last Friday two women were Sc
verely injured in Spokane by the falling
into the street Of one Of those over
hanging cornices that you often see on
buildings. The brick, mortar and gal
vanized iron came down while the
streets were crowded.
The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1916-02-18

The republican state convention will
meet in Yakima, Friday, May 5th. A
great time is expected and already ho-
tel reservations have been made.
The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1916-02-18

Spokane-The B. H. Stanton Co.
plans to erect s175, 900 storage plant
which will employ ESQ men.
The Fairfield Creamery will install
an ice plant.
The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1916-02-18

Leap year has not stimulated the
marriage industry. 1t takes payroils
and good wages.
The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1916-02-18

The business Of the Lewis county
creamery for the past year amounted
to s72,576.oo.
The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1916-02-18
WOmen'S Activities

Cora Stewart Wilson, president o.
the Kentucky Illiteracy Commission,
was founder of the night schools which
opened in Rowan county, KY, in
1911. Educators we're very skeptical
Of her plans at first, but became very
enthusiastic when the country folks be-
tween the ages of eighteen and eighty
came twelve hundred strong. The
second year the enrolment was sixteen
and by the end of the third year illit-
eracy was exterminated in Rowan coun-
ty. The schools have extended to
every county in the state and is fast
spreading all over the United States.
The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1916-02-18

Butter Wrappers at the Echo Office.
The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1916-02-18

Mrs. Charlotte Rhodus, of Chicago,
supported by the club women of that
city, has commenced a national cam
paign for three cent electsicity, five
cent gas and penny telephones.
The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1916-02-18

The thirteenth biennial convention
of the General Federation of Women 5
Clubs will be held in New York City
this spring and twenty thousand club
women are preparing to attend. Two
million club women will be repre-
sented. Several hundred women from
the state OF Washington will attend the
convention and there will be at least
two from Chelan Co.
The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1916-02-18

The women of Ogontz, Penn, be-
lieve in military preparedness. They
have formed a regiment and are being
drilled in the military tactics by Cold.
T. Lauden, U. S. A.
The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1916-02-18

The Echo has a
reading circulation
of over 1000 per-
sons who trade In
Leavenworth. Ad-
vertise and increase
your business.
The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1916-02-18

Our Job Printing
department Is COM
plete. If you want
High Glass printing
at reasonable prices,
come to this office.
The sun., 1916-12-08
CALLS BEST NOT TOO
GOOD FOR BROADWAY
Mayor Assures Merchants New
Paving Shall Be Worthy
Of tho Thoroughfare.

Mayor Mitchell told the members Of the
Broadway Association at their meeting
yesterday In the Hotel Martinique that
he and the other members Of the Board
Of Estimate would see to II that Broad
way Is paved iust ~ soon a. the new
subway is completed. He told them also
that he believed the best pavement OBJ
tainable was none too good for Broad
way.
The Broadway Association has So
new members a. q result Of its cam
paisn which began last Tuesday to raise
the membership from $50 to 1000. Tho
committees enrolled seventy-six new ones
yesterday and got promises from 12C
others, including four banks. three trust
companies, the Western Union Telegraph
Company, tho Postal Telegraph Company
and the New York Te,ephone Company;
The final big drive will come to-day and
the committees confidently expect 10
reach the goal.
Mayor Mitchell said that when the new
artery Of rapid transit 10 completed the
Broadway Association members VIII
have adequate compensation for the
present conditions.
You want to get Broadway restored
as fast as possible" eaid the Mayor.
land want to say to you that you may
rely on the help and sympathy OF the
city government in that work.
II believe that the best pavement that
can he devised. the most suitable TO
Broadway, should be none too good for
the Board OF Estimate to provide. and !
do not believe the question OF compara-
tive cost should he n controlling element
in the repavlng OF the thoroughfare.
Mayor Mitchell was elected unani-
mously an honorary member OF the
Broadway Association.
The sun., 1916-12-08
ALL FRANCE UNITED,
SAYS 'MATIN' EDITOR
NJ. Lauzanno Asserts Nation
Will Fight to Victory
Despite the Cost.

Trance will fight to the END and to
victory-however long II may require.
whatever the expense, however great the
cost In suffering"
Stephane Lausanne. editor Of the Paris
Mattn. made that declaration last night
in a lecture in the hall Of the French
Museum OF Art, 500 Fifth avenue. His
subject was with the French Soldiers
in the Trenches Before verdun." As a
lieutenant. NJ. Lausanne commanded a
company engaged In the defence Of Ver-
dun. lie Is now attached to tho French
Ministry OF Foreign Affairs.
Louis Barthou, a former Minister.
expressed our purpose when be declared
All France for all the war" said NJ
Lausanne. "In our ranks rich and poor
are fighting side by side. We know no
Republican. no Catholic, no Royalist, no
free thinker. Negro troops made the
recapture Of Douaumont possible. We
are all thoroughly united for France
and the right"
Tho speaker described wildly the hor-
rors Of tho lighting at Les Eparches. q
knoll, at one side OF which were the
French, on the other the Germans. while
the summit was strewn with the bodies
Of thousands Of dead. He told Of meet
ing an enthusiastic young soldier who
was soon TO go on leave OF absence to
see his mother. First. however. no had
to do eight days service at Les
Eparches. Unmindful OF the danger. he
said, "I shall 60 most heartily"
Before the expiration Of the eight
days he fell mortally wounded. When
his captain leaned over to receive his
Anal message the young soldier again
said: II shall go most heartily"
THAT Is the spirit Of the French peo-
pie to-day" said NJ Lausanne.
The lecture was illustrated with views
loaned by the French Ministry OF War.
The sun., 1916-12-08
MYSTERY GIFYTO
RUSSIAN BAZAAR
Brilliant Sapphire Sent From
Petrograd as q Do.
nation.

10 the Russian Basaaf In the Seventy
drst Regiment Armory. where the dimes
and dollars Of Russia's friends have
been dropped freely this week, there
arrived . new donation yesterday with
= mystery about II that was whispered
from booth TO booth. The mystery 10
It's value and its weight, for the new gift
Ii brilliant white russian "a apphire set
In platinum and tucked In a little case
bearing the mark Of q Petrograd
teweller.
1t was taken 10 the bazaar by Mrs.
c. II. Slocum. whose husband was
formerly United States Military Attache
In Petrograd. Mrs. Slocum did not know
its value. 30 officials OF the bazaar are
going to have II appraised at Tirany's
to-day. after which shares will he sold
In II at one of the booths. The size OF
the stone has been variously estimated
at around twenty karats.
Ono man who scattered ten and
twenty dollar bills around tho bazaar
lavishly yesterday was Clement b. As
bury. who lives in the New York Club
and has an Office in 45 Wall Street. Mr..
| Asbury was a bit slow In starting. but
finally one Of the Russian girls induced
him to buy a share In an $500 automo-
| bile. A little later the wheel was surned
ard the other shareholders were CON-
pelled to withdraw and turn their hold.
ings over to MI. Asbury. Then he be
gan to swell the days receipts, in add
tion to rewarding handsomely the Cir
who had sold him the lucky share.
Tho bazaar closes Tomorrow night
and as the end draws nearer specula
| t!on increases concerning the nnal out
como Of the beauty contest. Each af
ternoon and each evening the prett!es
programme girls have been selected 70
a grand ANAL competition on Saturday
A fudge Of womanly beauty. whose de
| cree Is ever accepted as final. the gal
liant Chauncey NJ. Depew himself. ha
| consented to sit up late Saturday nigh
and pick the prize winner. Those VIII
have seen the competitors agree tina
Mr.. Depew, with all his wide expert
ence, has never faced n greater task.
| For instance. yesterday afternoon.
| contestants were these stars from Broad
way Hazel Dawn, Mary Nash. Cathleel
| Nesbit, Marguerite Leslie, Lola Fisher
| Olive and Elma Tell Last night 1t wa
n group Of movie queens. Anita Stewart
| Grace Darling. Violet Mersereau an
| Alma Hanlon.
Quite modern electric stoves hav
taken the place OF the old Russian
samovars In the tea room. and all be
cause New York s Fire Department oh
jected to the picturesque way OF brewinI
Russian tea. The bazaar folks are won
derinE whether the Fire Department u
In league with the electric light company,
but still, they say. Just as much tea
being sold a. before.
To-day 10 one OF the biggest days a
the bazaar. Pupils OF tho Chalif Norma
school of Dancing will entertain In tn
afternoon, NJ and Nine. Edouard d
KuryIo and the pupils OF their school vii
give a series of dances at $3.50 p. NJ
and Anna Pavlowa and her company will
take the stage at l0:45 p. NJ.
The sun., 1916-12-08
FOOD MANIPULATED.
Federal 1nasiry shows Combines
Respsnsible fer High Prices.


wAsHIHoroN, Dec. t. Information
gathered from many sources by Govern
ment officials conducting the nationwide
inquiry into the high cost Of living
pointed with increasing directness to-
night to the conclusion that the soaring
prices Of certain necessities Of life were
due. to some extent at least, to the
manIpulations Of food and other specula-
tors. who had combined to force QUOTA
tions upward.
These combinations are believed by
tho Government investigators to have
been criminal IN character. rather spas
modlc and rather short lived.
Special attention 10 being given 3ust
now to alleged price manipulation in the
so-called coal corner. which recently re-
suited in sending prices to . panic level
Investigation Of the high price of coal,
hardly yet begun. has already convinced
some officials that there was no warrant
for $12 coal in Boston and New York
other than the activity Of these alleged
combinations whether men who profited
most can be punished under Federal laws
Is said to be still under consideration.
Every Federal agency with even a re-
mote relation to the situation was called
on to-day to play its part in tho great
machinery Of investigation. which the
Government had put into operation. A
mass Of material has poured into the
ofYice. most OF which
still Is undigested. but all OF which
will be studied and utilized where avail
able
With the Investigation IN its infancy
oficials were unwilling to predict to-
night where Il might lead. The activities
Of certain men. however. are known to
be under surveillance and no small part
Of the work assigned the hfty-odd in
vestigators IN the field has been the
checking Of transactions during the last
few months by these men.
The sun., 1916-12-08
GIRLS SPEND $1,000
ON RUNAWAY TRIP
Money Found in Trunk Went
for Clothes, Jewelry and
Movies.

When Mabelle Henry and Marie Hart
felt. two high school girls. sixteen years
old, Of Mariners Harbor. Staten Island.
ran away from home two weeks ago to
visit California. their hrst adventure into
life Of liberty was to ride from the
Battery 10 the Grand Central Terminal
in a hired taxicab. According to the
Girls, they could afford the expense. for
Mabelle had $1,000 IN her pocketbook
that she had found in her mothers trunk
Al home.
The girls, who were traced to Joliet.
H.. were brought back to Richmond
Borough yesterday In charge OF de-
tcctive and taken TO the Magistrates
court, There the Henry girl was ar
raigned before Magistrate Handy. for
her father had complained to the police
that Sl25 disappeared from his home
at the same time his daughter left. On
MS request that the charge be dropped
Mabello was paroled to her home In his
case until Monday.
Both runaways were penniless when
they reached home. for they had spent
tneir money on fine clothes. 5ewelry,
movies" and travelling expenses. Ac-
eordlng to the story they told. they had
, long wanted to see California, and the
hiding OF tho $1,000 In bills gave them
their chance. That night they took
Train TO the Staten Island ferry. once
IN Manhattan and the neighborhood OF
taxs the rest was easy. At o'clock In
tns morning they boarded q train Tor
, Chicago.
We bought all the New York papers
10 fnd out II there was anything In them
about u.s." Mabelle said. "In the fore
Moons. while we were In Chicago We
went to the department stores. and In
the afternoons we either went to the
movies or went automobile riding"
Just as they were getting ready ia
move on toward the Pacific coast Ma
b"'e's aunt. Mrs. A. ]. Evans OF Joliet
met them on the street. She took them
10 her home. and sent the word to Mari
hers Ilarbor that brought the detective
Tor them Both girls will return to theiI
Classes in Curtis High School Monday
morning. They admitted They were glad
10 get home.