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La Junta tribune., 1916-08-12
Valley Baseball Leaguc Busted.

G. W. Milliken is out OF a job
one of his jobs-that OF keeping
baseball alive in this section of the
world, The Arkansas Valley Base
ball League busted wide open Thurs
day afternoon and Joined the ranks
OF the has-beens. Mr.. Milliken re-
ceiyed phone message from Pueblo
Thursday afternoon announcing that
the club of that city had decided to
retire form the league on account of
receiving no support or encourage
ment from the baseball fans of that
city, and also on account of the very
poor attendance at the games that
have been played. The charges on
the message were reversed with no
tification to Mr.. Milliken to pay at
this end.
They seem to be a cheap bunch of
sports in Pueblo. and the phone mes
sage is not the only instance where
they flunked. Pueblo did not put
up forfeit when she took the place
OF Las Animas in the league. and the
club did not pay their assessment to
the umpire fund. 81 ,ney are not out
anything. They still have the credit
of holding the cellar position in the
league, and 1t is probably for this
reason they decided to retire from
the league.
The members OF the La Junta ball
team were paid off Thursday after
noon and given their release. Some
OF them are arranging to depart for
new baseball fields. ana some who
have promises of employment will
remain in La Junta. They will play
their last game In La Junta tomor-
row afternoon with Trinidad. ar
rangements having been made for
the appearance of that team in this
city in an exhibition game.
La Junta tribune., 1916-08-12
Passing of n Veteran big Lacquer.

Roy Hartzell, Golden man who has
been with the New York Americans
for the past five years, was released
last week to the Baltimore Club ot
the international League. This prob
ably ends iiartzells career as big
Lacquer. after many years OF ser
vice. Ilartzell got his start as
baseball player on the corner lots OF
Golden. and while he was never
very spectacular player. he developed
into one of the most reliable men IN
professional baseball He first Join
cd the Denver club of the Western
League, as a pitcher. hut was soon
taken from the box and placed on
third base. the hardest OF the iniieid
positions. He was soon graduated
from the Western TO the American
League and for many years played
inficld and ou,fIcld positions with
the 81, Louis Browns. From 81.
Louis he went TO the Yankees NJ
utility man. iIartzcii has made a
splendid record aud has lasted much
longer in the big league than do the
majority OF players. rs.-Goiden Tran
script.
La Junta tribune., 1916-08-12
More Tn,-, Coming Up Soon.

County Assessor c. G. Buchanan
has been busy this week mailing out
notices OF valuation to taxpayers.
The purpose Of mailing out these no.
tlces Mt this time Il 10 give the tar.
payers the opportunity OF having any
mistakes which might have been
made. rcctificd. before the ASSESSOR
files his affidavit with the county
treasurer upon the first OF septem-
Der. Now is the time for the tar.
payer TO assert his rights. and Mr.
Buchanan is ready 10 correct any
mistakes which may have been made
II you will cali At his office before
September ist.
La Junta tribune., 1916-08-12
Twenty-fifth Anniversary Sale.

The Draper Shoe and Clothing
Company. the old reliable mems out
filters. have just reached the twen-
ty-fifth milestone OF their business
career In Ia Junta. The Draper was
established fn-this- eity~on July 27,
1891. There have been many ups
and downs In La Junta In the last
twenty-five years, but by close at
tention to business and fair treat
ment of all patrons the Draper has
been able TO keep pace with the
town. The store has grown from a
small beginning on First street until
they are now proud OF having one of
the largest and most up to date
gents furnishing establishment
In the Arkansas Valley.
Tn August 18th, and continuing
until August 18th, the Draper will
celebrate with a Twenty-fifth Anni-
versary Sale. There will be great
reductions in all departments of the
store, and everybody In La Junta Is
invited to participate in the benefits
of this great special sale They will
alro have little souvenir for you.
La Junta tribune., 1916-08-12

tcontinusd on Last Pass)
The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1916-11-24
SEARCH OF YEARS REWARDED
Veteran Finds Daughter Lost to Him
Since Civil War.

Decatur, III. - When Archibald G..
Bottoms returned to Bowling Green.
Mo, at the close Of the civil war be
found his wife had died and the baby
daughter he had left behind in 1861
absent, he knew not where.
Fifty-one years after the war ended
Mrs. NJ II. Roberts OF Decatur got
track of her father through the pension
bureau in Washington and mas just re-
turned to Decatur after visiting him
He is ninety-one years old.
81 was placed with family after
my mother died, and they soon moved
from Bowling Green to Illinois," said
Mrs Roberts. They never told me of
my parentage until many years after
ward, and | never did know in what
town | was born. Not long ago asked
]. C. Walsh, Decatur man, to write
to Washington, and thus found out
where my father lived"
Bottoms spent years searching for
his child after the war.
The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1916-11-24
Notice of Sale of Timber on School
audS

Notice is hereby given that on Tuesday
the End day of January. 1917 between the
hours of ten O'Clock in the forenoon and
four O'Clock in the afternoon, commencing
at ten O'Clock in the forenoon of said day, in
front of the main entrance door to the
county court house, in the City of w enat-
chez, County of Ohelan, state of Washing.
ton, either by the county auditor OF said
county, or by member of the Board OF
state Land Commissioners, the timber on
the following described school land VIII be
sold at public auction to the highest bidder
| therefor, to-wit:
APPLICATION NO. 1907
Timber on NEH OF section Is, township q
north, range Is east w. NJ, containing 100
acres, more or less according to the govern
ment survey thereof, appraised at 1856.
Timber on NWH of section 10, township "a
north, range Is east w. NJ, containing 100
acres, more or less. according to the govern
ment survey thereof, appraised at $3.50.
Timber on SWH of section 10, township %
north, range IS east, w. NJ, containing 100
acres, more or less, according to the govern
ment survey thereof appraised at $Sl7.50
Timber on SEA of section 10, township ~
acres, more or less, according to the govern
ment survey thereof, appraised at s45O.50.
Said timber on said land will be sold for
not less than the appraised value, as ap-
missioners in the manner provided by law,
statement of which is now on file in the
Office of the auditor of said county.
sof sale are: Cash to be paid on the
day OF sale.
The timber on the above described lands
is offered for sale in pursuance of an order
of the Board of State Land Commissioners,
and an order of sale duly issued and certi-
of the State of Washington, now on file in
the office of the County Auditor OF said
county. CLARK V. SAN1DGE,
nov24dec29 Commissioner of Public Lands
The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1916-11-24
THEY TELL TIME BY cows.
Meals In Cloekless Towns Are Served
Promptly.


st. Louis, MO.-Assessors in Fort
Russell and Fosterburg townships
Madison county, ILL.,, have arrived in
Edwardsville to deliver their annual
assessment reports and to find out
what time 1t Is. Old Fort Russell and
Fosterburg have no timepieces. ac-
cording to the officials reports.
Time there is gagged by the length
of the evening shadows, the return Of
the brindle COW to the barnyard for
her evening meal or the growing Of the
cock at dawn.
There are no clocks by which wives
can measure the hardness of husbands,
no clocks to ring out the evening hours
and drive SWANS from the sides Of
their sweethearts. no clocks in Foster
burg to quicken the pace or point to
the approach of dinner hour. Meals In
Fort Russell and Fosterburg are served
at the demand Of appetite. The resi-
dents continue the even tenor Of their
way without cuekoos to squawk them
out of bed or alarms to startle the
morning air.
The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1916-11-24
FOR AN AIR MILITIA
Country Needs Thousands Of
Aviators, Says Peary.
SHOULD BE BEGUN AT ONCE.

Declares That Air Service Should De
Under Direction Of Federal Depart
mont of Aeronauties, Separate From,
and independent Of Both Army and
Navy Departments.
New York.-Sixteen thirty-hve knot
battle cruisers with sixteen inch guns,
an air feet manned by thousands Of
aviators and universal military training
are what the United States needs to be
properly prepared, Rear Admiral Rob
ert L. Peary told members of the class
In applied Christianity of the Mount
Morris Baptist church in Fifth avenue,
near One Hundred and Twenty-ffth
street.
1.-THE construction Of the feet" he
said, should be begun at once and
completed within three years. With
these we need the accessories of de-
stroyers, submarines and hydroaero-
planes.
The air service should be under the
direction OF a federal department Of
The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1916-11-24
TO SOLVE CRIME.
Chemistry Valuable Aid to New
York Police.
BLOOD TESTS IMPORTANT

Quick Determination of Nature Of sus-
pioious Stains Saves Hours In Hunt
For Assassins-Men From City Lab
oratory Accompany Detectives In the
Search For Murderers.
New York.-Chemistry is becoming
an important factor in helping the po-
lice to solve murders committed In
this city Commissioner Woods and
Fifth Deputy Commissioner Scull de-
cided recently that the work of detec-
tives would be greatly expedited If,
when they first started out to investi-
gate a murder, they could have at
their elbow a trained chemist to assist
them in making a preliminary exami-
nation.
Blood stains often play an important
part in tracking down an assassin. A
chemist can determine by a quick
analysis whether stains are blood or
some other substance and thus save
the police loss Of time and the danger
Of being led astray in their investiga-
tons.
In connection with the work Of the
chemists a special laboratory devoted
exclusively to police cases has been
The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1916-11-24

aeronautics separate from and indie
pendent of both the army and navy
departments and presided over by a
member of the presidents cabinet
With our resources and mechanical
genius under the spur of concentrated
and undivided attention such depart
ment may In the near future be more
vital and important to our national
safety and integrity than our navy and
our army combined.
zone of the first steps should be an
immediate provision for educating and
training a certain number of the Off
GERS of the naval militia of each state
as aviators and with them as a nucleus
recruiting a fun aviation section of the
naval militia In every state. An ap-
preparation OF 81, 00,OO0-about $4,000
to each state-to be expended under the
direction of the secretary of the navy
will permit beginning this work at
once"
The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1916-11-24
RETIRES AT THIRTY.Slx.
Peterson Gets Double Credit For Four
teen Years Service.

San Juan, Porto Rico.-A record for
early retirement from the United States
army except for disability seems to
have been made by Peder Peterson,
who served as soldier In Porto Rico,
Cuba and the Philippines for fourteen
out of his total sixteen years service.
He has been retired at the age Of thir-
ty-six with soldiers pension of SGT
month. being credited with thirty years
service-twenty-e ight for foreign duty.
two for home duty
Peterson benefited by the army regu-
lations providing for double credit for
foreign service He retired as a SER
geant OF ordnance and will live in
Washington. He Is not married, and
he says that after he enjoys a little
hunting and fishing he will try for
some government position open to an
ex-soldier.
The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1916-11-24

In colonial days II was customary to
appoint days of fasting or feastlng. OF
prayer or thanksgiving, when public
events seemed to warrant this recognl
ton. In 1899 Washington ordered a
day of thanksgiving for the adoption
Of the Federal constitution, Subse'
quently various days IN November
were recommended by presidents and
governors until. In 1868, the regular
observance of a national Thanksgiving
day was instituted through procla'
nation of President Lincoln. The
presidents proclamation does not make
it a national holiday. 1t applies legal
ly only to the District Of Columbia and
the territories Ii Is the governors
proclamations that affect the states
The day is observed In all states. but In
some it is not statutory holiday
Thursday was originally selected by
the Puritans probably because. being
near the middle of the week. 1t gave
opportunity for the scattered members
Of the family to come together and to
return without Decorating the Sab
bath by travel November was Sc
lected as the month when the fall har-
vests were all gathered Other coun-
tries have Thanksgiving days for spe-
cial occasions. such as success in battle
or the deliverance of the people from
national calamity but the fixed an
nual Thanksgiving day is custom be-
longing to America alone
The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1916-11-24
Twelve Dollars For Snakes.

0xnard, Cal.-James Benton's latest
rattlesnake catch is worth $432. Ben
ton. who lives In Santa Barbara,
catches rattlesnakes for a living and
recently sold thlrty-six of the reptiles
for s12 each to Oxnard Chinese, who
value them for medicinal purposes,
drugs being compounded from the
venom. Benton has been bitten num-
Der of times, In one instance almost
losing his life. He catches the reptiles
with a pronged stick.
The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1916-11-24
VALUE OF BABY'S EYES.
Award Of $4,000 is Set Aside by Cali
fornia Superior Court,

San Francisco The nominal value
Of a baby's eye was fixed at $4,000
here by Judge Frank J. Murasky in the
superior court, who gave judgment for
that amount to the parents Of Mary
Rubio, one year old, against Mrs. ANA
liza Razzuoli, midwife 1t was alleged
that the woman failed TO care for the
baby's eyes properly at birth. and now
the child is blind.
"a pair of baby's eyes are priceless"
said Judge Murasky. mo amount of
money that this or any court could
give, no matter how large the amount.
would compensate for their loss"
The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1916-11-24
WILD DOGS ATTACK GARDENER
Pack In Woods Near Greenwood Lake
Again Terrorize Residents.

Greenwood Lake. n. 1.-The great
pack of wild dogs, part Of which was
exterminated in the woods between
here and Lake Mombasha last winter
by New Jersey game wardens, has
again made its appearance throughout
this section, creating reign Of terror
In certain sections. The dogs forage on
domesticated poultry and even attack
persons who cross their path.
Game Warden William c. Klein re-
ports that the pack descended on the
Hewitt estate in Ringwood and at
tackled gardener. Farmers who have
seen the raiders say there are about
twenty-five or thirty of them. Game
Warden Klein will start on another
determination expedition as soon as all
the leaves have fallen.
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opened at the headquarters Of the GEN.
| trail testing laboratory. Here doctors
make a thorough analysis Of clothing
and other articles brought to them for
examination. This laboratory is equip
ped with the most approved chemical
apparatus. There are a number of high
power microscopes and a microphoto-
graphic apparatus for photographing
| blood stains.
The work of the narcotic squad of
the laboratory takes up the entire time
of three chemists and part of the time
of another. Thousands Of samples Of
heroin. cocaine, opium, yen shee and
morphine are analysed. The chemists,
/ when necessary, appear in court to tes-
tify to their findings. Although the
laboratory has been working but
short time in conjunction with the de.
tective bureau, it has produced results
highly satisfactory to police officials.
The chemists make the most search
| ing investigation of crime. Dust, bits
Of cloth, hair, wood, metal and other
sources of clews are at once collected.
| Without loss of time rough tests are
applied at the place of the crime. In
these investigations Of the chemists
scrapings from beneath the finger
nails have revealed significant fibers
Of cloth, and a microscopic examina.
ton Of scrapings from the shoes Of
murdered persons has often showed
that the soles bore dirt from some
other locality than that in which the
body was found.
The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1916-11-24
Milk Puts Out Fire.

Altoona. Pa.-Milk has proved Just
as efficacious as water in extinguishing
a fire, even if it is bit more expen-
sive The dairy barn OF A. NJ. Was
son. near Tyrone, was struck by light
ming. Mrs. WATSON and her two sons.
Alton and Robert, were In the building
milking. Flames followed the bolt,
and a delay would have doomed the
structure A dozen gallons Of milk, the
result OF the days milking, was at hand
The milk saved the barn and stock.
The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1916-11-24
BOY SUES CITY FOR $4,000.
Lowell WonN Let Munitions Worker
Back to School.

Lowell, Mass.--Fred FL Desmond,
eighteen years old. has brought suit for
$4,000 against this city because the
school board has refused to let him re-
enter high school after working in a
munition factory Young Desmond left
school TO work in a cartridge factory,
but now wants to go back to his stud
les. In its refusal to let him do so the
school board said
at is for the best interests of both
the school and the boy that he should
not be allowed to re-enter."
The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1916-11-24

Mr.. o. c, Meoge, hsmersy a resi-
dent Of Leavenwoy,h. where he was in
the hotel business, then ran the Club
Pool Room, and later wen, into the
lumber business with Y, s Jacobsen.
is now located in Sal, Lake City. Utah.
He is engaged in the eox agency and
lumber business, He ssys Salt Lake
is lively and the people prosperous.
The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1916-11-24
Spurs conyicta to Work.

jefferson City, Mo.-GOvernor Major
of Missouri directed the work Of 200
prisoners from the state penitentiary
on a ten mile stretch Of road near
here. The governor gave every convict
three cigars and supplied them with
watermelons. For each day the con
yicts do satisfactory work on the roads
they will be allowed twenty days of
their sentences.
The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1916-11-24
GIRL INSISTS ON A SHAVE.
Failing to Get Ono From Barber, She
Raises q Row.

Failing to Get Ono Frcnn Barber, She
Raises q Row.
Chicago. -HeIen Wade entered the
barber shop Of Charles Collins on West
Chicago avenue and. seating herself In
q barber chair demanded shave. For
fifteen minutes the owner argued with
her and finally ordered her to leave
She refused to so, and Collins called
Policeman John j. Hourigan.
"I'll not leave here until | get a
shave, and the sooner the better" the
woman insisted. ~
Hourigan took razor and began to
initiate a BARRIERS motion over her
face Finally he announced that she
had been shaved and asked her to
leave the shop.
You can't kid me-" the woman said
when the policeman told her she had
been shaved. THAT razor never touch
ed my face, and won't leave here"
Then she was arrested.
The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1916-11-24
WHIPPINGs HIS PENALTY.
And They Will Be With Switches From
Trees Boy Cut Down.

New York That he got thrashing
a week for three weeks was the sen
tence imposed in the chlldren's court
at Jamaica ON Edward Schultz, fifteen
years old, of that place The boy had
admitted chopping down three trees
on property owned by John j. Bliss
president of the Citizens association,
click him with switches from the
trees he chopped" suggested Justice
Morgan l.. Ryan TO the culprit's father,
who nodded grimly in the affirmative
The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1916-11-24
THE YOUTHS COMPANION CALENDAR
FOR 1917.

The Publishers Of The Youths Com
panion are presenting, as always at this
season, to every subscriber whose sub
scription is paid for 1911, Calendar
for the new year, l, is decidedly un-
usual, and strikiagly artistic. The
colors are we'll chosen and richly blend
ed 1t was made primarily, however.
for actual use. and is vel named the
Practical Home Calendar.
The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1916-11-24
Statement of Ownership

Required by act Of Congress August
"a, 1912, Of the Leayenworth Echo:
Leavenworth, Wash, Oct. 1916
Before me personally appeared Deed
H. Magyar and on oath said he is the
sole owner and publisher Of the Echo.
That there are no bondholders or
mortgages. No statement of circula.
ton required Of weekly newspapers.
Subscribed and sworn to before E.
H. Fox, Notary public, Oct. %, 1916.
The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1916-11-24
Not Essentially American.

Our American Thanksgiving is usual
ly considered our one native contribu-
ton to the holidays of nations, as its
observance originated with the New
England fathers. Perhaps the fathers
themselves liked to think of it in this
originative way and so wished it per-
petuated-as something that had flow
cred on the bleak rock of their per-
sonal struggle. 1t was to be peculiar
ly their day, peculiarly a heroic New
England day, an American day. So in
sense 1t Is; so in a sense it is not
Essentially our American Thanksgiy-
ing is least American of our holidays,
for the simple reason that it is too
human to be merely American. There
were no most human things left for
the New England fathers to originate
They are immemorially older than this
country. There are no original ways
Of expressing gratitude. All the path
ways Of thanksgiving are very old
paths.-James Lane Allen in Munsey's
Magazine.
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Harvest Home" and Thanksgiving.
The harvest home of the SaxOns and
Celts, the cereaia of the Romans. the
Israeltish feast of tabernacles and.
for all that we know to the contrary,
the first harvest celebration of pre-
adamite man were the actual pre-
cursorS OF our Thanksgiving, Even
among the American Indians there was
held an autumnal festival which might
not nniu>tly claim precedence as the
true aborignaI THANKSGIVING of the
western world. Modern obseryances
of Thanksgiving. with their sporting
features. are denounced in certain
quarters as sadly at variance from the
ideas Of the Plymouth colonists during
their first golden autumn on the coast
of Cape Cod bay. Indications are not
altogether wanting. however. that the
manner of celebrating has changed in
nonessentials only No longer is
whole week devoted to Thanksgiving.
as in the days of Governor Bradford
A single day sufices.
The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1916-11-24
MAIL DOG REWARDED.
Sam Watches Wagon When Driver !.
Delivering.

Washington.-Sam, the faithful dog
which guards the parcel post wagon
at Mount Carmel, Pa, while the driver
is making deliveries, has been reward
ed by Postmaster General Albert S.
Burleson.
The postmaster general has ordered
for Sam a brass studded collar with
the following inscription: ~. S. Mail.
Presented to Uncle Sans Faithful
Friend by Albert S. Burleson. Post
master General. Oct. %. 1915"
The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1916-11-24

Mr.. w. L. Clement Of the w. J.
Hoy Co. contracting firm. doing the
snow shed work in the canyon. which,
by the way, will be completed in the
next two weeks, leit for ST, Paul Wed
nesday, He said he would return in
about two weeks and hoped to find the
work wound up.