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The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1916-04-07
OFFICE FOR EACH CITIZEN.
California Town, With Nine Men, Has
Nine Jobs to Fill,

Nine JOpS TO
Coram, Cal.-This town, the smallest
in the state, has a registered popula-
ton of twenty-one, and only nine of
these are men. G. w. Baker, a town
trustee, does not want to run again, as
he is justice of the peace of Keswick
township and has honor enough. The
other men have all consented to accept
the offices, of which there are nine.
No nomination petitions have been
filed. The election on April 10 will be
conducted on the write In" plan. Wo-
men will sit on the election board, as
1t is against the law for candidates to
conduct an election.
Mayor George O'Grady Is mining at
present in Siskiyou county with his
partner, City Clerk Kinyon. The city
marshal and city treasurer are both
gone.
The only source of revenue Is the $25
a quarter license collected from each
of the two saloons. The money Is am
pie, for there are funds In the treasury
and there are no debts.
The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1916-04-07
SAY HIDDEN GOLD is MYTH.
California Travellers Find No Treasure
In Patagonia.


San Francisco.-Hidde gold in Pata-
gonia, to which Captain Thomas owens
was to lead the band of adventures
on the schooner Academy, was a myth,
according to four members of the Ill
fated expedition, who returned to San
Francisco on the Pacific mailer New
port from Balboa. They said that
Owens real name is John Owen Whof-
fer, that he was a poor navigator and
that for three and half months they
sailed aimlessly around the Pacific I'M
til they finally reached the Colombian
coast.
The Academy left San Francisco
June 81 of last year bound for Pata-
gonia, where Captain Owens said there
was gold that rivaled the wealth of
the Incas. With him were several
CalifornIans who had invested in the
enterprise with hopes of great gain.
Eugene L. Halle, H. e. Schuck, VIII
liam Simms and II. f. Radke, who
came home on the Newport, were au-
thority for the statement that Owens
was incompetent, that he tried to turn
the Academy back to San Francisco
and that he proposed to sell the schoon-
err In Callao and buy tug to take
them to the fabulous mines.
The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1916-04-07
ATTRIBUTES Her LONG
LIFE TO SWEET DIET
Woman, Ninety, Begins Meals
With Dessert.

Melrose, Mass. - Mrs. James Rode
celebrated her ninetleth birthday an
niversary several days ago. She is In
excellent health and attributes this
fact to an astonishing diet that con-
sists largely of chocolates, buildings,
fruits and other sweetmeats.
Mrs. Rode was personally conduct
ing the frying of batch Of five dozen
doughnuts when the reporter called at
her home. While in conversation with
him she ate several hot doughnuts, and
upon being asked If she was troubled
with indigestion she replied that she
had relished dainty foods more In her
old age than when she was young.
She is known as the "spry old lady
Of Melrose," and every morning during
good weather she takes a walk of two
miles or more just for "little exer-
cise," as she terms 1t. Mrs. Rode is a
jealous worker and exhibited for the
reporters benefit over twenty-five fan
cy woven knit table pieces that she had
completed since last fall. She also as
sists her daughter-in-aw, with whom
she lives, in the general homework,
and twice week she dusts all the fur
niture In the house.
Mrs. Rode has an excellent appetite
Every morning she has cake and cof-
fee for breakfast sometimes eating a
little oatmeal. Her daughter-in-law
told the reporter that Mrs. Rode al
ways cats her dessert first and that II
she is hungry she will eat little meat
She eats on the average box of chloe
llates week.
Mrs Rode is fresh air enthusiast
and has not slept in room with any
Of the windows closed for over sixty
years. She Is also firm follower OF
the "early to bed and early to rise"
rule, for she retircs every evening at 7
o'clock and is up bright and early at G
O'Clock the next morning.
The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1916-04-07

Photo by American Press Association.
COLONEL EDWIN F. GLENN, CHIEF OF
STAFF, EASTERN DEPARTMENT.
sympathized with his old cadet chum
Holabird in Chicago because of the
latters thinning locks, while Holabird
retorted by asking the South Carolina
colonel why it was that his forty odd
summers did not make him ''less noisy
than was the case when you were the
noisiest youngster at West Point"
Major General J. Franklin Bell, COM
handing the western department Of
Francisco, who was the ranking off,
Ger at the Pacific coast function, talked
with Colonel ]. G. f. Tillson In New
York and was surprised to learn that
the colonel was not one of the lucky
chaps" chasing Villa. Had the United
lex Funston remained in command
there, General Bell, who was relieved
year ago Of the border command by
the little Kansan, would probably be
directing operations from San Antonio.
Brigadier General e. G. Young, who
was also In San Francisco, asked Colo
mel w. Fl. Hart, who dined In New
York, some very personal questions,
while General Charles King, the IA
nous army novelist, who dined with
the crowd In Chicago, was overheard
by the New Workers to tell Colonel w.
H. Hunter, who was in Chicago, that
he might write a story based on the
pursuit of Pancho villa. Lieutenant
Phil Mathews Of Fort Totten also got
word in and told Lieutenant A. j.
Davis, who was In San Francisco, that
West Point was sure to beat Annapolis
again next fall.
The grand ballroom of the Hotel AS
tor, in which the New York dinner was
served, was made over to represent
West Point.
Among those at the dinner were Colo
mel c. P. Townsley, the superintendent
of the Military academy; Major Gen
eral George w. Goethals, governor of
the Panama canal zone; Colonel John
L. Chamberlain, inspector general Of
the eastern department; Colonel Edwin
F. Glenn, chief of staff on Governors
island; Captain Halstead Dorey, aid
On the staff Of Major General Leonard
Wood; Colonies G. P. Echols, Samuel
e. Tillman of the academic staff of
West Point; Colonel o. B. Mitcham and
Major W. l. (Texas) Westervelt, the
ordnance experts from Sandy Hook;
ex-Police Commissioners Theodore A.
Bingham and Douglas l. Mckay, Cap
tain Matthew B. Hanna, Brigadier
General II. #. Hodges, commanding
the North Atlantic coast artillery dis
trict; Colonel John NJ. Carson, Captain
George II. Goethals. Captain Fl. ].
Koehler, Colonel G. NJ. Truitt Colonel
w. G.. Ham, Colonel Beverly w. Dunn.
Loyal Farragut. Major w. ]. Hawkins,
Colonel Delamere Skerrett, Captain G..
w. Beavers and William G, Muschen.
helm, the last named the only diner
from civilian life.
The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1916-04-07
COWS WEAR DRESSES.
Made of Hemp Cloth to Protect Them
From the Cold.

Made of Hemp Cloth to Protect Them
From the Cold.
San Francisco. - An authority ON
dress and It's cut for dairy cows Ia a
guest at the st. Francis, In the person
Of Sir Francis Webster Of Glasgow, a
wealthy manufacturer of hemp goods
In Scotland and the owner of stock
range In Texas embracing 100000
acres and thousands Of head OF STOCK.
Sir Francis cows are dressed regu-
larly every winter In suits of hemp
cloth made at his own manufacturing
establishment, to protect them from
the cold and snow, minimize the dan
gers from tuberculosis and increase
their daily yield of milk.
Each COW has two suits a week.
They are not elaborate dress affairs
by any means, with lingerie and all
that. 1t is a man made dress of one
piece, or simply coverall blanket that
fits loosely.
This, of course, means added ex-
pense, but the yield Of milk during the
cold weather is about 81 per cent
larger than from cows not similarly
protected.
The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1916-04-07
PROPOSE MARRIAGE TRUST.
Indiana Justices of the Peace May Get
Together Upon Ceremonies.

Jacksonville, Ind Some OF the six
justices Of the peace Of jefferson, who
fight among themselves for marriage
couples" are proposing n combination
whereby all six would establish cen.
trail marrying parlors and would pool
and divide equally all their earnings,
The chief benefit would be the elm.
nation OF the runners with whom
the justices now split their fees. which
only in exceptional cases amount to
more than 49, One result OF the com
petition has been the cutting OF fees
Many clipping couples now get married
for 81. Secret weddings generally cost
the clippers little more, aud twenty.
FIVE dollar fee shows up once In awhile
The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1916-04-07
commutsd 100000 Miles.

TarrytOwn, n. Y.-Edgar FhIrchIIds,
seventy-three years old. died at his
home in Elizabeth street recently Of
apoplexy. Mr. Fairchilds was the old
est commuter from this station. II Is
estimated that he Travelled 800 900 miles
in thirty years. He leaves a wife and
two brothers
The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1916-04-07
HEIFERS FOR FIFTY BOYS.
Illinois Bank lie to Lend Stock to
Earmers' Sons.

st. Louis Fifty boys in and near
Brighton, ILL.,, will have an opportunity
given by the First National bank of
Brighton to earn some money easily
and at the same time learn something
of stock breeding.
Thomas Chamberlain cashier, viii
go to Wisconsin and buy fifty Holstein
heifers. They Will be taken to Brigh-
ton and distributed among the boys,
their parents going security for the an
finals. The heifers will be bred, and
the next fall they will be sold at auc-
ton.
All the money In excess Of $40 that
the animals bring will be given to the
boys who have cared for them. The
bank figures that this will also have a
good effect on the grade OF milk cows
In that nelghborhood.
The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1916-04-07
100 Envelopes with your name an;
address
75C
A. The Rrha Office
Notice TO Creditors
At The Echo Office

In the Supe rior Court of the State OF Wash
ington in and for Chelan County.
In the matter of the estate of Ambrose s.
Kicker, deceased.
Notice is hereby given by the under
signed administrator of the estate of Am
brose s. Kicker, deceased, to the creditors
OF and all persons having claims against
said deceased, to exhibit them with the nee
essary vouchers within twelve ll2] months
after the first publication OF this notice, to
the administrator at his residence in Leav-
enworth, Chelan county, state OF Washing
ton, the same being the place for the trans
action OF the business of the said estate.
Dated and signed this 18th day OF March.
1915. ". II. hiOhEh
administrator of the Estate OF Ambrose y.
Kicker. deceased.
First publication March II. Last publica-
ton April7
The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1916-04-07
Sends Wilson 60 Cents For a Divorce.

Washington. 90 President Wilson re-
ceived plea from citizen OF Georgia
asking for divorce, A money order
for 60 cents as fee or for expenses
was Enclosed IN the letter, The Geor.
gian explained that he had been desert
cd by his wife I'VE did not fall out"
he wrote; "she stepped out"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1916-04-29
Nail Routes in the Air.

Aeroplane postal service seems to be
have been occasional accounts of mail
transport by flying machines, but late
news has it that the Post Office Depart
ment is inviting proposals for carrying
the mails by aeroplane on eight routes,
one in Massachusetts, over land and sea
between New Bedford and Nantucket.
and seven over mountains in Alaska.
The aeroplane has proved itself vehi-
Gle for sport and exhibition and as an
engine of war, and it is now coming to
the point where it will be given trial in
another field, or in another sky. Little
doubt can exist that the aeroplane is to
prove itself an instrument of wonder
full and increasing utility in the peace
full affairs Of the world.
The proposal to carry mail by aero
plane between New Bedford and Nan
tucket means that ariators must fly
where atmospheric conditions are fire.
quentiy so rough and unfavorable that
water Communication between the main
land and the island is often interrupted
On this route the aviatOrs must encounter
high winds and fog On the Alaskan
routes aviatOrs will be exposed to high
winds and exceedingly low temperatures
conditions which combined with snow
and ice often make mail service diff
cult or impracticable by the means
hitherto classed as usual.
The postal department has several
serious problems to work out in con
nection with mail service by air routes
The matter of expense must be consid
cred. II has been authoritatively an
nouneed that bids in extraordinary con
trast with the cost of the present trans
portation service will not encourage the
Post Office Department to adopt the
Also to be considered is the load that
the air machines must carry. The de
partment proposes that over the New
Bedford Nantucket and the Valdez Fair
banks routes a maximum load will be
1000 pounds, and upon the other Alas
kan routes the maximum load will range
from 1000 to 1000 pounds.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1916-04-29
In the Borrowers Interest.

The bill which would permit lenders
ON slender collateral or no collateral to
do business in the city of Washington
is having hard shedding. The effort 10
get favorable report in the Senate
District committee on the Smith bill in
creasing the rate which pawnbrokers
and money lenders may charge has fat
ed, for the moment at least. The com
mittee vote was tie, six voting for d
favorable report and six for contrary
report. The measure is not. and ought
not to be. dead. Its friends say that 1t
will probably be taken up at another
meeting of the committee.
All those who have followed the course
of the so-called loan shark, Nr anti-lo;h
shark, agitation and legislation in the
District clearly understand that the pro-
posed bill now blockaded in the Senate
District committee is in the interest of
borrowers and not primarily for the
benefit of the money lenders. Whca
this serious question came to the front
several years ago public-spirited men de-
voted themselves to the work of correct
ing slaring imposition on small and
needy borrowers. who were mulctel
sometimes 100 per cent and more a
year. by placing reasonable restrictions
on the money lenders. The purpose OF
those seeking to rectify a condition that
was obviously wrong was defeated
by too great reformatory zeal on the
part of legislators The interest charges
we're made SO low that law-abidin2
money lenders could not continue in
business in the District and some re-
moved across the District boundary in
to Virginia. where they continue to make
loans on terms as high as the traffic will
bear. The new law was made to Apply
to pawnbrokers as we'll as the money
lenders on unsecured personal notes,
whereas the real reformers had no such
purpose in view, there being no COM
plant that pawnbrokers' charges were
extortionate and they being under sat
isfaetory police regulation.
The legislation which resulted in dris-
ing the money lenders to Virginia has
not been of any aid to small borrowers.
They suffer under the same rates which
were scandal in the District. The aim
of those seeking to revise the present
law is to allow pawnbrokers and money
lenders to do business in Washington
where their clients live, and to protect
these clients against interest rates and
other charges which often hopelessly en-
tangle them and make it difficult for
them ever to get out of debt to the loan
sharks.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1916-04-29

horses and in the matter of attendance.
laugurated at time when the future Of
the horse seemed dark. In fact, at the
/ time of the first National Capital horse
| show several years ago the horse seemed
to have no future. He was to be thrown
entirely out of favor by the ear. Yet,
although his doom was sounded and his
knell rung, he is still upon the earth
ambling on, trotting on and galloping
on. Many of his brothers and sisters
/ are gayly taking the brush jumps and
| the fences and seem not to be depressed
with sad thoughts or disturbed by gloomy
prophecies that they are soon to be e1-
. tinct. 1t was set forth several years ago
that soon the only horses to be seen
| would be found in geological gardens or
in museums of fossils. But this state
Of things has not yet come to pass, and
hunters, chargers, park saddlers and GER
| tain types of harness horses are still
high in favor and very high in price.
1t may be that the horses have held a
primary and voted against becoming
extinct.
The Washington horse show never
was strictly local affair, but each
spring it has laid a stronger claim to
being national, and this season the entry
list, which has closed, shows that more
horses are coming than ever before, and
that the most famous stables and farms
in the United States are represented by
| entrants. These great horses, many OF
them veterans of the show ring, which
have evoked applause in London and
New York. are secure of warm well
come in the coming meet in Washing
ton, and the people Of this city are
age with their sympathy those other
brave and gallant horses which. though
less renowned will jump and show their
PAGES. hoping to win that trophy which
next to an apple or a lump of sugar
horses covet most-the blue ribbon.
In the show will be many capable
horses which make their home in Wash
ington; horses that know the saddle
paths of Rock Creek Park better than
do majority of the men and women of
the city. To these home horses the best
wishes of Washington's citizens go out
for their success
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1916-04-29
Greeley and Roosevelt.

If those republicans who desire their
party to nominate Theodore Roosevelt
for President will recall the national
campaign of 1872 they will get an idea
OF some of the embarrassments that
would inevitably follow.
Horace Greeley had been one of the
founders of the republican party, and
lis most forceful journalist He had at
all times been an aggressive. and at
many times an extreme, man. His con
demuation, when he INDUCED himself,
was soaring He had often INDUCED him
self al the expense of the democratic
party. it's leaders. its followers, its poll
cies and It's record. No writer for the
daily press of his day had expressed
himself in controversy IN terms so
searching and effective. Waverers had
been accustomed to wait to hear what
"Old Horace" had 10 say; and in many
instances had gone with him.
Mr. Greeley had been very inluen-
tlal in putting Gen. Grant into the
White House, but had fallen out with
him, and was now one of his severest
critics. He was saying as bitter things
against him. as he had been saying lau-
datory things of him four years before.
The democrats. who were in straits
and greatly depressed, wanted can
didate. and. conceived the wild notion of
putting their standard into Mr.. Gree
ley's hands. Dazzled by the tender, Mr..
Greeley accepted, and what in many re-
speets was an extraordinary contest be-
gan.
Instantly. of course, the republicans
began quoting the opposition leader
against the party he was leading and its
most representative men, and proved
from his writings and speeches that the
party ought not to be called to power
As the campaign proceeded the nisf'
arrangement grew glsringly apparent
and ended in Aasco and tragedy. The
democracy was soundly beaten, and Mr.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1916-04-29
The House and the Philippines.

The agreement reached in the House
to vote on the Philippine question
promptly may be the best way out of
the situation. Ii is not easy to under
stand why the question was included in
the Presidents program. With all the
world at war. or disturbed about war
with the far east involved through
Japan's alliance with Great Britain and
China's internal discussions. why should
we have added to the complications by
proposing an early withdrawal from a
territory where our rule has been of
great benefit to the natives and our
presence acceptable to all the leading
powers,
The democratic protest against the
Senate bill is well justified. The meas
ure goes beyond the Baltimore platform
on the subject. But why quote in sup
port of one proposition platform which
as to several other propositions has been
plainly disregarded. and as to one-the
Panama canal tolls-franklv repudiated ]
What attaches to the plank about the
Philippines to give it sort of saerosanet
Importance!
Another thing. Early independence
for the Philippines has Mr.. Bryan for its
earliest and most eminent sponsor. He
urged on the Senate the ratification of
the peace treaty with Spain. which in
eluded the taking over of the islands.
in order that independence for the archi-
pelago might become distinctly an
American question. Spain was certain
not to take that step; and Mr.. Bryan
had decided that if sovereignty could be
transferred from Spain to America he
would give his country no rest until in
dependence to the islands was granted.
At that time Mr.. Bryan was the most
powerful man in the democratic party.
The next Summer-in l900-he received
his second nomination to the presidency.
In 1905 he received his third nomina'
ton But today he is out of touch with
his party, and out of Office as the re-
suit. Election as a delegate to the s..
Louis convention has just been denied
him. His home constituency is with
him no longer on the issues of most i'm
pOrtanee.
And yet the President and his friends
in Congress. in opposition to Mr.. Bryan
on other matters. and facing whatever
opposition from the outside he can set
up at St. Louis. are in this matter of the
Philippines playing Mr.. Bryan's game.
He. virtually. is the Inspiration of what
is now being attempted toward lowering
the Stars and Stripes in the Philippines,
and handing the islands over, not to tho
natives. but to a chaos certain to lead
10 their absorption by some stronger
power.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1916-04-29
National Capital Horse Show

Preparations for the National Capital
horse show are claiming the attention of
the friends of the horse, especially in
Washington and its neighbor states of
Virginia and Maryland, and are attract
ing large measure of interest among
the owners Of show horses in other parts
Of the country. To judge by what is
being said by the horsemen Immediately
concerned with the approaching show ii
will be . greater success than its pre-
decessors, and these have been brilliant
affairs, both In the contests between
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1916-04-29

1t is expected that an understanding
will he reached by which the submarine
commanders themselves will be required
to take an interest in the rights of neu-
trails.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1916-04-29
Greeley, overwhelmed and broken

Greeley, overwhelmed and broken
hearted. shortly went to his grave.
Should Mr.. Roosevelt be nominated by
the republicans, every line he has writ
ten, every word he has spoken, in the
past four years against the party which
made him and the men who for long
time served him with thorough loyalty
would be quotable. and quoted, by the
democratic managers to prove that he
should not as the head of the republi-
can party again cb elected.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1916-04-29

There is no variety of complication
either foreign or domestic, with which
Great Britain is not becoming &C.
auainted.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1916-04-29

Haiti is growing restless. While un-
able to contribute materially to tae
world war agitation. it avoids any
chance of being mistaken for pacifis;
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1916-04-29

No convention disturbance that can
be created next June will suffice to put
American political agitation in the same
class with that of Europe.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1916-04-29
shakespeare Tercenteuarx

From the New York Sun.
1t begins to look as IL throughout
the country William Shakespeare had
carried the primaries by . large ma
jority over Francis Bacon.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1916-04-29

Villas activities since his funeral
should make him an interesting subject
for psychic research.