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Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1916-12-10
Nebraska Lands.
WHEAT SPUDS.

SOKN w II EAl SfODS.
Every one of these FARMS will sen
All within less than rs miles Of Omaha.
Buy now while buying 10 good. No trades.
100 ACRES. improved. within miles Of
Omaha; south and west: s. acres level
SECOND BOTTOM: not subject to over
flow; Is acres pasture, some timber. Thu
improvements are numerous and fair, but
not new. but homelike place. A dandy
small grain or dairy farm: good for alfsl.
ia, wheat, timothy and clover, potatoes
etc. A CLosE-IN BARGAIN, Price foe
short time only $40 per acre; $1,000 cash
balance S years, S per cent.
100 ACRES, UPLANDs, well improved
well laying; good neighborhood. Only
Is miles out; ~ miles Of dandy snau
town. $3.50 per acre; some terms
40 ACRES. EXTRA well improved; 81
house, etc. 16 miles Of Omaha. Only
5000; some terms.
so ACRES. Douglas county; numerous
improvements; exceedingly rolling, but no
waste. Price $50 per acre; $4,000 cast
March 1: balance years.
100 ACRES CLOSE IN; large house
good barn; lays fine; choice location. a
dandy farm for suburban home. Price
$3.50 per acre, and 1t Is worth It, too. Only
per cent only.
so ACRES, sarpy Co.; good soil; mn.
merous, but small improvements nine
tenths Of farm lays fine; a money-make..
Price 800 per acre: $4,000 cash, bal
years per cent.
so ACRES, uplands Douglas Co. Good
but small improvements. Not q foot ID
waste ground. A producer. Only $16b per
acre; v cash, bal. S yrs. ~ per cent
100 ACRES, sarpy Co., good land; good
improvements almost new. Price $21,000
so ACRES Douglas Co. valley lands q
miles to good town. Fair improvements
producer. Only $135 per acre; $1,000
cash, bal years, X per cent
100 ACRES, A BON TON FARMING
best ever. Do not look at this unless you
want something good. Handy to good
schools, churches ETC.; price $3.50 per aero.
SIT, 400 cash, bal. 5 yrs, 81 per cent
1870 ACRES improved. 20 miles of Omas.
ha. west; 80 acres cultivation, exception
ally good; some hay lands: balance levA
timber lands Price $50 per acre: $1,000
cash, bal. S yrs. 5h per cent
NUMEROUS OTHERS AND SOME
GOOD ONES, 10 acres to 500 acres. espe-
cially so, 100 and 100 acres. These w1u
not last long. Call forenoons II convenient
ORIN S. MERRILL COMPANY,
N. E. Cor. 23d and M sts., South Side.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1916-12-10
R. A. SMITH,

Colonizataion and Industrial Agent
Union Pacific System.
Room 1929,
Onion Pacific Headquartern.
Omaha, Nebraska
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1916-12-10
Wisconsin Lands.

FOR sALE--1,0so acres in solid block Of red
and black loan land; about 100 acres
cleared; balance mixed hardwood timber
and grass; good buildings; insured for
$4,000; fencing and other improvements:
good spring water; two trout streams:
Bellwood station and Northern Pacific
sidetrack on land; state road from Su-
perior to Ashland Just completed through
land; In the fruit belt: best land location
and bargain in northern Wisconsin. Ad-
dress NJ. ]. Bell, care OF Bell Lumber
Company. Minneapolis MINI.
UPPER WISCONsIN-Best dairy and gem
erai crop state In the union 'SetfIers
wanted: lands for sale at low prices or
easy terms; excellent lands for stock
raising. Ask for booklet IS on Wisconsin
Central Land Grant; state acres wanted.
II interested in fruit lands ask for book
let on Apple Orchards. Address Land COM
missioner 500 Railway. Minneapolis. MINI.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1916-12-10

QUIT RENTING land and raise Natal hay
(alfalfa) in Florida; LIST cutting In 80
days; sells $50 to $50 per acre on land
costing only $50. Few tracts to first good
men without cash down. Pay in work.
Write or call
CHAS. E. WILLIAMSON, Omaha.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1916-12-10

County, Nebraska. $1,000 per acre. viii
make very good farm for anyone. Best
terms. For further information address.
| Ortegren Brothers. Murphy. Nebraska
| l6 ACRES-Sarpy county land, all in al
falfa, for sale or lease. For information
| call Harvey 1889.
| CAN sell or exchange any land you have to
offer C. ]. Canaan, McCague Bldg.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1916-12-10

TEXAS LAND OF OPPORTUNITY! High
priced farm products. 900 firtIe
acres. Low prices Good terms Chicago
Tex. Trust Co.. 20 So. LaSalle, Chicago, III.
IF YOU are thinking of home in the
Texas gulf coast country. send for book
let. "Algoa Does Mean Opportunity"
Henry Mackay, Algoa. Tex.
10 ACRES adjoining Morrill,, Cherokee Co.
$40 acre; fruit and vegetable district.
Would trade Neb. or Iowa small farm.
G. P. Stebbins, 1910 Chicago.
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Colorado Lands
Florida Lands.

PALM BEACH COUNTY--We have the
record crop truck, garden and citrus fruit
land in the United States. Buy land on
asy terms from A. Parson Son, $50
Brandeis Bldg. Phone Doug. 78N.
Note-A personally conducted excursion
to the Sunny South leaves OMAHA Janu-
airy I'd; already some Of Omaha.s leading
business men have Joined US. Make your
reserya tton early
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Indiana Lands.

FOR sALE-DAIRY AND GRAIN FARM.
EOS acres, s12,o 1-3 cash, miles good
market, miles county seat, near Wlnona
Traction lines; v mile school; rolling
sandy loan and black bottom land, 40
acres timber, good big buildings; fine
water and good big orchard. A bargain.
A J. COOK. Akron. Ind.
The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1916-07-07
Apple Crop in the WenatChee
District

According to story in the Wenat-
chez World Of July the 1916 apple
yield in that particular section is now
placed at 1900 cars, and the soft
fruit at 853 cars This estimate is
based on a report Of Fruit Inspector
Clawson. So far the weather has been
favorable to the development of the
valleys most important crop, notwith-
standing the spring has seemed unus-
ually cool. The rains Of the past
three weeks have helped much. The
old fashioned Winesap apple is said
to promise large yield.
In this immediate section we are
told by apple growers the apple crop
will be heavy and the condition first
class. Worms are doing some damage
in the lower valley but in this vicinity
we are told the orchards are practically
free from this orchard pest.
The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1916-07-07
People Are Determined to Have
Lower Tax Rates

Persons with bills to go before the
Legislature or by initiative before the
people, involving large expenditures,
might as we'll save themselves trouble
as they will not be authorized.
Political crazes and their effect on
taxation are being thot over by the,
people as never before and not many
more steps in that direction will be
taken on this coast in the near future.
The high cost of living and the high
cost of government are in large part
due to the development Of trained
army Of experts, or political pests,
called uplift boards, commissions or
whatnot.
The average per capita tax in Oregon
nearly as high today as in war-ridden
Germany and from $40 per capita to
500 per capita within a decade on pro-
gressive lines.
In 20 years Oregon taxation increased
five hundred per cent and the per
capita in the three coast states is about
the same-all higher than New York.
The tax rate should come down 25
per cent.
Cheap capital, with high taxation,
will not employ high priced labor,
and establishment Of new industries
will go on very slowly until the average
rate of taxation has been reduced con-
siderable.
Cheap capital becomes dear capital
when taxes amount to two and half
to three per cent. Low rates of interest
are impossible for industrial develop
ment or manufacturing enterprises.
1t is only the eating mort
gage that can live when the cost Of
government is too high, and the high
cost OF living can not be reduced with
taxation applied in too many forms.
The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1916-07-07
The Law-Making Industry Over.
worked

Apart from its merits, the volume OF
our Legislation is astounding. Con-
gress and the state legislatures include
some 1000 members. Prof Dicey,
the great British student OF Parliamen-
tary activity, has pointed out that con-
gress and our states annually enact
more Legislation than is proposed in the
same period by the combined parlia-
ments OF Great Britain, Germany, Aus
tria, Italy and France, representing
more than two and half times our ma
tional population. In the last session
but one preceding the outbreak of the
present war, the British parliament re-
ceived SAT Legislative proposals and
enacted 23o. The sixty-third congress
considered 30,053 bills and joint reso-
lutions and enacted 700. The present
congress since meeting in December
has received more than 1000 legisla-
tive proposals. Between 1909 and
1916 our state and national assemblies
enacted 1874 new statutes. Forty
three legislatures in session in 1914-l5
exceeded the record OF any proceeding
year by passing 1922 bills, 1866 OF
which were vetoed, l5,055 of which
became statutes to be printed for the
enlightenment OF lawyer and layman
upon some 43,500 pages. During the
past seven years the people OF the
United States have received an aver
age of $4,000 new statutes per annum,
the fruit Of probably not less than
three quarters of a million leh islative
proposals. dealing in no small part
with production, distribution, finance,
in every circumstance of conduct, su-
pervision, employment and organiza-
ton.
The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1916-07-07
Poisonous Plants That Grow In
This Locality

Mr.. w. w. Eggleston, connected
with the Interior department of the
government at Washington, making
specially Of botany, was here this week
and in cooperation with local forestry
department will make a thoro investi-
CATION OF the effects of poisonous plants
on live stock. 1t is not generally
known that every year stockmen lose
horses, cattle and sheep on the range
throu poisonous plants of one kind or
another. The loss OF 1000 sheep in
this reserve is due to eating poison
weeds. A number of these plants are
quite common in this locality and be-
cause some knowledge Of them might
be useful to readers of The Echo we
are devoting space to their description.
Wild larkspar, of the family dolphin
ium, has a blue flower and makes its
appearance early in the spring. The
seeds are most poisonous. Sheep either
do not eat larkspar in sufficient guam
tity or are not affected to any great
extent by this plant. Horses and cat
tie, especially the former, are most
often affected by eating larkspar.
Death camas, camassia esculento, is
quite common in this locality and is
one of the most poisonous Of the nox-
ious weeds. 1t has a yellowish white
flower, and resembles what is often
called the wild onion. 1t affects all
stock. 1t is one OF the first plants to
bloom in the spring.
Lupine, or commonly called horse
bean, is another of the noxious weeds
common in this locality. The seed,
like the larkspur, is the most poisonous.
Water hemlock, variety of wild
parsnip is another poisonous weed that
affects range stock. The root Of the
parsnip contains the poison. There
are number OF shrubs that put out
green ahoots early in the spring that
are considered poisonous, generally
confined to the higher attitudes.
The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1916-07-07
$1.50 Per Year

or other medicine as often as required.
it was to be rubbed on the
body when required. Sometimes the
directions were take wine glass full
every three hours. Here Dr.. Hoxsey
had six prescriptions on file. The
quantity Of spirits prescribed was never
over a pint, sometimes less and was
either alcohol or brandy in connection
with drugs. At the city drug store
DR.. McKeown had eighteen prescrip-
tions on file in which spirits were pre-
scribed. DR.. Judah had three.
This paper holds no brief for any
doctor and treats them all alike. If
they violate the law or do ANYTHING in
which the public has an interest or
that might be considered news they
may depend on it this paper will print
the facts without coloring them to hide
a truth that may be unpalatable.
The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1916-07-07
leavenwOrth'S Fourth Devoid of
Incident

Neither incident nor accident marked
the Fourth at this place. The ma
tions birthday was observed in this
town without any demonstration. All
the business houses were closed and
those who remained here spent the
day, which was the most perfect en-
joyed this year, in sane and sensible
way. The national colors were in evi-
dence everywhere. The small boy
had a good time exploding torpedos,
not the large, deafening kind, but a
small harmless variety which yet made
enough noise to appease the average
boys desire for fireworks. The old
fashioned fire cracker, the cause Of
many a destructive fire, was entirely
absent. A considerable number Of
Leavenworth people, most of those
who own autos, motored to Wenatchee
lake, 24 miles distant, a most delight
full place to put in a day, where the
Lake Wenatchee Inn and the Lake
View hotel made preparations to take
care of the usual large crowds that go
to that resort to spend holiday.
Dancing, boating, bathing and other
sports furnished diversion for the crowd.
A dance in Firemen's hall, given by
the engineers order, in the evening,
was well patronized by the young peo-
pie of Leavenworth. One very marked
and noticeable difference, in compari-
son with the celebration Of holidays in
the past was the absence Of boisterous-
ness due TO drinking. Some fifty-odd
spent the day at Wenatchee, where a
big celebration was held.
The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1916-07-07
G. n. TRAFFIC CLOSED
FOR THIRTY-SIX HOURS
Blast Causes Slide While Removing
Obstruction Another Slide Follows
Killing Two WOrkmen

On Monday afternoon, near Embro,
two miles west of Tye, the track was
blocked by slide. Henry & McPhee
who are erecting snow sheds set off a
heavy blast on one of the upper tracks
and large rocks rolled down on the
lower track covering it. Men were at
once set to work removing the obstruc-
tion, while so employed a monster
slide followed in the track of the first,
and before the employees could get out
of the way some six or eight were
covered up. The slide was sixty feet
long and fourteen feet deep. A steam
derrick was set to work at each end Of
the slide, but with the help of all the
men that could be employed were over
twenty-four hours in clearing the track.
All the west bound trains arriving here
between D a. m. and 4 p. m. July 4th
were held up and did not get out until
after II midnight.
One of the men, John Johnson, fore
man, was taken out dead, and four or
five injured, one so severely that he
died.
The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1916-07-07
GAORGE LEE TALKS
TO RAILROAD MEN
Urges Everybody to Register and Explains
Absentee Voting Law

Geo. A. Lee, former chairman oi
the public service commission and re-
publican candidate for governor, ad-
dressed a meeting of the railway train
men at the Grand Theater last Sunday
evening. Mr.. Lee emphasized the
importance. Of registering under the
provisions Of the new quadrennial regis
tration law passed by the last Legislature
and also explained the provisions Of
the absentee voting bill enacted by
the same Legislature. He pointed out
that the latter bill will enfranchise
many thousands Of voters who hereto
fore have been denied the right to vote
because their occupations have com
PEELED them to be away fion homes
on election day.
Mr.. Lee argued that popular govern
ment imposes duties and obligations
upon its citizens which they must
faithfully discharge if they wish to
maintain the spirit as we'll as the forms
of democracy. He pointed out the
dangers Of minority control Of elections
which, if permitted, leads to the ma
nipulation and control of government
by a selfish and designing few to the
detriment OF the many, and that ulti-
mately the responsibility for whatever
evils develop in popular government
such as ours must rest upon the people
who fail to take an intelligent interest
in their own affairs and faithfully dis
charge the duties of citizenship.
Mr.. Lee also discussed legislation
OF interest to trainmen and the prob
lens Of their particular employment.
The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1916-07-07
DR.. and Mrs. A. G. MCKeOwn
Entertain Bridge Party

One of the largest social functions Of
the season occurred at the fine home
OF DR.. and Mrs. A. G. McKeown on
River Front avenue last Saturday even
ing. The rooms were handsomely
decorated with cut flowers. Seven
tables were DEVOTED to the pastime.
Mrs. B. c. Rutherford and Mr.. Clar-
ence Campbell won high honors. At
a late hour an elaborate luncheon was
served. Following is the list OF guests:
Mr.. and Mrs. Wilder, Mr.. and Mrs. J.
B. Adams, Miss Mildred Adams, Mr..
and Mrs. c. Campbell, Mr.. and Mrs.
G. L. Gardner, Mr.. and Mr.. H. Kroll-
pfeiffer, Mr.. and Mrs. Cullen, Mr.. and
Mrs. Guy Hamilton, Mrs. Rutherford
Miss Rudisel, Mr.. and Mrs. L. o. Tay-
10y, Mr.. and Mrs. w. A. Tegtmeier, Mr..
and Mrs. Carlquist, Mr.. and Mr.. A. R.
Brown, Arthur Wilder, Mr.. Taylor,
Miss Lillian Grue OF Bellingham and
the host and hostess.
The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1916-07-07
STATE INDUSTRIAL NEWS

The Seattle corporation counsel de-
cides the city has right to designate
streets on which jitneys may do busi-
ness and prohibit them on streets sup
piled with carlines.
The Portland, Vancouver and North
ern railway is to be extended to the
barracks and IA miles further, to
Camas, this fall.
Omak Fruit Growers Association
will build warehouse.
Trout Lake-A tourists hotel is to
be erected near He'll Roaring canyon.
Seattle-$160,OO Overland factory
building, s2s, 900 Gariord truck build
ing, S35, 900 fire station and 100000
addition to Washington Iron Works are
announced.
Spokane-"The Germania tungsten
mine near Springdale has been sold tc
a newly organized German company,
backed by the Krupps, and its former
president, Capt. William Won Scheck
lately in service with the German army
in Belgium.
Olympia-The State Federation O.
Labor has made a report which shows
that Al per cent Of all laborers, skilled
and otherwise, in the state are unem
ployed.
The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1916-07-07
Creamery Doubles Last Years
Output

Manager Van Brocklin tells The
Echo that the June output Of butter
made by the Leavenworth Cooperative
Creamery approached five thousand
pounds very nearly. In addition to
this the creamery is supplying all the
local dealers with ice cream, making
from 100 to 200 gallons per week,
dependent upon the weather. So far
the butter has been taken by the local
market. Just now the contracting
firm up the canyon is taking five to
six hundred pounds per week.
The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1916-07-07
Motoring Parties Left Sunday
for Seattle

Two car loads of Leavenworth people
left Sunday morning for Seattle, going
by way Of the Blewett and Snoqualmie
pass route, the object being TO get
there in time to see Seattle in holiday
attire. In one car were Mr.. and Mrs.
R. B. Field and children and Mrs.
Field senior, mother Of Mr.. Field. In
Mr.. Jacobsen's car were beside him
self, wife and children, Mr.. L. F.
Bulls and his sister, Miss Clela Bulls.
Word was received that the party ac-
complished the pass without trouble
and arrived in Seattle in due time.
The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1916-07-07
COLVILLE REGISTRANTS
WILL EXCEED 100000
Every East Bound Train LOdded-All Are
Eager to FiIe-AbOut One Chance
in a Thousand

If the number Of people who are
rushing to the different registration
points to file their application for land
may be taken as an indication the peo-
pie of this country are land hungry.
But are they7
May not good deal Of this rush for
land be ascribed to the gambling in
stinct in the human family. On an
average it costs every man who goes
to one or the other OF the five regis
tration points S.. If one hundred
thousand people make application for a
chance in the Colville land drawing,
and it is estimated it will exceed that
number, a half million dollars will be
spent by the people of this country to
get not to exceed FIVE hundred claims
that are worth the price put upon the
land. Perhaps not over one hundred
are worth enough more than the cost
to be considered a prize. So that in
round numbers one hundred thousand
people are putting up SIS each for one
chance in a thousand to make a profit
on their investment. 1t is a safe guess
that not more than one out OF every
three who register really want land or
expect to look at the land awarded to
them unless their number falls within
the first one hundred. Yet some sixty
FIVE thousand are eager to take the
long chance on their IS.
Every train that has passed thru here
from the west since u o'clock on the
night of July 4th had two or more
hundred aboard bound for Wenatchee
eager to take a chance at one of those
one hundred land prizes.
Spokane estimates that every notary
PUBIC III ludt lOWu Will lCSCifC al
registration fees. $120. Messrs. L. ].
Nelson, N. A. Pearson and E. H. Fox,
notaries from Levenworth will share in
the notarial fees taken in at Wenatchee.
Not less than thirty, perhaps forty,
notaries will be employed in receiving
applications, and will be kept busy all
this week. After this week the ap-
plications will not be so numerous.
Besides the cost OF getting to the
registration point there is only the
registration fee OF 25 cents.
OF those who apply for registration
about $4,000 may really and honestly
want land for the purpose Of making
home. If we have not placed the
figures too high the other $4,000 are
merely taking the gamblers chance to
get something for nothing.
The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1916-07-07

Talbot West celebrated his twelfth
birthday July Fourth by entertaining a
number of his little friends. Those
present were Vesta Humphreys guest
of honor who was also twelve Tuesday,
Dorothy Humphreys, Mabel and Paul
inc Eresch, Florence and Myrtle Glenn
ems, Inez Ewing, Dorothy and Mildred
Cline, Mary Guest, Eva Sauer, We're
Kennedy, Welcome Sauer and Mahlon
Banks.
The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1916-07-07

]. H. Osborn will have charge of the
fire lookout station on top Of Tumwater
mountain, west Of town. He plans TO
have his wife and baby with him most
of the time.
The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1916-07-07

Mrs. Carrie Newman, sister Of Mrs.
G, w. Hoxie and Mrs. S. E. Ritchie,
is here on a visit, Mr.. Newman is in
the show house business in Seattle and
San Francisco.
The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1916-07-07

Mr.. and Mrs. w. w. Wilder and
daughter motored to Wenalchee on the
Fourth and when they returned Mr..
Wilder drove new REQ into town.
DR.. Judah reports a case Of diptheria
at the home OF N. A. Pearson. Their
little daughter having developed the
disease.
The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1916-07-07

The Ladies Aid OF the Lutheran
church gave a social at the home Of
Mrs. Chas. Dahlgren in honor Of Mrs.
Stern wife Of Rev. Stern, OF Mansfield.
Mrs. Stern is making a weeks visit
hare
The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1916-07-07

DR.. and Mrs. A. G. McKeown, ac-
companied by Miss Lillian Cruise, Of
Bellingham, who is here on visit,
drove to Wenatchee on the Fourth.
The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1916-07-07
Banks.

Mrs. Irene Gordon, well known here,
where she lived two years, was arrested
in Wenatchee on the fist Of this week
on the charge of keeping a disorderly
house. Mrs. Gordon has employed a
Seattle attorney and says she will resist
the charge.
The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1916-07-07
ButtermiIk Delivered

Call up the Creamery phone 472,
and get fresh buttermilk every d ay
One gallon or more delivered anywhere
in the city at IS cents per gallon.
The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1916-07-07

P. Hanson. from Bellingham, uncle
of Mrs. J. D. Wheeler, spent several
days here this week and yesterday de-
parted for hame.