davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1917-10-19
new WAR TAX TOLL
IS NOW IN EFFECT
lcontlnned from flrst pagel

This is supertax, for it is in addition
to the ordinary tax levied on incomes,
The point is made that the application
OF this supertax to individual income:
derived wholly from salaries is unjust
and a punishment on thrift. This pro-
vision was inserted by the conference
committee and neither house had ar
opportunity to debate it properly.
The new per cent normal tax or
incomes of more than $4,000 fol
married persons and 1000 for single
persons is in addition to the present
law exempting incomes of less thar
$4,000 for single persons and $4,000
for married persons. This means thai
incomes between the new law
exemption bases and the exemptions
of the old law will pay only the new 2
per cent, but that single persons hav-
ing incomes Of $4,000 or more and
married persons having incomes oil
$4,000 or more will pay the full per
cent normal tax.
Surtaxes, in addition to the normal
a per cent, were put into the new law
as follows:
Between IS, 900 and $500, l per
cent; between $500 and $4,000, Q
per cent; between $4,000 and $12,
500, per cent; between $12,50O
and $4,000 4 per cent; between SIS,
600, and 500, 900, S per cent; between
$4,000 and $4,000. per cent;
between $4,000 and 100000, 10 per
cent; between 100000 and $4,000,
IA per cent; between $4,000 and
500, 900, Is per cent; between 500,
900 and $150,0O0, % per cent;
between $4,000 and 100000, Is
per cent; between 100000 and
s250,oOO, 80 per cent; between
$3.50, 900 and 100000, "a per cent;
between 100000 and 100000, 81
per cent; between 1000 and $3.50,
900. 40 per cent; between $750,0OO
and 81, 900, 900. As per cent; incomes
exceeding $1,000 900, SO per cent.
The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1917-10-19
City News

Be sure and buy season tickets for
the Lyceum course All the proceeds
go to the Red Cross.
The Leavenworth Public Library
is open every Wednesday and Saturday
afternoon from three to five.
John Hedin passed thru here Tues
day on his way from Telma to the
orchards OF the lower valley and will
pick fruit until the season closes.
Red Cross members, who have taken
sewing home are url ed to finish their
work and return it to head quarters be-
fore November l.
Mrs. w. w. Rice and daughter
Ruby came down from Winton Wednes-
day and were over night guests at the
home Of D. H. Magyar. returning to
Winton on 43 Thursday.
If any Of the women or girls of
Leavenworth, men or boys, want apple
picking jobs and will leave their names
at The Echo Office, we can almost
assure them jobs. The work is not
hard and the pay good. Apple pick
ing will last for about five or six weeks
longer.
After spending two weeks on his
ranch south OF town Mr.. F. A. Blacker
lett for Everett Yesterday. He says
his apples are very fine this year and
that he will have about 1900 boxes all
Of which he will ship to Everett where
he is in the retail grocery business.
His trees are just coming into bearing.
The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1917-10-19

Olympia-City Council orders sale
OF 500, 900 in bonds to raise funds for
proposed bridge and paving here.
Observation-Disclosures & Porter ship
yard having keel timbers cut in local
mills for ships to be started. soon.
The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1917-10-19
Interesting News Items
Picked Here and There

The possibility Of car shortage is
giving apple growers some worry these
days. Apples are being shipped out
OF the state at the present time at the
rate Of 100 carloads a day and it is
feared that the car supply will be ex-
hausted by the last of the month. Box
cars are being used in order to con-
serve the refrigerators for the more
severe weather. The car commission
is studying the situation and is in hopes
that they will be able to avert any SER
ious trouble.
Henry Ford one time pacifist. but
now converted to the fact that the u.
S. is engaged in a righteous war, has
bought five million dollars worth of
liberty bonds. In making his purchase
he declased; The United States in
making war on Germany did the best
thing that ever happened for the world. 7"
Gov. Lister has proclaimed Sunday
Nov. a, as Go to Sunday School Day"
and urges all good citizens to attend
church on that day. The Sunday
school is recognized as one of the
most potent elements in the making
of good citizenship.
Among the orchard owners in the
Wenatchee Valley who are the most
pleased with this years crop and prices
are those who reside on the Coast and
elsewhere turnout the state. They are
convinced that the apple business is a
paying proposition.
Many OF the drafted men now at
Camp Lewis are unfit tor the army and
will be sent home according to reports
sent out this week. Exemption boards
are being criticised for passing men
into the army who are not up to the
standard physically.
Reports from Colorado are that the
apple crop there is disappointment.
The fruit is smfll and the worms are
playing havoc.
The citizens OF Wenatchee must
raise $4,000 by Nov 18th to pay off
the mortgage on the Y. M. c. A,
building.
Riverside Wash, expects to ship
out 100 carloads OF apples this fall.
The financial arrangements, it is
said, have been made for the building
OF railroad from Pateros to Winthrop
in the Pateros valley, distance OF As
miles. Work is to start at an early
date.
The war department is planning on
second draft sometime in December
or January. A half million men are
likely to be called.
The soldiers at Camp Lewis on
American Lake, comprising both en-
listed and drafted men have bought
,, $4,000 worth OF liberty bonds.
At Red Cross social at Pateros,
Wash, last week a cake sold for $50
and chicken for SIT. The sales
we're made by auction.
All thru the valley there is a call
going out for more help. Pickers, pack
ers and graders are wanted and the
pay is good, ranging from 80 to IS
The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1917-10-19
Ahgin,s Confectionery

We are now prepared to serve the
public with B. & M. Tamalas, Chill
con Carne and all kinds of hot drinks.
Private booths for ladies 40"
The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1917-10-19
Cider

l will deliver pure apple cider any
quantity, from gal up to any address
in the city 25e gal, Will ship to any
address, +. o. b. c. l.. Rollins. 40
The Parma herald. (Parma, Idaho) 1903-1917, 1917-03-29
.8-HOUR LAW HELD
VALID BY COURT
JUDGES IN SIX TO THREE YER
DICT UPHOLD THE ADAMsoN
LAW AS CONSTITUTIONAL.
In Its Decision. However, the Court
Rules That Employees Of Public
Service Corporations May Not
Strike In Concert.

Washington. BY vote OF six to
three, the Supreme court on March
10 upheld the right of congress to
llegislate along any lines designed to
meet public emergency, when it up
held the Adamson eight-hour law for
railway employees.
In its decision, however, the court
made the most radical advance in its
history when IL ruled that the EN-
ployees Of public service organizations
have not the right to strike in con-
cert.
That right" declared Chief Justice
White in enunciating what may yet be
characterized as revolutionary law
and lead directly to public ownership
Of public utilities, 'Is necessarily sur
rendered when the men are engaged
In public service. They are compar-
able to soldiers in the ranks, who, in
the presence Of enemies of their coun-
try, may not desert"
The decision was not really neces-
sary at this time, inasmuch as the
railway strike situation had been adj
1usted in New York earlier in the
day.
Justices Pitney, Day and Yandevan-
ter dissented from the majority and
held that the law was wage increase
law and no proper regulation of com
merce under the constitution. Justice
Mokenna, concurring with the major
ity held that It involved simply the
fixing of hours of labor.
The installation of the eight-hour
day for trainmen will, it is asserted
AFFECT more than 100000 railway men
directly. The new wage scale viii
cost the railroads of the country APP
proximately $50,OO0,000 annually. The
back pay from January l which the
men will receive will total in the
leighborhood of twelve or thirteen
million dollars.
The Parma herald. (Parma, Idaho) 1903-1917, 1917-03-29
u. S. WAR PLAN
BEING RUSHED
President Taking Steps to
Place the Nation on
War Footing.
National Guard Called Back Into Fed
eral Service and Navy to be Re-
eruited Without Delay to
War Strength

Washington President Wilson on
March % took steps to place the ma
ton on war footing.
| BY executive order he directed that
the navy be recruited without delay
TO full authorized war strength Of 81
600 enlisted men. Taken in connection
| with emergency naval construction al
ready ordered, this means that the
president has exercised the full limit
of his full legal powers as commander
in-chief to prepare. the navy for war.
For the army the president directed
that two new military departments be
created in the Atlantic coast region.
The order means that the task of orr
ganizing whatever army congress may
authorize will be divided among six
departmental commanders instead of
four, In the interests of speed and ef-
nciency in mobilization.
The third step was to assume as a
national duty the task of protecting
American industries from domestic |
disorders in the event OF hostilities. |
For this purpose, eleven full infantry |
regiments. two separate battalions |
and one separate company of the ma
tional guard were called back into the
federal service to act as national police
in important districts. experimenting
these troops, a regiment of Pennsyl-
vania guard and two companies of
Georgia infantry, en- route home from
the border for muster out, were Or
dered retained in the federal service.
The presidents orders were made
known In terse official statements is
sued by both departments. No expla
nation accompanied them except the
statement that reorganization of the
military departments, effective May /,
was designed to facilitate decentrali-
,ation of command.
The Parma herald. (Parma, Idaho) 1903-1917, 1917-03-29
WILSON CALLS FOR
AN EXTRA SESSION
PRESIDENT WILL PRESENT REC.
ORD or UNLAWFUL ACTS OF
GERMAN SUBMARINES.
Congress Expected 10 Declare a state
Of War Existing and clothe Chief
Executive With Authority to
Use Armed Force.

Washington President Wilson Ia
met with the constantly inereasini
probability OF war with Germany b,
summonlng congress to assemble In OK
traordinary session Monday, April q
Two weeks earlier than the date hC
had chosen before the latest assaults
upon American rights on the seas
The presidents call for an extra SEES
sion was issued on March 81
When the president addresses con.
gross he Is expected to show how a
state OF war actually has existed for
some time because of the unlawful ag-
gressions OF German submarines.
Congress Is expected formally to de-
clare state OF war existing. vote a
large sum for national defense, prob.
ably half billion dollars, and clothe
tho president with authority to use
the armed forces of the United states,
las Il empowered President Mckinley
in 1898.
Such action would not be declara-
tion OF war except IN a technical
sense. and whether the United States
and Germany actually 80 TO war in
the fullest aeceptatlon OF the term
viii depend on what the imperial gov
ernment does before congress- Is as
sembled or after II acts.
Dispatches from abroad declaring
that the German government expect.
cd state of war within the next
iorty-eight hours placed an ominous
aspect on the situation.
Much 70 change the presidents
present Intentions or the course of
the government In the crisis may de-
yelop before April 2. The first Amer.
lean armed ships viii by tsat time
have reached the war zone. The ruth
less destruction OF one of them UNI
would be an act OF war.
President Wilson and hts advisers
IN the cabinet and IN congress have |
no intention that war shall be de-
ilared by the United States. By the
hostile acts of German submarines
hey believe the imperial German gov
'rnment IS actually making war ON
he United States and that Il shall
20 recognized Is such state TO
ueot such a condition the armed
orces OF the country and all the ma
ionsl resources are 20 be put in
tate OF readiness Then. whether the
ation shall enter the war In It's fun
ense win depend upon how much
1rther German carries her acts OF az.
ressiou.
The Parma herald. (Parma, Idaho) 1903-1917, 1917-03-29
NAVY ORDERS
DESTROYERS
Awards Contracts for the
Construction Of Two Dozen
U-Boat Destroyers.
Council % Defense Forms Wer Plans
IN Linz With General Military
Budget 70 Sc Laid Be
fore Congress.

Washington ileving taken Virtually
every defegse measure possible be
fore The Assembling Of congress. Preai.
dent wilson ana his gdvieers IN tho
~geeutsse branch 81 t6c government
ars concentrating their efforts "a pro.
pare FOR The more sweeping stops for
witch congressional authority enl be
aoashl
The details 81 the steps to be rec.
commended ARE held IN eiosent conf
dcnes but officials let II be- known on
Saturday that among the rest gen.
sfsd military budget coorGlnating
many Items Of expense deemed im
peraiise. viii BE- laid before tho house
an6 senhis ahsn ;he extra session
begins a week from Monday.
DariHg the dag ihe Council OF Ma
tioeai pefense hold long conference
will Sc advisory committee OF seven
Industrial leaders, who mapped out
mobilization resources. the navy dc
partment awarded contracts FOR
twenty four desuuyera. and called a
conference a. steel and other material /
companies for an2t week % consider 4
means 81 speeiins naval coustruetlan 4
he war department announced That
failure Of the army appropriation hill 4
~ the last session o. congress would
not be permitted 10 handicap the
srmy's preparations; and regulations
we're promulgated To guide The coun
tfy'a newspapers Ia . voluntary con,
sorshlp preventing publication Of Dc
tsisa which might embarfasa the gov
sFnmcnt
N making tbs awards on destroyers
on Saturday. Secretary Daniels &C
eepied me maximum estimate u eaeii
81 she three companies submitting re
urea ~ tho twenlyfnur ordered.
nine viii be built under the emery
sucy fund. congress having speclfical.
y authorized only nueen a consid
srahia number OF other builders were
IN conference With officials. however
sad indlcaBona are that the order will
BE- doubted Or even srehied n fae1i
iies Ter construction OF ibe yessols :
ran be fogaa
The Parma herald. (Parma, Idaho) 1903-1917, 1917-03-29
FIFTY KILLED WHEN
WIND HITS TOWN
TORNADO SWEEPS OVER INDIANA
TOWN, DEMoLfsHlNo RESI-
DENcEs AND FACTORIES.
Children Caught In Wrcckaee OF School
Building and Babe Found Float
ing II Stream, clnglna to
Dog.

New Albany. Ind. Fifty person
fere killed and probably 100 or NOR,
we're injured by STERN which lat,
! Friday swept oyer New Albany, demoi
shing azores o. residences and sew
wal Industrial plants.
twenty-five bodies were recovered
md il Il expected this number viii b.
lou9led when al The debris % wreck
"a euIldings has ben cleared away
West Union, a subdivision N the
lortheastern section 81 the city. bore
he 6ruat Of the storm. Here the wind
iweps a path two blocks wide and
more than mile long. demoIishing
residences and several factories. and
destroying a negro school building.
Twenty-Five children were IN the build
ng, some Of whom wore eaught in the
grnckage OF the structure.
The streets Ia the path OF the storm
are mass OF wreckagr An appeal
o tho city authorities Of Louinille
lronghi i large number Of policemen
Q aid IN maintaining order and an
iyailahle officers from the Indiana |
tate reformatory At JefferBonyllle and |
rom the Jeffersonyilie police force
we're hurried here A cali was made
"a the governor Tor state troops
The Deering baby. about six months
ID, was found noating 10 small
iream into which Il had been borne
y the wind. The child was alive and
linging 70 dog, which apparently
I'D been killed by the storm. The
ably died ia the arms Of Us rescuer
ater an aunt identified the baby and
ieu reported that both the father and
.Other had been killed
The Parma herald. (Parma, Idaho) 1903-1917, 1917-03-29
IS
LATEST PLAN
Another Scheme Fostered by
Germany to Prevent War
With United States.
Declared at Washington That No sug-
sestion of Mediation viii be Cob
sidered Unless Submarine
Warfare is Abandoned.

Washington Word that European
neutral might offer mediation to pre-.
vent open war between the United
States and Germany has come to the
administration without causing sur
prise or in any way affecting the gov.
ernment's plans for meeting the situa
ton forced by submarine Tuthlessness.
Such proposal is regarded here as
nothing more than another scheme
fostered by Germany with the hope
of confusing the issue and possibly
dividing sentiment in this country
while the destruction of American
lives and ships on the high seas con.
tinues.
AT the state department on Thurs
day officials would neither deny nor
confirm that the government already
had been approached on this subject
although it was admitted informally
that some such move was not unex
pected 1t was very emphatically stat
ed that no suggestion of mediation OF
discussion would be considered unless
it was accompanied by abandonment
of illegal assaults upon American
shipping, course to which there is
no reason for believing the imperial
government is giving a thought
The feeling in all quarters here is
that the United States has with in
finite patience and forbearance done
everything possible with honor to avoid
the virtual state of war now existing
through German aggression. SO Ions
as this aggression continues, officiali
say there is nothing to be done but
adopt measures of defense, and nc
basis exists for discussion.
The Parma herald. (Parma, Idaho) 1903-1917, 1917-03-29

Frederick q Harris Of the engineer
soFps who has been promoted 20 be a
ear admiral His duties, II war
comes, w'li be nost Important.
The Parma herald. (Parma, Idaho) 1903-1917, 1917-03-29
Governor Asks Tor Recruits.

Salt Lake City-Governor BAN.
berger, as commander in chief of the
National Guard of Utah, on Saturday
took the first step toward preparing
the state militia for IT'S part in the de-
Tense of the United States and the
preservation of national honor should
the present international crisis event
uate in war with Germany, by calling
on all able-bodied men of the state
voluntarily to enlist in the national
guard.
The Parma herald. (Parma, Idaho) 1903-1917, 1917-03-29
Poisoned Food Ends Six Lives

Carey, idahoof six persons who
ate dinner IN the home OF Samuel p.
Richards Of This place on Thursday
March 10. NIL are dead the last two
passing away on March % The cause
u the tragedy WAS canned spinach
n which. by accident. some belladon.
IA was canned.
The Parma herald. (Parma, Idaho) 1903-1917, 1917-03-29
RAIDER MoEwE REACHES HOME.

Reports Having Sunk Twenty-Five
Steamers and Five Sailing Ships.
Berlin. The German auxiliary qrui.
ser Moewe has returned into home
port of the navy from a second cruise
in the Atlantic ocean, it was an.
nounced Thursday by the German ad
miralty.
The Moewe, according to the state.
ment, captured twenty-five steamships
and five sailing ships, aggregatina
1881 tons gross.
The Parma herald. (Parma, Idaho) 1903-1917, 1917-03-29
DISPOSED EMPEROR GUARDED.
Car and c1arIna Confined In Palace
Under Guard.

Tearskoe-selo. Russia on his ar
Oval here Friday in the custody OF
Tour members OF the duma. Nicholas
aomanoff the deposed emperor. was
nrned over Immediately to the Tsars.
soe selo commander and taken 10 the
Aexandrovsky palace. whore the for
ner Empress Alexandria already was
nierned
Al the former cars Ave children
are IN bed with the measles, for which
reason Alexandria has not been out
side the palace walls for two days.
The Parma herald. (Parma, Idaho) 1903-1917, 1917-03-29
To Aduertlse for Men

New York.--A national advertising
advisory board, headed by Herbert S.
Houston, president of the Associated
Advertising clubs, was formed here
March rs TO formulate definite plans
for mobilizing men and money for the
support of the nation through paid
advertising.
The Parma herald. (Parma, Idaho) 1903-1917, 1917-03-29

Washington The state department
announced saadsy that pr orestcs
Farrafa isAdeF d Cuban revelation.
AIRY iuula with headquarters 10 New
YORK bad bern ucHAsd chat his ac,iv.
tis in tha unItad stste were 90,
aoHiaus @ the Fofefnusut and that
The 5oetor had aaread 70 stop further
aRitstI9n
The Parma herald. (Parma, Idaho) 1903-1917, 1917-03-29
eavsraat AppsaIa q Iaaheans.

boise Ida IN proclamation Is.
saes March b addressed 20 The may.
ors u al Idaho cities and towns. and
q The commercial clubs ana civic on.
saRizailous ~ the state Gov Moses
Alexander urged the opening " local
navy recruliius offices n an parts
~ Idaho "a order thar ihip state may
respond quickly % President wilson's
can for an Increase ~ the personnel
oi the coustFys FIRST liDo % defense.
The Parma herald. (Parma, Idaho) 1903-1917, 1917-03-29
Russians Defeat Turks.

Petrograd.-Russian troops pushing
west from Kermanshah in Persia
have reached a point less than forty
five miles from the Mesopotamia1
border. The war office announced
Friday that after Turkish army hae
been beaten in a sixteen-hour battle
outside of Kerind the Turks had re
treated to the vicinity of Kerind ant
made another stand there.
The Parma herald. (Parma, Idaho) 1903-1917, 1917-03-29
- - - -.

MrKlr9 ciig % b announced that
when snHHress cenveues resolution
VIII pc introduced providing for tho
assumption ard paymesl by the GOV
enment d foreign debw These debts
lnciudc about GOES 900 back inter
eat ln Mexican National railway bonds
and ahoat $40 100000 afssrs In ia
tsrest On Mexico FOREIGN loans.
The Parma herald. (Parma, Idaho) 1903-1917, 1917-03-29
NEW GOVERNMENT RECOGNIZED
United States First to Congratulate
Russian Council of Minister'S

Petrograd.-Th United States il
the first nation to recognize formally
the new government of Russia.
Ambassador Francis made a pre-
liminary call Thursday morning or
Foreign Minister Milukoff immediate
ly upon the receipt of instructions
from the state department at Wash
ington. Thursday afternoon, accom-
panied by his staff, including the naval
and military attaches, he Went. to the
Marinsky palace, where the council OF
ministers was assembled, made the
formal recognition and presented con.
CALCULATIONS and Fluctuations on be
half of the United Etates.
The Parma herald. (Parma, Idaho) 1903-1917, 1917-03-29
Police Chief Arrested.

ogden, Utah.-Chief of Police T. E.
Browning, two of his officers, Patrol
men o. H. Mohlman and ]. F. Kelli-
her; D. A. Smyth, proprietor of the
National hotel, and Sam Dixon, bar
tender. were arrested Saturday on in
dictments returned Saturday night by
the grand jury.
The Parma herald. (Parma, Idaho) 1903-1917, 1917-03-29
Mail BAGS RlHed.

New ork--Tweuty-six mail bags
addressed % Washington and the
British embassy at Washington, were
found 10 have been rifled on board
the Cunard liner saxonia upon her ar.
rival here Monday.
The Parma herald. (Parma, Idaho) 1903-1917, 1917-03-29
colleae Girls Are patrlotle

San Francisco. Girls at Mills col
lege, an exclusive womens school At
Oakland, have offered their services
to the navy department Both Stan.
ford and University Of California GIRLS
are also ready 20 answer call to
the c0lurs.
The Parma herald. (Parma, Idaho) 1903-1917, 1917-03-29
Admlt sendIna spies to EnnIana.

New York.-Albert o. Sander anC
charles N. Wunnenberg, managers O
the Central Powers War Film ex
change, indicted on the charge of en-
gaging in a military enterprise anc
sending spies to England to get infor
nation for the German military au
thorities, pleaded guilty on Wednes
day.
The Parma herald. (Parma, Idaho) 1903-1917, 1917-03-29
rive Perish IN roesnao.

Little Rock AK Five persons
were killed and four others seriously
injured in the tornado which swept
small section near Delsrk, Arr, early
Wednesday, according " reports ~.
ceiFsd here
The Parma herald. (Parma, Idaho) 1903-1917, 1917-03-29
pohna.sehIodIen Advancrd.

London "A Central News dispatch
from Amsterdam says II rs reported
from Berlin that Count Won pohna.
sehiodien, commander OF the Moewe,
has been appointed aide dc camp 10
Emperor William.