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The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1917-04-20
]. B. Adams Declines Reelection

Our fellow townsman who has for
the past two years been president OF
the Skookum Apple Packers association,
declined reelection last Friday at the
annual meeting Of the association in
Seattle. Mr.. John F. Segru Of Cash
mere was elected president and Mr.. J.
H. Olive OF the same place secretary.
The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1917-04-20
MANY CHANGES MADE
IN OUR GAME LAWS
Water Fowl Season viii Be Shortened
Closed Season For Black and Brown
Bear-0ther Changes

In the matter OF laws for the pro-
lection and propagation of game and
game fish Washington is the best
equipped state in the Union" says
State Game Warden L. H. Darwin in
summarizing the changes effected by
the last Legislature. The new laws
will become effective June 7th. We
have the necessary legal machinery
now," says the state game warden, and
to make it useful and effective re-
quires active work on the part of the
state authorities and the county game
commissions, and above all the en-
thusiastic support and cooperation oil
all who are interested in the preserva-
ton of our wild game, bird and fish
life."
One of the noteworthy changes in
the regulations is in the water fowl sea-
son in Eastern Washington. The state
game warden received advice from the
federal authorities that in all probability
Eastern Washington would be included
in a different zone from Western Wash
ington by regulations to be promul-
gated as soon as congress passes laws
making effective the migratory bird
treaty between the United States and
Canada. Eastern Washington will then
be placed in the same zone with
Idaho and Montana; and the state
law is changed accordingly TO harmon
ize with the federal regulations. The
Eastern Washington water fowl season
hereafter will be open on September
18th and closes on December 3lst,
which is a two weeks earlier opening
and two weeks earlier closing than in
Western Washington, where the law
remains as at present October 1st to
January 16th1.
What is regarded as advanced legis-
lation is to be found in the provision
for a closed season for black and brown
bear from May first to Sept. first, un-
less they become predatory.
A forward step in the attempt to
preserve the deer is the provision
which limits the number that may be
killed in Eastern Washington to one
per year; in Western Washington the
limit remains at two per year.
Honorably discharged union soldiers
who served in the civil war in the
United States may fish without Ii
cense during the open season.
A license fee OF IS is imposed upon
trappers of fur r-bearing animals not pro-
tected under the laws of this state.
The last flock OF mountain goats and
sheep of any considerable size in this
state is to be found on what is known
as Bauerman's Ridge, in Okanogan
county. The last Legislature set this
aside as a game preserve, prohibiting
the killing Of sheep and goats therein.
The United States government has
promised active cooperation thru its
forest rangers to try to prevent the de-
struction OF this flock.
The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1917-04-20
ITEMS OF INTEREST
FROM OVER THE STATE
Summary of important State Affairs
Progress In Factories, PayrOlls and
Development Enterprises

Development Enterprises
Spokane-Pea acreage in Washing
ton to exceed 10000 this year.
Railroads hold places for employees
who enlist.
Spokane-Aiax Mining Co. to invest
$40, 900 in Improvements.
Seattle-Paul P. Whitman, Federal
trade commissioner, says there must be
Seattle owned passenger and freight
ships if that city is to get its share oi
trade after the war.
Cheney-550 acre ranch near here
sells for $4,000; 1870 acres on Deep
Creek west OF Spokane sells for S14-
900; 152 acres in same locality sells
for S10,250.
North Yakima-In addition to new
sugar factory building, second plant
seems assured at Toppenish or Sunny
side, Cue to increased acreage in beets.
Spokane is working for Army hospi-
tal
Pasco-Franklin county commission
ers grant Pacific Light & Power Co.
franchise for so years to locate, con-
struct and operate line for transmit
ting electric power, and for mainten-
ance and construction Of telephone and
telegraph lines thru Franklin county to
connect, it is presumed, with the Wash
ingto Water power Co. at Lind.
Seattle-The Milwaukee will spend
$6, 100000 in work Of preparing line
between Othello and Seattle for the en-
trance Of the big electric locomotives
into the big Jackson street rassen-
ger station on or before January l, 1913
and between 400 and 500 men will be
employed constantly in the work oi
identification.
American Sugar Refining Co. to spend
100000 for trademark advertising
for 1917.
Seattle Machine Works to
build plant to manufacture semi-diesel
engines from rs to 800 horse power.
Vancouver-Camas Creamery produ-
cling As, 900 pounds Of butter month.
Aberdeen-Highway to Montesano
will be paved.
Everett-Plans are being made for a
S15O,000 hotel here.
Raymond is city Of great promise;
140O employed in Lumber mills, ! 900
in camps; new industries expected.
Railroads OF the U. S. complete plans
to cooperate in every way with govern
ment to handle war situation.
North Yakima-32 acre orchard sells
for $4,000.
Okanogan-Standard Oil Co to make
this city distributing point for this Sec
ton Of country. Will build tanks here.
Seattle-Ames Shipbuilding & Dry
Dock Co. has contracts for II steel
ships to be completed in 1918.
Kelso-Cowlitz river bridge to be re-
paired at $1,000 expense.
Sprague-Washington Water Power
Co. to equip 10000 acre stock iarm
west Of here with electric equipment
for farm purposes at a cost OF $4,000
making it most complete farm in
Northwest.
Twlsp-L Local Creamery has monthly
expenditure Of $4,000.
Greenacres-$5, 900 fruit warehouse
proposed here.
Valley-New bank, two-story brick
and two story modern hotel to be built
here this spring.
Touchet-Will have electricity this
spring for the first time. Big Power line
of Pacific Power & Light company from
Priest river plant will be taped and
substation put in by company at
expense Of $500.
Hispano América., 1917-12-02

De un interesante artfculo del
escritor mexicano, Lie. D. Jo-
sc Vasconcelos, tomamos los
s%iguientes conceptos que Sc re-
fieren al Brasil, y que forman
parte del estudio que viene ha-
ciendo ell quito escritor, sobre
la union de los paises de habla
espanola del continente latino
americana.
Por Otra parte, los grandes recur-
o que ell pals posee; su territorio in
menso y feracisimo, su creciente po-
blacion, TODD 10 lleva a convertirse en-
una gran nacion. Uno de los incon-
venientes para SUI progreso rapido-
Ell china muy calido-puede %desapare-
Ger de un momento a otro. Observese
que hasta ahora la civilization Sc ha
desarrolado mejor en- los climas tenn
plados, ha causa de que el hombre ha
sido impotente para dominar ell eli
ma; pero una vez que desarrollo las
aplicaciones del fuego, quedo vencido
Ell frio y la civilizacicn Sc ha extendi-
do por las zonas nevadas. FL dia en-
que la Quimica ~invente alivios eficaces
y baratos contra Ell excessive calor,
los pueblos mas avanzados buscaran
naturalmente ell tropico. puesto que a
Iii Ell desarrollo de las f~uerzas natura-
les Sc produce en- mas grande y mas
intensa belleza. Las mas perfectas CT
vilizaciones del future aprovecharan
ell halito v~igoroso, la flora, Ell colori-
do, la superabundancia de los reinos
del sol; la India, Ell Brasil, tienen mas
porvenir que las zonas cada vez mas
frias de los grandes PASSES a~ctuales.
Aun antes de que este suceda, y aun
Hispano América., 1917-12-02
FL Imperio Latino Americana.

cuando nunca suceda, no pasara un
siglo sin que Ell Brasil, henchido de
poblacion commence a pensar en- "a
brirse nuevas salidas; Sc sentira tai
vez ahogado por Ell abrazo hispano,
desde ell Plata, al traves de Bolivia y
Peru hasta Colombia y Venezuela; y
asi como los Estados Unidos de A
merica codiciaron y obtuvieron la Ca
lifornia, ell Brasil quiza pueda llegar a
codiciar ell Peru, y 10 obtendra, 81 an
ties Ell Peru no Sc COLOMBIA y puebla,
con su noble raza laboriosa, toda la
region ,amazonca que lie pertenece-
Hispano América., 1917-12-02

TOpiCOS de ACtualidad

vos en- rivalidades mezquinas y Sc de-
sentiende de los grandes proyectos
generosos Y practicamente fecundos.
Basta mirar Ell mapa de la America
del Sur para descubrir las huellas del
~nacionalismo estrecho y ambicioso:
alrededor del Brasil hay una serie de
territories en- litigio, o va adjudica-
dos. Estos hechos son mas positivos
que todos los discusses hispanoame-
~ricanos: poseen la fuerza incontrasta
bic de la realidad; bastan para con-
mover la fe de los ilusos.
De los %ilusos, pero no de los idea
~listas; porque Ell idealista no d%escono-
&C nj contradict los hechos, sino que
los %aprovecha y los reforma, los con-
crea de 81 mismO otros hechos supe-
riores a los hechos de la realidad psi
quica o sociological ambiente, o a la
realidad material y geografica. No
hay que olvidar que Ell hecho primor-
dial y supreme es la conciencia y la
voluntad.
Las acciones, las voluntades, las as
p~iraciones de los hombres, son la CO.
rriente suprema de la historic, por
encima de los trillados lugares comu-
mes del materialismo. FL alma de los
pueblos vigorosos e iluminados es
ell mas importante factor de los he
chos. Por ESQ la historic no depende
de la g~eografia. aunque deba de estar
de acuerdo con ella, nj mucho menos
depende de prejuicios pasajeros, CO.
mo el nacionalismo exagerado, O la
sed de territories; nj siquiera de las
necesidades del comercio V las oscila-
clones del mercado. FL ejemplo cita-
do. la estimation de los productos,
depende del gusto, y Ell gusto es fun
cion que va participa del alma.
En- fin, para no hacer muy larga y
obscura la participation de motives.
confesare que fue una Bahama Quien
me hizo comprender todas las suit
lezas y soluciones intimas del intrin-
cado problema; y me 10 hizo COM
prender, no por la razon %racional, de
por 81 tan vacia de sentido, sino por
aquel otro supreme juicio que Kant
llam6 Ell %"juicio estetico', del cual es
facil deducir una ley de afinidades y
fusiones no necesariamente alogicas,
sino esteticas y siteticas.
FL case quizas liable mas claro que
las definiciones. Era una noche de
teatro limeno; Ell %anuncio de bales y
canciones del Brasil habia llenado la
sala; ell lujo discreto de aquellas mu-
jeres finas y v~ivaces, de magnificos
Hispano América., 1917-12-02

una region donde va Ell Brasil ha rea-
lizado avance considerables, gracias
al estancamiento de la poblacion Pc
ruana.
Que no TODD es cordialidad entire
los paises del Sur, es una ~desgracia
innegable, por mas que ell sentimien-
to de los pueblos y las notas diploma
ticas afirmen los sinceros deseos de
union. Para que son esas escuadras
en- que Sc malaysia Ell dinero, un di-
nero que tanta falta hace para ell de-
sarrollo inferno? Junto con muchos
beneficios, heredaremos de Europa
una infinidad de prejuicios y %vicios;
la ambicion de territorio, aunque no
10 necesitemos; ell nacionalismo agre-
sivo que gasta los esfuerzos colecti-
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1916-1918, 1917-03-30
Ethel Stump = An Auto
biography of a Maple

When | first came into this beautiful
world | found myself with eight of
my brothers and sisters fastened on
one stem, hanging on mother maple
tree.
We were green, very small, and had
bulged hard places which were our
the stem that held us all together.
Then on the other end Of my heart
was fastened the most beautiful thin
green wing. Mother tree grew near a
road in what people called a pasture.
One day nearly three weeks after
ward some children came along with
some books under their arms, when
one OF them saw US, climbed over the
fence and pulled some punches off.
Among them were my eight brothers
and sisters, and myself.
| remember how scared we were and
how I often laugh when ! think about
it. You see that all happened over
fifty years ago when l knew not what
would become Of me or how for owe
the world I would journey before l
would wear out. But / must tell you
what happened to us next. That boy
carried us along pulling one at a time
off. Holding us up as far as he could
reach. Then he would leave loose OF
US and down we would come, our
/ wings making US go round and round
until We fell on the ground. We were
so dizzy We could not tell where We
were at for a few minutes. AS he let
me fall a gust of wind came along and
blew me over the fence, into the pas
tt1rn n,d lnu,r in n hnrcn frQnk whore
I stayed until feet began to reach out
and fasten themselves to the ground
and two little green leaves showed
themselves above the ground.
Year after year I grew thus until /
Vas a very large maple tree, when a
man with an ak came along and chop
ped me off, trimmed my branches and
burned the small twigs. l was then
sent to a firm which made furniture.
II was made into lumber and then into
a chair. Next | vas sent to a house
and put In a room people called a
parlor. | was used in there until one
night when the people that owned me
had a party and / was carried out on
the porch and forgotten. All during
the night it rained. The sticky
stuff / was put together with
gave way and | didn't seem to be OF
much account for Mr. Air, the man who
bought me. brought me in from the
porch and sat on me. I tried my best
TO hold together but l could not. So !
had to let Mr.. Air fall on the floor.
He was so mad he picked up my
pieces and carried me up to the attic
and here I am, waiting for my next ad.
venture.
Ethel Stump,
Box 10. Route Nc. s,
OttumWa. Iowa.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1916-1918, 1917-03-30
Cecil Canfield's Subject, a
Pet Dog

Dear Juniors:
AS have not written to the Junior
page for SOON time I thought l would
write about a pet dog.
Once upon a time a strange dog
had been e e in the country. He
was a big dog and a pet. One day a
little boy and girl were walking along
the road gathering flowers. They
came to a small bridge and began
playing.
They were not there long when
they saw the dog coming down the
road. The little girl became fright.
ened and started to run home. The
little girl stumbled and fell off Of the
bridge into the water. The dog came
running to help her and jumped into
the water and soon the little girl wal
safe at shore.
They ran home, taking the dog with
them, and telling their mother about
what had happened.
They kept the dog and taught him
many tricks. and SO he was numbered
as one OF their pets. II
The dog is now happy and likes III
home as well as where he once liv. ].
Cecil Garfield. age Is.
Chillicothe, Iowa, r. No. l.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1916-1918, 1917-03-30
Maurice Field - The Bull
Moose

Look" cried George, IL am sure
heard something behind those bushes.
The two boys put down their fishing
tackle and crept cautiously toward the
spot.
BE careful. George" whispered Ned,
1T may be a lynx you know"
But no lynx appeared. They saw
nothing for some time n hen Ned,
who was the better woodsman of the
two. let out a loud oh which brought
his brother to the spot.
Hurry up" cried Ned excitedly, 1--WE
: found a great deer's tracks, two OF
, them
On the ground in front Of them were
two pair of tracks that were made by
some highly polished hoofs.
We're in luck" shouted George,
lets track" but Ned stopped him.
Don't you know this Is mating sea-
son, n If you yell that a you'll
bring hat old bull down on you," whis-
pered Ned.
Alright" said George humbly, 81
will follow our orders"
well, first. you take the tackle up to
the clearing and bring our guns while
| stay so as not to % the tracks" or
dered Ned.
While George was thus occupied
Ned thought he would find the direc-
ton Of the wind so hat the var ami
mails would not be aware of their pres
ence. There was not much and what
there was blew at right angles with
the trail so they were comparatively
safe from being detected.
When George returned with the guns
which were well kept muskets that
! their grandfathers had carried in the
revolution and some buckshot they
started on the trail, going softly lest
some other creature were on 1t too and
catch them unawares.
The trail was not hard following for
! it led through the dense, mushy growth
| Of the forest. The animals were going
slowly and Ned thought they could
overtake them in an hour.
After some weary walking Ned stop
ped short. In front of him the trail dis
appeared. They looked in every direc-
ton and then laid down quietly to wait.
They knew the deer were hid some
where near by standing motionless.
Suddenly from under a tree doomed
UP a great bull moose whose gigantic
frame stood out In silhouette against
the foliage, now that he a been de-
tected. He had betrayed himself by
Hopping one ear that a fly was biting
badly.
Beside him stood his mate. A long
legged, u~ngainly moose COW Ned raised
| his musket to shoot when they were nc
more.
They had slipped out as easily as
they had come into the boys eyesight
WELL" said the Disguised George,
I'VE will never catch that old fellow
now that he knows were after him.
And the boys wended their way home,
consoling themselves that they would
have good trout for supper, II not any
moose meat.
Maurice B. Field,
ia f. Second ST., Ottumwa, iowa.
Grade Z, 3 Glass.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1916-1918, 1917-03-30
Bernice Hamlock Writes :
Composition, "Abraham
Lincoln"

Dear Courier Juniors:
AS this is my first letter to tn,
Courier Junior. 1 thought 1 would
write about Abraham Lincoln.
Abraham Lincoln was born Feb
ruary ~, 1909, In a little log cabin
The cabin was built of logs, and there
was only n window and door. The
window had no glass in it, and the
doorway had no door in 1t, and in win
ter they hung up animal skins. to keeE
the cold out. The floor was the hard
ground. The chairs were hard blocks
of wood with three legs on them. And
the bed wal a shelf built in the side
of the log cabin. Lncoln's only play
mate was his sister, Sarah, two years
older than himself. He and his sister
liked to 60 into the woods and watch
the birds fly and watch the squirrels
jump from tree to tree. Lincoln liked
to go fishing.
Now Lincoln's mother had told him
that he must be kind to a soldier. One
day Lincoln went out fishing and
caught one little fish. AS Lincoln
was going home he met a man with
uniform on Lincoln thought that
he vas a soldier, so he asked the man
If he was a soldier and the man said
he was a soldier, and Lincoln gave
him the fish and went home feeling
happy, as though he had caught a
thousand fish.
The autumn after his eighth birth
day the family moved to Indiana. The
journey was rough and hard as 1t took
them a week to travel. They carried
their clothing and cooking utensils on
horseback. When they had reached
the spot that Mr.. Lincoln had chosen
to build the log cabin, they started
at first to build the log cabin. 1t was
not a log cabin, but what they called
a half-faced camp. Three sides of it
were closed in, but the south side was
left open. In the summer the neighbors
from far away came and helped Mr..
Lincoln build the log cabin. The sum-
mer after was just like the summer
before. Abraham had to help his
father. The next summer there came
a great sorrow in the Lincoln family.
Their mother died. They buried her
In the woods not far from their home.
But in the autumn MI. Lincoln went
back to Kentucky and brought them
a new mother. She was kind and
good to them and made them new
clothing. The school in Indiana that
Lincoln went to was not a very good
school, Lincoln went to school only
two years. When he was fifteen he
thought himself to study law. After
a while he became a lawyer, by work
in the stores and other places carr
ing money to make a living for the
family.
Bernice Hamlock, age 10.
Charlton, Iowa.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1916-1918, 1917-03-30
Myrtle Staubus Sends in
School Composition
Dear Juniors:

Dear Juniors:
I thought I would write one of my
school compositions.
One morning in January when the
skating was good. John, who hap
pened to be good natured this morn.
Ing. got up without his mother call
ing him five or six times.
After he had had his breakfast he
washed, got ready, and went to school.
He studied hard that morning and
had all his lessons.
While he was at school in the after
noon, his grandma came to his house.
Now he had been wanting a pair of
skates and his grandma had bought
them at the store as she came past.
She didn't want anybody to know that
h had them, so when Johns mother
was In the kitchen she slipped into
his room and laid them on his desk.
She had put a card in the package
telling who i was from.
In the evening when John came
home he found the strange looking
package on his desk. He asked his
mother and sister if they had put it
there. They said they had not, and
they also said that nobody had en-
tered his room since he left the house
at noon.
What is it," asked John, where
did 1t come FROM"
There is only n way to find out"
said his mother, open it and see.
John did, and out fell the skates he
had been wanting so long. When he
saw who 1t was from he began to ask
questions.
Just then the door opened and
grandma herself walked in and John
cried out: "Oh, grandma, I can't thank
you enough"
We'll, then, you don't need to thank
me at ALL" replied the old lady.
The next day was Saturday. and
there was no school, so John took his
new skates and went skating with
the other boys, and he had a good
time, too.
When he was coming home past the
store he went in and got the knitting
needles his grandma had wanted, and
a hair ribbon for his sister, and got
his mother a work basket. He took
them home and delivered them.
Myrtle Staubus, age 10.
DOuds-LeandO, Iowa, Box 26.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1916-1918, 1917-03-30
Irene Walters True Story
About Some ChOco-
late Fudge

Dear Editor and Juniors:
AS I have not written to the Courier
Junior for so long a time I thought 1
would write a true story about making
chocolate fudge.
Once some other girls and / were
talking about candy and n girl says
to us, let us make some cholocate fudge
tonight and let some Of us bring sugar
and some bring chocolate. So I brought
a cup Of sugar and the rest Of them
brought something else.
We got the fudge to cooking and got
1t cooked alright, and we had a big
platter full. So we set 1t on the porch
to cool. When we wen out to get the
candy there was only about four pieces
left and we just had one piece apiece.
We have never found out who took the
candy n 1t has been about a year
ago.
Irene Walters, age 10.
Bidwell. Ia Boz %.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1916-1918, 1917-03-30
Opal Davis Says "The Birds
Are NV Best Friends

Dear Juniors:
am going to write to you about the
birds. They are my best friends.
One evening as / vas coming home
from school I saw two robins, three red
birds. and w thrushes. When got
home I got some bread crumbs and
some water for them to eat and drink.
They come every day for their daily
meals.
can always tell the robin for he
says What cheer!' What cheer!"
We would not have very many trees
If it were not for the birds. The robins
deserve h cherries they eat for they
keep bugs off the trees. I am going to
build a bird house for them this
spring.
Opal Davis, age IL.
Iowa,
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1916-1918, 1917-03-30
Theodore Collett, a New
Junior. Lives on Farm
Near Abba

Dear Juniors:
This is my first letter to the Junior
page. l am a little boy II years old and
] live on a farm Of a hundred and
ninety acres.
I have a dog and a pony. My dogs
name is Prince and my pony's name is
Dan. ! like them both fine. / also have
two cows and two calves and sever
pigs. My cows names are Cherry and
Hulda. ] call my calves Jumbo and
Jim.
have one sister and n brother. My
sisters name is Juletta, and my broth
er's name Is Earl. He was 4 years old
the 18th Of February. So you see he
was born on Lincoln's birthday. My
sister was % years old the goth OF
November. She is married and lives In
Youngstown, Ohio.
I go to the Morris school and I am in
the eighth grade. My teachers name Is
Mike Heffron and I like him fine.
/ do the ~janitor work for my teacher
and he pays me so cents a week.
Theodore Collett,
Abba, Iowa, r. s.