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The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1917-01-26

State Senator E. B. Palmer OF King
County believes that the heavy increase
in the cost OF state and county govern
ment, out OF all proportion with the
increase OF population, or benefits,
makes it necessary to devise new
sources of revenue. He expects to
introduce two bills to produce this
revenue. One measure proposes poll
tax of 50 on every voter under the age
Of go, and the other bill proposes to
treble the tax on all motor vehicles,
the poll tax to go to the school fund
and the motor tax to the state and
county road funds. Enactment Of these
bills would produce a new revenue
running into millions OF dollars.
The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1917-01-26

Mrs. John Liddell had the misfor-
tune to break her arm and badly strain
her wrist Wednesday morning. A
stove explosion occurred in her home
and she got upon chair to adjust the
pipe and fell. She is now at the Nc
Cartney home and resting easy after
the shock. Cashmere Record.
The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1917-01-26

Ten members Of the Royal Neighbors
Lodge Of Peshastin came up Wednesday
evening to visit the Lodge here. They
brought with them three candidates to
be MATED into the mysteries Of the
order which was we'll done with the aid
OF the Leavenworth order. Late in the
evening a banquet was served.
The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1917-01-26

Dora E. Hudson, OF North E. street,
filed claims against the city Of Wenat-
chez last Friday in the sum OF $1,000,
thru her attornew, c. B. Conner, for
injuries received on the Goth Of De-
cember, while walking along Delaware
avenue, when she fell, causing her to
suffer an impacted fracture OF the neck
Of the left femur, and claiming further
that the accident is one OF permanent
injury and will result in loss Of earning
capacities. ...
The claim calls for the following
amounts: Permanent injury and loss
Of earning capacity the sum Of $4,000;
physical pain and suffering, $1,000;
medical attendance of physician and
surgeon treating injury. $75; nursing
claimant to date $75, and future nurs-
ing Of claimant $500.
The complaint reads that on the
goth day Of December. while walking
along Delaware avenue, that the board
walk OF said street, because of ice and
snow and the uneven and slippery con-
dition thereof, the plaintiff fell upon
the ice, the fall causing the above
mentioned injury. -Wenatchee World.
The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1917-01-26

J. B. Huff, after an absence Of three
weeks, returned yesterday on No. 43.
He stopped at several places while he
was away, going as far as Montana, but
found no place where business was as
good or future prospects as bright as
right here at home.
The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1917-01-26

Attorney A. H. Mohler was in Sc
attic last week negotiating with bond
companies for the sale of proposed
Cashmere utility bonds. He reports
that when the time arrives that money
can be easily raised and bonds of this
character would command premium.
Record.
The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1917-01-26

Regulation OF railroads at the hands
OF the national government, instead Of
by forty eight varieties Of state COM
missions. seems to be an assured fact
in the near future.
The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1917-01-26
And Still EGGS Are High.

Charleston, w. Va Elossie is the
name of Rhode Island Red hen owned
by L. P. White, a farmer of Birch Run.
Kanawha county. She has laid an egg
every day for two months. each of
which Is much larger than the ordinary
egg. The last and largest of these
measured eight and one-half inches the
long way around and seven inches in
the other largest circumference. Flos
sic is less than one year old.
The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1917-01-26

Hoquism adopted the budget sys-
tenn and last year kept we'll within the
estimated expense. in TACT had a sur
plus Of So, 100.
The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1917-01-26
CHfLAN COUNTY NEWS

Last week at the navy recruiting sta
ton in Spokane Jesse Birmingham and
Edwin Mcclure, of Cashmere, enlisted
as apprentice seamen.
The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1917-01-26

The final details of consolidation
between the Seattle Chamber Of Com
merce and the Seattle Commercial
Club have been perfected, and the
long-continued warfare between these
two organizations seems to be at an
end. Judge Thomas Burke, for more
than two years president Of the
Chamber, has resigned, and on his
motion the trustees elected in his
stead A. J. Rhodes, prominent mer.
chant and one of the big men in the
Commercial Club. Most of Seattie's
community quarrels have been attri-
buted to the rivalry between the two
commercial bodies, and their consoli-
dation is taken to indicate that the
city may now enter upon an era of
comparative peacefulness.
The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1917-01-26

Friends Of the State College at Pull
man and OF the normal schools at
Cheney, Ellensburg and Bellingham,
are organizing for hard work against the
several bills introduced in the state
Legislature as part Of the program Of
the so-called Educational Survey
Commission. The controlling authorities
Of the University Of Washington,
though they had hoped to keep that
institution out OF politics. have fell
compelled to take a stand in favor Of
the Survey plans. 1t is apparent that
this is to be the big scrap OF what looks
otherwise like an unusually peaceful
Legislative session. The people Of the
state, who have to support all Of these
schools, realize in general way the
need of greater harmony Of action
among them, as well as greater
economy in the cost of operation. But
the general public has no great
confidence in the findings and plans Of
the Educational Survey Commission,
for the reason that the men who made
the survey were men OF known
prejudices and very doubtful
qualifications. It's the general opionion
that a survey Of this kind calls for the
services OF able educators and business
men. rather than professional politicians.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-02-11

Respect for the medal for gallantry! Respect!
He turned about and went toward the next
trenches. Some Russian bullets whistled past.
"Shal we not take little rest Herr Major"
clock in a nearby Carpathian village
struck twelve. The doctor had noticed how
overweight the old gentleman was.
mo; let US go on to the next trenches"
He sprang up at the sound of the far-of
clock But Immediately he pressed his hand to
his heart and fell back painting.
The doctor pulled off the majors cloak and
felt his pulse.
"a stroke? A stroke?" whispered the dying
man.
But then First Lieutenant and DR.. Wttinger
recalled his many conversations with the old
major.
"No, Herr Major; stray Russian bullet"
God be thanked"
The words came family from his lips.
"Berglin shall have Eva. God be thanked"
So died in the first hour of the new year one
of our quiet old heroes, of heart stroke but
more bravey than many others have died of
Russian lead.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-02-11

about the little New Years Eve celebration
which they were going to have that evening.
He asked to have all the officers of the bat
TALON invited who would be off duty. Lead
was to be melted in the miserable headquarters
hut and punch brewed and passed around
eve have learned here to associate more or
less with lead, but no one can tell how 1T is
going to treat us in the future" he said.
Major Won Adelsberg was unusually quiet
and gentle that evening, when they were get
ting ready to open the little entertainment.
as anything the matter, Herr Major?" asked
the first lieutenant and surgeon.
mo, nothing at all. | am only little pre-
occupied. | will tell you later. But please
see what sort of record Landsturm-man
Berglin has and bring it to me-"
The lieutenant came back soon.
"Berglin, Fritz, painter, thirty-fve years;
Roman Catholic; widower; one-year volunteer.
A good soldier; recommended for the silver
medal for gallantry."
Bravo" said the major. "He shall come
here to me later. But, no; we shall visit him
in the trenches"
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-02-11

went away promised him to take care Of her
until he comes back.
ave have also become engaged, but without
any announcement. At that time, when you
had a thousand children and thousand cares,
| kept this fact away from you. To-day, II
you have quarter of an hour for me amidst
the cannon thunder, / wish to announce 1t to
you, and l beseech you: Give us your fathers
blessing!
$50 many prejudices have disappeared in
the course of the war. Let yours disappear,
dear father, and go to Bergln, my future hus-
band, and give him. whom you have 50 often
abused friendly word. know that ne de-
serves one"
The major read the letter and then read 1t
again But he didn't get angry. Now, since
he was so far away from his daughter, and
since he had looked death in the face for weeks,
he understood many things-even the step
taken by his daughter.
Only, he still had a certain rancor against
Berglin. He called the first lieutenant He
wanted to tell him about the affair. But some
how he couldn't, and merely talked indifferently
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-02-11

They held the melting lead over the candle
flame. The officers laughed. The juniors had
begun the sport. They wanted to see shapes
of hearts formed in the water by the lead drop
pings or the initials of names-all sorts of
childish things.
Finally the majors turn came. He let bit
of dissolving lead fall into the water. bullet
floated lazily and then sank.
"There you have it. Russian lead-my fate.
God be thanked! 1t is better than heart
stroke-such Russian bullet is"
They drank few glasses of punch. The
major himself was the first to break away.
81 want to go to the trenches to inspect them.
Where is Berglin stationed, Herr Doctor
with Sergeant Hubelmeier"
Good. We will go there"
"An attack is in progress there now
$50 much the better"
They pushed forward to the snowed-in
trenches. The sergeant made his report.
Berglin had again distinguished himself.
The major took the painters hand.
al know everything. You have my blessing.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-02-11
Russian Lead
By Count Carl Scapinelli
Translated, Nth Introductory Comment
by William L. Mcpherson

There is pleasing note Of intimacy and
geaiaiity in the sketch lchich follows, By Count
Carl ScapineIH War has no bitterness and no
teyrors to d soldier Of the type Of its dmiGble
Austrian hero, an officer Of nearly threescore
years and ten, to lohom death by the enemy's
bullets is an end far more acceptable than
death by heart failure or opOpIectic stroke.
Major ron Adelsberg Is thinning fgure-in
no acoy more thinning than in his oId-fashtoTed
uie1g of the sort of death in aohich the true
1ca17ior should delight.
The Nome daily nugget., 1917-02-28

The determination ol the part of the president to so consider the La conia affair is alone believed to be sufficient to show that war will soon follow.
 The ;one of Von Bethmann- Hollweg's speech in the reichstag yes terday has further aggravated a se- rious condition. as is freely admitted in official circles.
 The German chancellor denounced the severance of relations in severe terms and said that the United Stathes, while strongly protesting :o respect and upheld international law, had shipped war munitions freely to
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the entnte nations but had refused to sell them to contending factions. ia Mexico. This direct charge of hypo- cricy and doubtledealing against America from such an authoritative source is nothing less than a1 insult to the nation. He made other refer ences in his speech to this coutnry which have been officially interpreted as yelled threats.
 Germany has taken another step which is characterized as even more insulting Having a few days ago an nounced that the American prisoners from the Yarrowadle were to be re- leased and given safe conduct to
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HOUSE COMMITTEE DISAPPROvES
 GRANTING SOME OF WILL LSOnS DEMANDS

troubles befalling ships and American citizens o1 the high seas was denied so far as the committees report is concerned.
 This action by the house commit mony with the recommendations of the senate committee which approved late yesterday artesnoon the arming of merchantmen and authorization of the Fl esident to use other instrumental ties to adequately protect American ships and American citizens In their
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lawful pursuits on the high seas.
 The house committee this morning failed to follow the senate commit tees lead in approving a bond issue of one hundred million dollars.
 IL is declared to be the White House attritude that nothing less than the full presidential demands will be sat issactory to MT. Wilson.
 So rapidly are events tending .o- wards war that it is thought that the authority asked by the presidents speech will be of small consequence
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GERMANY REFUSES TO INDEMNIFY
 HOLLAND FOR SHIPS SuNk---
 SEIZURE OF AFFIRMED EXPECTED

demanded full iademnification for the ships sunk and their cargoes and threatening to seize forty Germ,n merchant ships now voluntarily in- termed in the Dutch West Indies for failure to do so.
 It is believed now that the Dutch will carry ou. their threat and that they will become embroiled in the great struggle as consequence
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LAC0N|A SINKING WAS OVERT ACT-- h0lLWEG'S INSULT TO UNITED STATES---
 THESE AND MORE SURELY MEAN WAR

Switzerland, Germany has since changed her intention ia the matter and now declares that they will be held indefinitely.
 The excuse for the detention is given out to be the discovery tha. In infectious disease has been found in their present quarters.
 A state department official charac- than if it were merely stated that they are detained without giving req sons for the act
 Official and diplomatic circles now see no possibility 10 evade war.
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BERNSTORFF
 AT LAST SAILS
International News Service.

HALIFAX, Feb. 28.-The Frederick VIII. with the Bernstorff party on board sailed from this port lats night at 7:30 bound for Copenhagen.
 The Norwegian liner had been de- tained here since the 16th instant in order to search thoroughly for any thing that might benefit the enmey. A longer time was required than had been anticipated because of the min-
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.ENGLANDS HATRED or GERMANY INTENSIFIED
 BY LACON|A SINKING

sent 70 the bottom. The words La conia and Lusitania are heard or every side linked together.
 The Times says that if Germany had intended to unify and consolidate public sentiment in Britain against herself she acted in manner best calculated to bring about this result when the Laconia was ordered sunk.
 further burden on Germany will be imposed by tn eLaconia affair. i. is said, because it is expected to bring the United States into the war.
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International News Service.

International News Service.
 MOUNT UNION, Pa., Feb. 27.-- Early this morning sleeping car on the Mercantile express of the Pennsyl- vania railway line was telescoped and all the occupants except two were killed outright.
 teen passengers and one Pullman car porter are dead.
 The Mercantile express was stand ing at the station here eastbound, when a fast freight came up from behind at full speed. Orders were given the engineer of the nassan0Ar
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International News Service.

International News Service.
 WASHINGTON, Feb. 2S.-The house committee on foreign relations this morning agreed to some of the pro. visions of the Flood bill and rejected others by vote of IT to 1.
 It was voted to recommend to the house the provisions of the bill au- thorizing the president to arm mer- chantmen for their defence only.
 The provision of the bill giving .he president authority to employ other instruments and methods in case of
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nternational News Service.

'nternational News Service.
 WASHINGTON, Feb. 29.-It Is con ceded by governmen. officials in all departments and by others who are conversant with the facts and their meanings that the United States is on the verge of war with Germany and that :here can be no drawing back.
 President Wilson nas characterized the sinking of the Cunard liner La conia as an overt act showing total disregard of the provisions of inter- national law and the rights of neu- tral civilians to travel the high seas on peaceful errands.
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SUNDRY CIVIL BILL
 CARRIES HUGE SUM-
 ALASKA IS REMEMBERED

stricken from the military bill in the house.
 Before passing the sundry civil bill the house included an appropriation of four hundred thousand dollars to be used to investigate the high cost of living. This carried by a vote of PAT in favor and 15S against. It will mean a vigorous prosecution of those who are believed to have artif1cally caused a raise In prices,
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international News Service.

LONDON. Feb. 2S.-The Laconia outrage coming in the midst of na tional jubilation because of victories on the Somme and in Mesopotamia acted on the popular feeting in @ most remarkable manner. It served 70 arouse once more an intense ha- tired of Germany and all things per- taining to that country.
 The wave of anger and resentment that has swept over England as re- suit of the Laconia sinking has not been paralled since the Lusitania was
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international News Service.
 NEWPORT NEWS, Feb. 2S.-The Dutch steamship Armindo arrived ton Roads.
 On board were one hundred and seventy nine survivors of ships that had been sunk by submarine attacks. They were from five ships that had been submarined victims.
 The Armiado was crowded by these extra passengers and had to draw on reserve supplies kept for emer-
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BERLIN ADMITS BRITISH
 GAINS ON SOMME
International News Service.

International News Service.
 BERLIN, Feb. 2S.-It is officially admitted that German forces have been severely repulsed by the British on the Ancre river in the Somme section.
 But to offset this the capture of several points in the Carpathians from the Russians Is announced.
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International News Service.

WASHINGTON, Feb. 2S.-The sun- dry civil appropriation bill passed the house today without roll call. The total carried by this bill is one hun dred and thirty eight millions.
 Many Alaskan appropriations i1- cluding the government railroad, In- dian schools, and lesser matters were included. The Nome harbor project is included in the rivers and harbors bin and the Alaska road commission fund now unproyded for having been
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ln,e national News Servloe.

Int national News Servloe.
 LONON, Feb. 2s.-A disptech has been received from the Hague stating that the Dutch government Is in re- ceipt of information from Germnay that no satisfaction will be given for the sinking of seven Dutch ships on February 22.
 Holland has received this answer to the recent note to Germany which
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GERMANY HOLDING
 AMERICAN C0NSuLS
 BY REFUSING PASSAGE

to the lack of respec: shown other neutrals. The brusque refusal of Ger many to even consider Hollands de- mand for indemnity for ships sunk is all of a piece with the lack of court esy and consideration shown to Am ercans and the American govern ment.
 Further attempts are being made to obtain :he safe departure of all Americans including the Yarrowdale prisoners from Germany at an early date.
 Nor FnN tTan Funiral NotH in ceTius like a vvdsdin,
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AMSTERDAM, Feb. 28.-Dispatches from Germany indicate that the peo- pie of that country do not believe that the sinking of the Laconia will provoke the United States to war. But they
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International News Service.

InteFHatIonaI NeWs SeFVIce.
 WASHINGTON, Feb. 28.-News has been received from Switzerland that four United States consuls are now actually being held in Germany.
 They are marooned there because the Berlin authorities have refused to assure them safe passage.
 The fact of this unwarranted de- teption is regarded here as merely another of the serious infrac.ions not only of international etiquette but of international law of which Germany is guilty.
 The German indifference to the rights of Americans Is not different
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There had been no announcement made, as yet by the Dutch govern ment relative to the failure of Ger many to agree 70 make reparation.
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Office and Residence of j. F. McAl- lister, treighter and transfer, Elite Baths. Phone Red 167.
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ute examination made up of the bag gage of the Germans.
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MANY SURVIVORS OF SUB, ATTACK
 REACH AMERICA

gency in order 70 feed them.
 The survivors all tell pretty much the same tale. Their ships were sunk for the most part without warning but owing to comparatively calm water were able to get the small boats into the water and make their escape.
 open boats more than two days.
 No horsss slowEd on tile Floor.
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LONDON, Feb. 28.-There Is a growing feeling here that Holland and the United States will go to war with Germany at about the same time in the near future.
 Developments of the past few days tend to conform .his impression.
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REAR-END COLLISION WRECKS PULLMAN GAR
 AND KILLS EIGHTEEN

train 70 pull out The express gath cred headway slowly but could not get away from the oncoming freight which crashed into the rear sleeper reduc- ing it to a tangle of steel and fur nishings. One woman and a bay were taken from the werck alive.
 The accident was caused by fall. ure on the part of the freight con- ductor 70 obey signals.
 Hully Gee Husken B, March 3! WHee-e.
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as in a few days it is believed many other larger and fuller resolutions will pass as a consequence of a war dec laration.
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 CHuen gull onl in attek. This heRe is a swell danSe.
 Sanitary Aprons, 35e 50. 75c. Sani- tary belts at Miss Oestreich's New la,u eggs at ProsseTs Harness Shop, $t.o0 per dozen. Phone Black 5.
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do believe that war with America is not far distant.
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