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POULTRY, PETS G. LIVESTOCK.
BEAGLE HoCND-A No. l; thoroughly broke.
3lOS ar NV 9s
CANARIES-Excellent singers and mothers.
1882 Newton st. NV. Col. 401S.
DOG. setter. frst-class shooting; can show him
In birds any day. 27f1 NV. So
FOX Observation-Disclosures prize bred, female.
O. +. Bayley. SIT 18th st. NV. g.
HOUND DOGS, four will run good any in
the city. Inquire 50 Foxhall road. D. C. ]. II.
johnson. jr. 1S'
LEGHORN COCKEREL white: Tom Barron
strnin beautiful bird So. 5an KY. ave. s.e.
one COW and i've horses. J. c. Higgins Belts
Vile, Md Sc
PERSIAN KITTEN. black. unusually pretty. s..
9l7 18th st.. Apt. 9. Phone N. 3142.
PERSIAN CATS and kittens Of all colors for
sale. PediSreed males for mating. Phone Hyatts.
10-J. Mrs. Jas. H. Kyner. Bladensburg. Md. S'
PUPPIES-English bull. from prize winning
pedigreed stock: prices reasonable. s. Desio IT,,
New Cut and Conduit roads, 10s
The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1917-08-24
Ford Prices to Be the Same

No changes will be made in the
prices of Ford motor cars the coming
year.
The company, it is announced, is
unable to make the usual annual re-
duction because of the advancing cost
of materials, and proposed increase
in the prices was discarded as step
backward.
The Ford Company is beginning the
fiscal year with $4,000 orders untitled.
Arrangements to fill them are being
made by increasing the production.
The output last year was $4,000 cars.
II is MANNED to make the production
this year reach $4,000 or 9oo' 900.
The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1917-08-24
HERE'S ONE WAY TO BEAT THE STRIKE
Mason County Logger Adopts Novel
Pian-And His Camps Are
Running

A logger in Mason county is getting
around the strike trouble in a novel
way, according to reports that come
from Olympia.
Just before the general strike was
called he summoned the men from the
bunk houses and told them trouble was
brewing. He said he wanted no strike
in his camps and that he had no quar-
rel with his men on any subject. He
announced that the men should regu-
late their own hours, as they knew
about how much should be done and
if they could do it in eight hours to go
ahead and do it.
The men are reported to have re-
ceived the announcement with great
enthusiasm and now the camp is run
ming on the cafeteria STYLE" SO far as
hours are concerned. It is declared
that the men get out as much as they
ever did, if not little more, and that
they put in their full hours at work
and consequently no strike has oc-
cured, although the camp is nomi-
nally on a 10 hour basis.
The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1917-08-24
Seattle Mans Opinion of BIewett Road

H. A. Peters OF Seattle, northwest
manager Of the National Casualty Co. re-
Gently made a trip over the Blewett
road and says he passed 81 cars on
the Pass, and thinks it positively
criminal that a signal system of some
sort is not installed. Between 4 and
9 o'clock in the morning traffic through
the pass is comparatively light and it is
easy to go through, according to Mr..
Peters, but after that it is bad. In
meeting cars. it is necessary to stop
and back and wait in order to get
through. THE only way to ge,
through is to take plenty Of time, ="
Mr.. Peters said. At that, Mr.. Peters
says the road through the pass is better
on the whole than that stretch Of Sun
set highway between Davenport and
Spokane.
The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1917-08-24
Was Joe Collins Drowned!

There is some doubt about the
death Of Joe Collins, the Tye operator,
last week, whose body was taken from
the Wenatchee river near Chiwaukum,
and reported to have been drowned
while fishing. 1t is reported, tho not
confirmed, that he and the man Smith
were using dynamite to kill fish, and
that Collins death was due to the use
Of dynamite.
With the assistance OF diver brought
from the coast the body was recovered
Tuesday less than IS feet from where
the tragedy occurred. The remains
have been shipped to Berry Ala, his
old home. Collins friends say he was
to have been married this week.
The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1917-08-24
WASHINGTON APPLE CROP is
ESTIMATED AT 1889 CARS
School Children Will Help Harvest the
CrOp-State Estimate of Other
Crops

School children will probably be
called upon to harvest the apple crop
of the Inland Empire this fall. The
heavy enlistment Of young men, fol-
lowed by the draft, has caused a short
age Of labor in so many lines that ap-
plemen forsee the necessity of securing
help from pupils in the rural districts.
State Superintendent Preston has re-
piled favorably to a suggestion that an
apple vacation time be given in the
schools.
Big orchard companies and fruit sell
ing agencies are making a survey Of
labor to be available in the fall and are
arranging to have as many as possible
of the grain harvesters used later. But
these men would all be needed for
the heavier work, it is believed. and
the children must be counted upon as
the second line Of defense.
M. L. Dean Of the state department
Of agriculture has estimated the apple
production Of the state of Washington
at 1889 cars. He gives the follow
ing estimates in acres Of other prod
ucts: Potatoes, 27,783; corn, 1921;
beans, 1896; peas. 36,S15; onions,
1896; tomatoes, ,217; sugar beets. TO-
900; cabbages, 932; cantaloupes, ASS;
watermelons, 233.
The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1917-08-24
RANCHER KILLS NFIGHBOR
OVER IRRIGATION WATER
Fairly tuesday Morning Nv. Coon Killed
]. A. Charlton and Wife-CIaims
Self-DefenSe

Growing out OF the claim of two men
to small stream of irrigation water,
a tragedy occurred three miles below
Wenatchee early Tuesday morning
when J. w. Coon shot and killed J. A.
Charlton and his wife. The shooting
occurred between five and six o'clock
in the morning, the men meeting at a
point where the water is diverted.
Coons shot Charlton thru the heart and
he died instantly. Mrs Charlton who
was with him, is supposed to have
started to go to her home and Coon
then turned the gun on her and shot
her thru the back. From blood marks
it is supposed she walked or crawled
abouta hundred yards after being shot
and then fell and bled to death. Coon
then went home and telephoned the
sheriff that he had shoting and to
come and get him. Charlton also had
gun which was found near his body
WIN uu1 sss5ccll that had recently been
discharged. So far as is known at this
time there were no witnesses to the
tragedy.
Both men bore good regulations.
Charlton was so years Of age and his
wife 46. They have seven children.
Two daughters married and two under
IS. Two grown sons reside at Cash
mere and the youngest, a son six years
old was at home.
Coon is So years old. His wife is
prostrated with grief. There are two
daughters and three sons in the family.
Coon claims he shot in self defense.
There being no witnesses it may be i'm
possible to disproVe this, but the nee
essity OF shooting Mrs. Charlton in the
back will be hard to explain.
DR.. Hoxsey Of this city has known
the Charlton family tor the past twenty
years and says they were peaceful law
abiding people.
The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1917-08-24
Scott Nicholas Drowned at
American Lake

With his friend Deryl Mottler and
others he went to American Lake
captonment from Tacoma last Sunday.
and the bows decided to have a swim
in the lake. After entering the water
Scott dived and came up. Then he
swan a short distance and again dived
and came up. He then went under
the water third time but did not
come up. After the lapse Of about
five minutes his companions made a
search for him and found the body on
the bottom. They brought it to land
where doctors worked over him until
they were convinced that life was
extinct. The conclusion reached was
that he died from heart failure.
Scott Nicholas lived here up to last
fall on a ranch in the Cascade
orchards, with his parents, and was
quite well known. After the death of
Rev. Nicholas, three years ago the
family remained here until about a
year ago and then removed to Tacoma.
Another son, Harry Nicholas, also we'll
known here, joined the navy three
months ago and is now at Norfork,
Virginia, in a training camp.
Oeryl Motteler, son OF F. T.
Motteler of Leavenworth, went to
Tacoma last week where he entered
the Lincoln High school. He sent
the account given above of the sad
affair TO his father.
Scott Nicholas was 1o years old and
the very picture Of health and young
manhood when he left here about
year ago.
The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1917-08-24
OSBORN IS VICTIM OF
SEATTLE AUTO THIEVES
Local School Superintendent Loses Ills
Car While in Seattle-RecOyered
Again But it Cost Him $72
for Repair

Prof. ]. H. Osborn who motored
over to Seattle last Friday, bad the
misfortune to have his car stolen while
there. Saturday evening he left his
machine, a Ford, standing in front oil
the Pantages Theater while he and
Mrs. Osborn attended the show. When
they came out on the street some two
hours later the car had disappeared.
He reported the matter to the police
and was told that there we're ten other
car owners in a like predicament, their
machines having disappeared the same
evening.
On Monday the police were notified
that wrecked Ford was lying near the
roadside on the outskirts OF the city.
This proved to be Mr.. Osborn's car,
but it was in dilapidated condition
and almost beyond recognition. 1t
had been stripped Of the tires, and in
fact everything that screwdriver or
monkey wrench would remove, had
been taken off. The machine was
towed in to garage where he paid a
bill of S72 to put the car in running
condition again, and it is still minus a
good many parts.
The Professor says he learned while
there that cars are disappearing every
day in Seattle and at least half OF them
are never recovered. Those that are
found are as a rule stripped of every
thing but the engine.
Mr.. Osborn seems to be having a
streak of bad luck. During his absence,
II chickens OF fancy stock were killed
by some varmint. Now one OF his
Airedale dogs, which he values around
a 500 has disappeared.
The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1917-08-24
PfSHASTIN-LEAVFNWORTH
COMPANY IN JOINT DRILL
Gave Interesting Exhibition on Front St.
Last Friday Evening

For the past two months our home
guard company has gone to Peshastin
one night each week to go thru the
drill exercises with the Peshastin
company while the Peshastin company
came here one night each week. In
this way it has been possible to keep
I'D the interest. We regret to admit
that the Peshastin company is much
the largest. Some how lot OF our
boys earned the name Of "slackers,"
they quit attending drills until there
was barely two squads at the last.
Because orchard work is now press
ing the young men from our neighbor-
ing town it was thought best to dis
continue drills for a while. Last Friday
evening the last joint drill was held on
the Public school grounds. Peshastin
turned out to the number Of % while
Leavenworth only counted l8. After
the regular drill the company marched
down town and gave a very good
exhibition on Front street, much to
enlightenment OF Inc terms neoDle who
were not a little surprised at the way
the company went thru the different
military evolutions under the direction
of Mr.. Hal Starks Of the Peshastin
company, who has had thoro military
training while in college and thoroly
understands the work. Every man had
a real gun, tho they were not all OF the
same pattern.
At the conclusion OF the drill the
two companies were taken into the
Koerner Pharmacy and Days Place for
light refreshments.
The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1917-08-24
LOCAL ORGANIZATION
CONGRESS OF YOUTH
The Junior Ten Organization Will Teach
Patriotism and Loyalty to Govern
ment by Example

Talbot West returned from the
junior meeting OF the State Congress of
Youth held on cambridge island last
Friday just bubbling over with the
idea Of spreading the doctrine Of love
Of country and loyalty to the govern
nent. He has appointed nine other
boys between thirteen and sixteen to
help him teach this doctrine by
example.
Telling OF his stay on the island and
what he heard while there he mentioned
the names OF dozen or more who
addressed the two hundred boys who
attended the meeting from every part
of the state, not forgetting to say, bov
like, that there was also lot of good
things to eat. Among those who made
the strongest impression on him he
mentioned Hon. VIM. King, Wash
ington City attorney, Coach Hunt Of
the Washington University and Major
Manning, a Canadian who was wounded
in France and is now on leave at home
and expects again to join his command.
For Mr. Moran, head OF the Boys
School on the Island, and also at the
head OF the Red Cross in this state,
Master Talbot West has unbounded
respect and admiration. Mr.. Moran,
he says, is to pay Leavenworth visit
before the summer is over.
Following are the names of the Junior
ten: Clair Guest, Burt Holloway, Ferril
Titus. Ralph Koerner, Welcome Sauer,
Amos Varney, Fred McDaniels, Fred
Ruth, Laverne Gutherless, Talbot
West, Captain.
Messrs Geo. L. Gardner, J. H.
Osborn and Deed H. Magyar have been
selected to act as sponsors for the
Junior Ten.
The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1917-08-24
More For the Honor Roll

Below is list OF several more Leavn-
worth boys who have enlisted with
Uncle Sam and whose names will be
entered on the roll Of honor. Louis
DeBlois, Infantry; Chas. NJ. Cahil,
Cavalry; Chester L. Bills, c. A. c.
VIM. E. Wohlers, Medical Dept.
Hugo Poepmuller, Quarter Masters
Dept, Shirley S. Colemen, Aviation.
John Byron, Jr., Navy, at Vallejo Cal.
II there are any other names to be
added to this list we would be pleased
to have them reported.
The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1917-08-24
Booze Making Stops Sept. 8

Eleven o'clock on the night OF
Saturday, September 8, is the time
fixed by the food administration when
all processes in the production in the
United States OF distilled spirits for
beverage purposes must stop. The
30-day period allowed from the
approval OF the food control law expires
at midnight September g, but this date
falls on Sunday and internal revenue
laws prevent the operation of distil-
leries after II o'clock SATURDAY. night.
The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1917-08-24
Report From The ThOmaS-CuIrOSS
Mining Company

Guy Hamilton one Of the stockhold-
ers in the Thomas-C -Culross Mining Co.
whose properties are in the southern
part Of Alaska. attended meeting OF
the directors in Seattle this week. As
there is a hundred or more stockholders
in Leavenworth, brief report of the
property will probably be Of interest.
A competent mining engineer who
recently visited the property has made
a detailed report, a copy Of which is
held by Mr.. Hamilton. The report
shows that the ore has run as high as
1920 to the ton. AS there is now
some S5, 900 Indebtedness against the
property and other work planned will
amount to $4,000 or more, bond is
sue Of s25, 900 has been authorized.
However only enough Of the bonds will
be sold to take care Of the work con-
templated. A 240 foot tunnel which
the engineer says will open up a rich
body OF ore. is to be dug at once. The
cost is estimated at SIT foot or
s4,250. The contract will be let un-
der competitive bidding and the esti-
mate will probably be reduced.
The engineer CONCLUDES his report
by saying, that under competent
superintendent there seems to be little
risk in putting the property on its feet
and making it a paying proposition.
The stockholders and trustees have
thus far been unable TO get any kind
OF report from the present manager,
Don Thomas. There is to be change
iu the management in the near future.
The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1917-08-24
School Starts Next Monday

The following will compose the
faculty in our public school which
opens next Monday morning;
High School-John H. Osborn. Supt.
V. A. Bacher, Miss Mabel Anderson,
Miss Elsie Meier, Miss Mabel Cole,
Mrs. w. F. Bickel, Mrs. Helen Carter.
Grade School-Mrs. Elizabeth Le-
Gros, Miss Frances McCarckle, Miss
Gertrude Gage, Miss Frances Haas,
Mrs. Myrtle Hayden, Miss Bertha
O'Brien, Miss Frances Walsh, Miss
Maude Hinman, Principal S. A. Jensen.
The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1917-08-24
President Buys Stock in Spokane Land
Bank

Evidently the value OF Northwestern
farm lands have impressed President
Wilson. His name is signed to Sl0,-
900 of the second issue Of bonds put
out by the federal land bank of Spo-
kane, according to D. G. O'Shea, pres
ident OF the institution. The bonds
secure the mortgages made by the
bank and up to date 100000 has
been issued in these securities. JOS
eph Cannon former speaker of the
house Of representatives is another
purchaser OF these bonds. Uncle Joe
has bought $4,000 worth.
Since the bank opened loans ap-
praised and approved total 100000.
Farm loan associations chartered num-
Der l43 with IS more in process Of
chartering.
Leavenworth has a farm Loan Asso-
citation fully organized. Applications
for loans have been made but up to
this time have not been passed on.
They are passed on in the order Of
their receipt and as upwards Of seven
million has been applied for by Wash
ington farmers some time will doubtless
elapse before the Leavenworth appli-
cations are reached and approved. Mr..
J. w. Elliott is secretary Of the Leav-
enworth Farm Loan Association.
The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1917-08-24
American SawmiIl Unit, Fired On

The following was under an associated
Press dispatch Of Aug, 18th. "A
steamer carrying American sawmill
unit No. 5 to a British port recently,
was attacked in mid-ocean by two
German submarines, according to a
letter received today.
Two torpedoes were fred at the ship,
but both missed their mark by few
feet. the steamer escaping by her great
speed.
The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1917-08-24
Chiwaukum Children Contribute
To Red Cross

Miss Cleila Bulls received a letter
this week from the Sunday school
child:c1 :. :: CCa.:::==.nkum. inclosing So.
IS, which the following children con-
tributed to the Red Cross fund;
Margaret Frederickson, Sue and Thelma
Lines, Lorna Stickney, Ethel, Barnard
and Isabel Brunk, James Stickney,
Sidney and Helen Borella, and Claude
and Glen Thompson.
Here is patriotism and self sacrifice
worthy of imitation by the older people.
The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1917-08-24
BOOTH AGAIN WRITES
FROM THE WAR ZONE
Tells of Conditions Behind the Firing
Line-AIlies Fire five Guns to the
Germans One

Somewhere in France: Of course, you
understand, that I am not allowed to
divulge our exact whereabouts, because
if this letter happened to be hauled in,
on its way. by a German flying machine
or submarine, the kaiser would sluf"
everything else and bend the energy
OF his whole army toward either killing
or capturing me and the others Of this
company. That's what comes of be-
ing so very important. But for this, l
could tell you mighty interesting tale
of experiences and things I have seen.
We are camped in beautiful place
that in peace times was a cultivated
pasture for dairy cattle. separated from
grain fields by rows OF tall trees that
somewhat resemble poplar. but not
quite so handsome. Down in one
corner is a small pond where the cattle
used to drink. That's where we bathe
and wash our shirts. And just little
further than our town house is from
the ranch, the British front-lne
trenches are facing those OF the Ger
mans. But the only Germans I've
seen, were either prisoners or dead
ones. I saw dozen of the latter in
one big shell hole and as they had
been that way for three days, it was
not what you might call pretty
picture; and the smell was awful.
The cannon are scattered every
where between US and the firing line,
some small and some large, big enough
to shoot she'll as tall as yourself and
about twelve times as heavy; and every
night nearly when I go to sleep think
ing about all OF you, some OF these
guns are playing tune.
Once in a great while, the whole
bunch get going and we can hear them
all for twelve or fifteen miles up and
down the line, with the German guns
answering. Believe me, it's some
music. From those far distant, it's
the tattoo of thousand drums; nearer
the popping OF giant fre-crackers on
the Fourth of July: and, nearest,
hundred big stumps being dynamited
in FIVE minutes. Through Az the
booming, you hear the whistling song
of the shells and when one from Ger
many bursts nearby, there's dronlng
whine from shrapnel and ragged frag-
ments of steel But where they send
one. we send at least FIVE. They are
licked and are beginning to realize 1t.
It wouldn't surprise me if they quit
the game altogether before the end OF
summer. When I get through here
I shall bring you all some relics from
the battlefelds.
The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1917-08-24
Soldiers Outfit to Cost Country $156.3O

II costs the United States just $3.50.
80 to equip an infantryman for service
in France. Figures made public show
that OF this total clothing represents
slO1.21; fighting equipment, s47 So
and eating utensils. s7.73. The SOL
dier's gas mask cost Sl2, his steel
helmet So and his rife $3.50.
The first $4,000 to 100000 Of
Americas fighting men will be equipped
with the present Springfield army rife,
while those to follow will carry the En-
field. used by English troops.
The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1917-08-24
Clever Booze Smuggling Scheme

One of the cleverest contrivances
ever conceived for smuggling booze
across the border was discovered by
west side authorities last week when
two men with a suspicious looking Ford
bug were placed under arrest at Mount
Vernon. An investigation OF the gas
oline tank, disclosed a double compsrt-
ment, the upper holding about three
gallons Of gasoline and the lower FIVE
or six gallons Of liquor. A strap con-
cealed the whiskey tap at one end.
A faucet at the bottom yielded gasoline
as did an inspection from the top. The
sheriff. Office claims that these men
have smuggled many gallons OF Cana
dian liquor into the state by this ruse.
The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1917-08-24
All Business Houses Close After
II Noon

In order that all employees who care
to attend the Elks Carnival in We
natchee may have the opportunity the
stores Of Leavenworth have agreed C
close their doors at noon today.
The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1917-08-24

The drafting Of men for the army is
effecting the railroad company as other
lines OF industry. Some twenty-five or
thirty men have been pulled of the
Spokane and Cascade divisions. New
men taking their places are being hired
every day.
The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1917-08-24

Read The Echo if you want the news
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1917-05-09
WATERH0USE
CO. HAS SPEEDY idea,
OPINION OF ALASKAN

Waterhouse-Sands has them all
bested when II comes 10 quick ac-
ton on secondhand cars. In fact.
the wonderful system that Bill
Williams. In charge OF this depart
ment, has introduced. is causing the
Stndebaker Motor Car company. OF
the East. to sit up and take notice.
aud they have even gone 80 far as
10 induce Williams TO write ser
les Of articles on how II is done.
The other day n gentleman from
Alaska. Charles Meldner. breezed
In TO the secondhand department
OF the Waterhouse-Sands Co. and
wanted 10 buy "a secondhand Ford.
Williams showed him a Ford chas-
sis and told him how they would
fix roadster out OF g. The
Alaskan took Williams at his word
and tho next afternoon the Alaskan
Vas seeing Seattle N his own car
For speed you can beat Williams
system.