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The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1918-07-05
NOTICE TO WATER USERS.

We are again compelled to make
new rules as to sprinkling hours in
order to keep full pressure up at all
hours in case of fire, to-wit:
All persons wishing to sprinkle on
the North side of the tracks are re-
quested to do so between the hours
of o'clock a. m., and 5 o'clock p.
m.; those on the south side of the
tracks between the hours of p. m,
and 5 a. m.
The use of hose without nozzle
or sprinkler is prohibited.
Parties found disregarding these
rules will be dealt with according to
law.
This notice supercedes all prior
notices.
Dated this 1st day of July, 1918.
BY Order of City Council.
July 5*
The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1918-07-05
ALMOST A HUNDRED SHIPS
LAUNCHED ON THE FOURTH

Enough ships to carry five million
American soldiers, if necessary, to
Europe to everlastingly settle wheth-
er force and fury or reason and right
shall rule in this world, were
launched in American shipyards yes
terday. This is an impressive ans
wer to Germany's camoufiaged
peace offer. In their present mood
force-powder and leads the one
and only effective argument with the
German leaders. The more and the
faster we use this argument the
sooner will it all be over.
The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1918-07-05
rs THE FOOD ADMINISTRATORS
WABBLING?

Readers of this paper will recall
how the food administrator an
nounced a month ago that for can
ming purposes we could get 100
pounds of sugar. That lasted a
week, then the quantity was cut
down to 25 pounds. Now there are
further restrictions. Local food adj
ministrator Bob Smith is in receipt
of the following instructions from
Mr.. Hebbard, dated July 1st:
To All Retailers of Sugar:
The sugar situation has become
so acute that the United States Food
Administration finds it necessary to
limit the use of sugar throughout
the United States to three pounds
per person, except for Gaming and
preserving.
The rules as given below super
cede all instructions you have re-
ceived previously.
A-Sales to family consumers, eX-
cept for Gaming, are limited to two
pound purchases mote exception of
quantity in b regardless of the kind
or grade of sugar.
B-Farmers or others living at a
distance from the nearest purchasing
point are permitted to purchase
ten days supply based on three
pounds per person a month (for eX
ample-If there are ten in his fam
lily ten days supply would be ten
pounds.)
C-Hotels, restaurants, boarding
houses and camps having less than
25 people each meal are limited to
a ten 10) days supply. If they feed
an average of over 25 people they
must obtain certificates to use in
making their sugar purchases. Cook
wagons for threshing crews and sim
liar situations may be considered as
camps or boarding houses. In cases
of proved necessity the 10 day limit
in Rule B and C may be extended to
not to exceed 80 day supply upon
written authority of the County
Food administrator.
D-Sugar shall not be used as a
leader for special sales or to encour-
age the sale of other merchandise.
E-For Gaming purposes only may
sugar be sold in amounts up to 25
pounds, but the purchaser must sign
pledge that such sugar will be set
aside and used only for Gaming.
Each dealer must keep record book
of these signatures and this sugar
book viii be open for the inspection
by an agent of the Federal Food
Administrator.
Any person who has already pur-
chased sugar for Gaming either from
you or from any other source can
secure second supply only by sur
render to you of a written permit
obtained by your customer from the
County Food Administrator.
F-Retail dealers are permitted to
carry sugar stocks not in excess of
requirements for 80 days.
G-If you do a mail order bust
ness apply at once for consumers
certificates as mail order houses will
not be allowed to sell sugar without
using these consumers certificates
signed by your customer.
H-You canot sell sugar to soda
water fountains, soft drink estab-
lishments, candy manufacturers, etc,
without delivery to you by them of
the proper amount of sugar certifi-
Gates. For fuller information refer
to letter sent you May 10th.
Very truly,
CHARLES HEBBERD,
Federal Food Administrator fol,
The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1918-07-05
WOMAN INJURED IN AUTO AC-
CIDENT.

Dir. HoXsey was called to the Blew
EFT mining camp Tuesday after
noon to attend a woman who was in
jured in an auto accident. He said
on his return that the woman, Miss
Hazel Martin, was injured quite Sc
verely though not seriously when
her fathers machine turned over a
few miles above old Blewett, and
that with day or two rest she can
proceed on her journey. Mr. Martin
who by the way is assistant foreman
in the G. N. shops at Hillyard, had
been down in Oregon visiting rela-
tives and was on his way home with
his daughter when the accident oc-
Cured.
The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1918-07-05
ALFALFA AND WHEAT AS
COVER CROP IN ORCHARDS
Yield Very Satisfactory-From
Cut This Week-Wheat Cut
ting Next Week.

Pcshastin orchardists have been
favored with beautiful weather for
cutting alfalfa hay. The shocks of
hay seen in the orchards are very
thick, indicating a heavy yield. Al
falfa in the orchards is claimed to
be beneficial for the raising of ap-
Piles and where cured it makes ex-
cellent feed for cattle.
The wheat is ripening fast and
many of the orchardists will cut it
this week.
The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1918-07-05
PATRIOTIC COUNTY CELEBRA
TION AT MONITOR.

The people of Wenatchee got up a
big patriotic celebration and hit upon
the Old Settlers picnic grounds five
miles up the river from Wen&tchee,
at Monitor, for the place. A right
good and appropriate place it is, too;
OTIS of shade trees, good water, in
deed an ideal place to hold cele-
bration. A large number of Leav-
enworth people attended and report
a fine time.
Judge Webster, candidate for con-
gress, to succeed the slippery Dill,
was the principal orator. There
were a number of other speakers,
music galore, with sports thrown in.
The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1918-07-05
FOREST FIRE IN SPROMBERG
CANYON.

What for a time threatened to be
a dangerous fire broke out in the
slashings in Spomberg canyon last
ss.qnday. 4 Prompt work by the for
sry department, with the help of
employees of the G. N. Lumber Co.,
so far checked the blaze that by
Tuesday it was considered ex-
tinguished. Some hundred or more
acres of timber land recently logged
over by the lumber company was
burned over. From seventy-five to a
hundred thousand feet of logs were
destroyed. The fire was about four
and half miles north of town and
filled the air with smoke.
The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1918-07-05
THE PRESIDENT AT MOUNT
VERNON.

1t as very fitting that President
Wilson should announce on the most
historic spot in all this country why
the United States is in the war and
its aims and purposes. This he did
in the presence of distinguished
guests, foreign and homegrown, in
brief words, the outstanding SEN
tences in which were: "What
we seek is the reign of law,
based upon the consent of the gov
erned, and sustained by the organ
lied opinion of mankind"
"There can be but one issue. The
settlement must be final. No half
way decision would be tolerated"
That is straight from the shoulder,
like a prize fighters punch. The
kind of talk that suits our people.
The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1918-07-05
ARRESTED FOR BOARDING
FLOUR.

Pierre P. Perry, pioneer Seattle
attorney and son of Elisha P. Ferry,
first governor of Washington, was
arrested in Seattle Tuesday for
boarding flour. He had 600 pounds
hidden behind the sofa in his home.
Ferry, according to the Officers,
said the -four was purchased before
the food laws became effective and
asserted he did not know h. was
violatinsc the statutes by keeping it.
The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1918-07-05
BOTH SUPPORT L. S. A.

We have yet to hear President
Wilson inviting Medill Mccormick to
run on the Democratic ticket for
United States senator from Illinois,
or of his suggesting. that Governor
Edge be nominated by the democrats
of New Jersey. These things would
make us really and truly believe that
politics is adjourned"
The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1918-07-05

Fishery products of Alaska in 1917
were valued at $51 ,405, ,260, or more
than seven times the purchase price
paid by the United States to Russia
for the entire territory, according to
the bureau of fisheries. Salmon rep
resented 90 per cent of the years
total catch, amounting to $47,778,0S1
as compared with 81 ,120,226 for hall
but, s767,729 for herring and S744,-
976 for cod.
The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1918-07-05
MILDRED ALFREDA ADAMS
DIED IN SEATTLE SATURDAY
Funeral Services, Held Monday,
Were Private-Remain Were
Cremated.

News of the death of Miss Mil
dred Adams, received about noon
Saturday, caused a profound shock.
This had been the home of the fam
lily for many years until two years
ago. Miss Mildred grew to woman
hood here and was universally es-
.sEEE- e. - -.
The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1918-07-05

Memhe, of the Lvelp ,ol cotton
exchange resolved last Tuesday that
they would not trade either direct
ly or ind rt.p with the present en-
emies of GpIt Butan for a ciod
Of ten aars after the lose Of he
war,
The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1918-07-05

Mr.. and Mrs. J. NJ Kessler, uncle
and aunt of Mrs. ]. D. Wheeler,
drove over the pass from Seattle
Wednesday and after visiting and
making a few excursions into the
country will return to their home
Sunday,
The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1918-07-05
q .ES OVER tor IN
w. 5. =. DRIVE.

Peshastin exceeded its quota in
subscriptions for the War Savings
Stamps campaign. Peshastin school
District No. 100 was given s2l 800
to raise in the campaign. The
amount subscribed was S22, 1856,
which exceeded the quota almost
one thousand dollars.
The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1918-07-05

Do not cry out against the terors
of thrift as long as the men in the
trenches do not cry out against their
hardships. Consider yourself lucky
to be able to save and to buy War
Savings Stamps.
The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1918-07-05

Try Want Ad in The Echo.
Omaha daily bee., 1918-02-09
American Aviator From Missouri
Brings DoWn First German AirpLane

plane driving in from the side and
firing its gun.
The bullets whizzed close to the
French machine before the American
acting as gunner could get his piece
into action.
Then he turned stream of bullets
into the enemy and before the first
drum was exhausted the enemy ma
chine toppled and started to spiral.
Then it Topped and futtered down
with flare of smoke and fame in its
wake.
1t crashed to the ground a short
distance from the German city.
The other American aviator, also
a lieutenant, was not so lucky as the
Missourian, for the machine he picked
out to engage lodged away quickly
and he was unable to get in any ef-
fectiye shots.
When the squadron returned the
Missouri lieutenant's hands we're
swollen to twice their normal size
from the cold, he having lost his
gloves during the encounter.
Otherwise, he is today about the
happiest officer in the American ex-
peditionary forces.f
Omaha daily bee., 1918-02-09
OFFICIAL LIST
TUSCAa'lA DEAD
HARD TO OBTAIN
War Department Checks List
Of Survivors; impossible to
Learn Names Until lnfor-
nation is Centralized.
(By Associated Press.l

, Washington, Feb. 8--Physical dif-
fculties in preparing lists of surviv-
ors Of the Tuscania, it was said today
at the War department, may greatly
delay publication Of an accurate list Of
the lost. II
The survivors have been landed at
various points. Until officers manage
to get in touch with them and check
them off against the muster rolls or
until a complete list of the names Of
survivors can be assembled at some
central point and checked against the
ships papers there is no way to de-
termine who are missing, although the
number may be known.
There also is a possibility that addi-
tional survivors may have been picked
up BY patrol boats.
The list of lifeboats also must be
checked up, as one or two might
have made shore unaided.
Xhere are instances III the subma-
rine disasters where crews have been
taken from their boats by outward
bound vessels.
1t is regarded as unlikely, however,
that any survivors of the Tuscania will
be found to have matched this expert
ence and when all patrol craft in the
vicinity have reported the list of miss
ing will be regarded definitely as the
list Of dead.
Omaha daily bee., 1918-02-09
WOMAN PRAISED
FOR HER HEROIC
WORK OF RESCUE
Slid Down Rope From Sinking
,Tuscania Into Boat and Then
Helped Save Many
Lives.
{By Associated Press.)

London, Feb. 8.-The correspond.
ent of the Press association at an
Irish port says survivors there of the
Tuscania were greatly relieved to
hear of the safe arrival elsewhere oi
Major Benjamin F. Wade, of Wash
ington, commander Of contingent oi
the steamer, and hundreds of Ameri,
Can troops.
The only two women on board, the
correspondents account says, Mrs,
Collins and Mrs. Parsons. went down
a rope into a lifeboat. The former
said that when their boat left the
Tuscania many of the troops had been
thrown out in lowering the next boat
1--WE were Immediately surrounded
by men in the icy water wearing life
BELTS" she said.
I'VE had only two men in our boat
who could manage the oars. They
did their best, and as we came across
swimming or floating man we
gathered him into the boat Soon the
boat was full, Eventually we got
on board a destroyer. / don't re-
member a harder bit of work"
A soldier who heard Mrs. Collins
a stewardess, tell the story, said:
eyes, and you did as much as the
best man in the, world could have
done. l was in your boat and saw
yotj."
Omaha daily bee., 1918-02-09
Train DispatChers Deny
Roads Dlscredit u. S. Control

Washington, Feb. s. Railroad
train dispafchers in the west today
telegraphed the railroad wage COM
mission denying charges that they
were delaying movement of trains
under government operation and said:
Our instructions are that we must
earnestly and in every manner what
soever, continue to assist in the eff
fcient operation of the railways"
The kilograms came from Arkansas
LaJunta, Colo. They were in an
swer to statements made by heads of
the conductors and trainmen's unions,
that railway managements were at
tempting to discredit operation after
the eight-hour law and government
management of the railways by in
creasing expenses and ineficiently
operating the country's transporta-
ton system.
Omaha daily bee., 1918-02-09

With the American Army in
France, Thursday, Feb. T. The
young American lieutenant who had
the honor of shooting down his first
German airplane while accompanying
a French escadrille on a bombing ex-
pedihon Tuesday night had never
operated a machine gun before in his
life while in flight and never, before
had been over the enemy lines.
He got his man over the German
city of Saarburg.
The bombing squadron was over
Saarburg and in the act of dropping
bombs when enemy airplanes were
seen approaching rapidly.
By the time the bomb dropping had
been completed the enemy was close
at hand and the French formation of
which this American and another
American aviator had accompanied as
gunners was at an altitude of 1900
feet.
The LIEUTENANT, who is a Missou-
rian, took off his gloves so that he
might operate his machine gun more
effectively, when he saw an enemy
Omaha daily bee., 1918-02-09
Federal Food Speakers to Tour
State Last Week This Month

Eleven cities Of Nebraska will be
visited by the team OF federal food
speakers, which opens its state tour in
Omaha on February Is. The trip
through the state of this team will
require a full week, according to the
schedule arranged by Federal Food
Administrator Wattles.
After all day in Omaha, the team,
which will consist OF DR.. Ray L. Viii
bur, president of Leland Stanford uni
versity, and Everett Colby, Orange,
N. J., and Miss Elizabeth Kelley, Uni
versity of Wisconsin, will go to Ere
mont for Tuesday meetings. Tuesday
evening they speak in Norfolk, then
60 to Columbus for a noon and after
noon meeting Wednesday, and to
Grand Island Wednesday night. -
Thursday morning they speak at
Kearney and that evening in North
Platte. Friday afternoon and even
ing will be given to talks in Gering
and Scottsbluff. Then they gn to AL
lance for Saturday meeting, winding
up in Broken Bow Saturday night
with a mass meeting there.
The schedule for the team which
will work from Lincoln and will cover
the southern part OF the state will be
perfected today By MIR, Wattles.
A heavy schedule is being arranged
for the day in Omaha and includes
meetings at the Chamber OF Com
merce, the University club, the
Young Mems Christian association, a
mass meeting of public school teach
ers in the high school auditorium, and
Omaha daily bee., 1918-02-09
U. S. PATROLS GO
over TOP TO GET
GERMAN SHIPPERS
Crawl Over No Mans Land Into
Front Line Trenches; Sharp
shooters Do Effective
Work Routing Enemy.
(By Associated Press.)

With the American Army in France
Thursday, Feb. 7.-American artillery
and infantry have succeeded in clean,
ing out majority Of the snipers who
caused considerable annoyance from
the time the sector was taken over by
the troops.
Snipers' posts in buildings have
been destroyed by knocking down the
shelters over the heads of the Ger
mans with shells.
Americans Rout Snipers.
Snipers hidden in bushes or in shell
holes have been routed by American
sharpshooters.
Night patrols have succeeded in To-
eating some of the positions and the
Germans in them have been finished
off later.
Last night q small patrol entered
an advanced German trench in search
of a nest of snipers.
A lieutenant, a corporal and two
men left the American wire and re.
turned FIVE hours later.
They walked across No Mans
Land, picking their way carefully to
avoid discovery.
Reaching the enemy wire, they
crawled beneath it cautiously and ap.
preached the most advanced enemy
trench.
Find Loaded Rifle.
The men looked down into the
trench, which apparently was aban.
doned, but they were sure snipers
were there.
They dropped down noiselessly and
found a place where the trench bot,
tom showed fresh footprints.
On the parapet the corporal discov.
cred rifle, loaded and pointed in the
direction of the American trenches.
There was not a German around.
The corporal brought back the rife
to the American lines. 1t is a typical
German weapon, made in Berlin and
in good condition.
At another point enemy snipers
were discovered in a shell hole. A
Continued on Page Two, Column Three.)
Omaha daily bee., 1918-02-09
Turkey in Complete
Accord With GERMANY

Amsterdam, Feb. 8.-Turkey is in
complete accord with the attitude OF
Germany and Austria, as expressed
in recent speeches of Count Czernin,
the Turkish foreign minister, Nessi-
my Bey, told the chamber of deputies
yesterday. He also declared:
"The Dardanelles will remain open
in the future to international traffic
as in the past and on the same con-
ditions."
While he was aware of the desira-
bility of peace he said, Eve never will
conclude peace at any price"
The foreign minister concluded his
address with the declaration that he
was in complete accord with German
and Austrian policies.
Omaha daily bee., 1918-02-09
TUSCANIA'S SICK
EREFlRST TOBE
MOVEDTOSAFETY

London. Feb. 8.-How American
soldiers behaved when they found
that the boats assigned to them on
the Tuscania had been smashed, is
told by an American officer who
landed at an Irish port.
The officer said that his men be-
haved as they had expected them to.
Two full boatloads under his COM
mand assembled on the deck vixen
the torpedo struck the liner and
marched to the boats assigned them.
Arriving at their station, they
found that both boats had been de-
stroyed.
"rhe men lined up on deck at at
tention," said the officer, "and all pre-
served the utmost composure until q
destroyer came alongside and ef-
fected the transfer from the gradually
sinking deck
we stood alongside until the last
man was taken off, who, as might be
expected, was the commander of the
ship.
THE patients in the ships hospital.
including several cases of scarietina
and fever, were among the first tahen
off,"
Omaha daily bee., 1918-02-09
MANY ARE MISSING.

MANY ARE MISSING.
Reports received at the American
embassy yesterday indicated the loss
of lol lives, while the British admir-
alty's estimate was 210.
This discrepancy now appears to
have been due to the fact that the
figures supplied to the embassy evil
IDENTIFY did not include the missing, Of
which there are still many.
1t was announced today that ar
rangements were being made by
British and American officials jointly
for great military funerals for the
Tuscania's dead.
AWAIT DETAILS.
Washington, Feb. 8.--Advices to
the War department accounting for
all except llS of the 2,i56 American
soldiers who were aboard the Tus-
cania when 1t was summarized Tues
day night remained unchanged to-
day and officials anxiously awaited
additional details expected to clear up
the conflict with foreign figures on
the losses.
BODIES WASHED ASHORE.
Cable press dispatches from an
Irish port last night saying that A
bodies of American soldiers, battered
beyond recognition, had been washed
ashore Is miles from the scene Of the
torpedoing danpened hope that the
troop losses would prove very small.
According to figures given in earlier
press dispatches, only 10l of those
aboard, including soldiers. members
OF the crew and passengers, were
missing.
This had led officials to believe that
with the heavy loss first indicated
among the crew that most American
soldiers had been saved.
Few Nanss Received.
No attempt was being made thus
far to prepare list OF the lost or
missing.
Only the names OF few survivors
have been received and indications
today were that names of survivors
would continue to come in slowly as
they are assembled in ireland by rep
resentatives OF, the War, State and
Navy, departments.
The report from the Irish port
which also said that army identfca-
ton tags found on the bodies of the
soldiers wasked ashore bore no names
or numbers, making Identification
impossible, caused considerable spec
ulation.
Army regulations require identihea-
ton tags bearing name, rank, COM
pany and regiment of the wearer.
Although there was no official con-
frmation of this report and officials
declined to comment, it was pointed
out that the dispatch said that the
soldiers had not been assigned to
definite units.
Reported 21O Missing.
According to advices in the hands
of the War department, the total
missing from the 2,379 souls aboard
the liner is 2l0, of which 113 are
American troops.
Cable press dispatches say that
1926 persons have been landed and
are being cared for in Irish villages
and cities.
No official story of the sinking has
Continued on Page Two. Column Three.)
Omaha daily bee., 1918-02-09
May Investigate
Lack of Identity
Tags on Soldiers

Washington, Feb. s.--War de-
partment officials are unable to
account for the statement made
in news dispatches that blank
Identification tags were found on
the bodies OF a. American SOL
diers washed ashore.
Even if the men had not been
definitely assigned to an organ
ization the army regulations re-
quire that the tag bear on one
sice the full name of the wearer.
When the soldiers is assigned
the number Of his regiment, the
designation of his company and
his individual number in. that
company are supposed to be
added Immediately to the other
side of the tag.
The organization commander
is held responsible by military
regulations for the completion
of these tags, the purpose of
which is to prevent just such
situation as is Described in the
dispatches from abroad.