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The Tabor independent. [volume] (Tabor, S.D.) 1913-19??, 1918-12-05
WAR INDUSTRY HEAD
WILL RESIGN PLACE
By Associates Press.

Washington, ID. c., Dec. 2.-Bernard
NJ. RaruCh, chairman Of the war indus
tries board, has forwarded his resigna-
ton to President Wilson to take effect
on January !. There has been no an
noancement, however. as to its accep-
lance.
Mr.. Baruch's decisioc to resign Is un-
derstood to ave no bearing on the re-
ported desire Of the president 10 name
him as secretary of the treasury. but
IL in line with his known belief that
the a.rai~s OF the board can pe closed
by the fret Of the year. .
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Asks Tor support.
May | not hope, gentlemen Of the
congress, that in the delicate tasks
shall have 10 perform on the
other sid. OF the sen in my efforts
truthfully and faithfully to inter.
pret the principles and policies or
the country We love: may | have
the encouragement ard the added
strength of your united support?
! realize the magnitude and difficult
duty ! am undertaking. ! am po!g-
nantly aware of its grave RESPONSE
bilities. | am the servant of the
nation, and can have no private
thought or purpose OF my own In
performing such an errand. i do so
to give the best that is i'm me to the
common settlement which ! must
nov assist in arriving NJ in confer
cnce with the ether working heads
of associated governments.
Available for Counsel.
/ shall count upon your friendly
countonancc and encouragement. j
shall not be inaccessible. The ca
b,es and the wireless will render me
available for any counsel or serr-
ice YOU may desire o! mS. and |
shall he happy in the thoGsht that
am constantly in touch with the
weighty ma tters of domestic policy
with which we shall have TO Zeal.
! shall make my absence as brief
a. noscjb'e "nl shall hope TO return
with The Eapo" aSsur7r"e that II
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The Tabor independent. [volume] (Tabor, S.D.) 1913-19??, 1918-12-05

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We may hope. | believe, for the
formal conclusion of the war by
treaty by the time spring has rome.
The 81 months to- which the present
control of the railways is limited
after formal proclamation OF the
peace shall have been made will run
at farthest. | take il for granted,
only TO the January Of 1921. The
full equipment OF the railways
which the federal administration
planned could not be completed
within any such period. The pres
ent law does rot permit the use OF
the revenue Of the several roads
for the execution of such plans PIX
ccpt by formal contract with their
directors. some Of whom will con-
sent while some will not. and there
fore, does not afford sufficient au-
thority 10 undertake improvement
upon the scale upon which it would
be necessary to undertake them.
Every approach to this difficult
subject matter of decision brings US
face to face, therefore, with this
unanswered question: What is 1t
right that we should do with the
railroads. In the interest Of the
public and fairness TO their owncr2
Lacks An Answer.
Let me say at once that | have
no answer ready. The only thing
that Is perfectly clear TO me Is that
II Is not far either TO the public
or to the of the IA 'lroads
to leave the question unanswered.
and that IL VIII presently become
my duty to ~rol'nru'sh control OF
the roads, ev-n baforn the exp IA
ton OF tn, s~'ljutD,s' p rod unlss,
there shou'd appear some clear
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The Tabor independent. [volume] (Tabor, S.D.) 1913-19??, 1918-12-05
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The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1918-06-14
TRYING TO SOLVE FARM LABOR
SHORTAGE.

The government realizes the neces-
sity of relaxing the labor laws to
allow farm labor to come into the
country from Mexico and Canada.
The anti-contract laws, literacy
test and SO head tax laws have been
suspended for the duration of the
war, but immigration is restricted
to farm purposes.
The government is demanding
that farmers pay the prevailing
wages to all such labor and retain
25 cents a day for a fund to insure
deportation.
The idea is that all such labor
shall again return to the countries
whence it came as soon as the war
is over and not acquire permanent,
residence.
State governments are asked to
provide for the distribution of such
labor to the sections of the state
where it is most urgently needed to
make crops.
The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1918-06-14
CAUCUS NAMES
DELEGATES.

The republican voters of the
three town precincts of Leavenworth
met in caucus at the city hall last
Saturday evening and elected dele
gates to the county Republican con-
vention to be held at Wenatchee TO-
morrow afternoon.
Following are the regular dele
gates and alternates:
First Precinnct-
Delegates: J. W. Elliott, D.. H.
Magyar, S. A Potter, NJ. A, Marley,
o. S. Sampson.
Aternates: L. o. Taylor, Art
OLeary, B. C. Rutherford, Ross r.
win, Butler Sampson.
Second Precinct
Delegates: J. C. Davis, l.. w.
Woodrow, Harry Geerds, H. X.
Featherstone.
Altenates: Weigand, Max Kring-
gle, j. E. Shubert, J. B. Bowers.
Third Jrecinct-
Delegates: VIM. Moon, j. r. Nc
Kinnon, Geo. Blacksedge, L. r. Hart,
Jas. Wunder.
Alternates: D. A. Burgett, Victor
Swanson, Chas. Taylor S. H. KnowI-
ton, /. F. Hutchings.
The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1918-06-14
BIG STAMP DRIVE MEETING
JUDGE WEBSTER WILL SPEAK
Large Delegation of Wenatchee Elks
with Band, Will Be Here Wed
nesday, June 10.

The Leavenworth Elks, who num-
Der more than fifty, have arranged
with their Wenatchee brethren to
pull off the biggest stunt of the year.
The famous Elks band, with a hun
dred members, are planning to drive
here Wednesday afternoon.
Judge Stanley Webster, Of Spo-
kane, candidate for congress, will
make the principal address. Other
speakers will also be here. The COM
plete program has not yet been
worked out but will be arranged
and given out in time to give all who
may be interested an opportunity to
be here. The object of the meeting
of course, is to promote the sale of
thrift stamps; in other words, pre-
pare the ground for the big drive,
which begins Friday, June %.
The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1918-06-14
FAST MAIL DERAILED AT DRY
DEN SATURDAY.

No. 81, the west-bound fast mail
on the Great Northern, was derariled
near Dryden early Saturday morn
ing. One car left the track and
went into the ditch, but no one of
the train crew was injured. The
train was travelling at a relatively
slow speed at the time, and for that
reason the wreck was a much less
serious affair than it might otherwise
have been.
A broken axle on the rear truck
of the tank caused the wreck. 1t
is reported that the break in the
steel shaft was so clean cut as to
give the appearance of having been
cut with an instrument of some kind.
Similar accidents have occurred on
freight trains recently and it is un-
derstood that the railway officials
are conducting an investigation to
determine whether or not the rolling
stock is being tampered with.
The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1918-06-14
HAS THE FARMER CAUSE FOR
GRIEF?

No class of American citizens get
so quick hearing or so prompt re-
sponse when in. actual need of at
tention from the government as the
farming class.
Ask any honest and fair minded
tiller of the soil today if he has any
cause for real grievance for his class
the country over and he will tell you
he has not.
He has the best market he ever
had, under the highest scale of
prices aud under the best financial
and banking system the nation ever
possessed, and the most favorable
laws.
The Department of Agriculture,
the postal service, the rural systems
farm loan banks and score of state
and national helps have been created
and extended for his special benefit
The financial page of the Chicago
Tribune this week had a showing
that mortgage funds were not in de-
mand, that rural credit loans were
going begging, farmers are growing
rich.
Farm mortgage dealers are find
ing business constantly growing into
greater dullness, with little demand
from farmers for money.
Farmers are paying off an unusu-
ally large percentage of mortgages
Seventy per cent of the farm mort
cages maturing are being paid off
Only thirty per cent are beng re-
newed or extended"
And this is the season of the year
when farmers have nothing much to
sell. What will be their condition
of affluence when the present bumper
crops are harvested and cashed?
Yet there is a school of socialistiC
and political agitators telling the
farmers their lot is that of the plum
dered Russian peasant and that they
are the prey of the beasts of the
Jungle, alias Big Business and the
organized middleman.
The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1918-06-14
N. T. SHOTWELL DIED AT CASH
MERE WEDNESDAY.

At the ripe age of rs, Mr.. N. T.
Shotwell, father of Mrs. H. G. Kroll-
pfeiffer, passed away Tuesday
morning at 9 o'clock. He came 10
the Wenatchee valley in 1902 and 10
Gated near Cashmere, where he re-
sided until death came. He had been
an invalid for years and for the past
four months death had been expected
any day. He is survived by his wife,
two sons, Nathaniel, who lives a,
Cashmere, and Will, who makes his
home in Wenatchee; two daughters,
Mrs. o. NJ. Brooks, Cashmere, and
Mrs. H. G. Krollpfeiffer of Leaven-
worth. The remains were laid to rest
in the Cashmere cemetery Wednes-
day afternoon.
The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1918-06-14
AVOID EVERY IDLE WORD"

A case has come to my attention
which is so unspeakably horrible
that l must write about it at once
in the hope that it will be warning
to all of us who are tempted to write
idle witticisms in our letters to the
boys cover there"
The girl in this case wrote that she
hoped her brave hero would "give
the Kaiser a pair of black eyes" If he
ever came across him. How dearly
he paid for this jest may be imag-
ined when the writer of it received
the human eyes of the young man
to whom it was written and who had
been taken prisoner with this letter
in his pocket; with the comment
from the "Hun" in note enclosed
with the eyes, that she could darken
his eyes any color she wanted to.
Let us caution our boys to have no
duplicating papers ar notes about
them and let us see to it that we
write only helpful news.
Mrs. Ed. C. Booth.
The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1918-06-14
BUILDING UP HOME FACTORIES

No individual living in this state
can say to himself, 81 have no inter
est in bigger payrolls."
In some way or other every per-
son in the state is benefited by cir
culation of payroll money.
In the past years, and even now,
effort has been principally directed
to marketing natural resources and
paying no attention to building up
payrolls.
Consumers and merchants must
give preference, on terms of equal
price and quality, to products of our
factories.
If the manufacturers can grow TO
a size that will enable them to reach
out into other states, the increased
business means bringing just that
much more money into the state in
which the payroll is maintained.
Encourage our industries both
large and small by equitable tax
laws and minimum of restrictive
legislation and regulation. Payrolls
build up our communities, political
agitations do not. You are helping
to win the war when you help to
maintain high efficiency and produc-
tion in our industries.
The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1918-06-14
EARLY SEASON TRAFFIC OVER
BLEWETT is HEAVY.

That Blewett pass is to have
traffic during the season of 1918
that will far exceed anything here
tofore, is indicated by the large
number of cars which are pouring
over the mountain each way daily,
says Mondays Daily World. Approx
imately $50 cars crossed the pass
yesterday, according to an estimate
made from four hours count made
by Fred Reeves. Mr. Reeves came
from Seattle yesterday and in four
hours time he met AZ cars headed
westward. There is every reason to
believe that at least 100 cars went
west and 80 cars went east over the
pass. The number may have be
as high as 200. Mr.. Reeves ST.
that the roads are in better shaI -
on the pass than ever before. H
made the trip from Wenatchee to
Kirkland at 2:45 p. m.
The road over the Snoqualmie is in
good shape. There is foot or two
of snow on the pass but the roadway
is open the entire distance.
The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1918-06-14
TRAVELLERS BY RAIL HIT BY
GOVERNMENTS WAR NEEDS
New Passenger Tariff Goes into
Effect June 10 on All Roads
Three Cents a Mile Flat.

Travellers by rail, whether for bus
ines or pleasure, will have reason
hereafter to realize that this country
is now on a war basis, if they have
not formerly appreciated that fact.
The passenger traffic of all rail-
roads in the United States was put
on a war basis last Monday, June
10th, when the new tariffs recently
announced by the government went
into effect. Agent Simons of the
local Great Northern office has not
yet received complete tariffs and in
structions, and cannot as yet give
out detailed information as to
specific rates for that reason; but in
general terms the new tariffs are
based on a straight three cents a
mile rate, regardless of distance or
the amount of patronage. All mile
age book privileges are abolished,
and all mileage books issued prior
to June 10th and not yet used up
aIC SciiNCACuy Dub
pro rata on presentation to passen-
ger agents at designated points.
In addition to the three cents a
mile rate, the eight per cent war tax
previously in effect continues. The
excess baggage privileges heretofore
in effect on all roads also are
abolished and all excess baggage
coupons are cancelled.
Before the new order became eff
fective a rumor gained wide circula-
ton that sleeping car and dining car
services were to be taken off all
trains. This rumor was without ex-
cuse. These services are to be con-
tinued but at increased rates.
The only exception made to the
otherwise universal three cents a mile
rate is in favor of nurses and enlist
ed men on furlough, who are allowed
rate of one cent a mile when GER
tifcates signed by a comanding
officer are presented at the ticket
sellers window.
The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1918-06-14
Million Youths Registered in U. S
Tuesday-17 in Leavenworth.

From news given to the press by
the government it appears that one
million young men who have become
of age since June one year ago,
registered last Wednesday, June 5.
Seventeen registered before City
Clerk Brown, the local registration
officer. --
Among the young men who regis
tered at Wenatchee, the following
gave Leavenworth as their place of
residence: Clarence E. Herzog, Will
liam A. Harding, Harry C. Sitan,
Henry T. Dohlman, Charles M. Love,
William C. Barham, Max r. Ander-
son, John H. MacGrew, John w. Bur-
CESS, Walter A. Koevner, Sadaguma
Ogata, Roose Patrick, John P. Brew
er, Frank C. Holinger, Heizi Hira-
kuri, Charles w. Arbogast, Albert L.
Dynes and Roland C. Nichols.
The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1918-06-14
FARM HOUSE ON ICICLE BURNS
SUNDAY AFTERNOON.

The farm house on the j. S. Tur-
ner ranch, the last place up the
Icicle, burned last Sunday evening.
The house and all the contents were
total loss.
Dick Turner, a brother of the
owner, who came here about two
months ago to take charge of the
ranch this year, was alone at the
place when the fire occurred. He
had been working all day on an ir-
rigation fume and when he returned
to the house tired in the evening he
fell asleep in his chair. A little
later he was awakened by the smoke
and found the house all ablaze, and
barely escaped with his life. The or
igin of the fire is a mystery to Mr..
Turner as he had had no fire about
the house all day.
The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1918-06-14
FOREIGN TRADE DEVELOP
MENT.

"Unless we continue to develop our
foreign trade after the war, we can
have no enduring prosperity" This
statement by Chairman Hurley of
the Shipping Board should be given
careful consideration by every Amer
lean. At this time the winning of
the war is the great question and
every energy should be bended to
that task. Having done all of those
things which we can do in this be
half, we should next fix our attention
upon the fact that after we have
won the war, of which there can and
must be no question, we shall then
be confronted with the serious ques-
tion of paying the war debt, which
cannot be other than gigantic. 1t
was not many years ago when poll
ticians summed up all convincing ar
guments against the party in power.
with the phrase, "A Billion Dollar
Congress" The interest upon the war
debt after the war is over, will be at
least a billion dollars yearly. This
only to pay interest, with no provis-
ion for meeting the principal. To
meet these obligations our people
must be more productive than ever.
Our industrial plants must work with
a greater efficiency. We must COM
mand more markets in order that
our greater efficiency may find an
outlet for its product and at price
which will provide the wages which
our higher standard of living will re-
quire. The United States is
country of wonderful productive ca
pacity and of untold natural re-
sources. These have formed the
basis of it's wonderful prosperity. We
must dispose of our surplus prodrs-
ton in foreign markets in order to
find full employment for all indus
trial agencies.-Mining Journal.
The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1918-06-14
NOTICE.

Miss Ella Alexander of the Wash
ington State College, will be here all
day tomorrow to show the women of
Leavenworth and vicinity how to can
and dry fruits and vegetables. The
demonstrations will be given in the
store building formerly occupied by
the Cash store, next door to Ahlin's.
Every woman is urged to attend
this meeting and learn how to con-
serve food.
The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1918-06-14
GUN CLUB HOLDS FIRST TRAP
SHOOT.

A number of Wenatchee trap gun
enthusiasts drove up Tuesday in the
cool of the evening to try their luck
at the clay discs on the Leavenworth
gun club grounds. The conditions
were ideal for shooting and good
scores were registered. Unfortunate
ly the stock of birds gave out before
full count of shots could be made.
Those from Wenatchee who parti-
cipated in the shooting were: o. f.
Nefzger, T. Stannard, Guy Brown,
NJ. Whalen, F. c. Thornhill and NJ.
w. Curtis. The local shooters were
D. Burgette, R. Smith, J. Hartman
and w. Mcintosh.
The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1918-06-14
FOUR AUTO LOADS LEFT SUNDAY
ATTEND WAR SAVG CONVENTION
Spent Monday in Seattle in Effort 90
Devise Means of Promoting Sale
of War Savings Stamps.

The party left here early last
Sunday morning and were met at
Peshastin by eight auto loads of
people from Wenatchee and other
parts of Chelan county. The trip
was made by way of Blewett pass
and the Sunset Highway also called
the Snoqualmie falls route. The
roads are all in excellent condition
for travel, the passes entirely free
of snow, with scenic attractions all
the way. The great falls, now m
full flood, are worth trip to see.
The War Savings Convention was
we'll attended by representatives
from every part of the state. The
morning session lasted from 8 o'clock
until 1890, and the afternoon ses-
sion from 2 to o'clock. Every
minute of the time was employed
in some way to promote the sale of
war saving stamps, Friday, June 2s,
which has been designated by the
president and the governor of this
state as War Savings Day.
Mr.. Daniel Kelleher, state War
Savings Director, acted as chairman
and kept things moving at a lively
gate from beginning to end. Some
excellent talks were made, all along
a line intended to promote the
sale of war savings stamps. Those
who had experience in past drives
told how success might best be at
tanned in each community raising its
allotment.
One of the addresses, which was
listened to with the closest atten-
tion, was that by Judge D. G. Woo
ten, of Seattle, on "Why is the
United States at war with Ger
many?" Capt. Cark, of the Canadian
expeditionary force, related his ex-
periences in the trenches, He was
three times wounded and expects 10
return.
The Leavenworth delegation re-
turned loaded with facts, figures and
methods through which it is expect
ed the committee having the drive
in charge will be able to present the
matter in such way that Leaven-
worth will come through with her
portion.
The following ladies and gentle
men, the first named furnishing the
cars, made the Leavenworth delega-
ton:
R. B. Field and wife, Guy A. Ham
ilton, Deed H. Mayor and J. A. War
man of Peshastin.
DR.. A. G. McKeown and wife, Geo.
A. Bunch and wife, James Thomp-
son.
L. R. Hart, ]. w. Elliott, A. R.
Brown, Frank Wingate.
L. F. Speidel and wife, L. o. Tay-
lor, L. w. Woodrow.
The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1918-06-14
WRECK NEAR CRATER
TIES UP RAILROAD TRAFFIC
East Bound Freight and Gravel
Loaded Work Train Collide
No One Is Hurt.

A collision between an east bound
freight train and work train heav-
lily loaded with gravel near Crater
Tuesday afternoon caused a bad
smashup in which rolling stock sur
fered considerable damage and which
tied up traffic for several hours. No
one of the crew of either train was
seriously hurt
The gravel train, with a string OF
loaded dump cars pushed ahead OF
the engine, emerged from a tunnel
and smashed headon into the big 12-
was pulling long string of freif
driver Mallet engine No. 1916 W.
cars. The impact drove the fore
most dump car we'll into the boil
head of the locomotive, and several
freight cars were jammed together
and piled up.
A wrecking train was sent out
from here to clear up the wreck, and
returned late Wednesday afternoon
with the battered engine and what
wreckage was worth salvage. Both
east and west bound passenger
trains Tuesday night were delayed
several hours by the wreck, No. 25,
due here at 2:30 a. M, not arriving
until $50.
The freight train which was regu-
lar No. 964, left Leavenworth at 8:15
Tuesday morning in charge of Con-
ductor Leslie and Engineer Steele.
The wreck is reported to have been
the result of fagman's failure to
signal the freight crew of the ap-
proach of the work train.
The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1918-06-14
SIXTEEN LARGE TRENCH NOR.
TARS GOING EAST

Last Friday morning eight freight
cars, on each of which was loaded
two guns fourteen feet long and
about 80 inches in diameter at the
muzzle and fully forty inches in di-
ameter at the breech, passed through
the Leavenworth yards on an east
bound freight. Each gun, stripped
of everything, weighed 14,500 poundst
They were loaded at the Great
Northern dock in Seattle and were
consigned to Alliance, Ohio.
The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1918-06-14
LOVES .SERBEN.

The following account of the we'd
ding of Leavenworth's popular but
ter-maker, appeared in the Wen
atchee Daily World of Monday:
Mr.. Chas. Minter Love of Leav-
enworth and Miss Elizabeth Gertrude
Serben of Douglas, Wash, were
united in marriage by Rev. Robert
Warner at the Methodist parsonage
at 10 o'clock this morning. They
were accompanied by a few of their
friends. The groom is in the cream
cry business in Leavenworth and
they will make their home at that
place.