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Arizona republican., 1918-10-17
GALLANT bELG|ANS NIGHTLY FORGING
 THEIR WAY HOME
French and British Aid Them-Make It so Hot for
 Retreating Huns, Allies
 Can't Keep UpWith Them
IRepubIican A. p, Leased WireJ

WITH THE ALLIED ARMIES IN BELGIUM, Oct. 16.-(By the Associ- ated Press 4.30 D. m.)-The Germans have started a retreat on a tremendous scale from northern Belgium. French cavalry is approaching Thielt, seven miles from the banks of the Ghent- Bruges canal. The canal itself is only ten miles from the border of Holland. So fast is the enemy retreating that French, Belgian infantry. at least in the center of the battle front. have lost touch entirely with the enemy.
 The Belgians advancing astride the Thourout Bruges and ThouroutOs- tend roads have defeated the Germans. who are retreating rapidly.
 This undoubtedly is one of the wars greatest and most vital victories, for the gallant little Belgian army. ably assisted by crack French and British troops, now has driven the despoilers of it's country from large section which the Germans have occupied since the early days of the war and has gained positions of such importance that the Germans may have to abandon the entire coast of Belgium.
 Deeper Gains Every Hour
 Moreover, the sweeping advance of the allied infantry, preceded by a fan of French cavalry, advancing rapidly has left the entire area in which are the important city of Lille, and the great mining and manufacturing dis tricts of Tourcoing, Roubaix and Tour mai; in a salient winch is growing deep CT every hour and winch the enemy cannot hope to hold.
 The French cavalry which is on the crest of the allied advance has done marvellous work. Today it galloped for ward more than ten kilometers fre- quently carrying out charges with a dash usually associated with cavalry | upon isolated posts of enemy machine gunners, which vainly attempted to | hold up it's advance. Some of these gunners, taken prisoner, said they were totally unable to unde~ Id why the war was going on and why they were called upon to continue fighting. One officer said:
 We have offered all the terms in the world for peace; nobody seems willing to accept them
 Huns Give Fierce Battle
 Resistance where it has been offered by the enemy, has been extraordinarily fierce, for in these places it obviously ders of the fleeing Germans to gain time in which to remove their mater ials. Stubborn fighting has been re- ported, especially from the region ot Thourout. The battle here has beer from street to street, and house tC house, and large numbers of the enemy have been killed. Some Belgian forces have swept around the city in order tC cut the roads at the rear, and also as- sist in bottling up the enemy, trying tC hold out in the city itself.
Arizona republican., 1918-10-17
Thousands in St. Louis

ST. LOUIS, Oct. 16.-With 5.6 new cases of Spanish influenza reported to the health department today, the total of cases in the city is 3,76.. At Jef- ferson Barracks there were 625 cases with 13 deaths in the last 24 hours.
Arizona republican., 1918-10-17
DEATH RATE IN
 NEW YORK HITS
 B|GEST RECORD
All Over Nation, Business
 Houses, Theaters, schools
 Closed-Crowds Dispersed -Influenza Broadcast

NEW YORK. Oct. 16.-Health
 Commissioner Copeland estimated tonight that there are at the out side 100000 cases of Spanish influ- enza in New York city. The pres ent death rate in New York is the highest recorded in the annals of the city. For the last week 1t has been three times more than normal.
Arizona republican., 1918-10-17
Boston to Reopen

BOSTON, oct. 16.-Public schools in this city which have been closed for more than three weeks because of the epidemic of influenza, will reopen Monday. The school board announced that physicians and nurses would be in attendance and take necessary steps to protect the health of the children. Theaters and other places of amuse- ments, soda fountains and liquor sa- looms also will reopen Monday. re- strictions having been ordered lifted at midnight Saturday.
Arizona republican., 1918-10-17
Die Too Fast To Count

FL PASO. Tex, Oct. 16.-Spanish influenza is spreaGing rapidly through northern Mexico. The death toll from the epidemic is reported to be heavy because of the living conditions among the poorer classes which makes pneu- monia, the frequent after effect of in- fluenza, fatal in a majority of cases. Mayor Gonzales of Juarez announced
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Arizona republican., 1918-10-17
GREAT EVENTS FORESHAD0WA \
 DOWNF ALL OF
 HOHENzOLLERN
Unofficial Rumors Reflect
 General Belief and Hope
 of Washington -Inevit- able, It Is Said by Leaders

BASEL. Switzerland, Oct. 16.- The German reiohstag will meet on Friday to discuss President Wilson's note, according to the German press.
 AMSTERDAM, Oct. 16.-Em- peror William has issued decree saying that martial law in Ger many can only be administered by an agreement between the civil and military authorities, according to a report received here.
The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1918-10-18
ROUGH RIDING NIGHTMARE.

The press reports show daily the
millions that are being subscribed to
the Liberty loan by the railroads,
mines and public service corpora
tions and when an additional amount
is needed the word is passed along
and these same companies dig deeper
to raise the billions now required
This is entirely in addition to the city
county, state and federal taxes and
war taxes which they pay, up to 80
per cent of their excess profit.
And hereby hangs a tale. Our So
eialist friend is now advocating city,
state and governmental ownership of
all these great industries. How many
Liberty bonds have you seen any mu-
nicipal owned plant buy, how much
war taxes have you seen them pay?
Suppose the railroads were govern
ment owned instead of merely gov
ernment controlled, how many Liber-
ty bonds would those roads buy and
how much taxes would they pay?
A municipal railway collects the
same fare as a privately owned line
but it pays no taxes and buys no
'onds. Just suppose for a minute
that all these plants were put under
objective ownership as some persons
argue should be done.
The dear public whom the agita-
tors are so solicitous about would pay
for the plants and then turn right
around and load themselves with all
the tax burdens formerly paid by
private industry.
The war is furnishing us some
striking examples of the asset and
value private industry is in a free
country and it is showing the people
as no amount of logical argument
could do that the socialists dream on
paper would become a rough riding
nightmare in practice.
The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1918-10-18
STALLING ON PUBLIC WORK.

Golfers publishes a letter from a
workman in a San Francisco ship
yard, who signs his name and gives
his address. Here are some things
he says can be seen in a shipyard:
Seventy-five per cent of the men
doing so per cent of fair days work,
losing thereby to the country at least
$4,000 per day on one single ship.
He would have heard foremen tell
their men: "Now, take it easy and
hang on to this"
He would have heard at every turn
men boasting about how little they
have done and what pay check they
received.
You may ask how do I know all
these things. Because I am one of
the chief offenders. | am working,
or rather stalling, in large ship
yard The last time l asked fore
man what to do next, he said: "For
.-.-..-....'s sake, can't you find a place
w UeiNC DCCh III lliC
lazaret for three days, receiving 5000
a day and haven't done one single
tap of work.
The author of this nefarious con-
fession should be stood up against
"a wall. By his side should be the
foreman to whom he refers and few
others further up the line.
This labor Stacker filched from the
government the price of 119 thrift
stamps. The work of 119 little boys
and girls, saving their pennies and
nickels, has been nullified by this
bloodsucker. The most astonishing
feature of the incident is the fact
that such stalling could be practiced
with immunity. Try to imagine a
private industry in which such thing
would be possible.
The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1918-10-18
THE ROYAL DEVELOPMENT co.
OPENING MINEAT RED MOUNTAIN
Has Vast Body of Low Grade Cop
per Ore-42 Miles From
LeavenwOrth.

After spending several days here
Mr.. James Naughten left yesterday
morning for the Red Mountain min
ing camp in a car with the company's
chauffeur, C. S. Cook, at the wheel.
Mr.. Naughton tells us that the Royal
Development company has done con-
siderable telling work the past sum-
mer A saw mill was installed and
building and flume lumber was cut
and sawed. Work in the new tunnel,
several miles south of the old Chelan
tunnel, az miles from Leavenworth,
was carried forward, and the big
bore is now into the mountain 1876
feet. A substantial new building SO
by 40 feet was erected as well as
large blacksmith shop and tool
house. A flume three feet by four
feet, 400 feet long was completed.
With an ample supply of water and
an eighteen foot head this will
develop forty horsepower from an
overshot wheel which was installed.
With a turbine wheel, which can not
now be procured, 80 horsepower can
be developed, and should it become
necessary to have more power the
flume can be enlarged, as thre is an
abundance of water. A two-inch
pipe line, 1900 feet long was laid.
This brings water to the camp and is
capable in addition, of developing all
the electric light that will be neces-
sary to light the buildings and the
tunnel. The lighting plant will be
installed next spring. There is drop
of 300 feet in the pipe line, so it may
easily be believed there is some power
possibilities there. This also is capa-
BILE of greater development with
larger pipe.
To give readers of this paper some
idea of the extent of the mineral de-
posit we may say here that Red
Mountain is twelve miles long and
from three to five miles wide and is
practically a body of low-grade ore
that Esl average in value per ton,
two per cent copper, three ounces of
silver per ton and 40 cents in gold.
The main ore bearing ledge is some
twelve feet thick and runs through
the entire mountain. Three tunnels
have been run into the mountain. The
Chelan tunnel is in over 1000 feet;
the Lamb-Davis tunnel 1872 feet,
and the new tunnel, near the south
end of the mountain is in 1876 feet.
Work at the camp will shut down
about the first of November. There
are at this time employed at the
camp five or six men, but for con-
siderable part of the time the past
summer fifteen men were employed.
Mr.. Naughton expects to leave
about the first of November for
Butte, Mont, and will spend the win
ter there with his family. He will
return in the spring and expects to
carry on work next summer on a
much larger scale.
The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1918-10-18
SUGGESTIONS CONCERNING
THE STORAGE OF POTATOES

Storage is employed generally for
the purpose of prolonging the season
of food products.
The best storage temperature for
table or seed potatoes is one that will
keep the tubers in a dormant condi-
ton and preserve their edible quality
and their vigor for seed purposes with
minimum decay and moisture losses.
The humidity content of the air of
the storage cellar plays an important
role in conserving moisture losses.
The moisture content of the air should
not be so high as to deposit a mois-
ture film on the sui face of the tuber
or so low as to caus; an unnecessary
loss of moisture through transpira-
ton.
Thorough aereation of the stored
tubers is an essential for the best
preservation of seed stock and the re-
duction of storage losses.
The exclusion of light from the
storage house is an essential feature
in the storage of table stock.
Good storage is a vital factor in
maintaining the vigor of seed stock.
It's value is not yet fully recognized
by the grower.
The simplest form of potato stor-
age is the pit. The next simplest way
is the dugout pit or storage cellar.
This is an outline or summary of
bulletin on storage and storage
houses which can be obtained by writ
ing the extension service. Pullman
Agricultural College.
The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1918-10-18
WOMEN HELP THRESH GRAIN.

Mr.. o. B. Robertson returned We'd
nesday from Wenatchee lake where
he threshed w. F. Blankensip's wheat
the day before. He says they were
short of help. Only three men be-
sides himself were on the job, when
there should have been eight men.
In this dilemma the women of the
neighborhood turned to and helped
Mr.. Blankenship get his grain saved.
Mrs. Blankenship, the neighborhood
school teacher and three other women
of the neighborhood took the place
of men. Some loaded grain on the
wagon, others pitched it up on the
machine and Mrs. Blankenship took
the sacked grain from the thresher.
If it had not been for the help of the
women, Mr.. Robertson says, the grain
could not have been saved as it be-
gan to rain two hours before they
got thru.
The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1918-10-18
ANOTHER BRISKFY CASE
AGAINST LAMB-DAVIS co.
WANTS $2,400 FOR DAMAGES
DURING YEAR OF
1916.

Messrs. o. p. Barrows and A. N.
Corbin, attorneys for Geo. w. Bris-
key and family, this week filed suit
in the superior court of Chelan county
against the Lamb-Davis Lumber Co.
The suit is brought to recover dam
ages to land and crops for the year
1916. The defendant lumber COM
pany is represented by Messrs. Skuse
Morrill, of Spokane, and Mr.. L. J.
Nelson of Leavenworth.
1t will be recalled that Mr.. Bris-
key recovered judgment in the same
court a few weeks ago for $500
against the Great Northern Lumber
company, successors to the Lamb
Davis Lumber Co. in the winter of
1916. Both suits grew out of the
same cause, damage to land and crops
by the lumber company in the case
at bar, building dam across the We
natchee river below the Briskey land
in 1923, as a result of which the
land of Briskey was overflowed.
The land lies across the Wenatchee
river about one and one-half miles
south of Leavenworth at a point
where the Icicle river flows into the
Wenatchee river. A large part OF
the land, that which is affected by
the dam, has for a number of years
been used for growing timothy hay,
for which it is well suited, and pro-
duces a good crop every year. The
measure of damages is the injury the
water does to the hay crop every
year.
The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1918-10-18
DID THEY HAVE THE FLU?

Postmaster Hamilton and A. A.
Pinch, both say they have reason to
believe there is such a thing as in
fluenza, or grip. Something that
makes a man ache all over and feel
as bad as one can, and still have an
object in living. Both were in bed
three or four days, but now declare
they feel very well. 1t may not be
Spanish influenza that made some
fifty or seventy-five people in this
town sick, many of them with from
103 to 105 degrees of fever, but it
can not be denied that the ailment
that afflicted the Leavenworth peo-
pie is very much like what the Mayo
brothers have described as Spanish
influenza. But then, the Mayo bro
theirs haven't been in Leavenworth.
So there you are. Take it or let it
alone.
The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1918-10-18
INFLUENZA ON THE WANf
FEWER CASES LAST 4S HOURS
Physicians Think High Point Has
Been Passed-FrOm Now On
Fewer Cases.

In talking with some of our physi-
clans we learn that the development
of new cases in the past As hours has
decreased. From now on a steady
decline may be looked for. The
death rate so far has been very low
in Leavenworth. Quite a number of
families are yet affected. Those who
have contracted the disease are either
out of danger or in fair way to COM
plete recovery.
No doubt the prompt action taken
last week in closing all public places
of assemblage had much to do with
preventing the spread of the disease.
DR.. Hoxey says he is quite sure he
had an attack, but because not of a
severe type he managed to keep go
ing most of the time. DR.. Judah had
quite a severe attack but yesterday
was able to be up but did not attend
to business.
The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1918-10-18
WHY THE PUBLIC MUST DO IT'S
SHARE.

If the "home papers" are to be sent
to all our soldiers and sailors and
others, men and women, engaged in
war work abroad, this must be done
by the public generally or by inter-
ested parties in each community.
The ruling of the war industries
board in reference to country week
lies, published August %, provides:
"No publisher may give free copies
of his paper except for actual service
rendered and except to camp libraries
end hospitals or canteens of organi-
cations recognized by the government
etc.
"No publisher shall send his pub
lication to any one below the public
subscription price"
It will thus be seen that all news
papers which heretofore have been
sending free copies to the soldiers
abroad and all newspapers that have
been contributing portion Of their
subscription price in order that the
public might be encouraged to send
the newspapers to soldiers, will have
to discontinue those practices.
In other words, if the soldiers are
to have their home papers of which
they stand so much in need and which
give them so much delight and COM
fort, the people will have to supply
the money for the full paid subscrip-
tions.
The newspaper has no option in the
matter, in view of the very business
like ruling of the war industries
board, which is seeking to prevent any
consumption of print paper without
an adequate return therefor.
IF the public will respond with
prompt donations for sending the pa
pers, every boy from Chelan county
viii in time receive his ''home paper"
Home Paper" Service League.
The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1918-10-18
'THE BEST BIG SISTER IN THE
WORLD"

That's Miss Y. w. C. A. She is the
big sister to the boys on the front
and to the girls and women in the
hospitals and in the munitions plants,
both in France and in the United
States.
The slogan adopted for the eight
states under the jurisdiction of the
western department of the Y. w. C.
A. is peculiarly appropriate. That
slogan, worded by Mrs. ]. T. Lemos
of San Francisco, seems to "hit off"
the Y. w. C. A. war workers exactly
right. She is a big sister-the big
sister of the fighter and the toiler-
and none will deny her the title of
the best.
The U. S. government has recog-
nized the service which the Y. W. C..
A. war worker is performing at home
and abroad The ordance department
has requested the Y. w. c. A. to sup
ervise the recreation and social well
fare of the thousands of girls and
women engaged in munitions pants
and other war industries. This sum-
mer the government opened twenty
two munitions cantonments and has
taken over about one hundred "cost
plus" plants formerly operated under
private ownership.
t. Co,roo+;o,,+ AK mn x,,o,,oav ara
employed in one plant. There are
5000 girls working in the Long Is
land City gas mask factory.
1t is among these as well as among
the nurses and soldiers and muni-
tions workers over there that the war
workers are playing the part Of the
big sister. Volumes could be written
on what they have done and are do
The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1918-10-18

ing. 1t is a great work, a good work,
work that is deserving of the COM
mendation and support of every good
man and woman. Organizations there
are a-plenty which minister to the
needs of the soldier boy and the sailor
man, but the great work of the Y.
W. c. A is to look after the women
who are so busy looking after the
needs that they have little or no time
to look after themselves.
The Y. W. C. A. war worker is the
Good Samaritan of today. She is
helping the wayfarer, bringing joy
and sunshine and a breath of home
in the waste places-in the places
made waste by the militarism of
war-crazed race. She is fulfilling
her role nobly, this Best Big Sister
in the World.
The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1918-10-18
DOWN TOWN w. U. TELEGRAPH
OFFICE CLOSED.

BY order of the government the
down town office of the Western I'm
ion telegraph company was closed last
week, and Mrs. Margaret Hayden,
who was in charge, took her departure
for Corvallis, Oregon, last Friday
Any one wanting to file wire mes
sage must now go to the railroad
telegraph office. at the west end of
the railroad yard. Whether there is
any foundation for the talk that a
down town office will soon be opened
in connection with the post office, it
is not possible to say just now.
The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1918-10-18
HARRISON AMOS, DRYDEN,
PAYS SUPREME PENALTY,

The Cashmere Record of the past
week contained the following tribute
to the memory of boy who had often
been in Leavenworth and has a mar
ried sister, Mrs. Ray Sharp, living on
Eagle creek.
The sad news of the death of Har-
rison Amos, son of Mr.. and Mrs. A. ].
Amos, of Dryden, reached Cashmere
Wednesday morning. He expired
Tuesday night at the base hospital in
the engineers training camp at Wash
ington, D. c., after an illness of sew
eral days with the prevalent malady,
Spanish influenza. Arrangements
are now being made for the funeral,
and it is likely the remains will be
shipped to Colfax, his former home
and where his wife now resides.
Mr.. Amos enlisted in the engineers
corps for overseas duty only a month
ago and just prior to leaving for the
training camp at Washington visited
in Cashmere with his parents and
many friends here. For several years
he has been deputy engineer of Whit
man county and has made his home
at Colfax. The news comes as dis
tinct shock, the more SO because he
is Cashmere's first son to lay down
his life in the great cause of human
ity and freedom. AS boy and youth
Harrison lived in Cashmere and his
untimely end has caused profound
grief here. His parents and brothers
and sisters here are grief-stricken,
but mingled with that grief is the
great swelling pride that he died for
his country.
The Huns did not get him, but all
glory and honor is due him just the
same as if he fell on the field of bat
tie. The memory and spirit of Harri-
son Amos still survives and will live
on and on. He died that those who
remain behind might live in peace
and security, free from the damning
menace of German military autocracy,
free from the lordly domination of the
German kaiser, free from the corrupt
ing intrigues of German diplomacy,
free from the fear of another call to
arms to drive back the spread of
powder-fed "kultur."
Let us here in Cashmere not for
get all this. Let us let the life given
from our midst be an inspiration here
to back up our boys to the very limit.
A father grief swelling with pride
because his son has made the supreme
sacrifice, bids US go on. The people
of Cashmere will not say him nay.
Harrison Amos was born in st. Paul
Mimi, July 90, 1888. He moved with
his family to the Wenatchee valley
in 1900 and attended school in We
natchee and Cashmere. He graduated
from Pullman college in 1913 and has
since followed his profession, that of
civil engineer. He joined the Baptist
church in Wenatchee in 1904 and has
continued a member of the church in
the different places he has resided.
Three years ago he was united in mar
riage to Miss Nettie Duncan.
Yesterday the family received no.
tice that the body was being sent with
military escort to Colfax, where the
funeral will be held