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Mohave County miner., 1918-03-23
PATRIOTIC TOWN
 ABANDONS SPRING ELECTION

The little town of Sheridan in Ara pahoe county, Colorado, has hung up something new in the line of patriot ism and thrift.
 Sheridan was scheduled to elect an entire set of city officers this spring. There were four councilmen, a mayor, clerk, auditor and others to be chosen, and a score or more of the towns poll ticians had groomed themselves for the race.
 Then Sheridan's business men got together and decided the town had struggled along fairly well with its present officeholders. Why go to all the expense and trouble of putting over new set of town officials? Why not let well enough alone?
 The question was put up to the city council and passed along to the mayor and others. Then a joint session of the council, all city officers, business and professional men and their wives was called and Sheridan unanimously voted to call off election until Bill Hohenzollern is licked.
 Money that would have been spent in the spring election will be invested in liberty bonds or thrift stamps.
 Virtually every voter in Sheridan has signified his or her satisfaction with tba Tlap naY,vey. posf
Mohave County miner., 1918-03-23
BEST STORY WRITERS OUTDONE BY BIBLE

The bulk of the people-business men, lawyers, doctors and others don't read the Bible, but writers universally recognize it as the greatest book, Prof. William Lyon Phelps of Yale univer- sity said in a recent address.
 Being a serious book it is weak in humor," Professor Phelps said. But I think Job intended grim joke when he said, would that mine adversary had written a book
 "No narrative writers can match the style of the Bibles old testament stor- ies-Hume, Gibbon, Rose-they are all inferior This is the day of the short story writer, Kipling, De Maupassant, O. Henry, but their best efforts fall short of the stories of the Bible. So it is with it's poetry in the Psalms. Its wisdom of the Proverbs is just as up- to-date as the morning paper, and there is no political economy equal to the Book of Gospels.
 "It is impossible to estimate the Bibles influence on English liter ature. Bunyan wrote a great book be- cause he was saturated with the Bible, and it tricBled out when he wrote.
 'Lincoln knew only two books the Bible and Shakespeare, and yet he was a splendidly educated man. To know the Bible is to be educated. One of the finest metaphors in Keats Ode to a Nightingale is taken from the Bible. Nearer My God to Thee, is sim ply a paraphrase of the Bible"
Mohave County miner., 1918-03-23
PROFESSOR Is HELD
 BY FEDERAL AGENTS

ATCHISON, Kan.-Prof. J. P. Loes- berg, said to have been formerly a member of the board of education in New York city, was arrested here to- day and will be held in jail pending an investigation by federal authorities of names of alleged German-born per sons of Kansas and Oklahoma towns, which he had in his possession.
 Loesberg claimed to be a solicitor for the agricultural and industrial la bor relief fund in New York.
 In LoesFerg's bag were found hun dreds of sealed envelopes, each label ed with the name of a Kansas or Ok lahoma town and containing the names of what the police said were German born persons. He claims to be nat uralized American.-Ex.
Mohave County miner., 1918-03-23

Buy War Savings Stamps.
Mohave County miner., 1918-03-23
WOMEN MACHINISTS
 MAKE LIBERTY MOTORS

American women machinists are making liberty motors for their broth CTS to use to defeat Germany.
 In the factories now producing hun dreds of the perfected United States twelves, which outspeed anything de- veloped abroad, scores of women are operating machine tools, multiple drill presses, lathes, planers and milling machines that are transforming east ings into conquest.
 1t was learned from officials of the aircraft production board that the en- ployment of women has proved highly satisfactory in releasing men for oth- CT service.
Mohave County miner., 1918-03-23

Notice is hereby given that this company will not be responsible for ny debts contracted by any of its employees, except on a written order |signed by an officer of this company.
 J. H. Smith, Sec'y.
Mohave County miner., 1918-03-23

Don't forget the War Savings Sam needs the mnnex-
Mohave County miner., 1918-03-23
SENTENCE OF DEATH
 STANDS AGAINST BOLO

The appeal of Bolo Pasha from the sentence of death imposed by court martial for treason was rejected today by the Paris court of revision, which confirmed the original judgment. The same action was taken by the court in the case of Darius Porchere, who was tried with Bolo Pasha and sentenced to three years imprisonment.
Mohave County miner., 1918-03-23
FEDERAL ORDER CLOSES
 59 VALLEJO BARS SATURDAY

VALLEJO, Cal, March 16.-All ol the saloons in the town of Vallejo Port Costa, Eckley, Crockett, Valona, Selby, Tormley, Oleum and Hercules will close late today pursuant to an order of the secretary of the navy declaring a five-mile prohibition zone around the Mare Island navy yard, located here.
Mohave County miner., 1918-03-23

Hoover has at last. made us under stand why spies are always shot at sunrise. It is to save breakfast.-The Periscope.
Mohave County miner., 1918-03-23

Mother, father, ather, sister and little Cousin 'LC ran all get in on big enough for th folks and small o,,o,,rb for fbo Cu .4ru-.
The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1918-06-21
THE EIGHT-HOUR LAW.

The attitude of organized labor m
forcing the eight-hour law is incom-
patible with the attitude the country
in general is taking towards the war.
In the name of conservation and eff
fciency we have been saving oul
supplies, developing our resources,
and working to produce those things
essential in the furtherance of the
war program.
Men all over the country-men OF
ability and brains-are donating
services to the government, and
working twelve and fifteen hours a
day for the good of the country. 1t
it not unpatriotic in the man who
works with his hands to claim that he
is immune from any sacrifice of time
or money? Indeed, he not only is
not working the hours he worked be
fore the war, but he is demanding
still shorter hours. Is not the issue
of this war more important to the
WORKING man lIldh II Is 10 any oIilei
class?
1t is the working man who suffers
most under autocratic rule; it is the
working man who would suffer most
if we should lose this war. Most of
these men who demand short hours
have sons or brothers in training or
at the front, who work hours with
out init. 1t woud be just as con.
sistent for the boys on the fighting
line to throw down their weapons m
the face of a German advance and
say: eve have fought our eight
hours, and that's enough for one
day"
The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1918-06-21
THIS COMES FROM OLYMPIA.

Keep your weights and measures
man away. He is disrupting our
school," is the jocose conclusion of
letter to Secretary of State l. Nj.
Howell from one of his former state
sealers, now high school instructor
at Everett. In explanation he says;
81 ran across your deputy and my
friend Storhow a short time ago and
asked him to come up and give the
Domestic Science class a lecture,
which he did. A few days later, the
teacher gave a test and one of the
answers was so goood that I thought
you ought to hear it.
To the question, "What deter
mines Inequality of meat?" the ans
wer expected was: "Age of animal.
its health; its feeding; and whether
or not it has received the proper
amount of exercise"
This is the answer received, how
ever: "To get good meat you must
go into the market and point to the
meat you want. Ask him how much
it is a pound and say you would like
that piece. Pick it right out your
self. Follow him to the scales and
see that he gives you the right
weight. Never fail to see that the
scale is at zero when not in use."
The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1918-06-21
THINKS HE SAVED THE WEN
ATCHEE BRIDGE.

Mr.. L. F. Speidel came back from
Wenatchee Monday with the pur-
pose of spending the summer
months on his Cascade orchard
ranch. When he reached the Wen
atchee river bridge two miles west
of Wenatchee he discovered it on
fire. By the prompt use of few
buckets of water, Mr.. Speidel sue
ceeded in putting out the fire. He
says in very short time the fire
would have gained such headway
that it surely would have been de-
stroyed. Mr.. Speidel says the
county should have some kind of
sprinkling system on the bridge
When the inconvenience, not to men
tion the cost of repairs, resulting
from the burning of the bridge last
summer about this time is recalled,
his warning is not without force.
The two months interruption in traf-
fic last summer caused much incon-
venience.
The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1918-06-21
1871 TWENTY-ONt YEAR OLDS
REGISTER IN CHELAN COUNTY
Fifteen from LeavenwOrth Are Sub
ject to Military Duty
Under the Law

A compilation of the registrants
who on the 5th Of June had reached
their twenty-frst birthday and under
the law were required to register,
shows that the total number m
Chelan county is 131, and of these
fifteen gave Leavenworth as their
residence. Following is list of
the Leavenworth boys:
Roland c. Nichols, Clarence f.
Herzog, VIM. A. Harding, Harry {.
Sitan, Henry T, Gholman, Minter
Love, Max r. Anderson, Lyman E.
Harvey (Peshastin), Walter =.
Koerner, Sadaguma, Ogata, Roose
Patrick, Jas. P. Brewer, Frank c.
Holzinger Heizi Hirakuri, Ernest F.
Mortimer, Charles W. Arbogast (Pe-
shastin), Albert L. Dynes.
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I. W. w'ISM GERMAN METHODS

Driving spikes into logs as they
fioated down the streams, was a
favorite form of sabotage with the
|. w. w. according to a witness on
the stand for the government in the
l. w. W. investigation. The 'wob-
blies" hoped by this means to break
up the fine steel saws used in the
mills, he asserted. Some of the
speeches he quoted from I. w. w.
leaders were: "Do all in your
power to defeat conscription." "Do
not let the United States send food
to the allies for that will prolong
the war five years"
Jack Rhodes, secretary of the Abb
erdeen lodge, was quoted as having
said: "We will turn the sab-cat
loose"
The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1918-06-21
WORK OR GO HUNGRY.

The labor situation in the mining
districts of the Northwest is serious
and reports from three of the larg-
est mines in Coeur d'Alene places
the shortage at between 1900 and
1900 men.
If this keeps up, production will
be seriously curtailed. Such a con-
dition only emphasizes the necessity
of measures which will force every
idle man to do days work.
The Northwest has been lax in it's
treatment of insidious disloyalty
manifested in certain so-called labor
organizations.
Professional agitators should be
treated as enemies and men refusing
to work should be jailed and fed
bread and water.
These are war times and not
times for sickly sentiment.
The same situation confronts min
ing, farming and manufacturing in
all sections of the west. Now is the
time to prepare the remedy, not
when our havests are on US.
The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1918-06-21
MAYORS PROCLAMATION.

To the People of the City of Leav-
enworth:
This Secretary of the Treasury has
appointed June 2Sth as National
War Savings Day and the President
of the United States and the Cover
nor of the State of Washington have
issued proclamations pursuant there
to.
Therefore, now l, Ross Il,
Mayor of Leavenworth, Wash, ca
upon all the people of this city
observe conscientiously, the spin
and intent of these proclamations
and to attend the meetings on June
2sth and to pledge themselves on or
before that date to the full limit of
their ability for the purchase of
War Savings Stamps, as a definite
proof of loyalty and patriotism.
l urge upon the citizens to save
and economize in the ex-
penditure of labor and the purchase
of materials and in every way avoid
with the government.
ROSS IRWIN,
Mayor of Leavenworth.
The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1918-06-21
SERGEANT AHtARN ARRESTS
AND DISARMS SCOUNDRfL
Was on Train to Washington When
Man Was Discovered Destroy
ing Airplanes.

Harry Ahearns enlisted about a
year ago and was sent east to train
ing quarters. He has made one trip
to France and more recently was de-
tailed at Newport News to bring an
officers saddle horse to Vancouver,
Wash. On his way back to Newport
he stopped off here last Friday to
visit twelve hours with his parents.
He had a most interesting experience
while passing through Indiana. he
was riding in the caboose and just
ahead of the caboose was the car IN
which was the officers horse. The
conductor came in the car and asked
Sergeant Ahearn for his revolver,
saving he had heard some noise in
the car ahead of the one in which
the horse was stalled and as it was
loaded with airplanes he wanted to
investigate. Sergeant Ahearn told
him he would go with him, and to-
gether they started for the car.
w H0H IIeH ISdCHSu IL q liiehii "SsS JN~SN
climbing out and Ahearn covered
him with his revolver. The conduc-
tor searched him and found he had
revolver, which was taken from him,
and the man turned over to the fed
eral authorities. An investigation
showed that the spark plugs had
been made useless and holes were
bored through the wings in such
wayas to weaken them. More or less
damage was done to all the air.
planes. When asked about this, the
man arrested pretended to know no
thing about it and said other tramps
had ridden in the car and must have
done the damage. The seal on the
car door had been broken.
Harry is first sergeant in his COM
pany now and justly proud of his
promotion. He left Friday night for
his destination.
The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1918-06-21
STATE COMMANDANT LEAGUE
OF wOMEN'S WORK HERE
LAST MONDAY.

Mrs. J. F. Manning, of Everett,
state comandant of the National
League for Womans Service, was
here last Monday and addressed an
audience of women in the War
Workers room. She motored up
from Wenatchee and was accom-
panied by Mrs. Allison Barry and
Mrs. Jack Seaman.
Naming spoke along the line
of women's work in the league ana
said:
"The object of the organization rs
to promote and standardize the work
of American women along the lines
of cooperative patriotism. We are
organizing all sections of the
country along the lines of garden
ing, poultry raising, dairying, shop
work factory work, motor driving,
office work and general service. We
want every woman in Leavenworth
and vicinity to be enrolled in some
kind of patriotic service. Those
who are already engaged in Red
Cross work are also requested TO
enroll"
Where the Woman's League has
already been organized IN this
state, they are putting up fruit for
the hospitals; women who have cars
assist in getting this fruit to places
where it can be cared for; women
are being instructed in ways so that
they may take the place of men ior
heavier work and service. In the
cities adjoining the cantonments the
the Commission on Training Camp
Activities which comes under the
war department
Mrs. Naming spoke of the good
the hostess houses are doing at the
training camps and of the urgent
need of more. One hundred dollars
was promised to that fund by the
women connected with the League
for Woman 'sService in Leavenworth,
of which Mrs. Guy Hamilton is city
chairman. Mrs. Manning also ad-
dressed audiences in Peshastin,
Cashmere and Wenatchee Monday.
The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1918-06-21
WILL JOIN HIS BROTHER IN
FRANCE.

The following clipping from Ma
nilla newspaper to which our atten-
ton has been called, may be of in
terest to Leavenworth because the
DR.. Booth referred to is brother of
E. C. Booth, who went from here TO
Canada to enlist before the United
States got into the war and has for
two years been in the trenches m
France:
"a cablegram received yesterday
announces the appointment of DR..
J. L. Booth, formerly resident ply
sician at the General Hospital, and
at present practicing in Zamboanga,
as a captain in the United States
Army Medical Corps
The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1918-06-21
HELPING THE GOVERNMENT
AND OURSELVES

Julius Rosenwald, president of
Sears, Roebuck & Co., now serving
as a member of the Advisory Com
mission of the Council of National
Defense, has frequently stated his
belief that our victory over the
Teutonic powers will be won the
sooner if all of us follow the prac-
ticeof buying only those things
which we need. He said recently:
eve can finance the enormous cost
of this war by spending only for the
things we need, not by spending for
the things we desire. Just so long as
we continue to spend for the things
we do not need, just that long do
we prolong the war and add to the
tremendous sacrifice of lifeand prop
erty. Not until all of us realize the
stern fact that all spending. no
matter for what, consumes labor
and material, and that labor and ma
terial are the essentials to victory,
will we be awake to the fuundamen-
tails of this grave situation. When
we do thoroughly grasp this truth
and then act as our conscience and
as our patriotism prompt US, we
shall no longer spend except for
those things necessary for our
health and general well-being. And
our health and general well-being
do not require many things which
through an easy life we have come
to consider as necessities. Luxuries
must be put aside, actual necessities
must be continued. 1t would be a
grave disaster if the home-staying
population by foolish sacrifice were
not kept fit for its all-important task
of supporting our armies in the field.
"And this thing, above all, we
must remember: Saving for the war
cannot be confined only to certain
classes of the population. Everyone
men, women and children, the
dweller in the palatial mansion and
the resident of the humblest tena-
ment-all must save. That man
able to indulge himself in
luxuries has the least excuse for do
ing so. In war times of all times
wealth is no excuse for eXtrava-
gance. 1t makes no difference who
it is who buys the non-essentials;
the buying of them takes labor and
material needed for war purposes.
Mr.. Rosenwald, who speaks both
as business man and as an advisor
in war industry matters, also points
out that by following the practice of
buying only those things which we
need we not only assist the govern
ment but we accumulate savings
which we can invest in War Savings
Stamps and in that way do gooc
turn to ourselves.
The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1918-06-21
LEAVENWORTH MAN TAKES
WENATCHEE BRIDE.

Thomas E. Colcleaser of the
Great Northern Lumber Company
of Leavenworth and Miss Ethel
Beatrice Scheble, daughter of Mr..
and Mrs. Charles Scheble of Wen
atchee, were united in marriage this
morning at the Baptist parsonage
by Rev. R. E. Close. They were ac-
companied by Mr.. and Mrs. L.
O'Brien. Mr.. and Mrs. Colcleaser
will make their home in Leaven-
Wenatchee World.
The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1918-06-21
PUBLIC UTILITIES.

There are very few public utilities
that are working for the profits of
the present which are negligible;
they are working for the future.
Some companies have obtained relief
in rates, only to be overcome once
again by rising costs Of materia'
and labor, all the while they have
had to listen to the vaporings of the
uniformed who howl for municipal
ownership as the cure for every all
ment. The public utility men live in
the hopes that the public will wake
to the value of their services
enough to allow them to charge
rates at least high enough to meeer
expenses.
The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1918-06-21
NO TINE TO EXPERIMENT WI
NEW ISMS.

By vote of rs to 8, the Oregon
State Grange at annual convention
at Salem, adopted resolutions de-
claring itself divorced from the
Non-Partisan League.
Strikes that interfere with the
war are unjustifable. Glass griev-
ance can better wait than production
be curtailed. The striker and the
profteer alike is an enemy to the
country. Public opinion is against
both.
Socialism in the United States is
travelling under many guises such as
Non-P Partisan League, National
Party, l. w. W'ism, etc, etc. Boil
shevism has destroyed Russia and
radicalism can destroy our own
country unless met and crushed by
sane and conservative Americanism.
The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1918-06-21
OFF FOR CAMP LEWIS MONDAY

Clarence Huston, Roy Albright,
Earl Brown and Norman Peterson
will leave Monday for Camp Lewis,
the two former to be re-examined
and the latter two to enlist. One or
two more boys have under consider
alton going at the same time.
Young Peterson has twice offered to
enlist but was rejected because he
was employed in the shipyards and
they would not release him. Some
of the women connected with the war
activities rooms purpose giving the
boys a farewell party Saturday
evening.
The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1918-06-21
RED CROSS COMMITTEE BOOKS
AUDITED.

A committee composed of five
business men have checked up the
books, accounts, bank deposits, etc,
in fact everything connected with
the recent Red Cross drive, and have
certified that everything is found
correct. Because of the lateness of
the hour when the report was hand
ed in it was impossible to print it
this week. Next week the report
together with the concluding list ot
contributors, will be printed in {
The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1918-06-21
DAIRY EXPERT WILL BE HERE
MONDAY, JUNE "a.
Mayor of Leavenworth.

County Agricultural Agent Meikle,
accompanied by an expert in dairy
ing and farm matters from the Ag-
ricultural College, will be in Leaven-
worth Monday, June oath, and hopes
to meet at the creamery as many as
possible of the milch COW owners in
this vicinity and discuss with them
the problems they have to meet
every day. The dairy feed question
will also be taken up.
The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1918-06-21
ADDITIONAL CITY NEWS

o-O-O- O---O--O -O--o---o-- --O---O
The Griffin Wheel company of Ia
coma has received an order for TO-
900 car wheels at an estimated cost
Of S240,0OO
Miss Bertha Frank left for her
home in Wenatchee Thursday after
two weeks visit with her sister,
Mrs. C. w. Kempter.
Mrs. George Westcott and three
sons left for their home at Hill
yard Thursday afternoon after sew
eral weeks visit at the home of her
parents, Mr.. and Mrs. ]. McDaniels.
Mrs. Annie McIntire left for her
home in Hillyard Thursday after
spending several days with her
friend, Mrs. w. E. Hartman.
Miss Frances DeBlois and Miss
Marie Swartz returned home Thurs
day from Seattle, where they spent
the past week visiting with friends.
Mr.. j. H. Alden Warman, nephew
of Mrs. NJ. Rumohr, from Bay Cen
ter, Wash, is here to spend his va
cation. He served last year as
principal of the Bay Center public
school and has been reelected at an
increased salary.
Mr.. and Mrs. A. c. Barclay and
their daughter, Miss Edna, leave
Sunday for Spokane. From there
they leave on a tour of the B. c.
country with Edmonton as their des-
tination, and expect to he absent
from home three weeks.
The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1918-06-21
FORTY COACHES FOR CAMP
LEWIS.

Forty tourist sleepers went west
Tuesday destined for Camp Lewis.
The report is current that between
now and the end of the month some
twenty thousand troops will be
moved from this camp to the At
lantic seaboard and there embarked
for France. The boys at the camp
who have been longing for action
are likely to have their desire graft
fed before many moons.
The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1918-06-21
REPAIRING TELEPHONE LINES

Forest Supervisor Sylvester tells
a reporter for this paper the new
telephone line to Plain is completed
as far as Appleton and the connec-
tion with the Wenatchee lake line
will be made within the coming
month. A force of men is at work
making repairs to the line to Tum-
water station, to Sugar Loaf noun
tain and the Chewawa river and
Lake lines.