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Friday January 31 1913 ITEMS Of INTEREST f ROM THE NORTHWEST An Important Measure Relative to Clear ing Land to be Introduced in State Legislature One of the most important measures that is likely to'be introduced into the state legislature this session is a new logged-offjland bill that was presented before the legislature last week by Howard Hanson, assistant corporation counsel of Seattle. It provides for the creation of local improvement districts, similar to those now formed in cities for street improvements, and the clear ing of land in these respective districts by the respective counties. Bonds are then to be issued against the prop- erty cleared and become practically mortgage bonds on the land, payable by the land owner, with interest, in from ten to thirteen years. Any owner or group of owners of adjoining logged-off land, comprising more than forty acres, may by petition have such an improvement district created and the land cleared under this plan. Mr. Hanson's plan includes two additional bills providing for the reforestation of land not suitable to agriculture. General public approval has been given the bill introduced into the state legislature providing for the expendi ture of 8100,000 for the exploitation of the state through a bureau of immigra tion and statistics, the purpose being to advertise the state extensively prior to the opening of the Panama canal. The measure was framed by Represen tative Victor Zednick, of King county. The main purpose of this bill is to have the state take measures to bring the immigrant to this state to settle on the agricultural lands. The bureau of immigration and statistics would make an accurate and careful study of all conditions for farming on the logged-off and irrigated lands of the state. The plan, aside from giving accurate infor mation concerning farming conditions, and thus drawing permanent and de sirable settlers, is to use a part of this money in creating influx of people from congested cities to the farming lands. By an agreement reached between the board of regents of the University of Washington and the Northern Pa cific Railroad Company, which will be executed on February 4, the contro versy between the regents and railroad, in which the city of Seattle was also involved, is settled, and the right of way through the campus, the owner ship of which was in dispute, will be divided. The university secures 120 feet of the 200-foot strip, and the title of the railroad to the remaining 80 feet is confirmed. The railroad agrees to fence the right of way and maintain four concrete crossings. All members of the board of regents were in at tendance when the matter was settled to the mutual satisfaction of both sides. The embargo or practically a boy cott, which has existed against Wash ington lumber in the San Francisco market, has now been lifted, due to the efforts of Northwestern lumbermen and commercial bodies, and Washing ton mills will receive about $2,000, --000 worth of orders for lumber for use in the buildings of the Panama Exposition in 1915. The enormous extent of the natural 1 resources of the state of Washington j as' concerns one material alone was I vividly presented at a court hearing in I Seattle recently, where some lime- I stone deposits were in dispute. George I Ja'mme, a mining engineer, declared k that one small block in a single bed at a depth of 500 feet contained 18,- I 000,000 tons of a limestone founda tion'and that a very small portion was enough to keep an ordinary cement plant running , fifty years. Referring to one ledge in | controversy, he said that at a depth of 1000 feet, it would make j available ■ 100,000,000 1 tons of \ limestone and supply " 4,000 barrels n daily of cement for a period of 64 years. _______ —-' - Foil! A Foul Plot When a shameful plot exists be tween liver and bowels to cause dis tress by refusing to act take Dr. Kind* New- Life Pills, and end such ; abuse of your : system. They _ gently ■ compel right action ,of stomach liver i and bowels, ; and resrore . your health • and all good. feelings, 25c at all drug gists. Smash the "Money Trust" The extraordinary revelation of J. Pierpoint Morgan's power over twenty five billion dollars of wealth in this country brings an acute consciousness of the need for some reform of our banking system which will check the enormous concentration of wealth in New York. Gotham is our greatest commercial city, and there must al ways be more wealth there so long as it holds that commanding system. That the amount of wealth which is concentrated there is so disproportion ate to the city's importance in the financial scheme is due to our anti quated banking system, under which stocks and bonds are preferred to com mercial paper as a basis of credit, and under which the idle funds of country banks flow to Wall street for specula tive uses. Mr. Morgan regards the enormous power vested in him as a personal trust, but we observe that he has administered it to his personal pro fit. He has never been dishonest about it. We can hardly say he has been unpatriotic about it. He has merely taken advantage of the weak-" nesses of our banking system. It is time to reform that system so tnat Morgan's will become an impossibility. —Banking Reform. REAL ESTATE TRANSFERS Furnished by the Chelan County Ab stract Company for the Week Ending January 25, 1913 William H Pope to George H Ellis, jr., $1 lots 25 26 27 b 25 G N P Wen _TJ S to J M Derting seX '& nA sw# sec 12 21 21 U S to George H Ryan n'A seX, sw# se'i sec 19, & nw>4 sw& sec 20 28 22 * Swakane Lbr & Box Mfg Co to the Cashmere Lbr Co $15,000 all sec 3 24 19 A F Stone to W J Metz 83659, lot 5 Iroquis Farms James L Kooken to Charles R Mor ris 810 Vi int s% lot 10 Estes Valley Orch J E Ferguson, sheriff to A F Stone 83659 lot 5 Iroquis Farms Harry Schuchardt to R B Taylor et al 850 n>£ s'A sw'A ne# sec 6 22 19 (10 A U John M Francisco et al to . town of Cashmere $10 easement in pt lot 2 sec 4 twp 23 19, pole line E C Long to town of Cashmere $1 all lot 1 b 2 Long's add Cashmere, public park US to Charlie W Sharp s# neH 6 lots 1, 2 sec 6 22 20 Peter Green to William H Becker $13,500 pt swK sw&'seX sec 4 22 M C McCarmick to Henry Ellis' $5200 lot 23 b 2. Woodring's add Mission, Cashmere Judson L Jacobs to Ida E Jacobs' $5 n# iw# & swJi nw# sec 17 27 23 & lot 8 blk 16, Chelan Falls Rosa E Jacobs to Ida E Jacobs 85 pt seX neK sec 18 27 23 (J4 acre) Chelan Valley Lodge 118 F & A M to Julia Hardenburg 835 lots 3, 4, b 39, Masonic cemetery Hazen Chase Jr to O F Anderson 810 w>2 nw# nwK nwK sec 29 23 5 A OF Anderson to Frank Meemer $10 wj£ nwK nwK nw# sec 29 23 20 5 A Carl W Harrell to Amer Say Bank &Tr Co $1000 n 29 A neK swj^ sec 14 24 18 U S to Richard H Lord lots 1, 2, sec 10 & sw'/i nwK & lot 4 sec 11 27 22 D A Beal to L H Breese 81 lot 39 blk 1 Belmont add Wen US to John A Wilson swM nwK & w>2 sw'A sec 28 24 18 120 A Jay Jones to E J Delaney 91 Spring and stream in nw>4 sw'A sec 22 27 22 E J DeLaney to Jasper C Angstead $5000 A X int s'/i sw# sec IS. nj4 awA, l sw^ nw?4 & Spring & stream in nw^ v*A sec 22 27 22 ... Marvin Stewart et al. to Stewart brothers $1 lot 13 b 3 Woodring's plat Mission now Cashmere & lot 5 b 1 Orchard Home add Cashmere How to Bankrupt the Doctor*. A prominent New York physician says: "If it were nut for the thin stockings and thin soled shoe* worn by women the doctor* would probably be bankrupt." I When you contract a cold do not wait for it to develop into pneumonia but treat it at once. I Cham l»«!ait.'a Cough Remedy is intended eipeci ally for coughs and colds, and hai won a wide reputation by iUcurea of th«w diseased. It in mutt effectual and is pleasant and safe to take. - For sale by all —Adver- tisement. Xcavenwortb £ JCcbo. COURT MAY BE ASK© TO PROBE BREMERTON PAVING CONTROVERSY Publication of Charge that Contractor Has Been Permitted to Use Inferior Brick Creates Sensation Bremerton, Wash., Jan. 22, 1913. Bremerton, Wash., is the seat of a bitter conflict over the question of street improvements. The courts may be asked to investi gate the claim that a faction of the city council has permitted the con tractor to use inferior material. Speaking of the conflict, one Brem erton paper comments editorially: "Just how any body of men can im-1 agin that such tactics (imposing in ferior material) can be imposed upon a free people is hard to determine." The real solution would be, it seems, that the use of some high class paving, such as bitulithic, which Is j giving uniform satisfaction elsewhere, be specified and adhered to. 3* > Fit His Case Exactly. "When father was sick about six years ago he read an advertisement of Chamberlain's Tablets in the papers that fit his case ex actly," writes Miss Margaret Campbell of Ft Smith, Ark. "He purchased a box of them and he has not been sick since. My sister had stomach trouble and was also ben efited br them." For sale by all dealer*. —Advertisement. NOTICE OF ASSESSMENT ROLL j INTHK CITY TREASUBER'S'OFFICE FOB COLLECTION—LOCAL IMPROVE MENT DISTRICT NO. I.—FRONT. EIGHTH AND NINTH STREETS. • j Notice Is hereby given that the assess ment roll of Local Improvement ULstrlet No. I, created by Ordinance No. »2, entitled "An Ordinance providing for the Improve ment, by grading, paving and draining the same, of the following streets In the City of Leavenworth, Washington; provid ing for an assessment to pny the cost of the same: establishing a Local Assessment Dis trict, and providing for the Issuance of bonds to the contractor for such cost," has been certified to the City Treasurer for col lection, f The streets named In said Ordinance were as follows: "Front Street from the weft line of lot eleven (11) of block one (1) of Ralston Addition to Leavenworth, extendaxl In a straight line to the Great Northern Railway Company's right of way to the east line of lot nine hi) of block two (2) of Leav euworth extended In a straight line to the Great Northern Railway Company's right of way: Ninth Street from the south line of Front street to the North line of Commer cial Street; Eight Street from the south line of Front Street to the north line of Commercial Street.'; Bald improvement consisted of grading said streets to the proper sub-grade and laying thereon 'a standard Bltullthlc pavement, putting In curbs and sidewalks. - I Said Ordinance created Local Improve ment District No. I. consisting of the prop erty adjacent to said Improved streets; provided for the assessment thereof Mr the cost of said Improvement. ! The assessment has been certified to tqe City Treasurer for collection and any as sessments mentioned In -said assessment roll may be paid at the City Treasurer's of fice on the corner of Front and XlnUi Streets, Leavenworth, Washington on any date prior to the 4th day of March, 1018, without penalty. Interest, or costs. • I Any assessments not paid on or before said date may be paid In ten (10) equal an nual Installments together with Interest on all unpaid installments at the rate Of six per cent per annum payable annually, provided the owner of any lot or parcel of land so assessed may redeem the same from all liability for such assessment at any time after March 4, 1»18, by paying the entire assessment or all of the Installments re maining unpaid and charged against any lot or parcel of land with interest thereon at the rate aforesaid to the date of maturity of the Installment next fulling due. Hated this 81st day of January, 1913. •- Signed: JOHN KOKRNKR, City Treasurer. Published In the Leavenworth Echo, the official newspaper of the City of Leaven worth, January 81, IBIS; February 7, 1913: February 14, 14*13: February 21. 1013; and February 28, 1913. iffclH THIS IS THE CLOTHES AGE To make a proper impression you must be well dressed. Not showily, but correctly. Thats the sort of clothes I tailor, using the best fabrics and fashioning them after the latest models. Come in and let me show you samples of Suits and Overcoats for ladies and gentlemen at $20 and up. J. E. GRANT, Leading Tailor For Ladies and Gentlemen All We Want That You Try Washington Duffpr Star Creamery LHU Iwl Made in Methow Valley Leavenworth Market Home of Pure Lard Chas. Eckhardt, Mgr. Your Opportunity Buy a t Lot In Miller's Addition The best investment that a young man can make is to buy a piece of - real estate. .He can \ not lose, and in a| growing town like Leavenworth property values are going up 20 to 30 . per cent each year. Usually the man with . small means or the one who is working for a salary is unable to take advantage of opportunities, that present themselves. But in this case it is go ing to be different. The terms will be vso arranged that no matter how small a salary a man . is getting, he can buy a lot in Miller's Addition if he will only Lay by a small sum each month There will be no foreclosures—all that is expected of the pur chaser is that he pay the small monthly amount, and in case of sickness plenty of time will be given to make up back pay ments. "A square deal to all" will be my motto.. ; Leaven worth will soon be at the high tide ■ of i- prosperity. Inside of three months all .the mills will be running full blast,, and with our other industries this is going to be the busiest city in Cen tral Washington. It is safe to say that several hundred fam ilies will come to Leavenworth in f the , next two years, and they will want homes. As there is already a scarcity of ,♦ houses many of them will buy a lot and put ;up a house. . Here is your chance — a lot in Miller's Addition and Double your money in less than < two years Where can you do better? This property is .located on the north side of the track and is ; the . most desirable residence lo cation in the city.. Lots in this vicinity have doubled in value in the past two years and they'll 1 double again in the next two. Another important | thing to be taken into consideration is the fact that every lot is set in . bearing i fruit trees which will bring good interest on the investment.' Half Acre Tracts $700 to &WOO Now City Lots, 40x120, $250 to $300 Now EASY TERMS—For further ] information: call jon or address J.W. MILLER, Owner V, "XS s*'5*' Four months from now these city lots will be selling for $100 more. *^f (fj^j 1-^ *J^Q^^H (^B^^H^^^K leverage iwOTTfv TT r*^** *fl£"j Phone 194 Agent * '.' JtATTH.WAjH. ■• ■ '^, _^_^___________ - . -. . . -. The Overland Popular Place, Where Friends Meet Make It your headquarters when In Leaveuworth J. B. VIOLETTE Leaven worth Washington Our low prices are loud talkers and grow smiles that never rub off Closes 12 a.m.--Opens 5 a.m.