Durrant Executed in San Quentin Prison
San Quentin, Jan 8. Henry Theodore Durrant died in the electric chair after a night of calm defiance. He claimed innocence, offered forgiveness to accusers, and met his fate with ceremonial dignity as prayers were said and the trap sprung.
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Durrant
San Quentin Prison
Quentin
Cal
Henry Theodore Durrant
Blanche Lamont
Hale
Durad
Nis
Warden Hale
Rader
Durran
Hyster- Durrant
Theowever
Supreme Court
Deinterfere
Amino
Lagan
Durrant Eepers
Northwest to test cotton farming in Oregon and Washington
Oregon and Washington will raise cotton next season under new efforts by the Oregon Railroad and Navigation Company. The project, led by H. C. Judson and aided by agricultural colleges, plans extensive experiments in Wasco Sherman Morrow Umatilla in Oregon and Whitman Adams in Washington, plus experiments with tobacco, forage crops, dairying, and drought resistant trees.
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Washington
Oregon Railroad & Navigation Company
Mahler
H.C. Judson
Ife
Agricultural Colleges
Panhandle
Texas
Umatilla County
Wasco
Sherman
Morrow
Umatilla
Whitman and
Adams
Florida
Pacific Northwest
Cascade Mountains
Cuba
Martinez
Key West
Blalock
Gilliam County
France
Assyria
Boise
Alaska
Yukon
Northwest
Weekly Market Letter Exports Rise as Wheat Stocks Seen Tight
The report notes exports of flour and wheat from both coasts totaled 4 595 000 bushels, up 700 000 from the prior week and double year-ago levels. It forecasts export activity to stay strong, with liberal commitments for wheat corn and oats while Argentine supplies remain uncertain and the American visible wheat stock rises to 88 868 000 bushels.
The Savage Brothers and the Plum Creek Wedding
In Baylor County Texas two brothers Joe and Bill Savage chase love with May Conley. Joe lies to protect Bill, but the ruse unravels at Plum Creek. Bill wounds Joe, binds him to a tree, and May elopes with Tom Jackson. Joe dies from the strain while awaiting confession. The tale ends with Joe Savage buried by Plum Creek and Bill’s fate uncertain.
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Baylor County
Texas
West Texas
Bill
Aoman
Ile
Joe
Dill
May Conley
Savage Ranch
May
Conley
Jim Smith
Gayety
Heaven
Tom Jackson
Lin
Plum Creek School House
Plum Creek
Round Timbers
Jim
Dim Smith
Brin
Goves
San Antonio
New Mexico
Terrell
Cottle
Joe Savage
Utica Globe
Praying by Prop: Buddhist Kalmuck Tartars and their prayer wheel
An observer describes Kalmuck Tartars along the Lower Volga who practice Buddhism and eschew traditional prayer in favor of a prayer wheel. The device, a small wooden cylinder stuffed with prayers, spins to “say” them, offering a labor saving method that the author finds absurd from an Occidental viewpoint.
Borrowing Trouble and Its Vexing Shadow
The piece critiques borrowing trouble as poor business and describes it as based on crankiness and undue nervousness. It laments those who constantly foresee imagined evils and warns that the world is sombre enough without chasing shadows.
Belief of the Carlisles and stage deaths
A dialogue quotes Pa on the Indians meaning by happy hunting grounds as the scalp ground for opponents. It notes that audiences sometimes cry at stage deaths but realize the actors’ sham and falsehoods.
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Carlisles
Willie
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Bsacre
French Congo
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St Africa
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Cascades
Northwest Notes
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Garfield
F. L. Washburn
University of Oregon
Commissioner of Fish and Fisheries
Washington, D. C
War Department
Magnolia Bluff
Seattle
G. L. Brightwell
8. J. Hedges
Platte County
Weekly Market Letter
Mee
Powring, Honkies & Co
Chientorion Trade Beavers
Chamber of Comoe Building
Portland
Portland Market
Walla Walla
California
Wool—Valley
San Francisco Market
Nevada
Rahway
New Jersey State Reformatory
Beauvais
London
Peru
Klein
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