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Special Train Over the O. R. N. Takes Practically Entire StudentBody to Scent of WhitmanMassacre.A special train on the O, R. N.line this morning: at ‘J o’clock pulledput of the station yards, carrying practically the entire student body, the faculty and a great number of the alumni of Whitman college, bound for the annual picnic and pilgrimage to ft'aiilatpu.Preparations were made on i larger scale than usual to make :he picnic a success. A committee of indergraduates went out to the scene if the massacre in Harold Crawford’spuzz-wagon yesterday afternoon to select the site of the picnic, and to put the grounds into shape. Under the i leadership of Professor Lyman, the committee on entertainment have prepared a more elaborate program than has formerly graced the occasion, md a new feature of the after-dinner program were the songs by the college grlea clubs.The train left the depot at promptly nine o’clock. On arriving it the grounds, a halt was made atIthe grave of the martyrs, and Presi-3ent Penrose made an address from the base of the marble shaft that overlooks the grave, pointing out the] places of interest connected with the jimission settlement of Marcus Whitman.The train will leave the grounds at j an early hour, probably about five! p’clock, in order to get the crowd home* , . A v| ^ _ ^4 * ^ ‘ 1in time for the graduation exercises of Pearson’s Academy, which take place in the chapel at 8 p. m. j
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Walla Walla Evening Statesman
Walla Walla, Washington, US
Sat, Jun 12, 1909
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