Boosters Meet Yellow Kids in Two Big Ball Games
Excursion trains will carry visitors from Walla Walla to see the Boosters face the Yellow Kids on Athena diamond for two games, Saturday and Sunday. Danny Shea returns as catcher after a Pacific Coast stint with San Francisco. Starter for tomorrow likely Marquis or Butler with a lineup including Shea Nordean Lienallen Millard Davidson Kriete Donovan.
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Walla Walla
Boosters
Athena
Garden City
Danny Shea
Portland
Athens
Dan
San Francisco
Marquis
Butler
Shea
al Nordean
Lienallen
Millard
Davidson
Short
Kriete
Nordean
Donovan
Reform Sleuth Guilty In Walla Walla Case
The state versus William O Day ended with a guilty verdict in a Walla Walla superior court. Day, once active in reform efforts that shuttered several saloons, was arrested after gathering evidence of gambling and law violations. He faced charges of a serious offense and was bound over after a preliminary show of revenge concerns.
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William O. Day
Walla Walla
Day
Aame
Star Chamber
Portland Horse Market seeks to establish a sale in Portland
The Portland Horse Sale company led by M. D. Wisdom and manager G. A. Westgate plans an Irvington Park auction on May 3 8 and 4 with consignments already lining up. Entry closes April 10. The venture aims to spark a local horse market and will feature Brook-Nook ranch horse X. Larrateo and other notable prospects from Salem La Grande Corvallis and Fruitdale farms with several 2 year and 3 year old entries and speed drivers.
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Heffort
Portland
Journal
Portland Horse Sale Company
M. D. Wisdom
G. A. Westgate
Irvington Park
Wisdom Aid
Chicago
Larrateo
Brook-Nook Ranch
A. E. Pistos
Salem Maid
Maid Marion
Zombie Ally
N. K
E. B. Tongue
Lovelace
Dry farming alfalfa test cited in Washington
Washington rancher George F Wright reports a successful dry farm alfalfa crop using the Campbell system, sown with imported German seed and grown without irrigation. The trial, observed as thriving through eight months of adverse weather, is hailed as a major local achievement with other eastern farmers pursuing similar work. Whitman College beat Walla Walla 11 to 2 in the season opener.
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la Grande Observer
Washington
Oregon
R. G. Judson
Campbell
George F. Wright
Washington Galph
Judson
Germany
Bood
Baker City
Whitman
Walla Walla
Whitman College
Walla Walla Town
Gregory
Rigely
Blackburn
Lankard
Rigel
Cox
Diphtheria Not Catching Says State Health Expert
Dr Ralph Matson of the state board of health concludes that chicken diphtheria is not transmittable to humans after examining chicken heads from Scio Oregon. Reports of smallpox in Lebanon and surrounding areas prompt quarantine efforts and vaccination drives. several cases near Foster and Portland linked to a singer and a church outbreak. Grain damage from the March cold spell is minor across Umatilla. reseeding limited to about 200 acres. fruit crops show resilience with peaches worst but others recovering. Rev Thom M Boyd, former Pendleton pastor and academy founder, dies. his works include moving the old court house to Pendleton’s Main Street site for the academy. Mrs Sarah Figg Thompson dies in Walla Walla at 73. heart disease ends her long life on a farm north of Pendleton.
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Ralph ©. Matson
State Board of Health
Scio
Oregon
Foster
Lebanon
Portland
Gray's River
Deep River
Washington
Columbia River
North Yamhill
Yamhill County
Umatilla
Orat
Pacific Presbyterian of
Francisco
Thom M. Boyd
Presbyterian Church
Pendleton
Boyd
Pendleton Academy
Court House
Peoples Warehouse
Main Street
Web Street
Fins Presbyterian Church
San Francisco
Olivet Presbyterian Church
Sarah Figg Thompson
Armatilla County
Walla Walla
JG. Een
Lumber Prices Soar Hurting Building Plans Regionwide
Lumber markets spike across Palouse country driving up rough and specialty grades by substantial margins. Common lumber now sells at 15 to 17 per 1000 feet, higher grades at 53, and the trend prompts builders to curtail activity by up to half this season. Local Colfax and Milton residents scrap plans awaiting lower prices as Pendulum swings held by Potlatch and Weyerhauser groups.
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Bamber
Palouse
Colfax
Potlatch Lumber Company
Potlatch
Idaho
Weyerhauser Syndicate
Amills
Bridal Veil
Oregon
Taxing traveling salesmen on vehicles in Walla Walla county
Deputy County Assessor William Casebi ordered a non resident buggy peddler to pay 25.50 in taxes on vehicles in his possession. The case follows a supreme court ruling that the peddling law was unconstitutional, but local dealers welcomed the tax and officers plan to tax other traveling agents in the county.
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Walla Walla
Saya
William Casebi
Walla Walla County
Berryman
Silasman
Bia
Freewater
Supreme Court
Amomora
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Manasse
Monalin
Washgoods
Butterick
First National Bank
H. C., Adams
T. J. Kirk
F. 8
Adams
L. Grow
D. H. Preston
P. E. Colbern
A. M. Gillis
Gillis Lumber Yard
Reform Sleuth
Tola
George Lane
Mill Creek
East Alder Street
Portland Horse Market
Portage Road
Frank Saling
Dell Brothers
Merge Phone Company
Milton Rural Phone Patrons
Pacific States Telephone and ‘Telegraph Company
R. J. Bingham
Milton
Pacific States Company
Pacific Company
Congar
Johnson
Minneapolis
Port ‘Townsend
Brinnon
Perton
Foley
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