Train Robbery Pursuit Across Yellowstone Valley Ends in Montana
A Northern Pacific passenger train was held up and robbed at Graycliff in the Yellowstone Valley. Marshals and sheriffs pursued the robbers for five weeks across mountains and plains, finally catching them over 500 miles from the scene. One pursuer and the robbers’ comrade were killed. another was wounded. The report notes Montana's harsh terrain and citizen vigilance in crime suppression.
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Montan
Northern Pacific
Graycliff
Yellowstone Valley
Livingstone
Montana
What Should Have Been Done in a Portland Street Car Tragedy
The piece critiques etiquette in a Portland street car accident where a man saved a woman by grabbing her as the car neared danger. It cites a Victoria ball precedent and mocks society manners while noting a Chinaman’s opium death after jail confinement. It also mentions Oregon railroad transport by horse teams and a Corvallis to Albany hop and wheat haul.
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Athena
Tillman
Taylor
O. A. Barrett Co
Mr. Taylor
Till
Daniel Boone
Madison Street Bridge
Portland
Kingdom Come
Victoria
Halo
Walla Walla
Oregon Pacific
Corvallis
Dugene
Southern Pacific
Southern Pass
Lyons
O. P
West Stayton
Farmera Ware. Company
Albany
Tunyon Thes
Say
Rowdy local notes mix humor with typhoid news and theft report
An 1893 comical column laments railway cowcatchers on the caboose to protect travelers while noting community gossip and a typhoid fever outbreak at the Bott home. It also reports two elderly men seeking stolen money and a knife theft case involving J B Hersy, arrested after plunder found in a restaurant.
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Helix
Barrons Press
Neck O’ Woods
Dr. Osman
J. K Bott
Little Greenwood Gulch
Chas
Myrtin Huson
Baclk
Paseo
Louis Bergevin
W. T. Gilman
Athéna
Ore
Phoenix
Home
Royal
German
Caledonian
Northwest
For Theuitable Life Insurance Co
Athena Public School honors in multiplication exam
The intermediate grade pupils named Alma Kirk Claudistes Rosie Taylor Edgar Knight Mary Stanton Archie Bostwick Theresa Hays Manly Ely Nellie Foss Ora Hagler Blanche Banta merited special honors for passing the multiplication test. The sheriff seized the Washington State Building at the world fair grounds under Union National Bank attachment to recover a $1325 claim.
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Athena Public School
Alma Kirk Claudistes
Rosie Taylor
Edgar Knight
Mary Stanton
Archie Bostwick
Theresa Hays Manly Ely
Nellie Foss Ora Hagler
Blanche Banta
Washington State
Union National Bank
Fallow named Wegiler Sivenesueelon heard by Oregon land office
Fragmentary notice from a land office in Oregon references a person named Wegiler Sivenesueelon and a listed claimant or related matter. The legible portion mentions a clerk and a location, with other illegible text surrounding the notice.
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la ‘Granta
Wegiler
Cinn Anil Bneo
Oregon
George Camimielenes
Notice for Publication Land Claim Filed by Settler
Public land notice records indicate a settler has filed a notice of federal interest, with details referencing retention and related party names, dates, and a register entry. The fragmented OCR shows placeholders and garbled text surrounding a land filing and registration note.
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Sean
Rae
Raoaee Abbey
San Fertis
Atratia Ioeionae
Gill Sadar
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Athena Press
J. W. Smith
Puorrieron
W-Smith and
F. 8 Boyd
Enitor
Athena Post Office
Anil Matter
Alb Communications
Ibbler
N. B. Gerking
United States District Court
Gerking
Metropolis
X. Pos
W Athena
Post Office Department
Sylvester
Grover
Yolo
Pendleton
Wal-la Walla
Weston
Spokane
Mast
Oregonian
Sam
Cate
Marshal McBrain
Annie
Mary Montgomery
Sarah
Thomas
Robert
Lucy
Hollis
Times
W. Hollis
Athena, Or
Onne
THE
Pioneer Drug Store
P. M. Kirkland
South Side Main Street
P. Lavety
Athens, Oregon
Gillis Bros
Marin Street
Miller
the Rustler
N. A. Miller
Main Street
Athena, Ore
Athena Meat Market
Frank Beal
J. Bloch & CO
Levi Strauss
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