Slater Describes Sacramento Valley Travel and Rice Boom
Slater recounts a June journey from Colville to Frisco noting extreme heat in the Sacramento valley, an aviation field near Red Bluff, and a pilot's near zero temperature altitude. He explains rice expansion, irrigation, and prosperity driven by San Francisco capital, with 135000 acres harvested last year worth over 60 million dollars.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sacramento Valley
Redding
Mt. Lassen
America
Red Bluffs
Mt. Shasta
Shasta
United States
Siskiyou Mountains
Sacramento
California
Combine
San Francisco
Inland Empire
San Joaquin Valley
Stevens County
Nonpartisan League clash sparks Colville meetings
Readers in Colville hear a heated discussion over the Nonpartisan League with remarks by L. C. Jesseph, J. Stanley Webster, and local figures. Debates cover party loyalty, tax woes for farmers, and league methods as speakers warn of autocratic control and press manipulation.
Shall County Levy Pest Tax Hearings on Stevens County Pest District
A hearing is scheduled for September 10 at 11 50 a m in the Colville courthouse to decide if Stevens county should form a squirrel pest district under state pest law or continue current control methods. The piece weighs pros and cons of an acreage versus mill tax to fund poison and related needs under county supervision. It cites Spokane county cases where acre tax was challenged, noting a ten cent per acre levy was contested and court ruled on classification meaning.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Nonpartisan League
Republican State Central Committee
L. C. Jesseph
Republican Party
Josseph
League
Thomas Corkery
Congress
Yakima
Geo.Tl. Murray
Republican State Committee
North Dakota
J. 5. Pinger
W. Lon Johnson
Henry R. Spedden
Spedden
Supreme Court
Atty. L. B. Donley
Inquirer
W. H. Keyser
Lincoln
Colville
Keyser
Attwood A. Kirby
Spokane
Townley
United States
Kirby
Darney Goerkes
Echo
Stevens County
J. R. Shinn
Spokane County
Superior Court
Also Mentioned on This Page
Colville Abstract CO
Frank Kostka
Colville, Washington
Colville Loan and Trust Company
TopNoch Flour Mills
Slater
Examiner
Alameda California
Frisco
al Weatherman
Addy
Albert I. Kulzer
Chewelah
A. l L. Campbell
Marcus
J. J. Linsswell
J. W. Henderson
W. H. Graham
Frank Hardesty
W. B. Stuart
W. A. Haskins
Oppenheimer
J. M. Glasgow
Hunters
John T. Raftis
Nellie M. Hunter
John Wilson
Loon Lake
Chester R. Wiley
Boyds
J. L. Richardson
Rice
Rose Masear
Aladdin
Sarilda McKeown
Annie Enright
Clayton
T. M. Offutt
J. H. Palmer
Dominion
Afaditor
Will C. Spedden
Max B. Meyers
O. W. Noble
W. O. Cummings
George L. Denman
Bossburg
Gladys K. Krueger
Eloise van Slatte
Springdale
Emery J. Tremblay
Robert L. Skeels
G. M. Stapish
James Chase
James Crawford
E. W. McCann
Jacobs
Cedonia
Joe Hudspeth
Fruitland
James H. Newhouse
The
S. O. S. League of the State
J. Stanley Webster
Harding
Court House
Mill Creek Bridge
Will Everett
M. T. Hodgman
Walter Thomas Mills
Stevens County Nonpartisan League
J. C. Pinger
This is just the beginning! Our collection holds over 300 years of history, including rare newspapers, obituaries, marriage records, birth records, and so much more—most of which you won’t find anywhere else!