Jail Escape Sparks Local Sheriff Criticism in Prosser
In Friday’s brief, a prisoner escaped from the new jail at Prosser after being held in the North Yakima facility during construction. Sheriff McNeill wires officials as Deputy Ellis assists. Wilson robbed the Kelso hotel and Hinman before capture hours later, with questions raised about jail security and outside help.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
J. W. Wilson
Prosser
Kiona
McNeill
Wilson
North Yakima
E D Ellis
Kid Barker
Sheriff's Office
Crowded Local Notices and Sporting Snapshots Highlight Community
The report refutes withdrawal from a subscription contest for a Jamestown Exposition trip with Cecilia Shaughnessy declaring continued participation. Mountain Gem's T A Davis assumes ship supply duties. local notes recount Keannewick beating Kiona, a purse race, hay harvests near North Yakima, and an impressive six foot oat sheaf. I J Wurt, longtime Yakima printer, dies at 71 after valvular heart disease. his career spanned Hover Sunshine and Wallula Gateway papers with broad respect from colleagues.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Keannewick
Kiona
Hedger
Kiowa
Gamble
Ledger
W B. Williams
North Yakima
Allalfa
Touchet
South
Northwest
Wallula
Hart
The Gem's Schedule for Up River Trips
The Mountain Gem adopts a weekly up river schedule from Kennewick to Priest Rapids with trips on Tuesday Thursday and Saturday. The steamer holds a contract with Cascade Construction Co to haul materials for the power canal and plant project. It also hauls supplies for Hanford Irrigation Power Co and will be busy for months.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
O. R. Holcombe
Ritzville
Jack Stacer
Spokane
C. Stacer
M. P. Martin
ON. P. Irigation Co
O. S Ffanson
Mary Crooks
Boone
Iowa
A. W. Tompkins
Lewiston
Lewiston-Clarkston
Columbia
Mountain Gem
Kennewick
Priest Rapids
Cascade Construction Co
Gem
Hanford Irrigation & Power Co
Taylor Sells Big Order From Oregon Nursery Co
D L Taylor agent for the Oregon Nursery Co reports a sale worth 1218.15 to Seattle shingle man George T McNealy. The order includes apple peach pear and cherry trees and wrape vines European varieties to be planted on McNealy’s ranch two miles back of White Bluffs City. Confidence of the buyer in the grove’s reliability drove the deal.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
D. L. Taylor
Oregon Nursery Co
George T. McNealy
Seattle
White Bluffs City
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Chas. H. Collins Co
Wm. Direcksen
Elizabeth Faires
Fuller & Roesen
Royce Tripp
N. P. Freight
A. W. Wise
Pert Scott
Alvin Fisher
Ashbaugh
C. O. Anderson
Helena
Montana
A. A. Haskell
Bullum House
Henry Tweedt
Genegee
Idaho
T. Howard
Jim Dodson
Harvest
Pd.n. Ray
Colfax
Jessie LaLond
Natchez
Nellie Templeton
H.M Ashbaugh & Co
Genesee
Idhahonewick
John Kerr
Muskegon
Mich
Effie Hollenbeck
E.N. Cottman
White Bluffs
Endeavor
Sound Country
Iez
Beulah Church
A. A. DeFrance
Williams, Town
C.J. Beach
Chetcham
E Oll
The
Sound
W. N. Slaugenhaupt
Newville
Pennsyvania
J. B. Slaugenhaupt
Fami
Blance Reed
Ws. Harvey
Barton J. Duncan
Arie Dyer
Ingwall Smith
Tacoma
Jens Lande
H. J. McNeel
the Sound
Waterman
Whitelock
Ruel P. Bronson
W. R. Alexander
Walla Walla
John Straub
Garfield
T. A. Melvin
B. F. Mannering
Coeur d’ Alenes
Montgomery Ranch
W. G. King
Toppenish
Commercial Club
J R. Garfield
Yakima
Benton
Cecilia Shaughnessy
T. A. Davis
Wenatchee
Milwaukee
Bridg
L. J. McPhee
New Hover Hotel
Taylor
Earnest & Smith
Iele
Il Q Mee
Puritan
J. E. Tull
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