Leavenworth Echo Fragments on Tax, Railroads and Capitol
The Leavenworth Echo discusses the tax commission bill awaiting Senate action and critiques railroad influence. It praises Wisconsin’s railroad pass ban as a reform model and condemns graft, urging voters to elect reform-minded legislators and prosecutors like Folk of Missouri to curb corruption.
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House
Tax Commission
Senate
Friends of Railroad Commission
Commission
Washington
Wisconsin
Oregon land fraud indictments widen to include Senator Mitchell
Indictments in Oregon land fraud cases persist with Senator Mitchell among those charged in ties to Blue Mountain and Cascade forest reserves. U S district attorney Heney says sufficient evidence exists to indict more leaders and vows to expose long running schemes that deprived the government of timber and land and real home seekers.
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Mitchell
Oregon
Blue Mountain Forest Reserve
Cascade Forest Reserve
United States
Heney
Dog fish diet blamed for Japanese prowess in war
An English traveler’s Seattle article claims Japanese soldiers’ dog fish diet makes them fearless and aggressive, likening their tactics to the Kilkenny cats. The piece suggests feeding Russians dog fish could boost courage and even create a new industry.
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Brisbane
Orient
Seattle
Pacific Coast
Adam
Kilkenny Cats
Legislature approves 75000 for Lewis and Clark exhibit
The bill allocating 75000 to fund the state exhibit at the Lewis and Clark exposition passed both houses and will become law. Sportsmen near Wenatchee show interest in preserving game birds and plan to stock the Valores with Chinese pheasants from Oregon breeders.
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Wenatchee
Oregon
Maloney Introduces Harsh Bill Against Wife Beaters
Representative Maloney of Stevens introduces a bill granting condemnatory punishment for wife beaters. The measure mandates forty lashes or up to one year in jail, or both, at the court’s discretion. An emergency clause is included and sheriffs or police are designated to carry out sentences within the local jail.
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Washington
Capitol
Missouri
Heney
Representative Maloney
Stevens
Maloney
Cord Wood Wanted in Chelan County Seeks 125 Cords
Public notice from Wenatchee Washington District No. 1 seeking 125 cords of pine or fir four foot wood cut from sound green timber. Delivery planned August or September after cutting between October 1904 and March 15 1905. Clerk H C Littlefield. Opened February 21.
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Scuops
Chelan Co
H. C. Littlefied
Wenatchee
Wash
Perry W. Eddy
Minneapolis
Hennepin
Minnesota
A.N. Corbin
U 5S
Wenatchee Wash
William Gridley
John Stopple
James A. Grant
Frank Shibley
Chiwaukum
M B. Malloy
Register
Land Office Notice on Timber Lands Sale Extension
United States Land Office Waterville Washington announces compliance with the 1874 act for selling timber lands in California Oregon Nevada and Washington territory as extended by the 1892 act.
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United States Land Office
Waterville
Wash
California
Oregon
Nevada
Washington Territory
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Kri. A. King
G. W. Hathaway
Chelan County Abstract Co
Wenatchee, Wash
Cord Wood
the World News
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the Home and World News
Echo
P.I
Waterville, Wash
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Chelan
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