Local option fight heats up in senate skirmishes
Preliminary moves show wets organized to gain advantage in the local option contest. Leaders push measures, test votes avoided, and committees stacked to favor local option with anti optionists resisting but not protesting confirmations.
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Senate
Ruth
Hay
Metcalf
Knickerbocker
Booth
Smith
Falconer
Pauthamus
Fishback
Bassett
Polson
Cotterill
Arrasmith
Blair
Bryan
Cox
Davis
Spokane
Huxtable
Hutchinson
Whitney
Graves
Rosenhaupt
Public Morals Committee
Rules Committee
Transcontinental $25 Rail Rate Hits Pacific Northwest
Washington and Oregon residents are urged to use a new one way rail rate of $25 from Kansas City Omaha St Paul Minneapolis Winnipeg and other towns to mainline points in Washington and Oregon for travel between March 1 and April 30. The low fare compares with $33 from Chicago and $30.50 from St Louis and aims to attract settlers to the Pacific Northwest.
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Wasington
Oregon
Kansas City
Omaha
St. Paul
Minneapolis
Winnipeg
Union
Washington
Chicago
St. Louis
United States
Pacific Northwest
Wenatchee Real Estate Leader Targets Garbling Schemes
Mr. Russell, a Wenatchee real estate dealer, urges a Commercial Club committee to investigate concerns selling stock or certificates in the valley. He proposes a clearance certificate to prove legitimacy and warns the public to demand it before investing. The measure may be discussed at the next club meeting.
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Russell
Wenatchee
World
Commercial Club
Wenatchee County News Highlights Rail Plans and Local Events
Wenatchee articles note the Great Northern line extension from Columbia siding to the Big Bend country nearly finished with steel to be laid in spring. Indicate work may start Wenatchee to Oroville this spring, with much right of way secured and route surveyed. Local power development and charity plans also appear, alongside a severe cold spell and liquor-license renewals signaling dry town moves.
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Chumstick Valley
Leavenworth
Wenatchee
Great Northern
Columbia Siding
Big Bend
Okanogan Valley
Oroville
Chris Marks
Old Shack
Shipp & Leamer
Cashmere Council
M. C. McCormick
Cashmere
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Clinton
Iowa
PINE
C. R. Lamb
Minneapolis, Minn
G. E. Lamb
Treas
Mgr
Leavenworth, Wa
Big Rock
Meisner & Roach
F. H. Hutchings, Prop
W. H. Wahllfel
Debord & McCoy
Wheeler’s
A. A. Tholin
King
ADAMS
CARR
Methodist Episcopal Church
North Side
Epworth League
Melvin Rumpler
Leavenworth Mercantile Co
Strong
State
W. H. Taft
Henry Watterson
Kentucky
Baldwin
James Weir
King County
Capitol
Charles E. Coon
Ed S. Russell
Wenatchee Valley
Ellsworth Hallenbeck
C. & O. Steamboat Co
Columbia River
Arthur Gunn
Wenatchee Electric Co
Valley Power Co
Peshastin
North Star
Dick’s Landing
Entiat
Wenatchee Republic
Frank Shotwell
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Seattle
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