Sheriffs Push Post for Wife Beaters and Law Reforms
Washington sheriffs at their North Yakima winter meeting endorse a whipping post for wife beaters and women assailants. They plan a July 14 16 Everett meeting, elect officers, and support reforms including two term sheriffs, Sunday closing law, and harsher penalties for jail breaking. They also seek changes to the bad check law and urge appointing an ex sheriff to the board of control.
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Washington
Delaware
North Yakima
Everett
F. K. Pugh
Spokane
S. van Zandt
Whatcom
J. E. Ferguson
Chelan
Stringer
King
Treasury of Association
Board of Control
Colfax
W. D. Sappington
Clark County
United States
West Side
Twelve Thousand Boys Grow Corn Under Dept of Agriculture Effort
More than twelve thousand boys under eighteen cultivated an acre of corn in 1909 under the agriculture department. South Carolina’s winner yielded 152.5 bushels, Mississippi 147, Arkansas 135, Virginia 122, with an overall average of 60 bushels per boy. Potatoes yielded 107 bushels on average, Maine farmers averaging 225 with some at 400.
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Department of Agriculture
Arkansas
Mississippi
South Carolina
Virginia
Washington
Maine
United States
Wenatchee Valley fruit grading talks and city sewer plan
At the Wenatchee Valley Fruit Growers Association annual meeting on January 31 officials will vote on whether to keep old apple grades or adopt a new scheme. Secretary Balch cites Spokane standards as raising the fruit quality. Wenatchee plans a $245000 sewer system funded by bonds paid by benefiting property owners.
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Wenatchee
Balch
Pacific Northwest
Spokane
Wenatchee Valley
Wenatchee City
Spokane and
Peachey Streets
Sheep Drive Out Cattle in Wyoming Open Range
In a forecast of open range changes, Wyoming moves toward sheep dominance as cattlemen fear losing the range. The 1909 Spring Creek raid killed three, burned two bodies, and decimated sheep camps, leading to prison sentences for seven raiders and a shift in law over open range ethics.
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Wyoming
Spring Creek
Tensleep
Rawlins
George C. Morris
Pacific Monthly
Wreck on Canadian Pacific near North Bay forests many dead
A broken rail on the Canadian Pacific near North Bay Ontario caused a night express wreck. Three cars plunged down an embankment, two sank through ice, and a second class coach burned. Fatalities estimated around sixty. Other items note a new comet sighting, a Seattle meat dealer ruling, a Peoria college exodus, Vancouver ministers seeking union ties, and James Logan convicted of murder and cremation.
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Canadian Pacific
North Bay
Ont
Night Express
Spanish River
Real Estate Transfers in Wenatchee Area
A long list of property transfers from H C Peters to F L Heidrich and many other buyers in Wenatchee and surroundings. Transactions include lots, blocks, and fractional parcels with prices from $1 to $12,000, detailing buyers such as Adrian W Vollmer Patrick F Barry Josie H Wheeler and others across Chelan Wenatchee Belmont and Sunnyslope areas.
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H C Peters
F L Heidrich
Cascade Orchards
U S
Adrian W Vollmer
Swan
Sine Nelson
Harry Nelson
Smith Park
W H Dickson
T D Slossen
Fairview
Bert Sutherland
Ray Musser
Capital Hill
Mis
Charles E Wheeler
Josie H Wheeler
L A Taylor
Pearl P Holcomb
Jos H McGahan
Same
Sunnyslope Farms
AJ Adams
Wenatchee
Fred E Miller
L L Teachout
CR Kenyon
J W McDonald
I M Derifield
J W Dutcher
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France
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Chelan County
A. S. Biurbank
Cashmere
C. W. Babcock
G. W. Harter
Seattle
Easy Street
New England States
Tibbits
F. A. Shaffer
Omaha
F. E. Burns
L. G. Heybrook
Index
Europe
Worthen Manufacturing and ‘Mill Company of
Tommy
Gyer
Myer
Wyoming Range
Lowell Observatory
William Evans
Justice Courts
Supreme Court
Riordan
Peoria, Ill
Indiana
Peoria Institution of Learning
Vancouver
B.C
Central Trades Council
James Logan
Johns
Colville
Wash
Agnes Janson
Logan
Chelan County Abstract Company
A A Bosquet
Patrick F Barry
Elizabeth J Fuller
G S Merriam
Wen
Robt Gaines
Alvin J Eare
WL Jones
Chas H Merritt
Chas E Johnson
Levi L Miller
S Belle Renn
Sarah A Smith
Stillwell
Barnett
A L Rogers
Geo D Brown
Chelan Falls
Jas H Warren
J B
Fosdick
Frank Turner
Chas Johnson
Jos Hardenburgh
Lakeside
M Kingman
Herbert R Kingman
Lake Park
Foxworthy
Jacob Metcalf
C E Moore
Paul Rock
M Derifield
Derifield
Malaga
L Bartlett
H Dickson
Geo A Ross
Dickson
William Gay
R H Steeves
FH Jackson
Wen Val & N Ry Co
F Anderson
Harry Parlor
Peachey
Ira D Edwards
Frank I Curtis
K Mackintosh
A Battle
John Walsh
J L Davisson
Ralph W Whitehill
Columbia Heights
S F Fry
Addie L Sattler
Chas F Eggiman
J W
Dutcher
Chas W
Wilmeroth
Geo W Payton
Jas H McGahan
Percy Walker
Oscar P Hollingsworth
Belmont
M. F. Peake & Son
Ninth Street
Housewives
Leavenworth Furniture & Hardware Co
Harringtons
Echo
Harrington
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Leavenworth Mercantile Company, Agts
Leavenworth Lodge No 32
Odd Fellows Hall
Elsie Anderson
H. Alice Marble
Rec
Ida Bauman
Cascade
Order of Eaglee
W.W . Elmer
Worthy
Geo. A. Blocksedge
Hamilton Lodge No
O. F. Ball
J. F. Hartman
D. Morrison
Woldenberg
W.M. McCoy
H. A. Haskell
Columbia Valley Bank Building
Wenatchee, Wash
Leavenworth Wenatchee
Sprague & Rappe Undertakers
A.J . Martin
Leavenworth, Wash
Fiversige Avenue
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