Home seekers head west as railroads boost Spokane outlook
Spokane passenger agents predict a record travel season to the northwest driven by homeseekers rates, land shows in Spokane, and the Seattle A.Y.P. expo. Railroads with bureaus in the east promote low fares and special cars to lure buyers, with stopovers and excursions planned to showcase land opportunities.
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Spokane
Coeur d’Alene
Seattle
Middle West
Northwest
Northern Pacific
Great Northern
Middle States
East
Chicago, Milwaukee & Puget Sound Railway
Northern Pacific and Oregon Railroad & Navigation Company
Far East
Slide risk tied to denuded mountains after burns
H. T. Hansen and Walter Hellan returned Tuesday from Wellington where they viewed the slide from a forest ranger perspective. Their observation supports the belief that slides are likelier where mountains have been stripped of timber by fire. Bare, burned slopes and regrowth hinder slides, while thick brush and young trees help prevent them.
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H. T. Hansen
Walter Hellan
Wellington
Forest Rangers
Leavenworth rushes to join new North Central league
A Spokesman-Review dispatch notes Waterville,Ephrata,Wenatchee,Wilson Creek will form a North Central Washington baseball league. Leavenworth and Bridgeport may enter if financing and organization succeed. A $1000 fund was raised. spring grounds work and a 1000-seat grandstand are planned. April 15 opener expected. Manager Elliott seeks players and Captain Sam Watts will bat and lead the club.
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Spokesman-Review
Washington
Waterville
Ephrata
Wilson Creek
Wenatchee
Leavenworth
Bridgeport
Elliott
Sam Watts
Cubs
Wellington disaster victim laid to rest in Leavenworth
The body of Engineer T. L. Osborn, crushed in the Wellington disaster, arrived in Leavenworth on Tuesday. Remains prepared by A. W. Ruppe and Mrs. Martin, with vault burial pending. Osborn, a West Virginia native, had lived in Leavenworth for about a year and carried five thousand dollars in life insurance.
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T. L. Osborn
Wellington
Leavenworth
Ruppe
Wenatchee
Martin
Osborn
West Virginia
Westcott
Hoxsey
A. J. Martin
Osborne
Leavenworth Citizens Help Wellington Disaster Recovery
More than one hundred Leavenworth residents and local businessmen joined a mountain rescue effort to clear the Great Northern track from Leavenworth to the Wellington tunnel west portal. They opened 33 miles of track despite deep slides and harsh conditions, aiding train passage after an 18 day blockage.
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Wellington
Leavenworth
Cascade Tunnel
Merritt
Wenatchee River
Great Northern Railway
Harry Warner
S E Humphrey
Frank Hoxsey
J F Burke
F Griffith
J W Hitner
B Hagler
G W Burns
E Harris
S J Kilina
Max Kringle
E Tholin
J Cline
E A King
Ernest Ouren
A Hanson
O L Peterson
H L Hart
H A Franklin
M C Williamson
G Hood
T Costello
J E Grant
M Graham
Jack Roth
Harry Carr
A Hanna
T Burke
J Duffy
Frank Fromm
F A Varo
F T Motteler
Jake Staley
Frank Yama
A Bable
A Bowman
F Peake
W Wunder
W Emil
A Meisner
Ole Sands
M B Hake
R U Briggs
M E Carr
C Westcott
F Crosier
Mike Fitz
A Anderson
Win Faulkner
W Titus
C Spore
D Marble
SS Wycoff
Dan Lemaster
J E Ferguson
H McNett
Bert Gutherless
A Johnson
J A LeRue
W Mulligan
J Heffernan
F A Losekamp
R Scott
L S Chambers
J Henton
A S Williams
R E Simons
A McKinzie
M Lenard
P Sayers
J G Debord
Ivan Smith
H Sayers
F Getty
J O Hawk
J C Davis
A H Leftwich
P Jones
W V Davis
B Hanson
E M Burgess
R A Hood
Harry Ahern
F J Brady
A B Westcott
Jack Heaton
Great Northern
Scenic
Cascades
Engineer Charles Andrews Survives Tunnel Slide
Engineer Charles Andrews of this place, employed all winter at the tunnel, narrowly escaped death when a car slid over a bank. His wife, daughter of George Briskey, feared for his fate as the calamity struck, but he awoke moments before the danger. The incident is continued on page five.
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Charles Andrews
George Briskey
Deadly snowslide and floods sweep North West
Following Wellington disaster a Canadian Pacific snowslide killed 90 people. Flooded Palouse region in eastern Washington caused over a million dollars in property damage and several towns suffered heavy losses. Idaho faced both slide and flood with Burke and Mace bearing major losses.
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Wellington
Canadian Pacific
Palouse
Washington
Colfax
Wilson Creek
Davenport
Garfield
Idaho
Burke
Mace
Representative Sisson Seeks Nullification of Reconstruction Amendments
Mississippi congressman introduces a resolution to declare void the fourteenth and fifteenth amendments, arguing they enfranchise African Americans and were never adopted by a two thirds vote of both houses.
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Sisson
Mississippi
Congress
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NEW Spring Clothing
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Leavenworth Mercantile CO
R. L. Ford
Chicago, Milwaukee
Puget Sound
D. G. Black
W. H. Ude
H.C. Munson
J. C. Carter
Baseball
American Maize Product Co
Roby
Ind
Hammond
Red Mountain
F. E. Carlquist
George Hood
Bob Dye
Chumstick Valley
Harry Krollpfeiffer
C. E. Buckingham
Chelan
East End
O’neill
Everett
Ray L. Forsythe
R. M. Saville
John Gray
Nooksack
H. H. White
Broadway
W. M. May
Chemainus
B. C
Sterrett and Son
William Harrington
Ross Phillips
D. Tegtmeier
Rotary
M. O. White
George Nelson
S. A. Bates
J. D. Kerlee
Smith
Porter
Anderson
Bates
Seattle Dispatch
Bennington
the Post-Intelligencer
Katharine Fisher
Earl E. Bennington
Katherine Fisher
Miss Fisher
Rarl
Canada
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