May Come Out For Congress Gellatly Explains Run
Wenatchee mayoral candidate John A. Gellatly says if he runs for the Third district seat, he will be a Republican and refrain from attacks on the speaker or rules. He defends muckraking, supports stable conservation, irrigation projects, river and harbor improvements, and notes his background in business and orchard farming. He outlines plans tied to national timber seedling efforts through the Savenac Nursery and forest nurseries program.
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John A. Gellatly
Wenatchee
Congress
Miles Poindexter
Gellatly
Business Corporation
Roosevelt
Taft
Africa
California
Oregon
Savenac Nursery to Plant 1.5 Million Pine Seedlings in Montana
The Department of Agriculture will plant 1.5 million pine seedlings at Savenac Nursery in the Lolo National Forest near De Borgia Montana. The 150 beds four by twelve feet will be protected by lath and wire frames to deter mice and birds and shade seedlings. A water system will support irrigation and a caretaker will oversee ongoing watering. The nursery aims for annual production of 1.5 million seedlings once established.
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Lolo National Forest
Coeur d’Alene
Missoula Forest
Montana
Savenac
Department of Agriculture
Savenac Nursery
Savenac Creek
de Borgia
Senator Borah Warns Of Tax Amendment Peril In Senate
Idaho Senator Borah denounces the income tax amendment as a trick and urges brave action by governors and legislatures. He warns the move risks class conflict, heavier government, and unfair taxation while defending the peoples fight to ratify or defeat the proposal.
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Borah
Idaho
Senate
Republican Party
Congress
Taft
Train Service Resumes After Three Week Closure
Great Northern freight and passenger service restarted last Saturday for one day after a nearly three week shutdown. A Sunday slide near Wellington damaged a rotary plow and snowshed, injuring Engineer Annan and possibly killing an Italian laborer. By Monday afternoon the line was cleared and through traffic resumed as weather warmed. State officials travel to Washington to press for federal land law changes protecting state land grants and forest lands.
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Great Northern
Wellington
Annan
New York Elections Boost Small Town Democratic Presence
Local results show Democrats gain seats in numerous small towns across New York on Tuesday. Damages from late floods in Columbia County are estimated at 15000 dollars by the county commissioners. Twenty three road crew convicts near Deception Pass receive pardons after strike ends. President Taft attends dances sparking clergy critique. Great Northern avalanche deaths prompt initial coroner testimony in Wellington with scene viewing planned. Over one million acres of Yakama Reservation land labeled for open bidding.
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Wellington
Vast homestead rush looms as summer entry nears
The coming summer will draw thousands to the state as large public land tracts near completion. Mosquito outbreaks along the Sound shore and Henderson bay spur settlers to treat water pools. Deer starve in southeast Alaska amid heavy winter snows. Spokane petitions seek voter approval of franchises for the Chicago Milwaukee Puget Sound and North Coast Railway without terminal rate and common user clauses. Sixteen hundred kegs of wire nails lie at the Mississippi river bottom, recoverable by a magnetic rig.
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Tacoma
Stone’s Landing
Henderson Bay
Alaska
Spokane
Chicago, Milwaukee
Puget Sound
North Coast Railway
Mississippi River
Thomas I. Hisgen
Massachusetts
Independence
Rockefeller Foundation
Hisgin
Seattle
Gilman
L. C. Gilman
Ronald
Cochrane
Impressions Change From Pie to Caution
A melancholy speaker reflects on aging and memory while Mr. Cumrox recounts how pie once seemed the peak of luxury to his youth now treated with care to avoid excess. The dialogue contrasts youth and adulthood through simple appetite.
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Mr. Cumrox
Awkward Motor Breakdowns and a Delayed Call
A reporter recalls arriving to aid a patient only to find the situation resolved with the patient alive and treated. The exchange reveals a mix of grave expectations and an unexpected positive outcome despite the delay. The tale centers on the tension between medical urgency and eventual success.
Census Proclamation for Thirteenth Decennial Census
President Taft proclaims the 1909 act authorizing the 1910 census set to begin April 15. Citizens must answer all questions. penalties apply for refusals. Census Bureau employees are barred from disclosing information. The act aims to collect general population data, not taxes or laws, with protections for individuals.
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United States of America
United States
William Howard Taft
Census Bureau
Washington
A.D
P. C. Knox
Wenatchee Club Grows as School Board Seat Is Won
The Wenatchee Commercial club reaches 523 members amid ongoing growth. Mrs. C. E. Whaley is re elected to the District No. 2 school board by five votes. In Cashmere, J. H. Birmingham wins the District 56 director post in a tight race. One third of voters are women. W E Whisnand sells a ten acre fruit ranch to P P Holcomb for 36000. the bearing orchard is expected to boost this season's yields. Fourteen hundred acres of Long View Orchard land are noted.
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C. E. Whaley
Cashmere
J. H. Birmingham
W. E. Whisnand
Wenatchee
P. P. Holcomb
Long View Orchard
Rancher narrowly escapes drowning in Palouse River crossing
Hugo Heize, a rancher near Elberton, tried to cross the Palouse River in a hog vat tied by a cable. The vat capsized, he clung to driftwood for seven hours, before neighbors found him exhausted yet recovering.
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Hugo Heize
Elberton
Palouse
Heize
Reform plan for a second chamber in England described
The chronicle details a proposed 200 to 240 member second chamber elected by current voters for seven or nine years. Eligibility targets peers and commoners over 40, elected from larger constituencies. The chamber lacks finance powers but holds advisory and delaying authority with joint sittings to resolve differences. A dialogue between Miss Antique and Mr Oldsport follows.
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Chronicle
House of Lords
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