Land of Promise in Hermiston Brimming with Growth
Hermiston notes irrigation and land boom as home seekers pour in. Butter Creek Telephone contracts for 100-phon e switchboard with workers at sites. Council resignations fill by Dodd and Skinner. Thieves steal dynamite and cash from local sites. no clues. West-end Uma tilla county eyes major land, orchard, vegetable and watermelon development. quarantine raised on M R Hudson home. Freewater market day planned. new Walla Walla river ranchers telephone link eyed.
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Butter Creek Telephone Company
Hermiston
Inland Empire
Por Telephone System
Pendleton Electric Company
Messrs. Irvin
Stewart
E. P. Dodd
H. Skinner
State Library Commission
Hermiston Bank & Trust Company
O. R. & N. Tool House
Umatilla County
United States
Freewater
M.J. Reynolds
Illinois
Walla Walla River
Pacific States Company
Normal Tops Pearsons Academy In Walla Walla Contest
Weston Normal defeated Pearsons Academy of Walla Walla 18 to 16 in a Friday night basketball game at Walla Walla. It was the fourth meeting of the series, Weston having won again after a prior victory two weeks ago. Dr Miles Hopkins, formerly of this place and recent graduate of the Philadelphia Homeopathy Institute, has passed the Washington examination and plans to locate at North Yakima.
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Weston
Pearsons’ Academy of
Indian Lands Sold and Opened by Interior Secretary
Secretary Garfield reports on Indian land sales for the past year. 386,780.69 acres of Kiowa Comanche and Apache lands in Oklahoma were sold for 4,015,285.26 dollars at an average of 10.50 per acre. Huntley Irrigation project tracts in Montana totaling 32,287.93 acres saw 79 entries. Legislation repeals large reservations including Colville Washington and Flathead Montana totaling about 2.6 million acres, Yakima Washington 1,146,000, Blackfoot Montana 600,900, Lower Brule Dakota 5,000, Coeur d Alene Idaho 219,600, Rosebud Dakota 35,000, Lemhi Idaho 64,000. Preparations begin to open these lands next year.
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Garfield
Interior Department
Okistoma
Huntley
Crow Indian
Montana
Colville Reservation
Wash
Flathead Reservation
Mont
Yakima
Blackfoot Reservation
Wyoming Opens 150000 Acres in Eden Valley
Government to open 150000 acres of irrigable land in Eden Valley Wyoming on June 1. $1000000 irrigation works deliver water for up to 10000 acres. Land quality described as exceptional and price set under Carey Act. State population up 36000 in six months amid growing irrigation development.
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Eden Valley
Wyoming
Middle Southwest
Kansas City Star
Prominent Land Thief to Face Charges in Portland
Horace G McKinley, linked to Oregon land fraud and forgery, is to appear before Judge Tracey C. Hecker in federal court on Monday April 13. He is returned from the Orient under guard to answer pending indictments and may be moved to the county jail as the April term opens, with Heney pushing for the case to go first on the docket.
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Orient
Horace G. McKinley
Beau Brummel
Oregon
China
Little
Egypt
Wolverton
United States
Tracey C. Hecker
Oregon Daily Journal
Mewinley
Pacific
Portland
Heney
Burna
Idaho Reclamation Projects Overview
Idaho reports 13 Carey net projects covering 886 500 acres and two government reclamation schemes reclaiming 622 000 acres, plus additional private efforts. The state also notes three million acres of chol en land prone to irrigation.
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Idaho
Registration and election dates for the primary and general cycle
Registration opens for primaries on January 6 and closes for the election on April 7. The primary is set for April 17 with registration reopening for the May 15 election. The general election occurs June 1 with registration reopening on September 20 and the election closing October 20. The presidential election is on November 3.
Booster Robbed in Portland Wallet Stolen from Shaffer
President W B Shaffer of the Wattsburg Development League says his wallet containing checks drafts and gold totalling about 600 was taken in a hotel cafe after the Inland Empire banquet in Portland Oregon. He suspects a cafe thief but remains unsure while telegraph tolls were used to wire money ahead for his family trip.
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Shaffer
Waltsburg Development League
Portland
Inland Empire
Wattsburg
Wash
Western Union
Portland Oregonian
W. B. Shaffer
Wattsburg Development League
Land of the Golden Grain
Lincoln minister dies after personal crisis acts
Dr. Carl Hullhorst a once prominent minister died in a hospital for the insane in Lincoln Nebraska from acts during a personal crisis. He had been tried and condemned by the Lincoln presbytery for heretical teachings and was expelled from the ministry several years earlier.
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Carl Hullhorst
Hospital For the
Lincoln
Neb
Hullhorst
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Mia
A. M. Blum
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Lina Coe
Walla Walla
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J. L. Long
Wm. Forsythe
Arthur Van Au#dle
M. R. Hudson
Finley
Mosgrove Hall
Miuze
Freewater News
Missouri
Pilot Rock
Obe
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Delta
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Mall
Portage
Booster
Pendleton Business College
Pendleton, Oregon
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