Athena Brevities Harvest Yet and Indian Scout Lone Inquiry
Athena Oregon July 24 Wheat testing shows No 1 quality averaging about 60 pounds with 68 needed for No 1. Harvest not in full blast yet. expected yield around 40 bushels per acre. Local market 45 cents. big grain men hold for higher prices. Uncle Bill Woodward the pioneer Indian fighter seeks news of Bill Rexford and Silas Pierce and recalls a 1865 war incident near McKay Creek involving Rexford Pierce and others.
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Athena
Truestorm
Bill Woodward
Bill Rexford
Silas Piersoe
McKay Creek
Pendleton
Woodward
Pierce
Thexford
J. D. Wolff
Caldwell
Idaho
Echo
MeKsy Creek
Woolward
Wolff
Rexford
Indiana
Wolf
Wallula
Redmen
Thme
Reaper
Mr. Woolward
Price
Potatoes Outlook in Pacific Northwest Where Prices Fall
Portland reports lower potato prices as supplies increase with California stock flooding the market. Local potatoes show improving quality while imports from California threaten local jobs. Government figures indicate U.S. crop condition at 9 percent, best in a decade, with past frost damage affecting Northwest output.
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Portland
Tocal
California
Front Street
United States
Pacific Northwest
Albany Street Car Schedules Change Imminent
Corvallis Gazette notes Corvallis residents report streetcars running twice per hour on Ely Saturday, while Albany’s line actually runs every 15 minutes. A brand new car is nearly ready, and up valley children earn spending money picking berries.
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Albany
Albany Democrat
Corvallisites
Corvallis Gazette
Corvallis
Binekberrten
Wheat Dale Glory Sold by Jas L Frasier in Milton
Milton July 23 Jay J Frasier sold 200 gacks of Dale Glory wheat at 95 cents a bushel. Mr Prazler has about 1000 sacks of this kind. Land lottery registrants include W A Bannister C M Smith W D Hole A Ragadale Uncle Dave Ross and others who doubt drawing anything worth living on.
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Jas, L. Frasier
Milton
Jay
J. Frazier
Prazler
L. L. Peppers
Pacific States Telephone and Telegraph Company
Athena
J. B. Plperl
Milton Bakery
Walla Wall
J. L. Miller
Seattle
Spokane
Coeur d‘Alene City
Missoula
W. A. Bannister
C. M. Smith
W. D. Hole
A. Ragadale
Dave Ross
Bannister
Railroads Buy Vast Amounts of Equipment
Chicago reports a firm prosperity signal from large railroad purchases of equipment and improvements. The Pullman Co. is building 180 steel passenger cars for Santa Fe, while Baltimore Ohio orders 6,000 freight cars, 80 passenger cars and 65 locomotives totaling 16 million dollars. Chesapeake and Ohio orders 50 locomotives. Chicago and Northwestern orders 1,000 boxcars 500 gondolas and 600 ore cars. Missouri Pacific begins with 25 of 100 locomotives. other smaller orders include 2,000 mining cars and 600 various cars. The piece also notes suffrage chatter, with Harriet Wright and Lady Chrystal McMellen urging Colorado women to push for a Congresswoman within two years.
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Chicago
Pullman Company
Santa Fe
Balen
Baltimore & Ohio Ia
Chesapeake & Ohio Road
Chicago & Northwestern
Missouri Pacific
Puguet
Heir to Estate Found Confined Twelve Years
Sharon Pat Charles Beboul reported confined for twelve years in a filthy Wheatland room before a constable found him. He is named as an heir to Nancy Beboul’s millions who died in St. Louis. Attorney Vaughan in St. Louis seeks the heirs. Beboul is now at Mercer county home improving. may travel to St. Louis to claim the estate.
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Wheathind
St. Louis
Vaughan
Nancy Beboul
Beboul
Wheatland
Charles Beboul
Bob. Mathowas
Johoul
Mathews
Warret
Mercer
Colorado Women Plan to Send Woman to Congress
In a Denver announcement responding to a New York remark about women voters, Colorado women’s associations pledge a concerted effort within two years to seat a woman as a Colorado representative in Congress. Plans outlined for organizing campaigns and mobilizing supporters.
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Denver
Buchtel
New York
Colorado
Congress
Pendleton Seeks Bids for Lewis Street Improvements
The Pendleton common council invites bids for Lewis Street improvements from Jeff Davis to Patent, Church Street to Eddy, and related work. Bids due August 4, 1909 at 7:30 p.m. must include a $100 certified check and follow ordinance No. 604. The council may reject any bid.
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Common Council
City of
Pendleton
Lewis Street
Jeff Davis Street
Patent Street
Church Street
Eddy Street
Bida
Oregon
John Hailey, JR
Panama Railroad cuts westbound tariffs to aid shippers
San Francisco reports the Panama Railroad Company has enacted an independent westbound tariff after years of following transcontinental rates. The new pricing lowers many commodity rates, abolishes carload leasing rates, and reduces charges on whiskey barrels drums canned goods brass items iron pipe and other goods benefiting Pacific coast shippers.
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San Francisco
Panama Railroad Company
Pacific Coast
New York
Common Points
Police fines total 2.6 million dollars yearly in Germany
The report states that Germany imposes fines totaling 2.6 million dollars annually. It highlights the scale of punitive fines and notes the departments or authorities responsible for collection. The figure underscores the monetary impact of penalties on the German system.
Plans for 6000 acre utopian Maryhill colony unfolds
Seattle based Samuel Hill and partners purchase 6000 acres along the Spokane Portland and Seattle line in Klickitat county to form the Maryhill tract. The project aims to convert the land into a self contained community with a hotel schoolhouse and modern conveniences to attract eastern farmers, including Quakers, as part of a planned utopian settlement.
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Seattle
Wash
Samuel Hill
Pacific Coast
Mr. Hum and Associates
Spokane, Portland
Seatthe
Klickitat Countty
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Nebraska
Kanes
Washington
Harriet Wright
Chrystal McMellen
House of Lords
Lady McMellon
Hwe
Oregon Railroad @ Nav. Co
Oregon Short Line and
Union Pacific Railroad
Tacoma
Walla Walla
Points
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Kansas City
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Uckel
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O. KR. & N. Local
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Germany
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Pacific Monthly
the West
Jack London
West
Draggisia
Hare
Spearve
Ray Douche
Ie Marvel
Marvel CO
Lyons
Ore
George Shill
Hazel
Corner Court
R. A. Smith
Pasco, Wash
Adams
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George H. Carrier
West Monroe St
Ill
Seneca Filter Co
Seneca, Mo
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Malin
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BE. A. Mann
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DR. M. 8
Kern
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Judd Building
Vaughan Bros
DR. D. Co. M’nabb
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Tallman’s Drug Store
J. A. Donaghue
Ontario Veterinary College
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FEE & Slater
Despain Building
Carter & Smythe, Attorneys At Law
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Law
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Lowell & Winter
Georged W. Coutts
Batates
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Peterson & Wilson
Smith- Crawford Building
Phelps & Steiner
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Peter West
Divorco
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Chas, J. Ferguson
Attorney At Law
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Taylor Hardware Store
V. Stroble
Court Street
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Hartman Abstract Co
Umatilla
James Johns
W. S&s
J. M. Bentley
Elmo
Allen Rhodes
Pendleton Iron Works
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Marion Jack
A. F. May
Yee
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J. L. Vaughan
W. Court Street
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M. A. Rader
Chicago College of Embalming
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