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Newspaper
Wenatchee Daily World
Location
Wenatchee, Washington, United States of America
Date
Dec 16, 1910
Page
4
The Wenatchee Daily World is published by World Publishing Co each weekday except Sunday with editors W S Trimble and E Stohl. It notes postal registration as a second class matter and lists office contact and subscription rates for daily and weekly editions.
An analysis of Wenatchee registration books shows only fourteen voters born in Washington, with Ohio residents forming the largest nonlocal group in the Wenatchee area. The piece urges locals to promote the district by sending apples, newspapers, and literature to friends in former homes to attract newcomers.
Sheriff Ferguson brought five intoxicated railroad laborers from Merritt after a report of a robbery. A Bulgarian named Steano sold bad whiskey from St Louis at a dollar a quart. A Russian named Sorenson warned of vigilante justice and drew a gun before the group was taken to Wenatchee for investigation. The party included three Russians one Bulgarian and one Finlander.
A government shipment of frying pans to a western agency led to a wave of applications and, after two dozen given out, a mountain hillside became a natural toboggan run. Indians used long handled pans as sleds, sliding down a slope to cheers. The agent later released the remaining pans. North Yakima reports a body found near Wapato identified as Wenatchee Indian Wapato Charley killed by a Northern Pacific train.
James J Hill, chairman of Great Northern, arrived in Portland and said Hill interests will consolidate all roads radiating from Portland into a single company similar to Harriman lines. He plans extending the Oregon Trunk Line beyond Bend and pushing United Railways to Tillamook Bay, with an independent Hill depot likely in Portland.
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