Oregon Tract No Man's Land Stirs Land Grant Case
The Oregon California land grant feud lands 2 300 000 acres in limbo. Settlers can pay 400 for 160 acres with a vague right to occupy while the government and Harriman dispute titles lingering for years.
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Oregon
NO Man's Land
Wolverton
Portland
Harriman
Railway Corporation
United States
Army
Navy
Home Guards
Harriman the Great
Oregon Country
California
Viceroy Tuan Fang Appeals for U S Aid to End Opium
Shanghai dispatch reports Tuan Fang, powerful viceroy and special commissioner, asking America and other powers to back China in abolishing opium. The appeal, written in Wenli, seeks international support as China aims to end the narcotic trade. Fang governs Kiangsu Anhui Kiangsi with 72 million subjects and has long shown friendship toward Western nations.
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Shanghai
Tuan Fang
America
Peking
China
Great Britain
United States
International Opium Commission
Kiangsu
Anhui
Kiangsi
London
Nobleman as peasant girl reshapes romance in Moscow tale
A baroness widow in Moscow was deceived by a peasant girl who posed as a nobleman, later marrying the impostor. Separately, Grant Paton sold one acre of Ben Davis apples for 1520 dollars through the Wenatchee Valley Fruit Growers association, fetching about 1.65 dollars per box in Montana and Canada. The Cashmere Record notes the land value implied by the crop income versus wheat land.
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Moscow
Baroness Urusoff
Maximoff
Grant Paton
Wenatchee Valley Fruit Growers Association
Montana
Canada
Lord Burton Will Reveals Unusual Bequests and Burial Fears
London reports the late Lord Burton’s estate surpasses a million sterling with bequests totaling at least fifty thousand to eighteen employees and domestic staff. His will directs surgical spine severing and heart removal before burial. Jane Thornewill, sister-in-law and famed English bridge player, is named among beneficiaries. Train surveyors complete town route, with rail lines and a tunnel project advancing. graders work on Douglas segment, aiming for train completion by September 1.
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London
Lord Burton
Jane Thornewill
England
Eckert
Rainier Street
Walnut
Chelan Avenue
Douglas
Douglas County Press
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Congress
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A.Y.P.E
Seattle
U. S&s. Realty Co
West 45Th St
Seattle, Wash
Fiske & Gillette
Mission
Bellingham House
Wenatchee Valley
Imperial Street
Splendid Orchard
Wenatchee Post Office
J. S. Mooney & CO
Wenatchee Avenue
Associated Press
Folger’s Golden
Union Dye Works
Orondo
Wenatchee
Grant & Cox
Mission Street South
Young
Export Pruner
Hotel Roosevelt
Penn
Wellington
Pittsburg
Centralia
Gerber
GUY H. Whitson & CQ
Orondo Ave
Eagle Transfer Co
ENC
Baggate
Bas Te Air
Family Theatre
Spitzenburg
Elberta
Simmons’ Seedlings
Crummil
Dennis
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