Navy to Remodel Evans Fleet as World Cruise Echoes
A Washington dispatch says the navy will remodel the 16 battleships from Admiral Evans fleet. Vessels reportedly sprung masts and damaged machinery. Plans aim to convert them into low freeboard monitors with minimal above deck structures and raised armor belts for better protection.
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Navy
Boston Cult Leader Promises Immortality Through Laughing
Dr. John Fair, head of Boston's New Life cult, claims a method to live without pain or sickness for a thousand years. He asserts the secret to longevity lies in a practice he teaches to followers, attracting attention to his movement and its goals.
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John Fair
Boston
Jack Hinton Seeks Protection From Deer Encounter
Cashmere Record reports pioneer Jack Hinton requests a game warden after a frightening hill encounter with two tame deer. He tracked the animals for hours and barely escaped, returning home exhausted. He now ventures out with his grandfather’s gun for protection as the deer linger nearby.
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Jack Hinton
Mission Creek
Jack
Passion Play at Gem Theatre Draws Big Crowds
The Passion Play film at the Gem Theatre in Wenatchee avenue near the post office drew heavy weekend crowds with many unable to enter. Shows continue tonight and tomorrow afternoon and evening, and patrons will find improved comfort with a new electric fan installed. In Kiona Washington May 3, fruit prospects remain wary but not dire with some apples and Winesap varieties undamaged while Ben Davis and pears show more injury. Spraying for codling moth will proceed quickly this year.
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Wenatchee Avenue
Herod
Kiona
Wash
Ben Davis
Thrifty Squaw Good Farmer Matilda Wapato Ranch Case
Chelan Wash May 3 Matilda Wapato owns a valuable 160 acre Chelan valley farm ten miles from Chelan at Wapato Lake. The land includes alfalfa and fine fruit, with bearing orchards yielding $1200 worth of fruit last year. A family dispute over a one third stake led to Charlie Wapato being killed in 1907 by Louie Wapato. Louie was convicted of manslaughter. Matilda now has undisputed possession, leasing the farm to a nursery, with rent supporting her and her children.
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Matilda Wapato
Chelan Valley
Chelan
Wapato Lake
Quatrass
Jim
Matilda
Charles
Peter Wapato
Charlie
Charlie Wapato
Peter
Louie Wapato
Louie
Charlie Peter
Chelar
Malaga
Wenatchee
Columbia River Valley
Railroad Experimental Farms in Washington and Intermountain West
The Chicago Milwaukee and Puget Sound Railway plans six ten acre experimental farms in Washington with additional stations in Idaho and Montana. The project aims to prove irrigation forestry orcharding and dairying on small holdings and to showcase modern intensified farming and soil moisture conservation to settlers tourists and investors.
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Washington
Chicago, Milwaukee & Puget Sound Railway Company
Idaho
Montana
Saloon keeper fined for Sunday whisky sale
Patsy Taylor, owner of the Depot saloon, was fined 100 dollars plus costs by Judge Palmer after testimony by Chief Insche showed she sold three pints of whisky on a Sunday. The ruling followed clear evidence of the sale to a local patron.
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Patsy Taylor
DEPOT
Judge Palmer
Card of Thanks and Diplomatic Mentions
Words are inadequate to express appreciation for sympathy shown after our bereavement. Card notes the ambassador to Turkey and W W Rockhill to Russia, with recalls of prior posts and practical farming guidance from the public notices. MR AND MRS A B TRIMBLE ESTHER E TRIMBLE REFERENCES.
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Rockhill
Russia
A. B. Trimble
Esther E. Trimble
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