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Tournament baseball notes and a dramatic tale from Walla Walla
A June 13 1885 letter from Warrenvnt recounts day by day tourney play with Walla Walla beating Dayton 41 to 5 and Weston routing Mill Creek 33 to 6. Captain McCully praised. waitsburg crowd and band scenes described. A long fiction excerpt follows about Millie’s doomed engagement to Edgar Devereaux ending in tragedy and a blast about legal notices and regional gossip.
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Warrenvnt
Dr. Williamson
Mr. Powell
Capt. Beam
Lee Beam
Walla Walla
Danisirg
Fort Walla Walla
Sernard
Vert Lapwar
Mill Creek
Weston
Shields
Bean
Capt. Sullivan
Mill Creekers
Qe Aion
Wallsburg
Dayton
A. J. Jane
Paul
Union
Waitsburg
J.h.cannon
Joe McCoy
Waitsbury
Waiteburg
McCully
Dayton Chronicle
Jon
Froome
Powers
Proeltel
Powell
Beam
Rama
Sam
Crimshee
A Payton
Stent
Wartslerg
Poer
Edgar
Rachel
Millie
Edgar Devereaux
Darling
Mr. Hosmer
Hosmer
Tbe Gist
Mr. Devereaus
Ms. Hosmer
Wall
Italy
France
Devereaux
Great Barrington
Mass
S. Gleason
Rockland
Mise Louise Arlington