Governor Hay Urges Legislation Reform and Capitol Plan
Governor Hay submits a message to the legislature urging a direct primary law to fill congressional vacancies, seeks new judiciary and highway board powers, funds to survey and sell lands for a new capital at Olympia, and ratification of the federal income tax amendment. He notes lobbyist presence and calls for curbs on lobbying practices.
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Olympia
Wash
Senate
Hay
Congress
Ortis Hamilton
State Highways Board
United States
Ex Governor Van Zant to Visit North Yakima This Thursday
Ex Governor Van Zant of Minnesota, newly elected head of the national G A R, will arrive in North Yakima Thursday at 2 30 pm and be a guest at B L Bull’s residence. Local post members and the Woman's Relief Corps will host the visit with assistance from the Commercial club and other organizations.
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B. L. Bull
Grand Army of the Republic
van Zant
Minnesota
Salt Lake City
National Organization of the
North Yakima
Bull
Woman's Relief Corps
Varrant
Commercial Club
City to Run Cemetery Under City Certificates Only
City authorities order no further burials at Tahoma Cemetery without a valid city death certificate. The cemetery, city property, will be managed by the city. Undertakers and the sexton are instructed to require city certificates. interment without one will be forbidden. The issue arose after a county case burial questioned by the county health officer, prompting the city to assert control.
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Tahoma Cemetery
Indians Plan Council Over Yakima Project Contracts Near Toppenish
Yakima Nation leaders hold council near Toppenish to review revised land contracts for the Wapato project. L. V. McWhorter advocates broader discussion before action, citing treaty rights and tribal allotment concerns. The notice also restates land restoration details and dates under irrigation policy.
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Yakima Reservation
Toppenish
L. V. McWhorter
McWhorter
Louis Mann
The
Herald
Mann
Jones
Yallup
Yakima
Restored Tieton Land Clarifies Withdrawal Status
Land once withdrawn for the Tieton irrigation project has been restored though not all areas are back. The latest interior ruling says some reclassified land lies outside the ditch influence and remains valuable. Telegrams circulate with updates on the decision and affected parcels.
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Secretary of the Interior
United States
Tieton
Department of the Interior
Return of Yakima businessman E H Taylor after eastern trip
E H Taylor, longtime postmaster and general store owner at Yakima City, returns to North Yakima after visiting Michigan New York Philadelphia Washington D C New Orleans and California. He plans to enter business in North Yakima and has disposed of his Yakima City interests following Mrs Taylor's death several months ago.
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E. H. Taylor
Yakima City
North Yakima
Michigan
New York
Philadelphia
Washington, D. C
New Orleans
California
Mr. Taylor
Taylor
Tired Autoists Arrive From East at Yakima Hotel
A weary group arrives at the Hotel Yakima after a western overland trip from Walla Walla to North Yakima in two cars. John Lovell, his son, Harry Geer of Salt Lake, and Mr and Mrs W G Selby of Marietta Ohio traveled with plans to visit Tacoma Seattle and then return east via southern California after a three week Montana ranch stay.
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Walla Walla
Columbia River
Health Dept Orders Abatement Of Nuisances At Two Properties
City health officials issued twenty four hour notices to Pat Mullins and Frank Clerf to remove stagnant water in excavations at First and Chestnut streets and Yakima and Second avenues. A fly-tracking experiment and court testimony regarding the Moore family were also noted in the proceedings.
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Health Department
Frank Clerf
Pat Mullins
City Health Department
First and
Chestnut Streets
Yakima and
Second Avenues
Nywening
Fitch
Hip Injured in Runaway on North Second Street
Archie Prior and his wife were injured when a runaway team dragged a wagon along north Second Street between E and F streets. Prior sustained hip injuries, his wife was badly bruised, and their 4 year old son escaped with minor scratches as the wagon halted after the tongue dropped.
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North Second Street
F Streets
Archie Prior
North Fourth Street
Prior
Ahtanum
Mr. Prior
Mother to Retain Her Four Children
Mrs. May Moore of 603 North Seventh Street will retain care and control of her four daughters. A hearing before Court Commissioner Cresap in the superior court Tuesday granted leave to reopen the case, but concluded there was insufficient reason to separate the children.
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Washington Children’s Home Association
Cresap
Moore
Gila Monster Flees Exhibit Shocks Walla Walla Hotel
A wandering live gila monster escaped from street exhibitor Dr. William Ross, alarmed guests at a Walla Walla hotel and prompted the clerk to capture the creature. The incident followed a complaint about keeping reptiles from free roaming.
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Walla Walla
William Ross
Gold Strike Reported in Swauk Region Near Meaghersville
Forest ranger Kerstetter reports a Jordan York claim find in Swauk country near Meaghersville on Wednesday. Miners Frank Johnson and A F York delved into ledge gold and pulled a rock assay with over 300 dollars in gold. About 600 prospectors work the lodge area as pockets of nuggets appear.
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Ellensburg
Wash
KE. Kerstetter
Liberty
Swauk
Jordan and
York
Frank Johnson
A. F. York
Meaghersville
Stanley Set to Defend World Champion Rider Title
Dick Stanley known as the wild horse breaker sails to Cheyenne Wyoming to defend his world championship at the Cheyenne meet. The event runs Thursday through Saturday with top western riders and the famed horse Steamboat, owned by Erven Bros of Cheyenne, in competition. Bets totaling $10 000 rest on Stanley repeating last year’s feat on Steamboat, the only horse he has ridden to count.
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Dick Stanley
Cheyenne
Wyoming
Stanley
Erven Bros
West
Sutton Case Ends After Secret Sessions In Annapolis
The Sutton court inquiry closed in Annapolis after two secret sessions examining testimony on Lieutenant James N. Sutton’s death. Findings were signed and will be reviewed by the Navy Department before public release.
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Annapolis
Sutton Court
James N. Sutton
Navy Department
Mysterious death prompts autopsy in North Yakima
A 25 year old Butte Miners union member, L. Dexter, died at a North Yakima hospital Tuesday. Doctors could not find a physical cause despite close examination and a brief fever spike. An autopsy was scheduled to determine the death reasons.
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L. Dexter
Butte Miners Union
North Yakima
Frank
Dexter
Butte
Woman Held Up by Thug Near Northey Home Burglary
Mrs Raymond A Harmer was robbed of 20 cents by a lone highwayman while returning home from shopping. She was struck in the back, fell and frightened, with spectacles displaced. Police kept the case dark for clues. Separately, burglars entered W S Northey's Capitol Hill home during Ringling Bros circus, stealing a gold watch and three rings hidden in everyday places. It is believed followers of Ringling Bros. circus staged both incidents.
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Raymond Parmer
Northey
Raymond A. Harmer
Second Avenue North
W. S. Northey
Capitol Hill
Ringling Bros.’ Circus
Harmer
Bachelor brothers die in Vancouver under strange circumstances
James and William Mortimore tailors living together in Vancouver died in adjacent deaths after James complained of side pain and went for hot water. William later found James dead and then died himself before help arrived. Doctors determined heart failure as the cause.
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Vancouver
B.C
James
William Mortimore
William
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Marietta, Ohio
Hotel Yakima
John Parleycorn
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