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Newspaper
Yakima Herald
Location
Yakima, Washington, United States of America
Date
Dec 19, 1906
Page
1
A rear end collision on a siding at Alfalfa after 5 pm left F. D. French of Ellensburg dead from severe injuries. The wreck involved two freight trains. French was on the forward train’s caboose when crushed between the caboose and a box car. He died before reaching Yakima City.
President Hill of the Great Northern arrived late to testify but will be called tomorrow morning after the hearing began in Minneapolis.
The nineteenth annual Yakima County Teachers Institute begins at Lincoln school with about 175 teachers present. County Superintendent Jacobson chairs. Sessions run through the week featuring talks on high school functions athletics and student activities.
The Yakima County Teachers Institute opened in the high school assembly hall with songs readings and prayer by Rev. M. L. Rose. Supt D C Reed spoke on what the high school may reasonably expect from the grades and stressed ambition language and oral expression. The grammar and primary sections heard arithmetic talks and method demonstrations. Afternoon featured music by Summit View and Columbia schools and talks by F M McCully and W E Wilson on school visits and general education. Evening events include a lecture by H C Sampson on community making.
Principal W E Wilson of the normal school served as a judge at the high school debating contest in North Yakima Saturday evening. He will deliver six lectures before the Yakima county institute this week. Prof McCully deputy state superintendent and former Ellensburg principal will also speak at the institute.
New York December 18 reports say just before midnight Bishop McCabe was alive and his vitality surprised those in attendance continuing to defy expectations of his condition.
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