Yakima County Elects New Alaska-Yukon- Pacific Exposition Committee
New Yakima county members have been elected to the Alaska-Yukon- Pacific exposition committee and will meet the joint committee of county commissioners, Yakima Commercial club and Yakima Horticultural union at the courthouse Friday afternoon February 19. Members from Moxee Sunnyside Zillah Selah Lower Naches and others are named with more districts to follow. The panel will discuss building plans exhibit collection financing and special features. The county commissioners plan a special session later this month.
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Yakima
Yakima Commercial Club
Yakima Horticultural Union
Court House
W. B. Newcomb
Moxee
H. Wayenurz
Sunnyside
J. O. Vince
Zillah
FB. M. Rowland
Selah
A. C. Wall
Lower Naches
Pease
Toppenish
Aging Chinaman Wong Yet Draws Across a Dark Life
Aged over 75 Wong Yet, described as a sad faced Chinaman, was arrested in an opium raid and fined 25 dollars. He lives in a dirty subterranean hole near Front and Walnut, where he eats, sleeps, and draws, his walls filled with his own Chinese scenes.
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Wong
Niles
China
Sam Chong
Lee
Toy
Confucius
North Yakima
Front
Walnut Streets
Elks Lodge Building Bids Opened in Yakima
Bids for constructing the Elks temple on North Second Street, adjoining the court house block, were opened by the Yakima lodge building association officers. The bids will be reviewed by B P O E members at Thursday’s lodge meeting before plans are revealed. Doctor J B Burns, association president, reported the bids seem satisfactory and near the architects’ estimate.
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Elks’ Temple
Second Street
Court House
Building Association
Yakima Lodge
J. B. Burns
The
Hollister's Rocky Mountain Tea Aids Vitality
An old advertisement touts Hollister's Rocky Mountain Tea as vitality boosting and blood cleansing. It claims to build flesh and strength, marketed as spring medicine sold as tea or tablets for 35 cents at Case's drug store.
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Hollister
Case's Drug Store
Rocky Mountain
Krsocky Mountain den
Malisen
Protest over pavement dispute ends in Savage payment
City council rejects protest by Pat Mullins and Julia Kinney demanding an investigation before paying funds. A resolution allows payment to the Savage company except for $12,000 set aside by court until the McKiver suit resolves. Also briefs on city scavenger license, city hall committee, and a contested floor remark incident.
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Pat Mullins
Julia Kinney
Lynch & Grady
George Milton Savage
Superior Court
McKiver
Savage Company
Savage
I. W. Baker
Armbruster
Meigs
Harry Mull
Panama Canal Price Claim Sparks Speech Charge
Rep Rainey cited the New York World for Panama canal information that framed his recent speech. He alleged that ex convicts invented fraud and corruption claims about the United States acquiring title to the property.
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Washington
Rainey
New York World
Panama Canal
United States
Washington fruit acreages and distribution totals
The document lists fruit acreage in Washington with 41 018 acres for apricots nectarines quinces almonds and walnuts at 100 trees per acre. Small fruit includes grapes raspberries blackberries strawberries currants gooseberries and cranberries totaling 206 617 acres.
Gilbert elected president of Illinois club in Yakima County
H M Gilbert formerly of Genesee Illinois and longtime Yakima Valley figure was chosen to lead the Illinois club of Yakima County for the coming year. The Friday meeting at the Y M C A marked the Lincoln centennial observance and a reunion of about 200 former Illinois residents.
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H. M. Gilbert
Genesee, Ill
Yakima
Northwest
E. G. van Brandt
W. E. Zuppann
P. D. Babcock
J. L. Hughes
Granville Lowther
J. Harrison
Walker Moren
Frank H. Bayne
Warren, Ill
Lowther
Abraham Lincoln
Kentucky
Lincoln
Gettysburg
S. J. Harrison
Townsend
Illinois
E. F. Perry
Fine Naghes Ranch Sold
Mrs. R. B. Moore and son sold fifty five acres in the lower Naches valley to Mrs. Hodge of Cleveland Ohio for 17000 dollars. John D. Morrissey Co. handled the sale. Mrs. Hodge plans immediate possession and will plant the orchard to commercial apples and pears with extensive improvements to make it a model Yakima valley orchard.
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Naches Valley
Moore Ranch
R. B. Moore
Hodge
Cleveland
Ohio
John D. Morrissey Co
Yakima Valley
Record of Orchard Land Transfers Amid Tieton Canal Growth
The report notes current land and orchard transfers in North Yakima surpassing all prior records. Most deals involve properties planned for orchard plantings or land entering the Tieton canal project.
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North Yakima
Tieton Canal
Harris Brothers Buy North Yakima Property for 13000
Bert L Harris and George W Harris completed a 13000 purchase of no 6 and 8 North Second street occupied by M C Kauffman cigar and candy store and Yakima Transfer Co offices. The lot measures 25 feet by 140 feet with alley and street frontages. A two story brick building is planned.
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North Second Street
Bert L. Harris
George W. Harris
M. C. Kauffman
Yakima Transfer Co
Harris Brothers
Yakima County
North Yakima Realty
Foley's Orino Laxative Promises Constipation Cure
If you suffer from constipation and liver trouble Foley's Orino Laxative will cure you permanently by stimulating the digestive organs so they will act naturally. Foley's Orino Laxative does not gripe, is pleasant to take and you do not have to take laxatives continually after taking Orino. Northekima Drug Store, AD. Sloan, Prop.
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Northekima Drug Store
AD. Sloan
Life Ends In Church Inquest Reveals Blackmail
Allen Depue once financial secretary at Rosland Central Presbyterian Church died by suicide in a gas filled room at the church rear. An inquest heard he had been blackmailed since boyhood and faced a $700 shortage accused by trustees. he promised to repay but failed.
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Chicago
Holy Land
Allen Depue
Chauncey Depew
Depue
Rosland Central Presbyterian Church
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Whatcom
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Fine Naghes Ranch
Levi Strauss & Co
Harris Bros
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