Canal Company Plans $100000 Irrigation Tunnel
Moxee-Selah Canal company engineers completed plans for tunneling through Selah gap to replace part of the flume at great cost. If approved by stockholders around March 15, the project could cost 65000 to 100000 dollars and may add 5000 to 6000 acres of land to Sunnyside canal, reducing maintenance and damage from boulders. The plan, praised as a major irrigation effort, highlights regional water works and local investment.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
T. A. Noble
Selah-Moxee
Noble
Selah
Moxee
Yakima
Granger
Sunnyside Canal
Lagoona
Yuma
Southwest
Washington
California
Max Bass
Great Northern
Granger Sees Sunnyside Canal Lands Set For Record Water
Walter Granger returns from a Southern trip saying Sunnyside Canal will supply more water to new lands than any year since completion. President Granger says engineers at Yuma, Arizona, discussed maintenance plans and viewed the major project nearing completion.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sunnyside Canal
H. Granger
Yuma
Ariz
United States Reclamation
Golden Medical Discovery and All Healing Salve Claim Blood Cure
An advertisement lauds Dr. Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery as a blood purifying remedy for skin diseases and scrofulous sores. It recommends All-Healing Salve for open sores and urges ordering by mail if unavailable locally. The copy emphasizes a known composition and lists postage-based purchase to Buffalo, New York.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Golden Medical
Pierce
R. V. Pierce
Main St
Buffalo
N. Y
Osteopathy Healer Offers Broad Drugless Treatments
Prof Jas F Zediker occupies offices above Ditter Bros store for five years and reports over 1300 treated with notable success. He clarifies he does not practice medicine or surgery and uses osteopathy massage magnetic forces electricity vibration hot air baths hydrotherapy and mental and hygienic methods. Dr Almira M Davenport will share offices for obstetrical work with free consultation and cash terms.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jas. F. Zediker
Ditter Bros
Almira M. Davenport
Equitable Savings & Loan official tours Kittitas Yakima counties
F H Purdy of the Equitable Savings & Loan association visits the area to meet local business partners and investors. He notes Portland based lenders hold 2 261 000 in loans secured by homes worth over 5 500 000 and 114 mortgages in North Yakima totaling 99 308.00. The company has assumed defunct Aetna certificates, guaranteeing returns at six percent and paying investors from a 100 000 reserve fund.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
F. H. Purdy
Kittitas
Yakima
Equitable Savings & Loan Association
Equitable
Mr. Purdy
Portland
Oregon
Aetna Association of
Butte
Movement to form newspaper reporters union gains support
A drive is under way in Australia to create a newspaper reporters union. The New South Wales labor conference rejected a resolution for socializing all means of production. The interstate commerce commission receives many protests over nine hour railroad telegraphers rule. A House committee approved arbitration legislation creating a presidential appointed commission to review major capital and labor disputes affecting interstate commerce.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Australia
Salem
Mass
New South Wales Labor Conference
Samuel Vanelaim
Baldwin Locomotive Works
J. N. Gilbraith
Mexican Central Railroad
Mexico
Ellen Galvin
Waterbury
Conn
Interstate Commerce Commission
Townsend
House Committee On
General cleanup set for Granger business and town
Granger citizens meet in Mentzer hall and designate Wednesday as a townwide cleanup day for both business and private properties. A plan to form a stock company to build a three story brick hotel with first floor as a store is discussed by Charles Bailey of Non-Forfeiture Land. 25 new Commercial club members are welcomed. New cottages and homes begin construction as residents improve properties.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Granger
Wash
Mentzer
Charles F. Bailey
Granger Land Company
Main
First Streets
Commercial Club
R. I. MacLaughlin
Nora Maxwell
Seth Maxwell
Walla Walla
Jank Dunn
W. L. Gibson
Mr. Gibson
East Fifth Street
Andrew Hollett
P. van Sipma
Chicago
Southern Wrestler Seeks Match In Northwest Tour
Denver writer Roy McDonald from Glendora Hotel invites Northwest wrestlers to a catch as catch can bout with a 200 pound limit. He seeks Lew Buchholtz or other fast men for a match in Portland area within a week with gate receipts as the prize.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Denver
Colo
Morning Herald
Portland
Color Line Drawn Over Elks Lodges in Minnesota
A St. Paul report notes Pullman porters and other colored workers join new colored Elks lodges. White Elks vow legal action to block use of the Elks name and symbols, arguing the colored lodges imitate the white order. Grand Exalted Ruler John K. Tenter signals the fight from Pennsylvania. An officer of a large St. Paul lodge learns a porter wore the Elk tooth charm, revealing a colored Elk lineage. Investigations indicate the colored ritual borrows from the white order.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
St. Paul
Elks
Grand Lodge
Lodges of Elks
Minnesota
Pullman
St. Paul Lodge
Local Market Shows Stabilized Hay Supplies This Year
The local market reports light movement in hay over the past week. Compared with past years sufficient hay remains to meet local needs. Historically Yakima valley hay is loaded in fall and winter for spring feeding.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Yakima Valley
Elks Lodge Handles Final Rites for Local Figure
The Elks arranged the funeral service with rites led by Rev. M J Bywater. Pallbearers included S J Cameron John Clemans H Moran E W Dooley J D Cornett and Thos Smith. Floral tributes featured a Seattle cross and a local lodge pillow.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Seattle
Simple home remedy touted for rheumatism and kidney trouble
A Philadelphia authority praises a home made mixture that includes Dandelion extract and other syrups to cleanse kidneys and relieve rheumatism. Reports from a New York druggist and local chemists say the ingredients are available and the concoction is easy to prepare at home.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Philadelphia
New York
Yosemite lecture and goat peak talks at Case's hall
Naches City residents should attend the Yosemite stereopticon lecture on Monday evening and the Tieton and Goat Peak lecture on Tuesday evening at Case's hall. Several hundred fine pictures illustrate these topics.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Naches City
Yosemite
Case’s Hall
Wright buried in marked tribute at Tahoma cemetery
James Wright longtime stockman and pioneer of Kittitas and Yakima valleys died February 18 after a paralysis stroke. Friends from across the state and beyond attended his funeral service in North Yakima with many local businesses closing in respect. The funeral was held Tuesday afternoon and his remains were interred at Tahoma cemetery.
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James Wright
Oregon
Idaho
British Columbia
Tahoma Cemetery
Wright
Washington
Kittitas
Yakima
North Yakima
Flint
The Hymn of Duty and the Idol of Pleasure
A poetic reflection on choosing duty over pleasure. The speaker recalls a languorous wine spilled on a checkered floor and a stern goddess urging perseverance. Despite derision, the path of pain leads to sight, toward a rose-strewn temple where fulfilled work brings true joy.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pleasure’s Lane
Ditches to Resume Work on Yakima Reservation
W A P A T O Washington February 25 W H Redman in charge of government irrigation canals said work on the Yakima reservation ditches will resume about March 1. Old canals will be cleaned and repaired then the new government canal will be extended creating more acreage under water including orchards hay and vegetables with Indians performing the work under Redman supervision.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wapato
Wash
W. H. Redman
Yakima Reservation
Mr. Redman
Shooting at Brownsville Involves Negro Soldiers No Guilty Identified
Senate committee members conclude the 1906 Brownsville shooting affray was carried out by soldiers of the Twenty-fifth United States Infantry but testimony fails to identify the guilty individuals. The report from Washington cites eight committee members.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington, D. C
Brownsville
Texas
Twenty-fifth United States Infantry
Senate Committee On Military Affairs
Prosser Editors Boomer Attend Red Feather Show
Mr and Mrs George Boomer editors and proprietors of the Prosser Record Benton county s liveliest weekly visited the city yesterday to see the Red Feather show at the opera house.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
George Boomer
Prosser
City
Opera House
Seattle businessman takes half interest in Yakima store
Horace W. Green of Seattle buys a half interest in the G. G. Garrow clothing store and will join North Yakima business circles immediately. He has rented the Phillips house on Sixth and A streets.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Horace W. Green
Seattle
G. 8. Garrow
Yakima
Mr. Green
Phillips
Divorce by Publication in Yakima County Suit
Mary F. Johnston sues E. A. Johnston in Yakima Superior Court for absolute divorce on grounds of habitual drunkenness and neglect to support, seeks custody of the minor child. Summons requires response within sixty days after February 23 1908. P H J Snively is attorney. North Yakima address listed.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
State of Washington
Yakima
Mary F. Johnston
E. A. Johnston
A. D
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Canal Company
Selah Gap
Moxee-Selah Company
North Yakima and
Vicinity
F. A. Terry
Purdy
E. M. Douglass
R. I. Mace-Laughlin
Sunnyside
Ingrease Canal
Walter Granger
Equitable Company
Labor
Northwest
Lew Buchholtz
The
Herald
Roy McDonald
Glendora Hotel
Nineteenth and Couch Street
Lodges of
Colored Elks
White Elks
eAledal
Ben Davis
Spitzenburg
Jas. Wright
Brownsville Report
Editors
H. J. Snively
P. O
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