Big Railway Change Hits Pacific Division Crews
North Pacific announces 34 train crews laid off on the Pacific division with about 100 men affected. Some workers receive 90 days leave to seek other jobs while others face uncertain future. The shift follows the Portland and Seattle line opening, diverting freight from Stampede via new routing. Some affected workers move to the Portland route or seek other positions as winter demand remains uncertain.
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Pacific
Northern Pacific
Endevor
Portland
Seattle
Cascades
Stampede
Y M C A Convention Sets Seattle Session
Following the Y M C A convention at Walla Walla, the state Y M C A meeting in Seattle begins Friday next January 17 and continues through Sunday January 19.
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Walla Walla
Young Men's Christian Association
Seattle
Big Poultry Show Draws Five Hundred Birds in City
About 500 chickens entered for the poultry show range from 11 ounces to 151 pounds with four legged fowls and caparized spring chickens weighing 11 and 12 pounds. Ellensburg exhibitors include N A Blackmore and F W Munz plus B F Mundy. White Bluffs grows, Priest Rapids power plant to be completed, railroad power contract signed, Kennewick benefits from new lines, boats planned to handle growing traffic.
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Sunnyside
Zillah
Toppenish
Sprague
Lhe Association
J. H. Hubbel
Ellensburg
N. A. Blackmore
F. W. Munz
B. F. Mundy
Rhode Island
White Bluffs
Priest Rapids
Kennewick
Douglas County
Columbia River
Electric Surveys Approved for Northern and Southern Railroad
The General Land Office in Washington approves part of the surveys and maps for the Northern and Southern railroad from Waterville to Kennewick. Work may begin before summer. W. R. Rust of Tacoma plans to start on return from Europe. The 136 mile electric line will link Great Northern, Northern Pacific, Portland and Seattle, and St Paul lines, mostly along the Columbia River, powered by Hanford Irrigation and Power at Priest Rapids.
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General Land Office
Washington
Northern & Southern Railroad
Waterville
Kennewick
W. R. Rust
Tacoma
Europe
Great Northern
Northern Pacific
Northern & Southern
Columbia
Columbia Valley
Hanford Irrigation & Power Company
Priest Rapids
Portland
Seattle
St. Paul
Electric Line Tapped to Connect with Five Transcontinental Routes
Surveys for a new 183 mile electric standard gauge railroad from Kennewick to Waterville have been filed. W R Rust of Tacoma chairs the company. the line will tap irrigated wheat lands and connect with five transcontinental routes once completed. Construction to begin early spring with long rights of way secured.
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Herald Special Service
Kennewick
Wash
Columbia River
Waterville
United States Land Office
W. R. Rust
Tacoma
M. B. Haynes
JL. H. Gufe
H. K
Priest Rapids
Poultry Show Gossip Sparks Feathered Follies
At the Shanghai rooster’s aria the hens trade jibes about gossip and ancestry while Mrs Leghorn and Mrs Shanghai tease each other about drinks, feathered pride, and a mock suffrage joke. Mr Shanghai puns about a crook of a crop as he retires to sing.
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Mr. Shanghai
Chanticleer
Kansas
Mr. S
Shanghai
Mrs Bantam
There Was I Waiting for My Shirt Band Interlude
The barker at the door shouts inside as the band plays There Was I Waiting for My Shirt. A vivid fragment captures a carnival mood with music and anticipation.
Pony marked on the wane in Toppenish pony trade
On January 12 1908 report shows only 506 cayuses shipped from the Toppenish reservation in 1907 a sharp drop from the about 10000 head sent in 1905 1906. The piece notes Eastern demand remains strong but Indians lack of rent or work for breeding may end the wild pony era with possible government intervention to address the change.
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Toppenish
Charles H Newell
Sunnyside Visits Holstein In Valley Basketball Showdown
The first interscholastic boys game in two years comes to Holstein's rink next Friday night. Sunnyside, undefeated this season, will face the local school in a hot valley contest viewed as a clash of two evenly matched teams with a strong local nine.
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Holstein
Sunnyside
Rail line revival rumors surface for North Coast project
Businessmen and Kiowa Enterprise report expect extensive work on the North Coast railroad to resume in spring. An official statement sets sixty days for current activity, aiming to restart by March 1. Prosser insiders claim a valley throughway and Kiona as a key junction may be included this year despite right of way delays tied up in court.
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North Coast
Kiowa Enterprise
North
Yakima
Prosser
Kiona
High School Student Body Board Meets At Litacsin
The IOARD TO MEPRT governing board of the Student Body Association will meet next Monday afternoon at the Litacsin school to discuss the senior class request for 60 dollars for the Annual and funds for basket games and debates. The high school reports improved finances with nearly 200 dollars from football and dues and donations boosting the treasury to about 15 dollars. Board members include D M Hand City Superintendent Reed Prof Bever Horace Doust Hazel Duvall Dan Gibson and John Dull.
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St Whieh
Litacsin
D. M. Hand
Board of Education
Reed
Bever
Horace Doust
Hazel Duvall
Dan Gibson
John Dull
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Roslyn
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New York
Minneapolis
Dr. C. E. Keeler
Fred A. Hall
D. J. Druse
Barge
C. H. Hinman
J. O. Jeffery
L. O. Janeck
Sec. Turner
Topp Pee
Perfection
Japan
Standard Oil Company
Kennewick Company
Plymouth Rock
Partridge Cochin
Pilgrim Fathers
Christopher Coumbus
Hennery
Ioard
Foleys
North Yakima
A. D. Sloan
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