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A Walla Walla ex-employee files twenty charges against L. T. Erwin, accusing the Yakima Indian agent of fraud, perjury, and turning the agency into a private larder.
“That Erwin has robbed the school ... amounting to hundreds of pounds of beef and other goods.”
Protests erupt over the dismissal of religious personnel at a Washington Indian Agency.
“To this latter opposition may be attributed his settled purpose of driving from his Superintendency all 'praying men.'”
A Walla Walla produce dealer discovers that leasing Indian lands near the Yakima River has created a lucrative new fruit-growing empire.
“The Indians receive only a nominal rental and the county and state receive no taxes whatever.”
Four suspects, believed to be part of an organized safe-blowing gang, are in jail after a chase involving the robbery of a Kennewick lumber company.
“Four of the hardest looking individuals that have graced the interior of the county jail in many months were lodged in Sheriff Murphy's steel hostelry.”
A Whidbey Island man headed to the Yakima country to look at a farm, asked where to ford the river, misunderstood the directions, and drowned—his horse found wandering in the sagebrush two days later.
“He was told and nothing more was heard of him. Two days later his horse was found wandering in the sage brush.”
An Yakima Valley export earns the prestigious Wilder Medal for its exceptional quality and durability.
“The Wilder Medal is the Nobel Prize of the fruit world.”
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