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The Western Progressive Farmers group pushes for a state-wide 'superpower' initiative, breaking with municipal interests over grid control.
“declaring that it does not provide for the interests of the country and rural district”
Before high-rises and air-conditioned courtrooms, pioneer lawyers traveled by canoe, slept in tents, and sometimes held court with a loaded derringer in their pockets.
“The judge of that district, at the time of which I speak, was a Virginian, and always sat upon the bench with a derringer in each pocket. Of course no contempt of court was ever committed by attorneys or others.”
A young boy scraping at the bottom of a spring unearths a relic from a lost era, shedding light on the ancient history buried beneath the ranch lands of Washington.
“When he had landed his catch and poured some water over it he found he had a large tooth and part of a jawbone, probably belonging at some time to a mastodon.”
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