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7 stories matching brien
- Richland’s Golden Berry Season
Local growers ship the first crate of the season to a luxury hotel, marking a record-breaking early harvest.
- Freight Train Bandits Sentenced Within Days of Heist
Three men who held up a brakeman and passenger at gunpoint near Kennewick are quickly dispatched to state prison.
- A Rancher Died Alone, and His Animals Waited
Henry Bahr had planned to move in with his daughter in Kennewick after one more season. Instead, a neighbor found him dead in his ranch house, his livestock starving in the barn.
- Richland Farmers Organize to Set Their Own Potato Prices
A packed meeting at Amon Hall backs a growers’ union, and organizers head to Kennewick to bring neighboring farmers into the cooperative before the 1916 crop.
- A Terrifying Double Runaway at White Bluffs
Two schoolgirls survive a harrowing cart crash after a frightened mare triggers a chaotic chain reaction on the road to town.
- The Great Benton County Gas Scam
A complicated legal battle erupts in Spokane over who actually owns the rights to Benton County's oil and gas leases.
- A Crate of Sweet Potatoes to Sell the Desert
Land agents pack up the valley's finest produce — mammoth sugar beets, honeydew casabas, and one 250-pound potato crop — and ship it to Chicago to convince Eastern buyers that this sagebrush country is a garden.