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- Voucher shows Hartley "business methods"
- 1926
- Voucher shows Hartley "business methods". - This is a photographic reproduction of an official voucher certified to and signed by Roland H. Hartley as governor of the state, and on file in the office of the state auditor at Olympia. It shows that...
- State history. State of Washington Government. Finance. 1926-11-15
- Old-timers to recall the days when property sold for a song
  W. C. Gray and Dan Drumheller to be among the guests at club launcheon
- 1920
- Old-timers to recall the days when property sold for a song
  W. C. Gray and Dan Drumheller to be among the guests at club launcheon
  Pioneer days of Spokane, when property now worth hundreds of thousands of dollars was bartered for paltry sums,...
- State history. State of Washington Pioneers. G. 1920-04-13
- Indian wards caused worry
- 1937
- Indian wards caused worry. - William Penn policy failed to solve problem of handling Indian under guard. - When the Quakers took charge western tribes. - Immense shipment of red farm wagons is responsible for most amusing incident, when easterners...
- State history. Native Americans. Indian Affairs. 1937-03-13
- When 1000 Indians attacked Seattle.
- 1926
- When 1000 Indians attacked Seattle. - An impressive reminder of the vicissitudes of life is found in the death of Mrs. Alice Mercer Bagley of Seattle, one of the two survivors of a little band that gathered in a blockhouse there when 1000 hostile...
- State history. Native Americans. War & uprisings. 1926-05-16
- When Wright put Indians afoot
- 1931
- When Wright put Indians afoot. - The slaughter of more than 600 horses belonging to the redskins during the warfare days of 1858 by the troops was a stunning blow to hostiles. Old Indians years later, it is recorded in the early Spokane history,...
- State history. Native Americans. War & uprisings. 1931-08-30
- When Okanogan county had lynching and Indian scare
- 1937
- When Okanogan county had lynching and Indian scare. - In these days, when the Grand Coulee dam looms so large in the Inland Empire, events of the past in that region take on new interest. Possibly the reader may know that a lynching once occurred...
- State history. Native Americans. War & uprisings. 1937-06-27. p. 1.
- When Okanogan county had lynching and Indian scare
- 1937
- When Okanogan county had lynching and Indian scare. - In these days, when the Grand Coulee dam looms so large in the Inland Empire, events of the past in that region take on new interest. Possibly the reader may know that a lynching once occurred...
- State history. Native Americans. War & uprisings. 1937-06-27. p. 2.
- When the Columbia basin is irrigated
- 1920
- When the Columbia basin is irrigated. - An empire of homes will supplant the desert. - When sheep and cattle ranged at will over the great basin of the Columbia, there was little thot in the minds of the herdsmen of an empire of homes, villages and...
- State history. Columbia Basin. General. 1920-07-02
- Reemployment due when cold abates
- 1936
- Reemployment due when cold abates. - Reemployment of a large share of the workmen, who lost their jobs temporarily when winter spread its blanket on the dam site work front three weeks ago, will begin by the end of the week, if continued mild...
- State history. Grand Coulee Dam. Construction. Employment & wages. 1936-02-04
- When Okanogan county had lynching and Indian scare
- 1937
- When Okanogan county had lynching and Indian scare. - In these days, when the Grand Coulee dam looms so large in the Inland Empire, events of the past in that region take on new interest. Possibly the reader may know that a lynching once occurred...
- State history. Native Americans. War & uprisings. 1937-06-27.
- Webster leaves for Washington; to be ready when congress opens
- 1920
- Webster leaves for Washington; to be ready when congress opens. - Congressman and Mrs. Stanley Webster left last evening over the Milwaukee for Washington, D. C., to be present when congress meets in regular session next Monday.
- State history. State officials. U.S. Representatives. Webster, J. Stanley. 1920-12-01
- When Zioncheck was ducked
- 1936
- When Zioncheck was ducked. - This is what happened to congressman Zioncheck when he proved too critical. - Students hauling him up from Lake Washington Canal in 1928.
- State history. State officials. U.S. Representatives. Zioncheck, Marion A. 1936-05-28. p. 1
- Citizens find metal tokens just dandy when used as poker chips
- 1935
- Citizens find metal tokens just dandy when used as poker chips. - The good citizens of Washington state, who roared with wrath when the legislature imposed a sales tax payable in metal tax tokens, are laughing about it today, because they've...
- State history. State officials. Governors. Martin, Clarence D. 1935-05-21
- Plane will fly state flag when governor is abroad
- 1933
- Plane will "fly" state flag when governor is abroad. - An illustration of how Governor Clarence D. Martin's aerial flagship will appear was given last Sunday when the state's official flag, bearing the seal of George Washington, was draped on the...
- State history. State officials. Governors. Martin, Clarence D. 1933-05-30
- Gov. Martin meant no when he said no
- 1937
- Gov. Martin meant no when he said no. - Sixty million dollars cut off by veto signatures--killed extra tax. - Governor Martin's veto of the additional half cent gas tax and the extension of the sales tax to all articles of food has demonstrated...
- State history. State officials. Governors. Martin, Clarence D. 1937-04-02
- Men not seriously hurt when scaffolding falls.
- 1936
- Men not seriously hurt when scaffolding falls. - When the scaffolding on which they were working at the Coulee dam fell and dropped them 20 feet onto the concrete, four men narrowly escaped serious injury.
- State history. Grand Coulee dam. Accidents. Falls. 1936-07-09
- 'They laughed when I ran,' says Vic Meyers, laughing
- 1936
- 'They laughed when I ran,' says Vic Meyers, laughing. - "They laughed when I sat down to the plano," said Victor Aloysius Meyers, Seattle's Sultan of Song, shobing a shako to the back of his head, and unbuttoning a crimson jacket in the living room...
- State history. State officials. Lieutenant-Governors. Meyers, Victor A. 1936-09-09
- Coulee dam special bus tips; 4 hurt. - Officials narrowly escape death when machine skids on road.
- 1935
- Coulee dam special bus tips; 4 hurt. - Officials narrowly escape death when machine skids on road. - Nineteen Spokane residents narrowly escaped death today when the bus in which they were riding to attend the concrete pouring celebration at Grand...
- State history. Grand Coulee dam. Accidents. Motor busses. 1935-12-06
- Two Washington confuse eastern people
- 1934
- Two Washington confuse eastern people. - E. F. Benson of Tacoma, long active and effective in the development of this state's resources, had interesting experiences as executive commissioner of the state of Washington's exhibit at the Chicago fair...
- State history. State of Washington Government. Progress Commission. 1934-11-24
- Being tough man was proper thing
  Ben Bowerman recalls days when six-gun was lae in Spokane.
- 1929
- Being tough man was proper thing
  Ben Bowerman recalls days when six-gun was law in Spokane.
  In the days when a six-gun slung over a man's hip was the law of the land, Ben Bowerman, N711 Superior, came to the Inland Empire.
- State history. State of Washington Pioneers. B. 1929-08-03