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Wallis and Marilyn Kimble Northwest History Database
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    • State history. Native Americans. Crime. Murder. 1923-01-15


    • Indian found dead by wife

    • 1923

    • Indian found dead by wife. - Mysterious circumstances surround death of Earl Winnear near Yakima. - Under circumstances pointing either to murder or suicide, Earl Winnear, 30, an Indian, residing two miles southwest of Anthanum City, was found dead...
    • State history. Native Americans. Crime. Murder. 1923-01-15
    • State history. Native Americans. Honored. 1935-11-06


    • Dead Indian honored.

    • 1935

    • Dead Indian honored. - Dead Indian Bridge, a $45,000 modern highway span on the new Desert View-Cameron highway, secured its name from the fact that road location engineers unearthed the skeleton of an Indian at that point.
    • State history. Native Americans. Honored. 1935-11-06
    • State history. Native Americans. Obituaries. 1928-02-20


    • Yakima Indian's wise man is dead

    • 1928

    • Yakima Indian's wise man is dead. - Louis Mann follows Chief Mininock to grave--Tribal council secretary. - Death for the second time this week dealt a serious blow to the Yakima Indian tribe when Louis Charles Mann, 68, leading councillor of the...
    • State history. Native Americans. Obituaries. 1928-02-20
    • State history. Native Americans. Obituaries. 1918-02-19


    • Hero of Indian wars is dead

    • 1918

    • Hero of Indian wars is dead. - Brigader General Sibley is victim of pernicious anemia. - Brigader General Frederick W. Sibley, who took part in Indian campaigns and served in the Spanish-America war, is dead at the base hospital at Camp Grant....
    • State history. Native Americans. Obituaries. 1918-02-19
    • State history. Native Americans. Obituaries. 1925-06-29


    • Aged Indian passes away

    • 1925

    • Aged Indian passes away. - Black Jim, 102, who was thought dead June 12, finally succumbs. - Wah-ta-cinch (Black Jim), 102, battle-scarred veteran of early day Indian wars and one of the most picturesque Indian characters in the upper Columbia...
    • State history. Native Americans. Obituaries. 1925-06-29
    • Northwest history. Bonneville dam. Politics. 1936-06-21


    • Bonneville bill dead until 1937.

    • 1936

    • Bonneville bill dead until 1937. - Administration forces balk on changing position. - Bonneville legislation is dead until next year due to the refusal of administration forces to eliminate from the measure a provision investing in the Federal...
    • Northwest history. Bonneville dam. Politics. 1936-06-21
    • State history. State of Washington Government. History of. 1936-11-11


    • Washington observes 47th birthday; pays tribute to war dead

    • 1936

    • Washington observes 47th birthday; pays tribute to war dead. - Pioneers look backward over nearly 50 years of progress. - Settlers made long fight for statehood. - Only few changes have been made to constitution during years. - Washington paid...
    • State history. State of Washington Government. History of. 1936-11-11
    • State history. State of Washington Pioneers. S. 1921-06-20


    • Dead? Not at all, says old miner
      Yakima pioneer avers story of passing exaggrated.

    • 1921

    • Dead? Not at all, says old miner
      Yakima pioneer avers story of passing exaggrated.
      Mose Splawn is not dead. The veteran prospector, miner and northwest pioneer, whose name is known to every old time prospector in the northwest, emphatically...
    • State history. State of Washington Pioneers. S. 1921-06-20
    • State history. Native Americans. Burial grounds. 1937-05-22


    • Bury dead in circular pit.

    • 1937

    • Bury dead in circular pit. - The creek and Seminole Indians of Florida buried their dead in a circular pit about four feet deep; the corpse, with a blanket or cloth wrapped about it, was placed in a sitting position, the legs bent under and tied...
    • State history. Native Americans. Burial grounds. 1937-05-22
    • State history. Native Americans. Customs. 1937-12-22


    • Bury dead in circular pit

    • 1937

    • Bury dead in circular pit. - The Creek and Seminole Indians of Florida buried their dead in a circular pit about four feet deep; the corpse, with a blanket or cloth wrapped about it, was placed in a sitting position, the legs bent under and tied...
    • State history. Native Americans. Customs. 1937-12-22
    • Northwest history. Insurance. Life insurance. 1929-01-28


    • "Dead" man alive?

    • 1929

    • "Dead" man alive? - Convinced that the man who wandered into a service station at Salt Lake last Sunday and declared himself to be J. C. Price of Greycliff, Mont., supposedly dead, is her husband, Mrs. Price said today she had advised officials of...
    • Northwest history. Insurance. Life insurance. 1929-01-28
    • State history. Native Americans. Epidemics. 1928-07-27


    • Indians dead from influenza

    • 1928

    • Indians dead from influenza. - An untold number of Indians are dead in an influenza epidemic which has swept tribes living in northern Canada, Sgt. C. St. Matthews reported here on his arrival from Fort Simpson on a vacation.
    • State history. Native Americans. Epidemics. 1928-07-27
    • State history. Native Americans. Hunting. 1936-12-11


    • Dead Indian trapper gets $210 bounties

    • 1936

    • Dead Indian trapper gets $210 bounties. - Vernon Hopkins of the Dead Indian district, promises to win the title of Jackson county's best trapper again this year. He collected $210 in bounty from the county this week, bringing in the hides of 50...
    • State history. Native Americans. Hunting. 1936-12-11
    • State history. Native Americans. Obituaries. 1927-03-15


    • Indian boy actor is dead

    • 1927

    • Indian boy actor is dead. - Great spirit takes him away to entertain, perhaps, in heaven. - Running bells, 8-year-old Jackie Coogan of Indian actors, is dead, according to word received here from the Blackfeet Indian reservation from his parents,...
    • State history. Native Americans. Obituaries. 1927-03-15
    • State history. Native Americans. Obituaries. 1937-04-01


    • Charles W. Little, 54, Nez Perce Indian, dead

    • 1937

    • Charles W. Little, 54, Nez Perce Indian, dead. - Charles W. Little, 54, Kamiah, well known Nez Perce Indian, died yesterday morning at St. Jospeh's hospital of an ailment of the gall bladder. Survivors include a widow, Annie Little; a daughter,...
    • State history. Native Americans. Obituaries. 1937-04-01
    • State history. Native Americans. Obituaries. 1928-08-03


    • Indian woman, age 112, dead

    • 1928

    • Indian woman, age 112, dead. - Esther LL Stoi Kin My, 112 years old and said to have been oldest Nez Perce Indian, died last Friday near Kooskia, Idaho, according to word received here today. She had been blind for 17 years, and was also crippled...
    • State history. Native Americans. Obituaries. 1928-08-03
    • State history. Native Americans. Obituaries. 1917-12-27


    • Saluskin, aged Indian, dead

    • 1917

    • Saluskin, aged Indian, dead. - Was last of the line of Owhi Chiefs. - Saluskin, chief of the Yakima Indians, age 90, died last night. He was the last of the line of Owhi chiefs. The body will lie in state until Friday. Feeling the end was near, he...
    • State history. Native Americans. Obituaries. 1917-12-27

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