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Wallis and Marilyn Kimble Northwest History Database
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    • State history. Native Americans. Miscellaneous. 1925-05-29


    • Indians to have potlatch

    • 1925

    • Indians to have potlatch. - Will hold funeral ceremony for drowned tribesmen. - A funeral potlatch will be held Saturday near Toppenish by members of the Yakima tribe for three Indians who were drowned Sunday while spearing salmon a the Sunnyside...
    • State history. Native Americans. Miscellaneous. 1925-05-29
    • State History. Native Americans. Theater. 1937-04-06

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    • 1937

    • George Roll-in-Mud, member of the Stony tribe of Indians, sat through two showings in a Calgary theater of a film depicting events during the construction of the railroads in that section years ago. George watched his celluloid image thrown from a...
    • State History. Native Americans. Theater. 1937-04-06
    • Northwest history. Irrigation & reclamation. Lakes. 1936-01-11. p. 1.


    • $75,000 spent to dike lake at Gaston on Tualatin river.

    • 1936

    • $75,000 spent to dike lake at Gaston on Tualatin river / by Don Woodman.
      - Evidence that private initiative and imagination are not entirely smothered beneath federally-stimulated improvement projects is to be seen out in Washington county,...
    • Northwest history. Irrigation & reclamation. Lakes. 1936-01-11. p. 1.
    • Northwest history. Irrigation & reclamation. Lakes. 1936-01-11. p. 2.


    • Building Dike in $75,000 project on Wapato lake near Gason.

    • 1936

    • Building Dike in $75,000 project on Wapato lake near Gason. - One of two big power shovels which have been moving much earth on the Wapato lake project near Gaston is shown here. The $75,000 undertaking is all financed by private capital without...
    • Northwest history. Irrigation & reclamation. Lakes. 1936-01-11. p. 2.
    • State history. Grand Coulee dam. Accidents. Drownings. 1935-03-06


    • Worker at Coulee believed a victim of toppling beam.

    • 1935

    • Worker at Coulee believed a victim of toppling beam. - Tom Newton, 45, topman for the MWAK company employed on cofferdam work, was believed drowned in the Columbia river early this morning when he was hurtled into the water after a big boom crashed...
    • State history. Grand Coulee dam. Accidents. Drownings. 1935-03-06
    • State history. Grand Coulee dam. Accidents. Drownings. 1937-07-21


    • River retains victim's body.

    • 1937

    • River retains victim's body. - Friends of Coulee worker keep all night vigil--USBR claims new land. - Search last night and today failed to discover the body of Charles Bassett, 42, MWAK mixing plant foreman, drowned last night in the Columbia in...
    • State history. Grand Coulee dam. Accidents. Drownings. 1937-07-21
    • State history. State of Washington Pioneers. D. 1936-08-21


    • A resident of president 33 years

    • 1936

    • A resident of president 33 years
      Fifty-six years ago in October, Mrs. Davidson left her home in Mason county, Missouri, for Washington Territory. She arrived in Walla Walla the 26th of October, 1880. She traveled by way of San Francisco.. The...
    • State history. State of Washington Pioneers. D. 1936-08-21
    • Northwest history. Mining. Accidents. 1933-06-12


    • Prospector killed

    • 1933

    • Prospector killed - Hugh Dickenson, 63, miner and prospector, was drowned when a raft loaded with mining machinery broke loose from its moorings on the Quesnel river, near Quesnel, B. C., and swept him and a companion into the swift stream.
    • Northwest history. Mining. Accidents. 1933-06-12
    • State history. Grand Coulee dam. Geology. 1929-10-29


    • Mighty Columbia once had rival for Niagara in Grand Coulee Falls

    • 1929

    • Mighty Columbia once had rival for Niagara in Grand Coulee Falls. - One of the world's greatest geological wonders, the dry falls of a river which had the power of 40 Niagaras and whose roar once drowned America's pride into insignificance, is...
    • State history. Grand Coulee dam. Geology. 1929-10-29
    • State history. Grand Coulee dam. Memorials. 1938-05-27


    • List is given for memoriam

    • 1935

    • List is given for memoriam. - Names 46 men who lost lives at Coulee dam will appear on shaft. - Forty-six men, who lost their lives during the construction of Grand Coulee dam and whose names will be inscribed on a copper plaque on a granite shaft...
    • State history. Grand Coulee dam. Memorials. 1938-05-27
    • Northwest history. Irrigation & reclamation. Lakes. 1936-01-11


    • $75,000 spent to dike lake at Gaston on Tualatin river.

    • 1936

    • $75,000 spent to dike lake at Gaston on Tualatin river. - Evidence that private initiative and imagination are not entirely smothered beneath federally-stimulated improvement projects is to be seen out in Washington county, near Gaston, where land...
    • Northwest history. Irrigation & reclamation. Lakes. 1936-01-11
    • State history. Native Americans. Obituaries. 1932-06-02


    • Indian landowner drowns

    • 1932

    • Indian landowner drowns. - Osker Spencer, 56, one of few who wore hair long. - Osker Spencer, 56, Yakima Indian, who lived near White Swan, was drowned in the Klickitat river near Lyle today when he slipped from rocks on which he was standing while...
    • State history. Native Americans. Obituaries. 1932-06-02

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