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Wallis and Marilyn Kimble Northwest History Database
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    • State history. Grand Coulee dam. Visitors. Tourists. 1934-11-24


    • Major Johnson tours area

    • 1934

    • Major Johnson tours area. - Gives reserve corps instruction--Major Ritter is promoted. - Major Allan Johnson, unit instructor of the Fourth reserve district, is touring the Inland Empire, holding schools. He was in Wenatchee yesterday and will be...
    • State history. Grand Coulee dam. Visitors. Tourists. 1934-11-24
    • State history. Native Americans. Chiefs. 1931-09-02


    • Early Indian chiefs liked camera

    • 1931

    • Early Indian chiefs liked camera. - Some of the best known Indians of Spokane's early history are included in this picture taken in 1887 when Major R. D. Gwydir was Indian agent here. Inset shows Mrs. Gwydir, one of the few who date their Spokane...
    • State history. Native Americans. Chiefs. 1931-09-02
    • State history. Native Americans. Officials. 1930-07-18


    • Would keep Major E. Estep

    • 1930

    • Would keep Major E. Estep. - Friends launch move to retain reservation superintendency. - Efforts toward having Major E. W. Estep retained as superintendent of the Yakima Indian reservation, not-withstanding the fact that he is supposed to be...
    • State history. Native Americans. Officials. 1930-07-18
    • Northwest history. Mining. Conventions. 1928-12-10


    • Mining council reelects head - Major Haper renamed president of Central Washington group - Gill is secretary - apple shipments from Wenatchee district total 14,720 cars- beats last year

    • 1928

    • Mining council reelects head - Major Haper renamed president of Central Washington group - Gill is secretary - apple shipments from Wenatchee district total 14,720 cars- beats last year - The second annual convention of the Central Wasahington...
    • Northwest history. Mining. Conventions. 1928-12-10
    • State history. Native Americans. Crime. Burglary. 1935-10-13


    • Indian finds major Glenn's treasure box

    • 1935

    • Indian finds major Glenn's treasure box. - The treasure box of Major Glenn was found yesterday by an Indian on the flat east of the garrison toward the Indian camp. The Indian who found it came to town and appraised George Rundell of the fact and...
    • State history. Native Americans. Crime. Burglary. 1935-10-13
    • Northwest history. Mining. Developments. 1919-12-20


    • High-grade ore from armstead.

    • 1919

    • High-grade ore from armstead. - Shipments to be made during the winter, says an official. - Development extended. - Vein to be followed on several levels -- raise to be lengthened. - "In recent months we have put many additional tons of ore in...
    • Northwest history. Mining. Developments. 1919-12-20
    • Northwest history. Mining. Finances. 1934-04-16


    • Mine financing plan approved.

    • 1934

    • Mine financing plan approved. - The Utica mine in the Slocan district of British Columbia has been refinanced by A. D. McRae of Vancouver, B. C., and Major General D. M. Hogarth of Toronto, who have provided $52,550 to pay the obligations of the...
    • Northwest history. Mining. Finances. 1934-04-16
    • State history. Native Americans. Indian Affairs. Agencies. 1935-04-06


    • Statement of Indian agent puzzles Indian.

    • 1935

    • Statement of Indian agent puzzles Indian. - To the Editor of the Spokesman-Review: I read an article in The Spokesman-Review written by a Major H. P. Mayton of Salt Lake City. I think he is a "heap of big hooey" and more. There are a lot of things...
    • State history. Native Americans. Indian Affairs. Agencies. 1935-04-06
    • State history. Native Americans. Historical. 1919-07-05


    • Years kept silence of Indian girl disappearance till chimney tomb was destroyed; Skeleton found

    • 1919

    • Years kept silence of Indian girl disappearance till chimney tomb was destroyed; Skeleton found. - The finding of an Indian girl walled up in the flue of a chimney in a house of one of the early settlers, known as the "Major Babcock" home, is said...
    • State history. Native Americans. Historical. 1919-07-05
    • State history. Native Americans. Obituaries. 1936-10-12


    • Indian captor of Geronimo on last scout

    • 1936

    • Indian captor of Geronimo on last scout. - Major Smiley, 102-year-old Indian scout whom the United States decorated as the "caputurer of Geronimo," renegade Apache warrior, had reached today the end of an adventurous life in which he knew was...
    • State history. Native Americans. Obituaries. 1936-10-12
    • State history. Grand Coulee dam. Publicity. 1938-03-09


    • Describe size of Coulee dam

    • 1938

    • Describe size of Coulee dam. - Grand Coulee dam project occupies an area larger than would be necessary to stand together all of the men, women and children in the United States, Major S. E. Hutton of the bureau of reclamation told the Columbia...
    • State history. Grand Coulee dam. Publicity. 1938-03-09
    • State history. Grand Coulee dam. Surveys. 1938-02-09


    • Describe size of Coulee dam

    • 1938

    • Describe size of Coulee dam. - Grand Coulee dam project occupies an area larger than would be necessary to stand together all of the men, women and children in the United States, Major S. E. Hutton of the bureau of reclamation told the Columbia...
    • State history. Grand Coulee dam. Surveys. 1938-02-09
    • Northwest history. Bonneville dam. Bids & contracts. 1934-02-02


    • Bonneville dam work bid. - Excavation for power house and lock to cost at least $1,173,390.

    • 1934

    • Bonneville dam work bid. - Excavation for power house and lock to cost at least $1,173,390. - A low bid of $1,173,390 was submitted by Guy F. Atkinson Company of San Francisco and Portland on excavation work for the power house structure and lock...
    • Northwest history. Bonneville dam. Bids & contracts. 1934-02-02
    • Northwest history. Bonneville dam. Bids & contracts. 1935-04-26


    • U. S. bids asked for generators - Contracts to be let for Bonneville equipment

    • 1935

    • U. S. bids asked for generators - Contracts to be let for Bonneville equipment - The United States government is in the market for two 43,200 kilowatt alternating current generators, with spare parts and auxiliaries, for installation at the...
    • Northwest history. Bonneville dam. Bids & contracts. 1935-04-26
    • Northwest history. Bonneville dam. Construction. 1933-11-04


    • Agitate for big locks. - The Dalles group pushes for Bonneville dam change.

    • 1933

    • Agitate for big locks. - The Dalles group pushes for Bonneville dam change. - The construction of navigation locks at the Bonneville dam project large enough to accommodate ocean-going vessels was urged upon Major Charles F. Williams, army engineer...
    • Northwest history. Bonneville dam. Construction. 1933-11-04
    • Northwest history. Bonneville dam. Construction. 1934-09-01


    • Orino's $846,247 bid low. - Spokane man part of firm bidding on Bonneville job.

    • 1934

    • Orino's $846,247 bid low. - Spokane man part of firm bidding on Bonneville job. - A low bid of $846,247 for relocation of the Union Pacific railroad tracks at Bonneville was submitted jointly by Sam Orino of Spokane and Ralph Bell and C. T. Malcolm...
    • Northwest history. Bonneville dam. Construction. 1934-09-01

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