Miscellaneous articles about Okanogan County Washington
January 12, 1891
Bangor Daily Whig and Courier, Bangor Maine
WANT PROTECTION.
Olympia, Wash., Jan. 11. One of the Indians implicated in the murder of
freighter Coles, several weeks ago in Okanogan county, was taken from jail
Thursday night and lynched. The Catholic priest warned the settlers that the
Okanogan Indians were very angry and likely to go on the war path.
The Governor of Washington has been asked for 500
stands of arms and ammunition.
May 14, 1891
Bangor Daily Whig and Courier, Bangor Maine
INDIANS AGITATED
Prevalence of Grip Causes Consternation.
Sprague, Wash.-May 13-The Indians in Okanogan Country are in a state of
consternation owing to the prevalence of the grip. One hundred or more have
died. The Indians are moving out rapidly for Idaho and other parts, carrying all
their possessions with them.
November 3, 1892
Decatur Daily Republican, Decatur Illinois
A HORRIBLE CASUALTY
Seven Drunken Indians Burned to Death in a Cabin
Spokane, Wash., Nov. 3-Billy Condon, the well-known scout and trapper, reached
here yesterday with news of a horrible casualty in the Okanogan country. Monday
night seven Indians of Chief Joseph's band secured a large quantity of whisky
upon which they became intoxicated and while sleeping off the effects of the
carousal in a cabin the building caught fire and they were burned to death.
July 2, 1936
Centralia Chronicle Advertiser, Centralia Washington
WINS FELLOWSHIP
Keith Jones, 23, assistant county agent in Okanogan county an
former Grandview boy, has been named one of the two winners in the United States
this year of the National 4-H club fellowship from the Payne fund of New York,
which entitles him to spend nine months in study and research in the U.S.
Department of agriculture at Washington, D.C.
This is the first time that a person from the state of
Washington has obtained this fellowship and the second time it has come to the
western states. ONe young man and one young woman are selected each year.
January 21, 1937
The Chronicle Telegram, Elyria, Ohio
USE PLANE, AMBULANCE AND DOG SLED TO TAKE MINER TO HOSPITAL
Okanogan, Wash., Jan. 21-Frederick White, 24-year-old miner,
lay in a hospital room today and grinned cheerfully despite appendicitis pains
and the fact he must undergo and operation. White was thankful for the warmth of
the hospital and a safe journey out of the Cascade mountains.
White was brought from the Azurite mine, where he was
stricken in a hard, hazardous journey in which an airplane, a motor ambulance
and a dog sled were used. The last was the most important, for without sled and
the huskies to pull it White still would be marooned high in the hills.
Dr. E.T. Murdick, who mushed 23 miles over snow-covered
trails from Winthrop to the mine Sunday and found White in need of an operation,
was so exhausted by three days of constant attendance on his patient that he
too, was brought out by sled. He rested today at Winthrop and physicians here
indicated White would be permitted to rest at least 24 hours before his
operation.
December 4, 1939
Clearfield Progress, Clearfield, Pennsylvania
GOOD TRICK THO
Okanogan, Wash.- Dan Keech killed a deer just by pouncing upon its back and
using a knife as his only weapon. But that didn't make him a hero. The animal
was doe, illegal game. Justice Howard Vieh fined Keech $250 but remitted $150.
January 6, 1944
Berkshire Evening Eagle, Pittsfield, Berkshire, Massachusetts
MAJ.
GREGORY BOYINGTON of Okanogan, Wash., was officially credited today with
shooting down his 26th Japanese plane to tie the record set by fellow marine,
Maj. Joe Foss. Boyington, a former member of the "Flying Tigers" in China got
his 26th in a raid on Rabaul, New Britain, three days ago.
January 7, 1944
Berkshire Evening Eagle, Pittsfield, Berkshire, Massachusetts.
Maj. Boyington Ties Ace Record and Disappears.
Okanogan, Wash. The mother of Maj. Gregory Boyington, Marine ace reported
missing after he tied the American record of two wars by downing 26 Japanese
places, was informed by the Navy last night that her son failed to return from a
raid on Rabaul Harbor Jan. 3. Only a few hours before, Mrs. Hallenbeck had
learned that Boyington had shot down his 26th plane in the fighter sweep over
Rabaul to tie the record of Marine Maj. Joe Foss in this war, and the feat of
Capt. Eddie Rickenbacker in the last one.
Mrs. Hallenbeck took the news that her son was missing
calmly.
"I have faith that he will come back to us all right," she
said.
©Shauna Williams