item: #1 of 18 id: 10725 author: Chaplin, Ralph title: The Centralia Conspiracy date: None words: 37656 flesch: 73 summary: In Yakima and Sedro Woolley, among other places in 1918, union men were stripped of their clothing, beaten with rope ends and hot tar applied to the bleeding flesh. A peaceable meeting of union men was being dispersed. keywords: american; business; business men; case; centralia; city; day; everest; grimm; hall; hubbard; i.w.w; illustration; industrial; interests; jail; labor; law; loggers; lumber; lumber trust; lumber workers; man; men; mob; organization; parade; raid; right; rope; smith; state; time; town; union; union hall; union loggers; union men; washington; woods; workers; world; years cache: 10725.txt plain text: 10725.txt item: #2 of 18 id: 10751 author: Lomax, E. L. (Edward Lloyd) title: Oregon, Washington and Alaska; Sights and Scenes for the Tourist date: None words: 21053 flesch: 74 summary: By E.L. LOMAX, General Passenger Agent, Union Pacific System. E.L. LOMAX, General Passenger Agent, ) OMAHA, NEB. keywords: agent; agt; alaska; away; city; columbia; country; dalles; day; falls; feet; great; lake; miles; mountains; new; ocean; oregon; pacific; passenger; passenger agent; portland; railway; river; sea; sound; spokane; steamer; tacoma; ticket; time; tourist; trip; union; union pacific; washington; water cache: 10751.txt plain text: 10751.txt item: #3 of 18 id: 13343 author: Anderson, Ada Woodruff title: The Rim of the Desert date: None words: 127552 flesch: 86 summary: Did I tell you it was Weatherbee Tisdale? Mr. Tisdale was telling the ptarmigan yarn--it's wonderful the power he has to hold the interest of a crowd of men--and the chance was too good to miss. keywords: alaska; armitage; banks; blue; chair; coal; course; cut; david; day; desert; door; elizabeth; end; eyes; face; feet; feversham; find; fine; foster; frederic; girl; glance; going; good; half; hand; head; hollis; home; know; left; little; look; looking; man; marcia; miles; miss; moment; money; morganstein; mountain; mrs; new; open; place; pocket; right; road; room; rose; seattle; snow; station; story; team; thought; time; tisdale; train; vale; valley; voice; water; way; weatherbee; wenatchee; wife; woman; work; years; young cache: 13343.txt plain text: 13343.txt item: #4 of 18 id: 13532 author: Kyne, Peter B. (Peter Bernard) title: Kindred of the Dust date: None words: 100514 flesch: 82 summary: He grinned at old Daney. VI The morning after the barbecue, Donald McKaye reported at eight o'clock to his father's faithful old general manager, Andrew Daney. keywords: agnew; andrew; andrew daney; boy; brent; caleb; child; course; daney; day; dear; dirty; donald; donald mckaye; door; elizabeth; eyes; face; family; father; girl; god; good; great; hand; head; heart; hector; home; house; jane; know; laird; life; love; man; matter; mckaye; morning; mother; mrs; nan brent; night; office; people; pile; poor; port; port agnew; room; sawdust; sir; son; thought; time; tyee; way; wife; woman; world; years; young cache: 13532.txt plain text: 13532.txt item: #5 of 18 id: 14348 author: Wilson, Harry Leon title: Ma Pettengill date: None words: 108359 flesch: 85 summary: Said Vida in this letter: My heart stopped when he suddenly declared in cool, terrible tones: 'There's always the river!' Good old Ben! Won't he be in a frenzy when he finds this paltry insult has been sneaked into the files in place of his report on me! keywords: aunt; away; ben; big; bit; boy; boys; business; car; clyde; couple; course; cousin; day; days; dollars; face; fair; find; gap; girl; going; good; guess; half; head; heart; herman; homer; house; kind; lady; left; lew; life; look; lot; man; mebbe; men; minute; money; morning; mother; mrs; new; oswald; people; pettengill; place; poor; red; right; room; round; safety; sandy; set; shelley; talk; thing; thought; time; town; trunk; vernabelle; vida; war; way; wee; woman; words; work; world; years cache: 14348.txt plain text: 14348.txt item: #6 of 18 id: 14376 author: Wilson, Harry Leon title: Somewhere in Red Gap date: None words: 111605 flesch: 84 summary: And there they was at work, busy as beavers, gouging up the very last remnant of little old New York when it was that. 'Good old Ben will enjoy it, too,' says Alonzo; 'and, furthermore, Ben will straighten out one or two little things that have puzzled me about this poet. keywords: 'em; alonzo; angus; away; ben; bet; bit; boy; brother; car; comes; course; day; dollars; door; egbert; ellabelle; evening; eyes; face; gap; girl; good; great; hand; head; hetty; home; house; jeff; jimmie; judge; kind; know; ladies; lady; law; left; life; little; lon; look; looking; lot; man; manner; mebbe; men; minute; moment; money; mrs; new; open; pete; place; play; pretty; price; ranch; real; red; right; round; sandy; saying; set; sir; song; talk; thing; thought; time; town; want; way; wilbur; wilfred; woman; work; world; years; york; yorker; young cache: 14376.txt plain text: 14376.txt item: #7 of 18 id: 15229 author: Howell, Ithamar title: A Review of the Resources and Industries of the State of Washington, 1909 date: None words: 43859 flesch: 73 summary: | | M. M. Godman | Seattle. 80,351.82 | 14,583.47 | 21,322.96 | 35,906.43 | keywords: = =; = |; center; chehalis |; chelan |; chief; cities; city; coal; columbia; counties; county; county seat; eastern; farming; feet; fruit; great; growing; illustration; industries; king |; lands; lumber; miles; mountains; okanogan |; pacific; page; people; pierce |; plate; population; products; railroad; railway; resources; river; snohomish |; soil; sound; spokane; state; timber; town; transportation; walla; washington; water; wheat; whitman |; yakima; | a.; | c.; | e.; | f.; | g.; | h.; | j.; | l.; | m.; | northern; | o.; | olympia; | r.; | seattle; | t.; | w.; | | cache: 15229.txt plain text: 15229.txt item: #8 of 18 id: 30139 author: Giles, Harry F. title: The Beauties of the State of Washington: A Book for Tourists date: None words: 24548 flesch: 67 summary: See description of other Puget Sound cities, all reached quickly. See also descriptions of other Puget Sound cities. keywords: bay; cascades; cities; city; columbia; columbia river; county; curtis; east; falls; feet; harbor; highway; illustration; island; lake; miles; mountains; near; north; ocean; olympic; pacific; park; people; puget; region; river; road; seattle; sound; south; spokane; state; summer; tacoma; trips; valley; walla; washington; water; west; world cache: 30139.txt plain text: 30139.txt item: #9 of 18 id: 31810 author: Smith, Walker C. title: The Everett Massacre: A history of the class struggle in the lumber industry date: None words: 91061 flesch: 69 summary: [10] (The incidents in the foregoing chapter are corroborated by the sworn testimony of I. W. W. men who were shot at, beaten, robbed, and abused; by citizens of Everett and Seattle who were also beaten and mistreated or who witnessed the scenes; by physicians, attorneys, public officials, members of craft unions, and by deputies who hoped to make amends by testifying to the truth for the defense.) CHAPTER IV. One of these, carrying an I. W. W. card and in the employ of Snohomish county and the Everett Commercial Club under the direction of the Pinkerton Detective Agency, had sneaked out of the I. W. W. headquarters long enough to telephone Lieutenant Hedges of the Seattle Police force that there was a boatload of I. W. W. men leaving for Everett. keywords: 5th; age; attorney; black; boat; case; citizens; city; class; club; commercial; company; cooley; county; court; day; defendant; defense; deputies; deputy; dock; everett; evidence; face; free; head; i. w.; industrial; jail; james; john; judge; jury; labor; law; left; little; lumber; man; mcrae; meeting; mrs; november; open; order; organization; people; place; police; prisoners; prosecution; public; question; right; seattle; sheriff; sheriff mcrae; shingle; shot; speech; stand; state; testimony; thomas; timber; time; tracy; trust; union; vanderveer; verona; w. h.; w. hall; w. members; w. men; w. w.; way; witness; witnesses; workers; working; wounded cache: 31810.txt plain text: 31810.txt item: #10 of 18 id: 31994 author: Allen, G. F. (Grenville F.) title: The Forests of Mount Rainier National Park date: None words: 7589 flesch: 78 summary: 6-8, _7_, _8_, _9_, _10_, _12_, _13_ grand (_Abies grandis_) 20, _21_ noble (_Abies nobilis_) 17-19, _17_, _18_ silver. _See_ Fir, amabilis; Fir, grand. keywords: feet; fig; fir; forest; hemlock; illustration; mountain; park; rainier; tree; western cache: 31994.txt plain text: 31994.txt item: #11 of 18 id: 35992 author: Jacobs, Orange title: Memoirs of Orange Jacobs date: None words: 68550 flesch: 70 summary: I often think of the saying of Locke, the philosopher, that if he had read as much as other men he would have known as little as they. The success of such men is possible only in a government by the people. keywords: away; bear; brush; camp; case; cougar; country; court; day; doctor; fact; father; feet; fire; game; general; good; government; great; home; horses; house; indians; judge; law; laws; left; life; line; man; matter; men; miles; moral; morning; mountains; number; order; oregon; people; power; rifle; right; river; school; seattle; shot; soul; state; territory; thought; time; united; valley; washington; water; white; work; years; young cache: 35992.txt plain text: 35992.txt item: #12 of 18 id: 37212 author: McWhorter, Lucullus Virgil title: The Discards date: None words: 10398 flesch: 74 summary: Carr and Federal District Attorney, Francis H. Garrecht, actually took place in a Yakima hotel lobby last spring, where it was found that: Differences of opinion between white settlers and Indians regarding Water rights along Medicine Creek have arisen; and that it is probable that cases which have already been in court will again have to come up for adjudication. Fraudulent land deals and theft of irrigation waters are common complaints. keywords: bureau; canal; crops; ditch; goudy; indian; irrigation; lands; man; page; reclamation; rights; service; time; want; water; yakima; years cache: 37212.txt plain text: 37212.txt item: #13 of 18 id: 38132 author: None title: A Hundred and Sixty Books by Washington Authors Some Other Writers Who are Contributors to Periodical Literature; Lines Worth Knowing by Heart date: None words: 9490 flesch: 80 summary: A Hundred and Sixty Books by Washington Authors Some other writers who are contributors to periodical literature Lines worth knowing by heart In paper thirty-five cents In cloth fifty cents Printed for the Compiler Copyright 1916 by SUSAN WHITCOMB HASSELL Everett, Wash. Printers Lowman & Hanford Co. Seattle CONTENTS Page A Hundred and Sixty Books History 6-10 Travel and Description 10-13 Scientific and Technical 14-16 Fiction 16-20 Juvenile 20-21 Poetry 22-23 Unclassified Prose 23-26 Other Writers 27-28 Lines Worth Knowing by Heart 29-36 Index to Writers 37-40 FOREWORD Mrs. Maynard is honored in Seattle as the founder of a free reading room which grew into the Young Men's Christian Association of the city. keywords: alaska; american; author; book; good; history; home; life; man; mother; mrs; new; people; seattle; state; stories; story; tacoma; toot; volumes; washington; william; work; world; years cache: 38132.txt plain text: 38132.txt item: #14 of 18 id: 39334 author: Denny, Emily Inez title: Blazing the Way; Or, True Stories, Songs and Sketches of Puget Sound date: None words: 114702 flesch: 71 summary: Then came the panic of 1893 and Mr. Denny was among many other Seattle men who emerged from the cataclysm without a dollar. In the fierce, relentless hand, Old men pleading, plead in vain, Their dark spirits none restrain. keywords: a. a.; a. denny; alki; asselt; bay; beautiful; bell; black; boren; brother; building; cabin; camp; canoe; captain; chapter; chief; children; city; claim; columbia; company; county; dark; david; day; days; dead; death; denny; elliott; family; father; feet; fire; following; forest; fort; friends; good; great; ground; half; hand; head; home; house; indians; john; john denny; lake; land; life; living; log; low; man; men; mercer; miles; morning; mother; mrs; new; night; north; number; olympia; oregon; page; party; people; pioneer; place; plains; point; puget; river; saw; seattle; settlement; settlers; sound; street; t. denny; thomas; thought; time; town; trail; trees; van; war; washington; water; way; white; wife; wild; women; work; years; young cache: 39334.txt plain text: 39334.txt item: #15 of 18 id: 40132 author: Ruffner, William Henry title: A Report on Washington Territory date: None words: 53572 flesch: 74 summary: | Jan. | Feb. | FOR YEAR ENDING | FOR YEAR ENDING +------------+------------+------------+------------ | JUNE 30, | JUNE 30, | JUNE 30, | JUNE 30, | 1885. keywords: + =; = +; = =; cascade; city; coal; columbia; country; east; eastern; falls; feet; good; iron; lake; line; miles; mining; mountains; north; northern; ore; ores; pacific; point; puget; railroad; railway; river; seams; seattle; shore; sidenote; snoqualmie; sound; south; spokane; t. |; territory; timber; valley; washington; washington territory; water; west; wheat; | +; | =; | mean; | san; | | cache: 40132.txt plain text: 40132.txt item: #16 of 18 id: 42314 author: None title: Mount Rainier, a Record of Exploration date: None words: 108889 flesch: 73 summary: This grand mountain is not, like Mount Blanc, merely the dominant peak of a chain of snow mountains; it is the only snow peak in view, Mount St. Helens and Mount Adams being, like it, isolated and many miles distant. I made preparations after the best authorities I could find, from reading accounts of the ascent of Mont Blanc and other snow mountains. keywords: allen; ascent; base; boundary; camp; carbon; carbon glacier; central; cliffs; common; course; cowlitz; cowlitz glacier; crater; creek; day; deep; distance; east; falls; family; feet; feet altitude; feet elevation; fields; flowers; foot; forest; form; general; glacier; gray; great; ground; half; head; height; high; horses; ice; indian; lake; lava; leaves; left; level; line; longmire; man; mass; miles; morning; mount rainier; mountain; night; nisqually; north; northwestern; origin; paradise; park; party; peak; place; plant; point; portion; prairie; professor; range; region; ridge; river; rock; sea; slope; snow; sound; south; southern; species; states; steep; stream; summit; surface; tacoma; takhoma; tamanoĆ¼s; time; trail; trees; trump; united; valley; van; view; washington; water; way; west; white; work cache: 42314.txt plain text: 42314.txt item: #17 of 18 id: 42384 author: Stine, Thomas Ostenson title: Scandinavians on the Pacific, Puget Sound date: None words: 30372 flesch: 68 summary: He was born in Norway, but came to America in his early years, and received a fine education in the common schools and at the State University of Washington. The Scandinavian Temperance Society lived through many years of gnawing resistance. keywords: america; anderson; bank; bay; business; chapter; church; city; coast; county; education; forest; home; honor; illustration; john; land; lutheran; man; men; miss; music; native; new; norway; norwegian; pacific; people; public; scandinavians; school; seattle; sound; stanwood; state; sweden; swedish; tacoma; time; washington; years cache: 42384.txt plain text: 42384.txt item: #18 of 18 id: 53582 author: Dalquest, Walter Woelber title: Mammals of Washington, Volume 2 University of Kansas Publications Museum of Natural History date: None words: 136124 flesch: 73 summary: Remarks._--Intergradation between _rufa_ and _raineri_ is seen in specimens from the area between Stevens Pass and Skykomish, King County. The range now occupied by _caurina_ in the Rocky Mountains is so extensive as to suggest that martens could not have migrated into all of it from the Pacific Coast since Vashon Time, even had the region been unoccupied by any species of marten. keywords: = =; amer; area; average; black; blue; body; british; brown; burrows; c |; california; cascades; citellus; coast; coastal; color; columbia; common; county; dark; deer; distribution; eastern washington; fauna; feet; females; fig; food; foot; fur; genus; gray; ground; habitat; head; hind; howell; illustration; inches; jour; lake; length; life; males; mammals; merriam; mice; microtus; miller; mountains; mouse; museum; myotis; nat; national; near; north; northeastern; northern; olympic; oregon; pacific; parts; plateau; proc; puget; r |; race; racial; range; red; river; rocky; scheffer; shrew; size; sorex; south; southern; species; specimens; squirrel; states; subspecies; tail; talpoides; tamias; thomomys; time; total; townsendii; type; united; upper; valley; vashon; washington; washington average; water; western washington; white; wisconsin; zone; | -------------------------------------------+---+---+---+---+---+--; | | cache: 53582.txt plain text: 53582.txt