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Told by the Pioneers MRS. FRANK REEVES (BELLE CULP) Appointed Secretary of State February 7, 1938, to fill 'tacancy created by the death of Dt". Ernest N. Hutchinson. Legislator from Chelan County for twelve years. Democratic National committee woman frorn the Sta.te of Washington in 1932. Chelan County I was horn in Quincy, Ohio, and moved to Kansas with my parents when a young' girl. While living in Kansas I was married to Frank Ree\'es, who brought me to Spokane in 1888 on a wedding trip. It was during' the boom days of the Coeur d'Alene mining district. vVe crossed Pend Oreille lake in a steamer. The Big Chief mine was our destination. The Big Chief swallowed all our savings. To get money enough to go on, both Mr. Reeves and I taught school. I did my teaching at Post Falls, Idaho. We stayed in Eastern vYashington about a year, and then went to Ellensburg, where Mr. ReC\'es published the Ellensburg Register. In 1889-90, the Great Northern Railroad surveyors were in the .field. In 1891 he started the V\Tenatchee Ad\'ance, the first paper in the Wenatchee Valley. The Daily World of Wenatchee is now using the same case from which I used to set type. \\1"e printed the paper for three years and then moved to Leavenworth in 1896. Mr. Reeves was one of the first to boom the town of Wenatchee for the railroad. The Great Northern was very secretive about its location of the new townsite, no one knew where it would be and one guess was as good as another. Old Wenatchee, which had started as a village of about 50 people, 'with its full quota of saloons, a hotel, and livery stable, was moved bodily to what was then a rock pile, but what is now Wenatchee. From Leavenworth to the Clockum Creek there were but 108 people. After we moved to the present townsite of V{enatchee, our printing office and home were in the same building. The printing office was in the front and we lived in the back. Our windows were divided into small panes and one of these happened to be broken. I was sitting sewing, when a man of the worst type appeared at this open 'window. He demanded a piece of bread and butter. In those day we did not have bread unless we baked it ourselves, and I happened to be baking some then, but it was not done. I refused his request and he said, "You will give me some bread and butter." I ran to the back door and slipped the bolt. There was a small incline to the rear of the house and he ran up on it and down to the door, trying to break it in. The door was giving way under his heavy weight. I ran to the 11
Told by the Pioneers front of the building where my husband, Frank, and two men printers were working. They immediately came to the back part of the building. Frank waited until the fellow was running once more down the incline and then he opened the door. He had his six-shooter, and asked the fellow what he wanted. The man replied, "I am waiting for your wife to give me something to eat," his manner being very ugly and hateful. Frank took him by the nape of the neck, turned him around and bounced him. He picked him up again and bumped him all the way down town to the railroad tracks, where he told him to keep moving. He was about the meanest looking fellow I have ever seen. ·We homesteaded in East Wenatchee on February 14, 189:2. My husband, Frank Reeves, had filed on the claim the previous year. As we went to Wenatchee by ·wagon or horseback, we had to ford the Wenatchee river at ,\7enatchee and go eight miles above that town to the ferrv and then come back ten miles to our homestead across the • Columbia river. We seldom did this, ho\venr, as we usually crossed the Columbia in a row boat. The current was so swift that in rowing from one bank to the other we often drifted a mile down the ri"er. A neigohbor of mine whose husband was in business in ,\7enatchee suggested that we take a baby buggy to haul my baby, but we found that it ,"as so sandy we could scarcely push it. We conceived the idea of taking' a wash boiler to carry her. This worked very nicely, because we could put in the condensed milk we had for her, as well as other gToceries. On one occasion we had her in one end and a ham in the other. I had the thrilling experience of cooking a meal for a man at the point of a gun. He acted like a bold, bad man, which we read about, riding up to the door on horseback, knocking on it with his whip. He cried out that if I did not open the door he would shoot. I tried to persuade him to leave, telling him that my husband would be home very soon. The baby, who was sitting in a box on the other side of the stove, never made a sound nor stirred. I prepared the meal, and when he was just finishing he noticed my baby, saying: "Why, you have a baby, I am sorry I frightened you." He threw fifty cents on the table and ran out. I saw this same man later at a dance, and we came face to face during a quadrille. When I saw him I exclaimed to one of the men that this was the man who had forced me to cook him a meal. My dancing partner said he would tell Frank, who was playing the violin. When the music stopped the fellow could be found nowhere. He had just faded away, and was never seen again. I believe he must have feared what would happen to him if those men there had ever gotten a hand on him. 12
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Page 5 and 6: WASHINGTON PIONEER PROJECT ADVISORY
Page 7 and 8: TABLE OF CONTENTS Name &: Count~·
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Page 17 and 18: Tnlr1 111/ thp Pinl1PPT.
Page 19 and 20: Told by the Pioneers cringe by maki
Page 21 and 22: Told by the Pioneers Trouble with t
Page 23 and 24: Told by the Pioneers No white man n
Page 25 and 26: Told by the Pioneers Ka,-anaugh was
Page 27 and 28: Told by the Pioneers June 11, 1866:
Page 29 and 30: Tuld by the Pioneers cient amount t
Page 31 and 32: try early. Told by the Pioneers The
Page 33 and 34: Told by the Pioneers grants this se
Page 35 and 36: Told by the Pioneers gather oysters
Page 37 and 38: Told by the Pioneers winds of fate.
Page 39 and 40: Told by the Pioneers for the family
Page 41 and 42: Told by the Pioneers I was but seve
Page 43 and 44: Told by the Pioneers "Sunday, J ul:
Page 45 and 46: Told by the Pioneers "·We had a on
Page 47 and 48: Told by the Pioneers "Father Wilbur
Page 49 and 50: Told by the Pion,eers knew. A pries
Page 51 and 52: Told by the Pioneers hadn't had fat
Page 53 and 54: Told by the Pioneers the ducks flew
Page 55 and 56: Told by the Pioneers The first year
Page 57 and 58: Told by the Pioneers born February
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Page 61 and 62: the expression" Seattle spirit" ash
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Told by the Pioneers also a cabinet
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Told by the Pioneers Funeral servic
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Told by the Pioneers My father neve
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Told by the Pioneers LOUIS F. IMAN
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Told by the Pioneers son we were lu
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Told by the Pioneers aud they were
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Told by the Pioneers about twenty m
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Told by the Pioneers Squaws used to
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Told by the Pioneers Martial law wa
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Told by the Pioneers Interstate Bri
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Told by the Pioneers war cries and
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Told by the Pioneers MINING EFFECTS
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Told by the Pioneers E. J. DORIAN O
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Told by the Pioneers trip in a smal
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Told by the Pioneers into the mine,
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· Told by the Pioneers CA T ASTROP
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Told by the Pioneers EMMA FUNK (, G
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Told by the Pioneers frozen or star
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Told by the Pioneers try and cost $
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Told by the Pioneers ADDIE PITT Yak
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Told by the Pioneers MISCELLANEOUS
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Told by the Pioneer~ PERRY W. BAKER
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Told by the P·i(lneers was melted
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Told .by the Pioneers SOPHUS JACOBS
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Told by the Pioneers cathedral. Wat
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Told by the Pioneers tom, and we co
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Told by the Pioneers ily bring the
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Told by the Pioneers had our beddin
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Told by the Pio-neers MRS. JESSE E.
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Told by theP'ioneers papers. The fu
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Told by the Pioneers THE ROUNDUP ON
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Told by the Pioneers obtained a fai
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Told by the Pioneers JONATHAN RINEH
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Told by the Pioneers had increased
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Told by the Pioneers WILLIS BENNETT
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Told by the Pioneers 'Ve were left
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Told by the Pioneers unafraid. Away
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Told by the Pioneers THOMAS M. NEEL
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Told by the Pioneers PIONEER MAIL S
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Told by the Pioneers from The Dalle
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Told by the Pioneers to insure the
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Told .by the Pioneers MRS. MARTHA J
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1'old by the Pioneers that mig-ht b
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Told by the Pioneers MELVIN F. HAWK
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Told by the Pioneers a most beautif
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Told by the Pioneers of good fun. "
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Told by the Pioneers Father started
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Told by the Pioneers ing of our fir
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Told by the Pioneers MONSON THORP,
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Told by the Pioneers burg. ::\lail
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Told by the Pioneers In 1856 my par
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Told by the Pioneers It has lasted
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Told by the Pioneers resented by st
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Told by the Pioneers couldn't stick
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Told by the Pioneers There were no
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Told by th6 Pioneers with lots of s
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Told by the Pioneers My foster fath
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Told by the Pioneers the log house
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Told by the Pioneers small lad, and
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Told by the Pioneers grown, at the
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Told by the Pioneers cabin large en
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Told by the Pioneers toe Bough," (i
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Told by the Pioneers Nelson Chapple
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Told by the Pioneers Then, when the
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Told by the Pioneers Hoquiam's firs
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1'old by the PiOtleers HUBBAR1' STO
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Told by the Pioneers was organized
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Told by the Pioneers del" to should
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Told by the Pioneers teach our scho
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Told by the Pioneers JOHN P. SPANGL
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Told by the Pioneers OSCAR ROSWELL
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Told by the Pioneers not only the c
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Told by the Pioneers forest, and al
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Told by the Pioneers boys shingled
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T old by the Pioneers that the stor
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Told by the Pioneers Nannie 0 'Donn
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Told by the Pioneers efficient teac
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Told by the Pioneers style of The P
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Told by the Pioneers efforts to pro
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Told by the Pioneers THE COLLEGE OF
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Told by the Pioneers ern California
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Told by the Pioneers school. On .Ma
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Told by the Pioneers rise as needed
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Told by the Pioneers playground spa
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Told by the Pioneers of many local
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Told by the Pioneers UNPUBLISHED IN
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BIBLIOGRAPHY Pratt, Aurelia Rosencr
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BIBLIOGRAPHY Mills, Henrietta E. Mi
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BIBLIOGRAPHr Padfic County Brown, C
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BIBLIOGRAPHY Ketchum, Abraham La Pr
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INDEX Aberdeen, Washington, 191 Abr
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INDEX Carr, Edmund, 206 Carr, O. J
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INDEX Dyer, 67 "Dying Californian's
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INDEX Harris, Lafe, 212 Hart, Charl
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INDEX Lake Union, 150 Lake Washingt
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INDEX Neah Bay, 37, 39, 145, 184 Ne
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INDEX Red Shirt, mine, 84 Reed, Cha
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INDEX Stewart, Mark, 40 Stitzel, Ja
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INDEX Whitworth, Harry, 17 Whitwort
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