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serious fire is raging in the Yosemite Valley California, and the flames threaten to destroy a great group of ..

... serious fire is raging in the Yosemite Valley California, and the flames threaten to destroy a great group of sequoias, the famous trees for Which the valley is celebrated. Under the auspices of the Bolton Playing Field' Society eleven acred of ground ...

Published: Monday 30 August 1909
Newspaper: Manchester Courier
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 101 | Page: 8 | Tags: none

DARING HIGHWAYMEN. ' FIVE COACHES HELD UP

... DARING HIGHWAYMEN. ' FIVE COACHES HELD UP. * A Californian highwayman robbed five Yosemite Valley stage coaches in succession on Saturday night, robbing all the passengers and the express box. He held up each coach as it rounded a curve in the road, ordered ...

Published: Saturday 14 July 1906
Newspaper: Manchester Times
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 87 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

The Biggest Tree

... a specimen of the Sequoia or Wellington Gigantea, the big tree of California, which forms the famous grove in the Yosemite Valley. The Sequoia is of the pine tribe, and grows freely in temperate climates, but it is only in California that it has attained ...

Published: Tuesday 27 September 1904
Newspaper: Manchester Evening News
County: Lancashire, England
Type: | Words: 102 | Page: 7 | Tags: none

Californian Place-Names,

... Civil War, and in 1863 it received Ws present name, meaning, in the language of the Washoo Indians, big water. Yosemite Valley means the valley of the full-grown grizzly bear, the name of the Indian tribe which formerly owned it. ...

Published: Monday 02 January 1905
Newspaper: Manchester Evening News
County: Lancashire, England
Type: | Words: 180 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

CALIFORNIAN NAMES

... War, and in 1863 it received its present name, mean- ing, in the language of the Washoe Indians, * big ” water. Yosemite Valley means the valley of the full-grown grizzly bear,”’ the name the Indian tribe which formerly owned it.—-* From China to Peru,”’ ...

Published: Saturday 07 January 1905
Newspaper: Manchester Courier
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 169 | Page: 8 | Tags: none

_ WOMAN'S STRANGE DEATH

... na £ 7 37 is and •closed. . now W 11 Senate on Friday night t, • joint resolution accepting California's If of the Yosemite Valley as an addition %emit.* National Park. This means protection for the sequoias (bid N Uord' s Gibraltar menses states that ...

Published: Sunday 05 March 1905
Newspaper: Empire News & The Umpire
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 324 | Page: 7 | Tags: none

Meeting Mr. Gladstono

... was • very young man. The hest was Mr. Biersladt, a well-known American painter of Maraca and the glories of the Yosemite Valley, whose works are equally admired on both sides of the dilute. Mr. Gladstone was invited by Mr. Biesetedt to meet the ...

Published: Sunday 28 October 1900
Newspaper: Empire News & The Umpire
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 379 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

10E ITOURUFE. Mamoru Robs Five Stage Coaches, A FICTITIOUS BRIGAND

... ITOURUFE. Mamoru Robs Five Stage Coaches, A FICTITIOUS BRIGAND. An unknown highwayman who was arrested near Wawona, in the Yosemite Valley of OaWorn's, performed the nu. precedented feat of robbing tourist stage coaches in rapid succession in one night. The ...

Published: Sunday 15 July 1906
Newspaper: Empire News & The Umpire
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 398 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

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... goes ‘““heeled,” and is ready tc shcot on the slightest provocation or none. With the facts as to the coaches in the Yosemite Valley before us, we shall for the future revise this picturesque conception. When a single l_nghwayrnan can hold up five coaches ...

Published: Saturday 14 July 1906
Newspaper: Manchester Times
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 1417 | Page: 9 | Tags: none

niany caszs, althcugh the spelling was somewhat primitive. Unlike their Chinese neighbours the Japanese were ..

... progressive, and they afforded a striking object-lesson to our own country. A brief account was given of a visit to the Yosemite Valley in California and other places seen on the homeward journey. HEATON CHAPEL LITERARY. THE CAREER OF A GERMAN POET AND ROMANCER ...

Published: Saturday 07 December 1901
Newspaper: Manchester City News
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 1577 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

CALIFORNIA

... Lawrence river, Professor Weiss crossed Canada to the Rocky Mountains, and then made his way south to California and the Yosemite Valley. He also visited the Sierra Nevada. The region to the west of the Rocky Mountains, he said, was mostly prairie land. Although ...

Published: Saturday 12 March 1904
Newspaper: Manchester City News
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 4529 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

THE STING FISH

... remarks that a fox is 2l _that is said for 'its wisdom #, . Nob long ago in the United Stashington Hunt of Valley Forge startedS the North Valley Hills, and the hoßßing it across tha open field wnen the Purprised to see a much larger fox come¢¥©ods and ...

Published: Saturday 05 January 1901
Newspaper: Manchester City News
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 1469 | Page: 3 | Tags: none