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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

THE FATEER OF BURNS

... soldier in the arid plains of Egypt, by the sailor in the Southern seas of Austmg’ia,) by the woodsman in the depths of the Yosemite Valley, by the explorer on the Northern - borders of British Columbia, by those seeking health on the borders of New Mexico, ...

Published: Saturday 29 January 1910
Newspaper: Manchester City News
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 424 | Page: 2 | 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

LIVERPOOL COTTON

... words). 10 In Burgos he is different from them. 11 His support doesn’t last long, it would seem. 12 Half seen in the Yosemite Valley. 13 Spoiled without the sun. 14 Spoil the negro’s features? 15 The cleric would lower himself about me. 16 The money ...

Published: Monday 10 February 1941
Newspaper: Manchester Evening News
County: Lancashire, England
Type: | Words: 580 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

SHIPPING AND CRUISES*. P& MAIL & PASSENGER VICES. EGYPT, INDIA, CHINA, JAPAN, AUSTRALASIA, etc., conveying ..

... important cities, including SALT LAKE CITY, THE GRANDEUR THE ROCKIES, YELLOWSTONE NATIONAL ltllff. tr THE fIRAND CANYON, YOSEMITE VALLEY, thence to SYDNEY in 19 DAYS, via Honolulu (the Paradise the Pacific), SOMOA (our new Possession). OCEANIC STEAMSHIPS ...

Published: Tuesday 26 January 1915
Newspaper: Manchester Courier
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Advertisement | Words: 695 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

SHIPPING AND CRUISES. , P& —MAIL & PASSENGER SER• \J • VICES. EGYPT, INDIA, CHINA, JAPAN, AUSTRALASIA, etc., ..

... important cities, including SALT LAKE CITY THE . GRANDEUR THE ROCKIES. YELLOWSTONE NATIONAL PARK, t.r THE GRAND CANYON, YOSEMITE VALLEY, thence BYDNEY in 19 DAYS, via Honolulu (the Paradise of the Pacific). SOMOA (our new Possession). OCEANIC STEAMSHIPS ...

Published: Tuesday 02 February 1915
Newspaper: Manchester Courier
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Advertisement | Words: 731 | Page: 2 | Tags: none