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...vessel left Tacoma, Wash., April 26, 1910, manned by Captain Koren and three other white men, who were later reinforced by two Eskimos. The expedition was for the purpose of gathering zoological, botanical, and natural history specimens in the Arctic and sub-Arctic regions. It visited the islands off the coast of Alaska, the Behring Sea, and the Arctic Ocean. No lives were lost in the wreck...
...play is in two acts, the first laid in and about a summer hotel in Tacoma, Washington, the second in the garden of the Marquis Hari Kari, the Japanese governor of Nagasaki. The plot centres about the endeavors of a young collegian named Wigglesworth to earn an honest living, and his infatuation with May Lifter, the daughter of Thomas Lawson Lifter, a Chicago magnate. His college career is cut short by the villainy of an uncle who robbed him of his money, and he goes west to seek his fortune in Tacoma, where Thomas Lawson Lifter with his two daughters...
...Lifter discharges his chauffeur, and Wigglesworth applies with success for the position. At this point, Webster Smith, a lawyer, arrives in Tacoma looking for Wigglesworth, whose uncle has recently died leaving no will, and whose fortune accordingly belongs to his nephew...
...contents of the Engineering Journal, which appeared on Monday are as follows: "Puyallup River Water Power Development and High Tension Transmission to Seattle and Tacoma, Washington," by J. F. Vaughan '95; "The American Diesel Engine," by E. D. Meier; "Some Architectual Elements," by W. D. Swan; "Train Resistance in Relation to the Track," by Dr. P. H. Dudley; editorials, and architectual notes...
...practically assured for the Stanford University baseball team, beginning immediately after the final examinations this month. Favorable terms and in many places liberal guarantees have been secured to induce the team to visit the places on and about Puget Sound. Games will be scheduled with teams at Portland, Tacoma, Seattle, Fairhaven, Whatcom, Port Townsend, Snohomish, Everet and Olympia. It is expected that immediately upon the completion of this tour the team will return to San Francisco and take steamer for the Hawaiian Islands, where they are to play a series of games, finishing with a game in Honolulu...