One sentence in the above Ellensburg Evening Record got my attention about pitcher John "Goldie" Golden integrating the town team. I had to go back through some notes in order to confirm this, sure enough here's a photo of the 1906 Ellensburg town team with John Golden at thirdbase. Sorry for the image quality but it's from a May 19, 1989 Daily Record newspaper article, no idea where they got it.

Golden was born in Washington DC, July 18, 1880. He joined the military's 9th cavalry which served courageously in the Spanish American War in Cuba (1898), where they charged Kettle Hill, and San Juan Hill with Roosevelt's Rough Riders. He was stationed at Fort Wingate, New Mexico in 1900, before the 9th was sent to the Phillipines 1900-1902. He moved to Ellensburg sometime between 1904-05, as he integrated the 1906-08 Ellensburg town teams. Thought some might like his story..... Of course he was also on the 1912 Ellensburg black baseball team as noted above. He lived in Ellensburg a great deal of his life as a "baggage master" for the NPRR. He and his wife had no children. Still cannot find his obituary (though he did register for WW2 draft in 1942), or any 9th cavalry musters to confirm his location during the Spanish American War, any advice from military historians about how to find this info would be greatly appreciated.