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After escaping Steilacoom asylum by turning blankets into a rope, William Miller—a man once acquitted of a high-profile Lake Washington murder—is on the loose, sparking terror in the homes near Mercer Slough.
“When arrested, Miller swore that if he ever escaped from the asylum he would return to Mercer Slough and kill every one who lived in the neighborhood.”
A local violinist’s moral objection to a high school charity dance nearly sparked a riot, dividing the town between tradition and progress.
A local rancher met his end in a tragic construction accident while building a new home for his family on the shores of Lake Washington.
“She found his body lying at full length face down. The vertebra of the neck had been dislocated and the spinal cord snapped.”
New county infrastructure aims to connect Mercer Slough to Lake Sammamish via ferry, slashing the travel distance to Seattle from thirty-eight miles to just ten.
“This ferry and road... would make the distance from the city to Monahan ten miles instead of thirty-eight miles.”
A correspondent reports on the impressive transformation of a rugged trail into a county-grade road, achieved entirely through the voluntary labor of local settlers.
“Much credit is due to the team settlers for making such a road by voluntary labor, without any aid from the county.”
Two women make history by descending 2,000 feet into the Oregon Coal Company mine at Coal Creek.
“They descended to the fifth level, 2,000 feet below the surface.”
An 1878 dispatch from a settler near Lake Washington offers advice to 'respectable' newcomers looking to carve a life out of the untamed timberland.
“There is nothing here to offer to anyone but hard knocks, and a chance to earn for himself and family, if he has one, a home out of the forest.”
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