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A young boy's life is cut short in a quiet Seattle accident involving a rifle.
“Two boys, aged about thirteen, named Pinkey and Damey, were playing with a Henry rifle at Bothell one day last week, when the latter accidentally discharged the gun, and the ball striking Pinkey in the chest killed him instantly.”
A man escapes from the Steilacoom asylum, survives a seventy-mile trek through the wilderness on a shattered ankle, and is eventually captured in a Bothell cabin.
“I'm engaged now. She's awful pretty and smart. When I'm a free man I'm going back to see her again.”
A successful ship carpenter, unsettled by a head injury and the pressures of the local real estate market, is found in a slough near Bothell after his second attempt at suicide.
“At times he would be perfectly sane, but then again he would imagine he was going to lose his property on account of grade taxes.”
A major shingle and lumber mill goes up in flames, leaving the community with a $75,000 loss.
“The fire began in the fanhouse about 10:30 in the morning, and in a few minutes spread throughout the mill and completely enveloped it in flames.”
Nearly two million shingles lost in a blaze that erupted in the upper story of a local mill; bridge and office narrowly saved.
“The watchman had just been upstairs and was working below, when like a flash the whole mill was a mass of flames.”
A mill worker named Cyrus Mason lost his life while attempting to jump onto a moving coal train in Bothell.
“The wheels cutting off both legs close up to the trunk... he lived for nearly ten minutes, virtually bleeding to death.”
A Democratic congressional hopeful solicits a Republican postmaster for $10—using party paper, an insurance-company envelope, and a paper trail that ends up at the Post-Intelligencer.
“A prompt refusal of this request is better than uncertainty and delay.”
Property owners petitioned county commissioners to form a drainage district, hoping to transform miles of 'sluggish' swamp into productive farmland.
“If it were drained by a system of ditches and the main channel straightened, a strip of rich land a mile in width its whole length would be made fit for cultivation.”
A Bothell church congregation splits into two warring camps over how to spend $72 raised at a holiday fair.
“The board of trustees insisted that it should be used to pay off the old debt.”
A festive delegation of Seattle Odd Fellows journeys to Bothell by steamer to establish a new chapter.
“The party said on their return that no one could set up a dinner like the Bothellites.”
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