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After her young son stood trial for a killing he committed, his mother took her own life in confinement.
“Mrs. Clark, who was sentenced to the penitentiary for manslaughter... committed suicide in her cell at Seatco.”
A look inside the privatized territorial penitentiary of 1879, where convict labor was auctioned off to pay for a sheriff's enterprise.
“The Territory was in turn granted the privilege of fulfilling in the buildings if it desired so to do, or any other suitable arrangement could be made, as might be most expedient at that time.”
A tragic workplace accident in Bucoda leaves a man dead as he attempts to unload heavy timber.
“A movement of the logs caused the lever he was handling to strike him under the chin with such force that his neck was broken.”
A mother and her young daughter drown while attempting to cross a river on a log boom during a berry-picking trip.
“The pleasures of a family who proposed putting in the day blackberrying ended by the drowning.”
A tragic river crossing in Bucoda claims the lives of a mother and daughter.
“Six little girls acted as pallbearers for the daughter.”
A small-town romantic drama in Bucoda ends with an attempted escape, a Winchester rifle, and a boxcar departure to California.
“Just before the train started he marched his family down to the depot, covering their retreat with a Winchester.”
A Thurston County coal company secures a receiver in Olympia while creditors race to court, including a claim on a note originally given to pay workers’ wages.
“The company in its application for a receiver alleges that its liabilities exceed its assets... hence the necessity for a receiver in order that all the creditors may share alike.”
When the Northern Pacific tried to fence a 400-foot right-of-way near Bucoda, neighboring property owners pulled up the posts and dared the railroad to sue.
“The railroad claims a right of way 200 feet wide on each side of the track... Owners of the property in question claim that the railroad is entitled to but 100 feet.”
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