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Two Indigenous men vanish after a suspicious boat wreck, leaving only a shredded canoe and a missing shoe behind.
“The canoe looked as if it had been split with an ax or torn apart, as it was not broken as it would have been had it struck the rocks.”
A Seattle man is left homeless after a masked party of seven enforced their claim on the Hoko River by fire.
“He was told that he was regarded as a 'claim jumper,' and must leave the land... The visiting party helped him place all of his household effects outside, and then destroyed the dwelling by setting fire to it.”
A Seattle entrepreneur's attempt to reclaim machinery from a failed East Clallam factory is thwarted by the local sheriff.
“The box factory was never built, and after lying rusting on the wharf many months, it goes back to Seattle again.”
A routine spring cleaning by a settler’s wife in Clallam County leads to a potentially major discovery of mercury ore.
“A Mrs. Li Tinston... was cleaning out a little spring with a view to preparing a place in which to keep her butter, when she discovered in the bottom of the spring quite a quantity of pure quicksilver.”
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