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A letter from Washington City reports that the Hudson’s Bay and Puget Sound Agricultural companies’ territorial claims have been ruled forfeit, opening their Nisqually and Fort Vancouver lands to American survey and settlement.
“It is a complete forfeiture, and the most interested construction now can leave them nothing more than their improvements, which they can sell to anybody.”
A legal dispute over a homestead claim near Avondale erupts into a violent physical confrontation between rival attorneys in a federal courtroom.
“You're a contemptible liar... Considering the testimony I have heard and knowing the position you occupy, I think, in return, that you are the most contemptible of all liars.”
An old timer writes in to dispute the recorded history of the first white child born in Washington Territory.
“I cannot account for the desire of the reverend gentleman to see an Indian in every family but his own, unless he had Indian on the brain.”
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