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Fear grips the Kittitas country as laborers flee a camp riddled with the 'dread malady' before authorities can secure a quarantine.
“At this place today every man with a pack on his back from the direction of the camp was met at a distance by a committee of citizens and directed to keep away from the town.”
A rancher kills a man he claims attacked him after a long-standing dispute over pay.
“Sea visited Hendrick's cabin to insist upon a settlement, and the latter claims that the former made an assault on him.”
A railroad worker is shot at a station near Yakima following a refusal to share a drink.
“The cause of the shooting was the refusal of one man to drink with another.”
A swarm of mosquitoes once sent railroad engineers fleeing in a panic that gave a famous mountain pass its permanent name.
“That evening the mammoth mosquitoes from the lake pounced down on the party and stampeded horses and engineers, and from that incident the lake, pass and tunnel received their names.”
Northern Pacific begins damming alpine reservoirs to feed the burgeoning Yakima Valley farms.
“Houses are to be built and the lakes dammed to be used as supply reservoirs.”
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