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A physician is accused of embezzling district funds, sparking a frantic manhunt across the Puget Sound region.
“Friends of the man do not believe that he is criminally guilty, but think that the heavy expense connected with the building and equipping of the hospital... have induced the doctor to use the $500.”
A young laborer is crushed to death by a falling boiler at an Electron construction site.
“Suddenly the boiler swerved to one side. McCulloch tried to get out of the way, but was caught between the falling boiler and a stump.”
After swindling the community out of hundreds of dollars, a local physician vanishes into thin air, leaving a trail of bogus checks and empty promises.
“The much wanted doctor has disappeared as completely as if the earth had swallowed him.”
A former Tacoma resident is found dead in the woods near Eatonville, leaving behind a family and an unresolved question of how he died.
“Whether it was murder, suicide or accident has not been determined.”
A laborer, having saved nearly a thousand dollars from his hard work at the Columbia Improvement Company, is held up at the point of a pistol while waiting for his train.
“Lacey had been employed by the Columbia Improvement company and from month to month had saved his time checks. Saturday he cashed them for the amount of which he was robbed.”
After vanishing in January with a trail of forged warrants, a former Eatonville doctor is apprehended working as a cook in Texas.
“It is understood from the scant information received here that Martiny was employed as a cook in a hotel when he was arrested.”
A train car breaks loose on the Tacoma Eastern line, turning into a runaway vehicle that ends in a wreck.
“The caboose began a hasty retreat and the men jumped off and let it go.”
A farmer reports an astonishing, if scientifically questionable, account of a hen surviving over a month without food or water.
“I never saw such a wretched object in my life; but Mrs. Marlatt says she was the largest and fattest hen she had before being lost.”
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