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A farmer takes his own life after killing his wife and children in a brutal religious mania, leaving a chilling note behind.
“This world is too wicked to live in. I don't want to live any longer in it. I can't bear to leave my family in it.”
While the Palouse region produced record-breaking wheat yields, a lack of rail infrastructure caused a catastrophic 'grain blockade' that paralyzed the local economy.
“The effect of the great blockade, whatever the cause, has been the serious depression of every line of business throughout the great country, at a time, too, when the most unexampled prosperity and free circulation of money should have been and was expected.”
A local rancher survives a harrowing ordeal after losing his way and his pony near Farmington.
“The longest way round is the shortest way home.”
After receiving a large payment, the Nez Perce people arrived in Farmington to trade, filling the town with new buggies, blankets, and curiosity.
“By 4 o'clock a long line of new buggies, wagons and carts well laden with every conceivable article of use wound its way over the mountain to the mission.”
A public power struggle in Farmington ends in a legal defeat for the town council over street expansion plans.
“The defense asserted that the council was not the eligible party to bring the proceeding.”
On the headwaters of the North Palouse, two Farmington brothers struck a quartz ledge they say assays at more than $6,000 a ton — and they swear not one inch of it is for sale.
“"We can show as rich rock as any to be found in the state of Idaho... but not one share or one inch of the property is for sale." — J. H. Taylor”
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