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A legal dispute takes a turn when two attorneys realize their client paid them in horses, which he then traded away.
“The lawyers are ransacking all of the authorities to hit upon an equitable mode of division of their property.”
John Green, 21, narrowly avoids a first-degree murder conviction for the killing of William Dunn at a local hotel.
“Dunn raised his hands above his head, took a step toward his antagonist, turned toward the house, and cried, 'Oh, my God! I am shot!'”
A tight election leads to accusations of fraud, lost ballots, and an appeal for funds in a county split by Populist politics.
“Immediately after the result of the election became known a subscription paper was started around... this sum was probably raised on paper and will likely not materialize.”
A bank cashier and his stage coach driver find themselves stranded on shifting ice flows until an Indigenous horseman orchestrates a daring rescue.
“Suddenly they heard an answering shout. Looking up they were surprised to see coming toward them down the river bank an Indian astride a cayuse.”
A quiet masquerade ball ends in a shocking domestic tragedy in Goldendale.
“It is better I should not be nominated than commit myself to that doctrine.”
After two years in the earth, the body of an executed murderer was dragged from its resting place and anchored in the river.
“The whole affair seems to be shrouded in mystery, and no clue to the perpetrator of the deed can be found.”
Joe Hooker's horse kicked him in the Simcoe Mountains. Alone in the backcountry, he set his own leg and rode to a farmhouse.
“His suffering can be better imagined than told.”
A morning blaze destroyed the Beckett planing mill in Goldendale, causing thousands in damages.
“The volunteer fire department responded quickly, and was able to save all the lumber in the yard.”
Volunteer firefighters saved the surrounding lumber yard, but the Beckett mill plant was completely destroyed by a boiler room blaze.
“The volunteer fire department responded quickly, and was able to save all the lumber in the yard.”
A newly incorporated railroad company eyes a line from Goldendale to North Yakima, with local elites betting big on the route.
“Goldendale seems to have had new life infused into it of late.”
A new company announces a $100,000 irrigation project to bring water from the Klickitat River to the parched Horse Heaven area.
“They have established a camp at Munson Prairie, about 14 miles from Goldendale, at an elevation of 1400 feet.”
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