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A last-minute state filing on timber lands near Cedar Lake leaves dozens of hopeful homesteaders empty-handed.
“The crowd of anxious settlers was dismayed by the filing of claims on behalf of the state for the whole township.”
Charles W. Nordstrom faces the gallows after the Supreme Court upholds his murder conviction for a cold-blooded shooting in Cedar Mountain.
“The assassin took to the mountain and had disappeared but the startled inmates had recovered self-possession.”
Striking coal miners in King County confront non-union workers, forcing the Sheriff to intervene as tensions boil over at the mines.
“They refused to comply and declared they would prevent anyone from going to work until their demands were complied with.”
A Swedish laborer stands accused of a cold-blooded killing at Cedar Mountain, as prosecutors weave a circumstantial web of muddy boot prints and stolen rifles.
“Nordstrom's hair refuses to be parted and on the top of his head stands up in all directions.”
A minor disagreement over a game of pool escalated into a brutal, multi-knife assault that left one miner fighting for his life and another behind bars.
“The men thrashed around on the floor in such a confused mass that the bystanders could not discover what was being done for the time being, or who was getting the worst of it.”
Engineers and directors trek through 20 miles of 'impenetrable thickets' to survey a potential rail expansion for the Seattle and Walla Walla Railroad.
“A considerable portion being made through almost impenetrable thickets and climbing through the interlacing branches of fallen timber, at times 10 to 20 feet from the ground.”
A lonely squatter, once neighborly, ends his life in a wretched cabin while local settlers eye his unclaimed homestead.
“His neighbors say that up to three years ago he was a jolly, neighborly man, but since that time he has grown morose, silent, and suspicious.”
When a black bear wandered into their backyard, a frontier couple abandoned their home and fled on horseback to escape the 'ferocious' beast.
“Having exhausted all available means of defense, and not having interrupted the onward march of the bear, Mr. and Mrs. Limpson concluded to beat a hasty retreat.”
A laborer working on the Maple Valley extension of the Columbia & Puget Sound railway was struck by a jagged wooden splinter after a stump blast, leaving him in a life-threatening condition.
“The scalp was torn from the skull and flapped about when Noland was moved.”
In 1885, two explorers ventured deep into the rugged wilderness above Cedar River to document the elusive, towering waterfalls known only to local legend.
“To me, it seems quite natural that the superstitious Indian should point to this spot as the abode of the dreaded spirit of the woods.”
A fishing expedition into the wilderness turns into a strange, unexplained struggle against an unseen force in the depths of the river.
“Suddenly the poles were jerked out as if a monster had got hold of the line.”
A land dispute in Maple Valley leads to the arrest of six men accused of harvesting timber on claimed but contested land.
“The men arrested do not deny that they have cut timber for ties, but claim the property upon which they cut belongs to F. L. Scott.”
Legal battles and changing land ownership complicate the quest to connect Seattle to the settlement of Kangley.
“It would be an expensive work, as it would have to follow Cedar river and cross that stream several times.”
The first grindstones produced in Washington or Oregon are now being turned out from a quarry near Maple Valley, employing eighteen men and shipping to Seattle.
“The latest new product of the Puget Sound country is grindstones.”
Mayor Byron Phelps learned the hard way that log-rolling is best left to professionals after a fishing trip to Maple Valley went awry.
“The mayor has not said anything about his mishap, but the story reached the city just the same.”
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