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A suspicious man is arrested near a trestle after wreckers attempt to derail a Northern Pacific train by pulling spikes and loosening rail plates.
“To cover up this break... the wreckers had spread a red bandana handkerchief over the joint. This was done no doubt to deceive the engineer.”
A Lewis County jury finds two men negligent in the death of Robert John Turnbull, who was killed by a train near Napavine.
“Came to his death by car No. 219 running over his neck, nearly severing his head from his body, through the negligence of Conductor Patrick Ambrose and Brakeman W. F. Askew.”
The internal affairs of the 'Advocate' turn public when a partner is accused of spiriting away his colleague's wife.
“Considerable bitter feeling is being engendered between the friends of the two men, but as yet there has been no collision.”
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