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A powerful fishing association is accused of manipulating land filings to secure a monopoly on the valuable tide lands, pushing out local competitors.
“It is really important that no one company or combination should secure a practical monopoly of the vested rights and fishing privileges there.”
How a remote peninsula became the center of a massive salmon-canning boom.
“One of these large canneries compares favorably with Armour's packing house in Chicago. Anyone who has visited that has some idea of the slaughter going on in these canneries.”
A jury clears Charles Mitchell in the killing of John Harris after testimony reveals a violent standoff over a shotgun.
“The evidence showed Harris to have been a desperate man, to have threatened Mitchell's life, and that he went to Mitchell's house armed with a shotgun.”
As the Alaska Packing Association angles to lock up a fishing monopoly on cheap public shore, Governor McGraw scrambles for witnesses to prove the tide flats are worth far more than the appraisement.
“One gentleman told the correspondent he would give $3,000 for almost any other location in lieu of the Waller claim — but he cannot go to Olympia now to testify.”
A celebratory night out for local youth turned into a brush with a mountain lion, resulting in a frantic rescue mission.
“It stayed around the house until daylight, uttering the most blood-curdling yells and springing against the house.”
A persistent settler claims a strategic military reserve, forcing the U.S. government to defend its borders against encroaching private interests.
“The United States proposes to hold this little piece of land... regarding it as a very important strategic point and one that might be of great advantage in time of war.”
The second son of Alexander Hahn died after his clothes caught fire while playing with his brother.
“But too late—the melancholy work was done.”
A local fishing expedition turns into a salvage nightmare after a grounding in the Gulf of Georgia.
“The tide was high when the barge struck, and when the tide ebbed, the whole outfit was left high and dry.”
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