Tragedy on the Sammamish Slough
A mother survives a boat accident that claimed the life of her four-year-old son near a logging camp.
“The loss of a child under such circumstances is exceedingly painful.”
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Tragedy at Samamish Slough
A mother’s desperate attempt to save her child ends in a heartbreaking loss.
“The mother, though exhausted, made a desperate effort to get to the boy, but the current seemed to separate them, and with the cry, 'O, mamma!' her only child, her baby, sank and was drowned.”
The Butter Was Shipped 'Tagless, Label-less, Mark-less'—and Washington Farmers Paid for It
A Redmond farmer's letter to the editor says Puget Sound producers are being squeezed by commission men and by adulterated Eastern butter sold in Seattle as creamery.
“There are tons and tons of oleo and butterine sold every day as butter.”
The Man Who Owned the Earth
A laborer from Redmond is committed to an asylum after a mental break convinces him he holds the deed to the entire planet.
“He has a hallucination that he is the owner in fee simple of the whole earth and talks of selling it all off into town-sites.”
The Great Redmond Trout Betrayal
A friendly fishing wager among gentlemen turns into a formal, litigious scandal in Justice Miller's court.
“One of the said nine fishes placed before said judge as defendant Russel's catch... was not a brook trout, but was in fact a chub, a species of fish so far like in resemblance to a brook trout that only the most skillful piscatory may distinguish between said species.”
"You're Stealing Every Day": A Redmond Dairyman's Anonymous Cry
Writing to Seattle's dairy journal under a pen name, a Redmond farmer accuses the creameries of skimming pounds off every can of cream and getting rich on other men's cows — and the editor answers with a demand for a name he can prosecute.
“But if some poor man would come along your streets and steal a loaf of bread, the "cop" would run him in.”
The Fifteen-Year-Old Hunter of Avondale
A teenage boy fells a massive black bear with two shots in the woods near Avondale.
“He coolly took aim and the brute fell, pierced through the heart by a lead bullet.”
The Wild Fertility of the Sammamish Valley
A local settler reports on the rapid agricultural development and the urgent need for river navigation to bring produce to market.
“Our informant declares this among the richest and most fertile land in the United States, easily cleared and wonderfully productive.”
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