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A husband and wife were dragged into a horrific ordeal by a lynch mob convinced of their guilt in a missing child case—only to discover the child had been safe all along.
“She was then lowered, and when brought to, the leader told her if she did not tell the truth she would be hanged until dead and her husband burned at the stake.”
A look back at the 1858 battle that defined a landmark and a conflict in the Palouse country.
“History has proven that the Custer massacre would undoubtedly have been repeated had Steptoe decided upon a stand.”
Facing a collapse in grain prices and a disastrously wet spring, farmers in Rosalia are abandoning monoculture for butter, eggs, and poultry to survive.
“The farmers have at last realized that they cannot afford to raise just one crop and buy all their living.”
A lone gunman attempted to rob the Whitman County National Bank, only to be tackled by the cashier and disarmed by local merchants.
“Mr. Wilmer grabbed him from behind and held his arms pinioned to his sides until Goldsworthy and Graham could run around behind the counter and disarm him.”
A clever ruse targets farmers by using public notice requirements to set up a rigged animal sale.
“The rogues watch the newspapers for astray notices. Then one goes to the farmer, says he has lost such an animal as the notice describes, and asks to see it.”
A Rosalia boarding house proprietor sues for $6,000 after a poet lampoons his culinary standards in the local paper.
“Why don't this barber, so dudish and neat, quit chewing rubber and calling it meat?”
A legislative seat is caught in a bitter proxy war after a list of locals is circulated to pressure a politician’s vote.
“The names of very few business men appear on the petitions, most of them being laboring men, farm hands, and a few hoodlum boys.”
Record-late rains and grain sack shortages threaten the livelihoods of Washington wheat farmers.
“Much indignation is expressed at the manner in which the penitentiary sacks were disposed of to outsiders and dealers in grain bags, while the farmers were unable to get them.”
Palouse farmers are forced to abandon large-scale agriculture and the credit-dependent lifestyle as the hard times of 1894 take hold.
“We cannot afford to pay double the wages for raising 50-cent wheat that Eastern farmers pay for raising 70-cent and $1 wheat.”
A hidden hoard vanished from a Rosalia stove hearth, a neighbor was arrested, and the case collapsed — leaving an 1894 cold case.
“Who robbed Wesel Marum, the Rosalia miser? It is a question that will probably never be answered.”
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