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A young rancher loses his life while attempting to ford the flooded Nisqually River to secure his marriage license.
“The warm weather of last week had swollen the stream by melting the mountain snow, and it was considered extremely hazardous for Carron to attempt to cross.”
When armed bandits flagged down a Northern Pacific passenger train near Roy, the engineer made a split-second decision to keep the throttle open.
“He could not stop as he passed them and they called to him to do so, at the same time leveling their rifles.”
A Roy butcher vanished on Sunday and reappeared near Auburn with no memory of where he had been—an early-twentieth-century case of “dual personality.”
“Who was James McCutcheon for four days?”
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