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After a foreman was killed in a brutal dispute at a railroad camp, the workers took the law into their own hands and lynched four suspects.
“The other men in camp heard of the murder and immediately set about finding the men. They finally captured the four Italians in camp and strung them up to a tree without ceremony.”
Returning from the mountains, a prospector describes the arduous reality of mining the Sauk, while reflecting on Chief Moses’s urgent plea to live in peace with settlers outside of the reservation system.
“Moses said he wished to live with the whites, but does not want to go on a reservation; if allowed to live there he will be peaceable, if forced to go to a reservation he will fight.”
A young worker loses his life in a whirlpool while attempting to transport shingle bolts downriver.
“About two miles below his starting point his raft entered a whirlpool in the Skagit river, and in trying to get ashore he was drowned.”
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