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A traveler describes Jamestown, a community of young Clallam Indians who pooled their earnings to buy a 160-acre farm and built an orderly village beside the logging railway.
“They are good farmers and have been induced by some of their white friends to purchase a fine farm of 160 acres which they own and work in common.”
While Snohomish debated its own agricultural future, a thriving community of Indigenous farmers and loggers was quietly building a prosperous life in Dungeness, complete with schools, hotels, and dairy herds.
A correspondent visits Professor Watkins of Sequim Prairie, an eccentric mechanic whose inventions ranged from a needle-spring burglar trap to a wooden mowing machine and a windmill made to grind the prairie's wheat.
“Boys, I guess there's something in this shop besides gingerbread. I reckon it must be gallinipper.”
A duck hunter narrowly escapes a twelve-foot shark after wading into the bay to retrieve his prize.
“He saw a monster shark coming for him at a speed that made his hair raise.”
A local justice of the peace wins a $1,000 judgment after a public accusation of theft cost him both his professional standing and his fiancée.
“Heisler publicly denounced James as a thief, injuring the latter's good name and causing Alma Dean, a pretty girl to whom James was engaged, to give him the mitten.”
A Chilean ship navigating the Strait of Juan de Fuca mistakenly identified a fog signal, leading to a total wreck on Dungeness Spit.
“Thinking the sound came from Race Rocks, he undertook to sail to the southward of it, and struck the spit.”
A detailed dispatch describing the agricultural potential, wildlife, and natural beauty of the Clallam County prairies.
“To describe the beauties of this region will on some future occasion be a very grateful task to the pen of the skillful panegyrist.”
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