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A falling tree at a railroad contractor's camp kills one worker and injures eight others, exposing the perilous conditions of logging near forest fires.
“The camp is situated in a heavy growth of timber where forest fires have been frequent, rendering the trees liable to fall at any moment.”
A laborer finds that the Northern Pacific Railroad's subcontracting system is a trap of unpaid wages and unreachable bosses.
“For ways that are dark and tricks that are vain, the 'contractor' Bennett—are peculiar.”
A teenage hop picker at a South Prairie ranch shoots and kills an unidentified man during a confrontation at a barn.
“Combest thinks he is a gambler, because his fingers were soft and long, like a woman's.”
A South Prairie father assisted his 14-year-old daughter in her secret elopement, only to find his own marriage dissolved by his wife's outrage.
“Love laughs at locksmiths.”
A Seattle man is crushed to death while working in the coal tunnels.
“He had at one end so loosened it that, on account of a fault at the other end, the coal, weighing fully a half ton, was detached by its own weight and fell upon him.”
A much-hyped prizefight between two heavyweights in a dance hall turned out to be less about violence and more about a bizarre, non-contact stalemate.
“The gloves were two-ounce, and from the amount of damage they failed to do the spectators insisted that they were stuffed with feathers.”
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