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A mob stones the returning militia, torch-wielding strikers destroy trestles on both sides of town, and a governor wires back orders to 'use all force at your command' to disperse the rioters.
“Use all force at your command to preserve the peace and disperse all rioters and unlawful assemblages. I depend upon you to act promptly and with vigor.”
Washington militiamen refuse to break the Pullman rail strike, leading to their arrest and transport under guard.
“Some of the fathers who had sons in the troop declared that they would disown their boys if they rode with non-union crews.”
Abandoned by her lover and turned away by her family, a young woman from North Dakota finds herself alone at a rural Washington poor farm.
“A sad case of woman's love and man's perfidy, which has brought a young woman from a happy home to the poor farm.”
A confession reveals a deadly conspiracy and a motive rooted in marital strife.
“Ash said he killed Boone because he had wrecked his home.”
A Memorial Day outing turns to terror when a runaway team leaves a mother injured in a wire fence collision.
“They continued to run and finally threw Mrs. Sirginson against a wire fence badly cutting her leg.”
A debate sparks over whether local businesses truly benefit from the money railroad men lose to gambling.
“The 'sporting fraternity' spends its money on liquor and lewd women, and the grocer, clothier and dry goods dealer would fare better if the railroad men were permitted to spend the money themselves.”
A murder suspect evades the law by slipping past witnesses in Sprague.
“The attention of Smith was particularly drawn to the man because he did not follow the directions given, but instead sneaked around the outskirts of town.”
For three years, Sprague knew R. J. Howard as a trusted young man and Methodist probationer. Then a Lincoln County sheriff walked into Lewis' store and called him by another name.
“I want you, and you are my prisoner.”
A saloon-keeper from Spragua flees the law after shooting a neighbor over a boundary argument.
“The trouble, which culminated in White’s shooting Mauntell in the thigh and face, grew out of a dispute over a division fence.”
As the 1894 railroad strike roils the nation, Sprague residents and its National Guard troop deny reports of lawlessness and mutiny, insisting their town is peaceful and loyal.
“Sprague has at no time been the scene of rioting or violence.”
As old hands quit for the Canadian Pacific, the Baldwin works send a fresh corps of machinists and engineers to eastern Washington.
“One hundred machinists and twenty engineers have been ordered to the Sprague shops from the Baldwin engine works at Philadelphia, Pa.”
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