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A traveler describes the relentless, army-like advance of the Great Northern Railway as it carves a path of dynamite and steam through the rugged Skykomish River wilderness.
“The air quivers with the crash of falling trees and the boom of heavy blasting, while burning stumps and logs point out the way which the locomotive will soon travel.”
A tavern dispute in Sultan turns deadly as a rancher kills a hotel proprietor following an election day argument.
“Regan appears unconcerned and claims that the deed was done in self-defense.”
After two men shot up a saloon and robbed laborers, a vigilante crowd nearly took justice into their own hands in this rural mining and rail town.
“The wrathy railroaders went to the shack where the prisoners were, broke down the door and led the men out with ropes around their necks.”
A worker for the Sultan Logging Company was killed in a gruesome industrial accident involving a donkey engine cable.
“For 300 feet he was bumped over the logs. He was dead before the engine could be signaled to stop.”
A teenage boy searching for game in the Washington wilderness dies in a heartbreaking accidental discharge.
“Today his dead body was found with a shot through the heart. The surroundings indicated that while jumping from log to log he slipped and fell.”
High waters on the Skykomish River threaten to swallow a Sultan mill, forcing workers to race against the current to save their machinery.
“Workmen were engaged moving the boilers and mill machinery, and with all their diligence were able barely to keep ahead of the work of the water.”
Deep in the Snohomish backcountry, a group of determined prospectors labors to divert the Sultan River in hopes of striking it rich.
“They have not tried to take out any gold, only testing the gravel to its distribution to an extent where the ground is found.”
George Britton, 28, shot through the groin in a saloon row in the Snohomish County timber town of Sultan, is told he will not last the afternoon — so he sends for a preacher and a lawyer and makes his will.
“He told the preacher that although he had lived a wild life he had been raised a Christian.”
A venerable, toothless cougar met its end after a spree of terrorizing local goose pens.
“He had only three teeth left in his venerable jaws, which probably accounts for his fondness for fat geese.”
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