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A gray-haired stranger arrested in Toledo, Washington, admits to a string of killings and claims he does society a favor by making men 'good.'
“He stated to Sheriff Urquhart that he had killed eight men, remarking that some men would never be good until they were dead.”
Engineers race to finish the state's first continuous paved highway, sparking dreams of interstate travel.
“The attention of the entire nation will be attracted this fall to the fact that Washington has completed one paved highway traversing the entire length of the state.”
Two Indigenous men froze to death after a drinking trip went horribly wrong.
“One of them had removed his pants and coat and had crawled under the edge of a log, evidently imagining himself in bed.”
Toledo incorporates a railroad company with $80,000 capital and considers a patented bicycle-powered engine to link the town to the Northern Pacific.
“It is probable that the bicycle system of locomotion will be the motive power used on the road, provided satisfactory arrangements can be made with the company controlling the patent on that system.”
In a bizarre twist of frontier justice in Toledo, Washington, two tame bears were unleashed on a deputy revenue collector after their Italian owner refused to pay taxes.
A retail liquor dealer in Toledo, Washington, finds himself locked out of his own business after a bitter domestic and business dispute.
“LaPine claims to be victimized, of course, while the Keesh family claim to be able to substantiate their assertions that they have acted in good faith.”
When Homer Betty's hop house went up in flames on September 9, his neighbors did not wait for the insurance man — they had a new one standing and ready for business by the 15th.
“Mr. Betty says that his neighbors must think a whole lot of a hop man on general principles, or regard him as a pretty good fellow, or perhaps he has got darned good neighbors.”
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