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The squatter who founded the town of Wilbur came to the King ranch with a six-shooter, shot the woman who had left him, and was killed by the dying man who shot back.
“"Well, I guess he's got me, but I fixed the old man anyway."”
A ferry accident on the Columbia River leaves four men dead as their wives watch helplessly from the shore.
“It is another of those awful tragedies that have been altogether too common on the Columbia river in past years.”
A wealthy farmer near Wilbur, recently come into an inheritance, takes his own life following erratic behavior.
“His actions had been noticeably queer lately, especially some of his business transactions.”
The famed Big Bend pioneer and his assailant both die in a shootout at Condon's Ferry, twelve miles north of Wilbur.
“Wild Goose Bill fell dead at the first shot; his assailant was fatally wounded, dying soon after.”
A young man breaks through thin ice while skating, leaving his companions helpless to save him.
“Rudolph raised himself up twice on the ice. After the second time he never came to the surface, except to raise his hands above water.”
As winter conditions persist, starving animals on the reservation are falling prey to gray wolves in large numbers.
“As if to add greater havoc among the herds of the range, gray wolves are said to have made their appearance.”
Farmers in Lincoln County are turning pest control into a steady side-income by cashing in squirrel scalps at the local mercantile.
“To kill one in February or March is equivalent to killing ten or twelve later, for after they commence to breed they have litters of ten or twelve.”
A farmer is killed after falling eighty feet while cleaning a well.
“He was cleaning a well eighty-four feet deep, and signaled to be hauled up. When the bucket was within twenty feet of the top he fell out to the bottom of the well.”
A surprise visitor causes a stir in a small town.
“A crowd of men was seen hurrying to and fro on Main street last Wednesday with here and there a gun in sight.”
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