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A drunken argument over railroad work ended in a shooting at a gravel pit, leaving a respected foreman dead and his killer in jail.
“They got into an altercation over the comparative merits of the work done on the two ends of railroad just completed.”
A bold mountain lion terrorizes a logging site until a local man takes action.
“The panther, not liking these delicate attentions, at once withdrew into the brush.”
Citizens in Pacific County gather to protest unequal and unfair property assessments that favored railroad interests.
“The principal grievance was the assessment in different localities, where land was assessed at double the value of similar land in other places.”
A labor quarrel over an axe and a job assignment in Pacific County ends in a fatal stabbing.
“McIntosh said to him, 'No you won't. Go back and go to work.'”
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