Commissioner Phipps
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- Apr 14, 1895He Burned Every Paper He Owned, Then Kept a Promise to HimselfOne day after the Northern Pacific pushed its general manager out, the man who built the Sunnyside Canal methodically destroyed his records, mailed a letter to an actress, and shot himself — as he had long said a man had a perfect right to do.Tacoma, WA
- May 15, 1895The Railroad Land Agent Who Embezzled for Ten Years and Chose SuicideA Northern Pacific land agent's decade-long scheme to skim payments on timber and farm contracts unravels into a $350,000 shortage — and a bullet.Tacoma, WA