Walla Walla Journal
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- Aug 18, 1883The Homestead Scam That Turned Public Land Into a Speculator’s PrizeAn 1883 exposé from Walla Walla describes how doctors, lawyers and merchants faked frontier residency to grab government land—and why the law made perjury easy.Walla Walla, WA
- Jun 25, 1884The $18,784 Express Package That Vanished—and the Sheriff Arrested for ItA grand jury charged a Northern Pacific agent, a Franklin County sheriff and another man in a January 1894 express theft. The sheriff’s Ainsworth neighbors posted his bond—and doubted the charge.Pasco, WA