Yakima Investment Company
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- Jan 3, 1895A Canal, 51,000 Acres, and a Bond Deal Gone WrongA federal court in Tacoma appoints receivers for the Yakima Investment Company after an English syndicate backs out of a $700,000 bond issue.Tacoma, WA
- Apr 13, 1895The Railroad Land Agent Who Chose Death Over RuinPaul Schulze, the Northern Pacific’s former land agent and a promoter of Tacoma streetcars and Yakima irrigation, shot himself as receivers took over his enterprises.Tacoma, WA
- 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
- Apr 19, 1895A Magnate's Despair: The Suicide of Paul SchulzeA Tacoma streetcar president and irrigation promoter, ruined by debt and the loss of Northern Pacific confidence, takes his own life with a chilling note about ambition.Tacoma, WA
- Apr 20, 1895A $100,000 Hole in the Railroad's Land BooksNorthern Pacific's land accounts were being audited in Tacoma amid rumors that the late land agent left a six-figure shortage—and a second company's books were under scrutiny.Tacoma, WA
- Apr 22, 1895The Railroad Land Agent Who Pocketed the PaymentsA Northern Pacific receiver says a dead Tacoma land agent kept buyers' installments for years, leaving them with receipts but no deeds — and a loss that could reach $250,000.Tacoma, WA
- Jul 12, 1899The Judge and the Colony: A Disputed Gift of LandWhen a federal judge handed over corporate land to a group of thrifty farmers in the Yakima Valley, he set a precedent for civic cooperation.Yakima, WA