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2 stories matching murder
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- Wild Goose Bill's Will: A Ferry, Five Dollars, and a Murder
The Columbia River ferryman leaves his boat to one son, $5.50 to another, and the rest to the son the paper calls an 'imbecile' — while the disappearance of a rival is quietly laid at his door.
- Wild Goose Bill: The Frontier Ferryman Who Kept a Free Boat for the Poor
A Washington paper remembers W. H. Condon, a 68-year-old pioneer whose free Columbia River ferry, homemade roads and violent past made him a local legend.