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| Year | Stories |
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| 1892 | 3 |
| 1893 | 1 |
| 1894 | 1 |
| 1895 | 5 |
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14 stories
- Wild Goose Bill Dies in the Doorway of the Hollis King Ranch
The squatter who founded the town of Wilbur came to the King ranch with a six-shooter, shot the woman who had left him, and was killed by the dying man who shot back.
- Four Drown at Wild Goose Bill Ferry
A ferry accident on the Columbia River leaves four men dead as their wives watch helplessly from the shore.
- A Tragic End for a Prosperous Rancher
A wealthy farmer near Wilbur, recently come into an inheritance, takes his own life following erratic behavior.
- Wild Goose Bill Meets His End in a Cattle Dispute
The famed Big Bend pioneer and his assailant both die in a shootout at Condon's Ferry, twelve miles north of Wilbur.
- 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.
- The Hermit in the Hollow Pine: Loony Bill Comes Back From the Dead
Given up for drowned after his log raft broke apart in the Columbia rapids, an eccentric backwoodsman turns up alive — living inside a giant hollow stump.
- 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.
- The Tragedy at H Lake
A young man breaks through thin ice while skating, leaving his companions helpless to save him.
- Gray Wolves Ravage Starving Livestock on Reservation
As winter conditions persist, starving animals on the reservation are falling prey to gray wolves in large numbers.
- A Judge Vanishes, Then a Body Surfaces in the Columbia
Weeks after Judge Kinnaird disappeared, a dispatch from Wilbur reported a body in the river—and a description that seemed to match.
- Land Crazy in the Big Bend: A Dollar an Acre and a Warning
A traveller back from the Columbia's Big Bend reports farmers who owned nothing a year ago now signing for quarter sections as the railroad unloads its land — and predicts many will live to regret it.
- The Bounty on Eastern Washington's Rodents
Farmers in Lincoln County are turning pest control into a steady side-income by cashing in squirrel scalps at the local mercantile.
- Fatal Accident in Wilbur Well
A farmer is killed after falling eighty feet while cleaning a well.
- Bear Hunt on Main Street
A surprise visitor causes a stir in a small town.