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1 story matching basket
Scanning errors are common in old newsprint. Also try:basker, basketbal, basketmak, bask, basset, casket
- Gold Fever Empties the Army Posts—and Leaves Steilacoom’s Mail in a Canoe
A steamer from the north brings word of rich surface diggings on the Fraser and Thompson rivers, soldiers deserting lower Puget Sound posts, and Steilacoom cut off from its mail.