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4 stories
- A Dead Man’s Name on the Payroll
A Walla Walla ex-employee files twenty charges against L. T. Erwin, accusing the Yakima Indian agent of fraud, perjury, and turning the agency into a private larder.
- The Tumbleweed That Threatened Washington's Wheat
In 1898, a state agricultural professor traced an invasive Russian thistle to railway yards and warned that Yakima County was already infested.
- He Asked the Way Across the River and Was Never Seen Alive Again
A Whidbey Island man headed to the Yakima country to look at a farm, asked where to ford the river, misunderstood the directions, and drowned—his horse found wandering in the sagebrush two days later.
- A Ride That Cost a Tramp Both Feet
Trying to steal a freight ride near Toppenish, a man calling himself P. McAllister falls under the wheels of a Northern Pacific train.