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3 stories matching raft
Scanning errors are common in old newsprint. Also try:rafter, raftelo, raff, ravenscraft, craft, draft
- A Cedar Raft, a Swollen River, and the Prospector Who Never Came Back
J. A. Hamm of Everett launched a homemade raft of four cedar logs onto the Skagit in July and vanished. His wife has heard nothing since, and those who know the river say no one could survive the run below Day Creek.
- The Fiery End of the City of Stanwood
A stern-wheel steamer, once a vital link for the Skagit River trade, is reduced to a smoking wreck after a fire breaks out at Port Susan.
- Coxey's Army on Trial: Seattle Laborers Testify About the Yakima Gunfire
In federal court in Seattle, members of the Commonweal Army described how deputy marshals clubbed and shot at unemployed men trying to ride a train east to present the Coxey bill to Congress.