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| 1904 | 3 |
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- The War on the Farmer’s Telephone Line
When the Northern Pacific Railroad declared that it owned the right of way 'from heaven to hell,' it sparked a bitter, violent fight with rural farmers in Whitman County over their right to connect their communities.
- Leavenworth's Flaming Cycle
For the third time in seven years, a massive fire tears through Leavenworth's business district, leaving town leaders to grapple with a lack of water, no fire department, and the question of how to rebuild from nothing.
- The Nameless Man in the Snow
A railroad worker is killed in the deep drifts near Leavenworth, leaving behind only a name he likely invented and a slip of paper with a California address.