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  1. The Rock-Breaking Return of the Chain Gang

    After years of disuse, Walla Walla city officials revived the ball-and-chain labor system as a punitive measure for minor offenders.

    Jun 3, 1903The Evening StatesmanSecond Street, Walla Walla, Walla Walla CountyCity Hall

  2. The 175-Pound Ghost That Fought Back

    A skeptic grabbed a séance spirit, discovered a 175-pound man under the gauze, and touched off a fistfight in a Fremont parlor.

    Nov 27, 1903The Evening StatesmanSeattle, King CountyStrange But True

  3. A Night at the Dance Costs Seven Their Jobs

    A drunken revelry among Northern Pacific crewmen at Yacolt leads to a locomotive wreck and mass termination.

    Nov 12, 1903The Evening StatesmanYacolt, Clark CountyWork & Pay · Disasters

  4. The Best Horseman in the State, Accused of Leading a Horse-Thieving Ring

    A well-known Walla Walla boy working as a hospital cook in Seattle is arrested and hauled to North Yakima, charged as the ringleader of a fifteen-to-twenty-man gang of horse thieves.

    Dec 3, 1903The Evening StatesmanYakima, Yakima CountyTrue Crime

  5. A Home, Not an Institution, for Deaf Children

    A Hartford oralist writes to Joseph L. Miller about his plan to open a small school in Walla Walla where deaf children would learn to speak.

    Sep 24, 1903The Evening StatesmanWalla Walla, Walla Walla CountyStrange But True

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