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1 story matching colbourn

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  1. A Domestic Tragedy in Mount Pleasant

    A husband's rage turns fatal when a neighbor intervenes to protect his wife and children.

    Dec 31, 1885Seattle Daily Post-IntelligencerMount Pleasant, Seattle, King CountyTrue Crime

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  1. Tension and Violence at the Colville Reservation

    Settlers at Colville petition for military intervention following reports of burned hay fields and armed conflict with local Indigenous people.

    Jul 28, 1889The Seattle Post-IntelligencerColville

  2. The Iron-Jawed Worm That Ate Seattle's Wharves

    At the foot of Harrison Street, the Colman family has a new weapon against the teredo worm: steam, a vacuum, and a dose of dead oil of tar.

    Jan 1, 1895The Seattle Post-IntelligencerSeattle

  3. A Sinking Buggy, a Borrowed Team, and a Reservation About to Open

    In 1892 a newspaperman packed his wife and infant into a rickety buggy to cross the soon-to-open Colville Reservation, fording the Kettle River and leaning on Native families along the way.

    Aug 22, 1892The Seattle Post-IntelligencerOsoyoos Lake, Oroville

  4. Blood Shed Over a Mining Claim

    A dispute over a placer mining claim in the Chewelah district turned violent, leaving three men fatally shot.

    Nov 3, 1893The Seattle Post-IntelligencerChewelah

  5. The Secretive Coal King of Seattle

    James M. Colman is quietly opening the McCallister mine, signaling a new industrial play near Renton.

    Jan 20, 1884Seattle Daily Post-IntelligencerColman Dock, Seattle

  6. Colville Cabin Tragedy

    A friendship ends in violence when a woodsman reportedly loses his sanity and kills his employer.

    Jan 12, 1917White Bluffs SpokesmanColville

  7. The Homesteader Who Outlasted a Mining Town

    A long land fight at Loomis ends with Napoleon Sabourin keeping his homestead against Samuel Silverman's placer claims and the townsite of Loomiston.

    May 14, 1895The Seattle Post-IntelligencerLoomis

  8. An Industrial Experiment on the Waterfront

    Local entrepreneur James M. Colman introduces a new technology to protect wharf pilings from the destructive 'teredo' wood-boring worm.

    Mar 27, 1884Seattle Daily Post-IntelligencerSeattle waterfront, Seattle

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