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| Year | Stories |
|---|---|
| 1892 | 1 |
1 story matching colley
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- The Reverend Who Hated Grays Harbor
A disgruntled preacher trashed Aberdeen in a Minnesota paper after he failed to find success in the Pacific Northwest—and local editors didn't take it lying down.
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- Blood and Bullets in Colville
A railroad worker's lethal temper leads to a dramatic manhunt near Colville as a suspect flees on horseback after a double shooting.
- 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.
- A Tragic End for a Colfax Pioneer
A respected leader in Colfax social and church circles takes her own life during a period of mental decline.
- The Colville Reservation Is Surveyed for White Settlement
A treaty strips the Colville Indian Reservation down to individual allotments, and surveyors are called to run more than 1,000 miles of lines across northeastern Washington.
- The Trial of James F. Logan
A murder trial in Colville stalls as the court struggles to find an impartial jury among citizens who have already read the details in the press.
- The Great Land Rush of 1916
Thousands wait in anxiety as the first names are drawn for homesteading rights on the Colville Indian Reservation.
- Blood Shed Over a Mining Claim
A dispute over a placer mining claim in the Chewelah district turned violent, leaving three men fatally shot.
- Colville Agency Indigenous Displacement
Newspaper reports indicate that Indigenous people at the Colville Agency in Washington Territory are being actively forced off their ancestral lands by encroaching white settlers.