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| 1893 | 2 |
2 stories matching paloma
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- The Great Steamboat Swindle
A small-time owner was left high and dry after smooth-talking confidence men vanished with his launch to Victoria.
- The Ill-Fated Theft of the La Paloma
A steam launch stolen in a confidence scheme is found wrecked in a remote bay near Victoria, British Columbia, with no survivors reported.
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- The Peril of the Palouse Trail
A Spokane County postmaster is left partially paralyzed after a grisly highway accident caused by a horse carcass left rotting on the mountain road.
- The Palouse Prosperity Boom
Whitman County farmers leave the 1893 credit panic behind as bank deposits shatter all previous records.
- The Palouse Wheat Boom Was a Gold Mine—Until the Debt Came Due
An agricultural professor traces the Palouse’s speculative wheat economy: inflated land purchases, the rain-ruined crop of 1893, the panic that followed, and the sudden recovery by 1897.
- The Town Council's Failed Power Grab Against Palouse Saloons
After local officials revoked the liquor licenses of several saloons due to alleged sales to minors, a judge intervened to force the town to allow the businesses to operate while the dispute played out in court.
- The Million-Dollar Desert Dream
A new Idaho-led corporation plans to divert the Palouse River to irrigate over 120,000 acres of arid Washington land.
- The Palouse Pivot: How a Wheat Crash Forced Innovation
Facing a collapse in grain prices and a disastrously wet spring, farmers in Rosalia are abandoning monoculture for butter, eggs, and poultry to survive.
- The Detective Paid to Spy on Palouse Saloons
A taxpayer injunction hits the Palouse city council after they authorized public funds to hire a private investigator to catch local saloon keepers breaking the law.
- Banquet Bridges the Prohibition Divide
In a display of small-town unity, the citizens of Palouse hosted a 'Wet' and 'Dry' banquet to focus on common infrastructure goals.