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4 stories matching stedman
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- The Mattress They Took From the Children
A teamster's hospital stay turned a $136 loan into a chattel-mortgage seizure—and a lawsuit over the mattress his children slept on.
- Tragedy at the Crossing
A Grant County sheep rancher and his wife are struck by a Great Northern train near Ephrata in a harrowing vehicle collision.
- The Five Million Dollar Railroad Grudge
A prominent Walla Walla railroad contractor accuses the Northern Pacific of malicious legal tactics that destroyed his business.
- Defamation Suit Filed Over 'Thieves and Skinners' Remark
A local merchant is suing for $10,000 in damages after being publicly accused of being a 'thief and skinner' by a man on Madison Street.
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- San Juan Hill, a Bad Marriage, and Five Years Gone
Capt. Richard Steadman sailed off heartbroken to Cuba, came back a brevet major, and married his first sweetheart within a week of learning she was free.
- A Life Cut Short by the Rails
A superintendent at the Stetson & Post Mill dies in a horrific workplace accident involving a runaway freight car.
- Domestic Abuse in the Kinnear Block
An arrest follows a brutal domestic assault in a prominent downtown building.