Tragic ambush on McLaughlin canyon frontier march
In 1858 a mixed party led by Dave McLaughlin advances toward the Columbia Okanogan route with 150 men from Wallula. After river crossings and repeated Indian cautions, a fatal confrontation unfolds near McLaughlin Canyon when a hunter’s horse bolts and a clash ensues, ending with a deadly surprise encounter.
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California
Frazier River
Wallula
Dave McLaughlin
Lyons’ Ferry
Snake River
Lewiston
Moses Coulee
Columbia River
Moses
George Monteur
Henry Ward Beecher
Tke
Gulliver
Hudson's Bay Post
Okanogan
Columbia
Okanogan River
McLaughlin
McLaughlin’s Canyon
Frontier memoir recounts a tense N W journey and battle armaments
A Stevens county resident narrates a cross border trek with provisions and encounters with Indians on the Similkameen and Fraser rivers. The account covers stock guarding, a hand to hand fight, numerous casualties, and later movements toward Colville and Fort Colville in 1859 with Hudson's Bay involvement and military planning.
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Minniefield
British Columbia
Boston
Similkimeen
Moses
Hudson's Bay
Hope
B. C
McDonald
Frazier River
Dalles
Oregon
George Wright
Pinkney Lougenbeel
Fort Colville
Colville
Colville Valley
Unification of Regulation Proposed for Railroads
Judge Lovett tells Newlands committee that Congress must centralize railroad regulation via federal incorporation by general law to create a uniform national system. He cites Supreme Court wage fixing and urges a harmonious framework to curb delays, local disparities, and tax burdens while securing capital for expansion.
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Washington
Congress
Robert 8. Lovett
Union Pacific System
Newlands Joint Congressional Committee
Interstate Commerce Commission
Lovett
United States
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Stevens County Power & Light Co
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P. E. Dingle
Frank Kostka
Colville Abstract CO
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Francis J. D. Wolff
John B. Slater
The
Stevens County Pioneer Association
Connecticut
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Texas
Missouri
Illinois
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Jerusalem
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New Jerusalem
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Camil
Su Chiropractic
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Dkally All At
Colville Wash
Benson
Wash
Colville Land CO
Sells Land
Colville Bank
Ycolville Land Co. M
McPaclend Techvickes
W. C. Koppe
G. H. Staves &Co
HOTEL
Touraine
Spokane
New
Monroe Street Bridge
Riverside Avenue
Wm. Snow
R. H. Snow
Mgr
Colville Furniture Exchange
Phonograph
Otis Orchards
A. Carriker
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