An illustrated history of Skagit and Snohomish Counties; their people, their commerce and their resources, with an outline of the early history of the state of Washington .. . he proper measureof damages in horse trades and listening to the plaintiveappeals of those who rashly enter into contracts at a timewhen the ownership of a town lot in the impenetrableforest brought to the liappy possessor visions of untoldwealth. It is a relief to the heart to turn aside from con-templation of these engrossing subjects and dwell upon thetale of innocence and love unparalleled by the evidence inthis case
An illustrated history of Skagit and Snohomish Counties; their people, their commerce and their resources, with an outline of the early history of the state of Washington .. . he proper measureof damages in horse trades and listening to the plaintiveappeals of those who rashly enter into contracts at a timewhen the ownership of a town lot in the impenetrableforest brought to the liappy possessor visions of untoldwealth. It is a relief to the heart to turn aside from con-templation of these engrossing subjects and dwell upon thetale of innocence and love unparalleled by the evidence inthis case. It appears that away back in 18lJ7, when many of thetowns, now ambitious for county seat honors, were asyet unknown to fame, and the swelling bosom of theSkagit was still unvexed by the rude touch of floatingleviathans of commerce, (he deceased, John T. Wilbur,hailing from the effete East, first made his appearanceupon the scene. One day in the early sunmier of tlie year aforesaidthe said Wilbur, while presumably in search of clams—although the evidence is strangelysilent upon the point-espied sporting upon the sand spit near Utsaladv a duskv Ottri/e y n ^ Cor ij s. Tridio-ix -/McCro/?j <Johi) Cor Helms vS^NiMilc/AW tJoi. vi no w ~ J) I )lo)\
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