Word: potlatch
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Alexander and "Huck" Bryant joined the hunt but followed an idea of their own. They knew that the bushes along Potlatch Creek near Julietta make a perfect hideout. They went and looked. Sure enough, there lay four men asleep, and a fifth whom the alarms had not mentioned. The boys tiptoed away, came back with armed aid. The arrests were made without a fight. Lieut. Governor Kinne identified his four kidnapers. The police knew the fifth man as "Seattle George" Norman, Northwest desperado, leader of the gang. Kinne's abductors confessed they had sought to steal a car while...