Newspaper Headlines: The San Juan Island Tragedy.

ID: 77 ~ Source: The San Juan Island Tragedy. San Francisco Chronicle (San Francisco, San Francisco, California) 5 Jul 1873, . Downloaded on Nov 25, 2018 ~ Date: 1873

This file appears in: The Hanging of "Kanaka Joe"

Newspaper Headlines: The San Juan Island Tragedy.

Newspapers articles with headlines like this were published in newspapers all over the country; this one is from San Fransisco California.

This file appears in: The Hanging of "Kanaka Joe"

The Hanging of "Kanaka Joe" – A savage crime led to an equally savage punishment on the frontier.

By Jacob Adamson

In June of 1873 settlers James and Selina Jane Dwyer were murdered on their homestead at Kanaka Bay on San Juan Island. James was shot as he worked in his fields. His pregnant wife was sewing baby clothes in their little cabin when the killer found…