Homesteader’s plan to get extra land involved bigamy, murder

He “married” her to get title to her land claim, but then she found out he had another wife in Dufur, so she moved out. So he killed her and her mother and forged her signature on the land-claim deed. (Hood River, Hood River County; 1900s) (For text and pictures, see http://offbeatoregon.com/1202a....-homesteader-murdere