Died in jail or a lockup
Name not reported
A Native American man held in the Conconully jail in Okanogan County, Washington, was taken out by a mob on Thursday night, January 8, 1891, and killed, according to a dispatch from the county commissioner relayed through Olympia. He is not named in the report. According to the same dispatch, officers asked for arms for local settlers, and the acting governor sent them amid fears of wider unrest among the Okanogan people.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched. The Okanagon County commissioner reported by dispatch that a mob took a man from the Conconully jail and lynched him.
Reported by: County Commissioner of Okanagon County, via dispatch to Acting Governor Laughton.