Name not reported
An American Indian man, whose name was not reported, was reportedly taken from a jail on Thursday night, January 8, 1891, and lynched, according to a report relayed in the Olympia dispatch and reprinted in The Indianapolis Journal. The report said a Catholic priest had warned settlers that feeling ran high among the Okanogan Indians, who were reportedly holding councils. The report attributes the killing to a mob that took him from the jail and hanged him.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched. An unnamed report relayed in the Olympia dispatch says one of the Indians was taken from a jail and lynched; the article does not say how the mob reached him.
Reported by: unspecified report relayed in the Olympia dispatch (reporters).