...Department agent," Pula wrote. During his time as a Treasury agent, Krzyzanowski uncovered corruption by the customs collector in Sitka, investigated reports of gold discoveries and reported the potential for revenue fraud in the area, among...

...could find. Isaac and Rebecca Ebey homesteaded on Whidbey in 1850, and by 1853, Issac had been appointed U.S. Customs collector. It was his attempts at collecting custom duties in the San Juan Islands that touched off the Pig War between the...