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The people who investigated the claim back in 1924(ish) stated that it was a hoax. We know that. We know back when this occurred it was thought to have been "boy scouts" messing with the miners.
We know that Beck's son trotted the story back out the same year the PGF came out.
There are claims of thrown rocks, pine cones, tree branches. But can you be sure that later claims of such behavior are from "innocent" sources (the sources of the later claims had not read/heard/watched stories of previous claims)? I don't think we can make any such assumption.
As noted in the last link I included for you, the tribes from which the sasquatch legend has been appropriated thought of/think of sasquatch as another tribe (a tribe of giant people who play tricks on and steal from them). They did not and do not see sasquatch as a ape, that came with the Roe story and that story only came out when Harrison, British Columbia was trying drum up interest in the area during the centennial celebration of British Columbia back in 1957. The town of Harrison wanted $600 from the B.C. government to fund a "sasquatch hunt" as a publicity stunt. John Green was the owner of a small paper in a nearby town and he noted that the "hunt" was a big success and that the story had been picked up internationally. It was into that "environment" that William Roe went with his claims of apes.
I'm basically paraphrasing the bigfoot chapter of the book "Abominable Science", which does an excellent job of documenting the origins of the sasquatch story. If you haven't picked it up I strongly suggest it. It provides excellent context of what was happening around the various claims of sightings of sasquatch and the yeti. The yeti chapter is another amazing read, turns out bigfoot expedition funder, Tom Slick, might have been involved in espionage for the u.s.!
Here's the link. I have the kindle edition and I'm not sure I can "lend" it to you but if you are interested I'll be happy to check and see.
https://www.amazon.com/Abominable-Science-Origins-Nessie-Cryptids/dp/023115321X/ref=sr_1_1?s=hi&ie=UTF8&qid=1492706315&sr=8-1&keywords=abominable+science