Andrew F. Burleigh
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- May 11, 1892The Trial of the Board of Public WorksMayor J.T. Ronald investigates accusations of malfeasance against city official George H. Heilbron, sparking a heated legal debate over the boundaries of municipal power.Seattle, WA
- Aug 12, 1892The Political Battle for the Nicaragua CanalAt the 1892 Republican state convention in Olympia, delegates engaged in a fierce, emotionally charged floor fight over the proposed Nicaragua Canal project.Olympia, WA
- Aug 28, 1892Torchlight, Two Bands, and a Canal: Lewis County Opens the 1892 CampaignFour hundred Centralia Republicans ride a special train into Chehalis, fill the opera house past overflowing, and cheer loudest for the Lake Washington canal.Chehalis, WA
- Oct 8, 1892A Republican Orator Tames a Crowd in YakimaAndrew F. Burleigh wins over a skeptical Yakima audience with cool reasoning, effectively silencing a People’s Party heckler.Yakima, WA
- Apr 16, 1893The Ram's Horn: When Seattle Went to War With a Railroad Over Six Blocks of Public StreetBoxed in by an injunction, Corporation Counsel Donworth finds a lawyer's loophole: let the Columbia & Puget Sound Railroad lay its rails, but serve notice that the city denies the right-of-way exists at all.Seattle, WA
- Jul 24, 1894‘Incipient Treason’: Judge Hanford Sentences the Spokane StrikersSeven men are jailed for contempt after a mob derails trains and seizes a roundhouse during the 1894 railroad strike. The federal judge calls it insurrection.Spokane, WA
- Aug 14, 1894Hard Times Are Over, but Striking Railroad Men Need Not ApplyNorthern Pacific managers touring the coast said the depression had turned, but they refused to rehire workers who had walked off the job.Rainier Club, Seattle, WA
- Jan 16, 1895The U.S. Senate Seat That Stalled OlympiaWith Republicans split over Wilson and Ankeny, Pierce County played a double game and the governor's message shoved the Senate election to the back of the room.Washington State Capitol, Olympia, WA
- Jan 26, 1895Fourteen Ballots, No Senator: Olympia's Revenge CaucusThe 1895 legislature deadlocks over Washington's U.S. Senate seat — and John L. Wilson's beaten men plot a secret 'blind ballot' to bury Ankeny out of spite.Olympia, WA
- Feb 16, 1895Farmers vs. the Railroads: The $3-a-Ton Fight in OlympiaAt a legislative hearing, Washington's grain growers demand a cap on wheat freight rates — while Northern Pacific warns the bill will come straight out of its working men's wages.Olympia, WA
- Mar 26, 1895The Railroad War Ends at a Theater BoxAfter three years of crossed tracks and near-violence, Seattle's rival railroads signed a truce that opened Jackson Street to the Great Northern terminal.Jackson Street, Seattle, WA
- Apr 18, 1895The Cable Company Wanted More Time. Yesler Avenue Wanted Its Double Track.In 1895, Seattle’s aldermen weighed whether to give a struggling street railway more time to double-track Yesler Avenue—or force it to honor the franchise the neighborhood had bought into.Yesler Way, Seattle, WA
- May 18, 1895Seven Votes Decide an Office: The Ballots Are 'Indescribable'A contested Seattle election heads to the state supreme court, where a recount has whittled a 78-vote plurality down to seven — and counsel warns that some ballots defy description.Seattle, WA