Eben Smith
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- Feb 11, 1885The Great Timber Land SwindleA Seattle man is held on $300 bail after a witness confessed to filing multiple fraudulent land claims using fake names.Seattle, WA
- Oct 30, 1886The Opium Smuggler of Second StreetA diligent customs officer tracks a young man and his illicit cargo to a local rooming house.Second Avenue, Seattle, WA
- Feb 8, 1887The Seattle Legal Crisis of 1887When an error in the law's title threatened to invalidate every court order in the territory, the Seattle Bar Association gathered to decide if the wheels of justice had ground to a halt.Mill Street, Seattle, WA
- May 19, 1889Seattle’s 1889 Debates on Race and RuleA local group of attorneys gathered at a private cottage to debate the explosive question: 'Shall negro majorities rule?'Seattle, WA
- Dec 28, 1891A Defaulting Treasurer’s Debt Finally Comes Due—for a Governor and His BondsmenA Seattle judge orders E. P. Ferry and other sureties to pay King County $29,143.60 plus years of interest for George D. Hill’s vanished public funds.Seattle, WA
- Jan 8, 1892A Rail-and-Timber Empire Offers Its Workers a CutA new corporation tied to former governor Elisha P. Ferry acquires the Mason County Central railroad and Shelton sawmill, plans a Grays Harbor line, and sets aside $50,000 in stock for employees.Olympia, WA
- Nov 5, 1893A Massive Accounting Deficit at City HallFormer City Treasurer Isaac Parker is found liable for over $11,000 in missing public funds following a years-long legal effort by the city.Seattle, WA
- Jan 14, 1894Seattle Public Library Prepares for ExpansionAfter issuing nearly 100,000 books in 1893, the growing city library prepares to move into new quarters in the Collins Block.Seattle, WA
- Jun 27, 1894Seattle's Public Library Gets New QuartersAfter operating out of the Occidental block, the city’s growing collection finds a new home in the Collins building.Seattle, WA
- Jun 28, 1894Seattle's Public Library Gets a Grand OpeningCivic leaders and citizens celebrate the opening of the city’s new library rooms, featuring an elegant ladies' reading room and aspirations for a permanent building.Seattle, WA
- Jan 27, 1895A Receivership Sale Rewires Seattle's Street RailwayBondholders sign a deal to merge the troubled Rainier Power and Railway Co. into a new Third Street Suburban Railway Company, with the Denny family’s claims still shaping the terms.Seattle, WA
- Jan 29, 1895Bondholders Take the Street Railway at a Courthouse AuctionThe Rainier Power & Railway Company sells for $15,000, handing a troubled transit line to the men who held its debt.King County Courthouse, Seattle, WA