Gov. Newell
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- Apr 27, 1883A Wagon Road Paid For in Bacon and GrainKittitas Valley settlers bought stock in the Seattle and Walla Walla Wagon Road with labor and supplies as crews pushed toward Priest Rapids and the mountain passes.Ellensburg, WA
- Jul 22, 1883A Governor's Buggy Ride Through a Wall of FireGov. Newell and Rev. J. K. Thompson returned to Olympia after a forest fire closed in on both sides of the road, scorching their faces and nearly dropping a tree across their path.Olympia, WA
- Aug 5, 1883The Governor's Booster Sermon for Washington TerritoryGov. Newell told a Whatcom crowd that timber, coal, fisheries and harbors made the territory's future inevitable—and that the greatest city would rise at the entrance to the Straits.Bellingham, WA
- Aug 12, 1883Steaming Through the Puget Sound Boom, Town by TownA Seattle traveler’s 1883 voyage aboard the Idaho finds crowded wharves, railroad dreams, and real-estate prices high enough to check the very boom they fed.Whatcom Creek, Bellingham, WA
- Mar 21, 1885The Captain's Feud on the Neah Bay FrontierA seafarer and trade negotiator publicly spars with a rival over the treatment of Indigenous laborers and local business ethics.Neah Bay, WA