Holmes
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- Jun 5, 1876The High Cost of a Pole: Seattle’s Timber Boom and the Workers Who Cut ItAs thousands of telegraph poles flood the market from Thurston County, local laborers face volatile wages and dangerous conditions in the logging camps that fuel the city's infrastructure.Third Avenue, Seattle, WA
- Feb 3, 1889The Block Party: Young Married Couples Plot to Buy an Entire City Block in SeattleAs streetcar lines extend to the suburbs, a group of young professionals in Seattle are pooling their resources to purchase a whole block of land, aiming to build matching homes and create a private enclave.Seattle, WA
- Jul 22, 1894A Convicted Killer's Last Chance at the King County BarDefense attorney Melvin G. Wylie attacks the murder conviction of Holmes for the killing of William Russell, while Prosecutor Miller fights to keep the verdict.Superior Court of Washington for King County, Seattle, WA
- Mar 21, 1895Sixty Deputies, a Special Train, and the Hunt for an Escaped PrisonerKing County officers sweep the woods near Black River Junction for a jailbreaker named Blanck, borrow bloodhounds that don't answer, and get word that the bunko man Holmes has been spotted near Snohomish.Black River Junction, Tukwila, WA