I.O.O.F.
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- Feb 5, 1893The Strange Impostor of the Secret SocietiesA concerned member of a legitimate Victoria-based lodge warns Seattle that a grifter is posing as an I.O.O.F. organizer to swindle local recruits.Seattle, WA
- Feb 24, 1893A Mining Town MournsCommunity lodges unite to lay a fallen miner to rest in Franklin after a fatal accident at the Cokedale mine.Franklin, Black Diamond, WA
- Mar 8, 1894The Lonely End of a Sound PioneerJohn F. Edwards, a sea captain and early pioneer who built his own boat to trade among Puget Sound ports, dies in poverty.Seattle, WA
- Aug 26, 1894A Jury Called the Franklin Mine Fire Arson. Thirty-Seven Miners Were Already Dead.A coroner's jury found that someone deliberately set the fire that suffocated 37 workers in the Franklin mine. The only survivor described how one opened door and one stopped fan turned the gangway into a death trap.Black Diamond, WA