Richard Osborn
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- Jul 11, 1884The Taxman Cometh: A Seattle Pioneer Defends His ReputationProminent settler George Kinnear clarifies his position after appearing on a list of delinquent taxpayers for street improvements.Seattle, WA
- Jul 12, 1885The Political Brawl of 1885As Seattle prepared for a high-stakes municipal election, a chaotic 'Business Men’s' rally struggled to gain traction against the reformist 'Law and Order' movement, exposing deep class and moral divides in the young city.Opera House, Seattle
- Feb 6, 1891The Struggle for King County's Fourth JudgeA chorus of lawyers and officials debate if the growing city's court system requires an additional judge or simply more efficiency.Seattle, WA
- Jan 23, 1892A Quarter-Century Later, Three Civil War Comrades Find Each Other in SeattleDecades after the chaos of the march to the sea and a fateful skirmish near Atlanta, three messmates from the Twenty-third Missouri Infantry shared a surprise reunion in Seattle.Seattle, WA
- May 20, 1892A Surprise Wedding at the Knights of Pythias HallA Seattle policeman elopes in Tacoma, interrupting a lodge meeting with a sudden matrimonial ceremony.Tacoma, WA
- Jul 12, 1894The Clerk Who Refused to Leave Office—and the Books That Wouldn't BalanceKing County and former clerk W. B. Spencer submit a long-running dispute over fees, continuances and a disputed shortage to Judge Humes for a final ruling.Superior Court of Washington for King County, Seattle, WA
- Jan 17, 1895One Judge for Two Counties: Seattle's Judge Osborn Wants the Bench TrimmedA King County jurist tells the legislature that twenty-four superior judges for thirty-four counties is money badly spent — and that a judge handling Seattle's docket earns no more than one deciding farm boundary lines.Seattle, WA