Schulze
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- Mar 21, 1885The Ghost Town GambitA scathing exposé of how the Northern Pacific Railroad manipulated land values and abandoned the established citizens of Yakima City for a new, company-owned townsite.Yakima City, Yakima, WA
- Apr 2, 1892The Day Tacoma’s Streetcars Stood StillWhen the streetcar workers of Tacoma laid down their tools to demand fair pay, a showdown at the rail house sparked a tense labor confrontation.Tacoma, WA
- Apr 22, 1895The Railroad Land Agent Who Pocketed the PaymentsA Northern Pacific receiver says a dead Tacoma land agent kept buyers' installments for years, leaving them with receipts but no deeds — and a loss that could reach $250,000.Tacoma, WA
- Apr 26, 1895The Dead Land Commissioner and the Missing $22,000A Northern Pacific audit turned up another unrecorded land payment—this one made through a Seattle agent—as suspicions deepened about the late Schulze's books.Tacoma, WA
- May 16, 1895The Land Agent Who Cashed a Draft on a Man Who Never ExistedAfter the federal land agent's suicide, Seattle started talking: $4,800 drawn on a mythical San Franciscan, a friend's wine cellar drunk dry, and not enough cash left in the estate to bury him.Seattle, WA