Walter Oakes
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- Oct 11, 1892Railroad Giant Swallows Sound Steamship LineNorthern Pacific Railroad absorbs the Puget Sound & Alaska Steamship Company to consolidate management and slash operating costs.Tacoma, WA
- Apr 13, 1895Railroad Chief Blasts Seattle's Tide-Flat Terminal Plan as Too CostlyThe Northern Pacific's chief engineer examines the tide-land plat and warns that filling costs and legal encumbrances could make the terminal scheme prohibitive, jeopardizing railroad centralization.Seattle, WA
- Apr 20, 1895The Ledger Went Into the FurnaceA Tacoma courtroom heard how 94 company books were burned on orders from the assignee—while stockholders testified that minutes were falsified and $42,000 had vanished.Tacoma, WA