William Billings
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- Mar 22, 1879The Contract Prison of the Skookum ChuckA look inside the privatized territorial penitentiary of 1879, where convict labor was auctioned off to pay for a sheriff's enterprise.Bucoda, WA
- Oct 23, 1891Her Wages Bought the House at Fourth and Plum. The Sheriff’s Deed Was Canceled.Elizabeth Burkett turned a $700 gift into a hotel and a home. When a Pierce County judgment against her husband threatened it, a Thurston County judge traced the property back to her own labor.Olympia, WA
- Nov 16, 1891A Town Buries a JudgeOlympia’s bar and Masons escort John G. Sparks to the Masonic cemetery, with resolutions praising a lawyer, magistrate, and civic fixture.Olympia, WA