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1. The Quillayute and Makah Had Been Trading Across the Strait for Years. Then the Customs Inspector Arrived.

   Inspector Fisher of Port Angeles seized $1,500 in blankets, sugar, rope and tinware bought in Victoria, and arrested two Quillayute men who freely admitted the practice — and pleaded it was the custom of years.

   Jun 26, 1895The Seattle Post-IntelligencerPort Angeles, Clallam CountyFollow the Money · Exclusion & Resistance

2. The Lonely Life of a Government Wireman

   Operating the seventy-six-mile telegraph line to the tip of the Olympic Peninsula was a grueling, low-paying job that pitted the weather bureau against the raw Washington wilderness.

   May 28, 1892The Seattle Post-IntelligencerPort Angeles, Clallam CountyWork & Pay · Strange But True

3. The Hunter and the Buck: A Wild Struggle near Port Crescent

   A local man's desperate wrestling match with a wounded buck turns into an endurance test.

   Oct 17, 1892The Seattle Post-IntelligencerPort Angeles, Clallam CountyStrange But True

4. The Special Agent's Unlucky Streak

   A United States land office agent fears a streak of bad luck after encountering three suicides in three weeks of travel across Washington.

   May 23, 1892The Seattle Post-IntelligencerPort Angeles, Clallam CountyStrange But True

5. Federal Pressure on Port Angeles Settlers

   Senator John B. Allen pressures the Land Department to resolve the stalled Port Angeles townsite survey.

   Aug 9, 1892The Seattle Post-IntelligencerPort Angeles, Clallam CountyFollow the Money

6. The 'Cigarette Fiend' of Port Angeles

   A desperate machinist attempts suicide, citing a struggle to overcome a tobacco habit that led to severe insomnia and mental decline.

   Nov 17, 1892The Seattle Post-IntelligencerPort Angeles, Clallam County

7. A Frontier Discovery: Quicksilver in the Hills

   A routine spring cleaning by a settler’s wife in Clallam County leads to a potentially major discovery of mercury ore.

   Jun 25, 1889The Seattle Post-IntelligencerClallam Bay, Clallam CountyStrange But True

8. The Tragedy at Port Angeles

   A government signal officer takes his own life on the morning his divorce case was scheduled to be heard.

   Apr 29, 1892The Seattle Post-IntelligencerPort Angeles, Clallam CountyScandal

9. The State Moved the Line, and the Waterfront Went With It

   Tide-land owners at Port Angeles say they filled in the harbor in good faith, paid their money, and then learned the state had redrawn the meander line to swallow the most valuable frontage — and that the attorney general now refuses to issue their deeds.

   Jul 23, 1894The Seattle Post-IntelligencerPort Angeles, Clallam CountyFollow the Money

10. Fire Takes an Old Soldier's Every Saving at Beaver

    A state representative's newly built Clallam County home, barn, livestock, and tools were destroyed in a fire — a $3,000 to $4,000 loss.

    Sep 10, 1894The Seattle Post-IntelligencerBeaver, Clallam CountyDisasters

11. Clallam County's Books Are So Tangled the Schools Can't Tell What They Have

    A Seattle accountant has been hired to untangle ex-Treasurer Clump's records in Port Angeles — and the school districts are footing the bill themselves while an injunction threatens to stop them.

    May 23, 1895The Seattle Post-IntelligencerPort Angeles, Clallam CountyCity Hall

12. The Port Angeles Townsite Dispute

    Settlers protest the federal government's slow and vacillating policy regarding the appraisement of land titles in Port Angeles.

    Nov 17, 1893The Seattle Post-IntelligencerPort Angeles, Clallam CountyFollow the Money · Boom & Bust

13. Port Angeles Cedar Cutters Sail for Hawaii — And Warn Puget Sound Is Losing the Trade

    A Port Angeles lumber schooner returns from Honolulu after delivering 650,000 feet of cedar ties, and its manager says California is capturing the island trade that Puget Sound should own.

    Jan 7, 1895The Seattle Post-IntelligencerPort Angeles, Clallam CountyWork & Pay · Boom & Bust

14. Port Angeles Wanted to Build Its Own Railroad—and Lure a Thousand New Colonists

    A Board of Trade meeting heard that an Eastern syndicate might finance a Port Angeles & Everett line, while locals pushed a home-built railroad to Oak Harbor and a colony scheme to bring 1,000 settlers.

    May 3, 1895The Seattle Post-IntelligencerPort Angeles, Clallam CountyFollow the Money · Boom & Bust

15. The Whistling Buoy at Neah Bay Sinks

    A storm-battered navigation hazard slips beneath the waves as coastal mariners report heavy gale damage.

    Jun 26, 1894The Seattle Post-IntelligencerNeah Bay, Clallam CountyDisasters

16. Bridging the Wilderness of Clallam County

    Construction on the Solduck River bridge proves a feat of logistics, relying on indigenous boatmen to supply materials to the remote prairie.

    May 19, 1892The Seattle Post-IntelligencerForks, Clallam CountyBoom & Bust

17. Cape Flattery Telegraph Line Fails

    The expensive underwater cable connecting the mainland to Tatoosh Island has snapped, and the government may abandon it rather than foot the repair bill.

    Mar 28, 1894The Seattle Post-IntelligencerNeah Bay, Clallam CountyFollow the Money · Disasters

18. The Day a Buggy Rolled Into the Quillayute Woods

    After 24 years of settlement, the remote Clallam County woods see their first carriage—and locals can hardly believe their eyes.

    Aug 7, 1894The Seattle Post-IntelligencerBeaver, Clallam CountyBoom & Bust · Strange But True

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