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11 stories matching White Bluffs

  1. The Battle for the White River Valley

    Farmers rally against a plan to divert the White River, fearing a return to the devastating floods that ruined their land.

    Oct 6, 1898Ranche and RangeAuburn, King CountyFollow the Money · City Hall

  2. The Day Farmers Blew Up a Dam

    In a bold act of agrarian rebellion on the Fourth of July, Stuck River farmers used dynamite to destroy the White River dam, draining the muck and reclaiming their land.

    Jul 5, 1899The Seattle StarPuyallup, Pierce CountyFollow the Money · Gone Forever

  3. A Homesteader's Last Walk Home

    Frederick W. Hoyt left Spokane with a bottle in his pocket, took a shortcut across his field, and was found frozen in the snow by his young son.

    Jan 6, 1895The Seattle Post-IntelligencerSpokane, Spokane CountyDisasters · Nightlife

  4. A $2 Million Power Plant Would Harness White River for Tacoma and Seattle

    Promoters behind a New Jersey-chartered company plan a Lake Tapps reservoir and a Stuck Valley generator, aiming to power an interurban railroad and industry in Tacoma and Seattle.

    Feb 20, 1895The Seattle Post-IntelligencerSumner, Pierce CountyFollow the Money · Boom & Bust

  5. The Half-Hour Squall That Cut Seattle Off From the World

    A sudden sixty-five-mile-an-hour squall tears through Seattle, snapping telegraph and telephone wires, shaking buildings and sending steamers and wharves into confusion on Elliott Bay.

    Apr 10, 1895The Seattle Post-IntelligencerElliott Bay waterfront, Seattle, King CountyDisasters

  6. Roslyn Coal Strike: Company Threatens to Import Black Strikebreakers

    As the 1894 coal strike drags on, Roslyn miners refuse a 20 percent pay cut. The company’s answer: import Black workers from Chicago to break the union, a move that would reshape the town.

    Jul 28, 1894The Seattle Post-IntelligencerRoslyn, Kittitas CountyWork & Pay

  7. The Night a Gilded Age Mansion Lit the Road to Its Own Party

    In 1894, Horace and Susan Henry welcomed nearly 200 guests to their new showpiece house above Lake Union—then sent them home by special streetcar under a private line of electric lights.

    Aug 19, 1894The Seattle Post-IntelligencerSeattle, King CountyBoom & Bust · Strange But True

  8. Trapped by the Tide on the Road to Queets

    In 1892, poet Herbert Bashford joined a camping party for a walk up Washington’s wild Olympic coast—and found the rising tide more dangerous than any highwayman.

    Jul 24, 1892The Seattle Post-IntelligencerQueets, Grays Harbor CountyStrange But True

  9. The Seattle Star's 'Inklings': A Glimpse into 1906 Courtroom Drama and Civic Life

    From a bitter divorce trial involving accusations of insanity to the arrest of nineteen men selling whisky to Native Americans, this page captures the gritty, colorful daily life of Seattle in April 1906.

    Apr 18, 1899The Seattle StarMagnolia Bluff, Seattle, King County

  10. Six Men Climbed a Smoking Rainier in Midwinter

    When Mount Rainier seemed to erupt in 1894, the Seattle Post-Intelligencer sent Maj. E. S. Ingraham and five companions up the Carbon River in deep winter to find out what was really happening.

    Jan 6, 1895The Seattle Post-IntelligencerMount Rainier, Pierce CountyStrange But True

  11. Seven Hundred Miles on Horseback: Two Seattle Men Ride the Raw Edge of Eastern Washington

    C. W. Loomis and E. D. Manning return from a month in the saddle — snow-choked passes, waterless deserts, blasting on the Great Northern grade, a mining camp on edge after a killing, and a Colville reservation not yet legally open to whites.

    Jul 27, 1892The Seattle Post-IntelligencerSeattle, King CountyBoom & Bust · Strange But True

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