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- The Marshal’s Salary That Ended Up in a Garnishee’s Coffers
John McQuade fought through legal thickets to collect $500 as Gilman’s town marshal—only to find a hotel company waiting to seize the pay.
- A Threat at the Newsroom
After the Press-Times demanded an investigation into those who profited from the city treasury scandal, one of the implicated businessmen stormed the office with a threat of violence.
- Labor Leader Absconds with Relief Funds
The president of the Western Central Labor Union has vanished, leaving local workers to grapple with the betrayal of their relief and holiday coffers.
- County Commission Petitions for Power to Tax Northern Pacific Railroad
In a bid to expand local tax coffers, Yakima County officials lobby the state to end the tax-exempt status of the railroad's sprawling infrastructure.
- The Price of a Boom-Time Hangover
Aberdeen’s municipal coffers were drained by the reckless speculation of 1890, leaving the city scrambling to consolidate massive debt.
- A Scandal in Fairhaven's Coffers
How one official's massive theft transformed city tax enforcement forever.
- The Fight Over School Funding
A Seattle legislator warns that a proposed state school levy would strip over $150,000 from the coffers of Seattle, Tacoma, and Spokane.
- The Treasurer’s Empty Coffers
A trial begins in New Whatcom over missing public funds, with the defendant maintaining an air of 'stolid indifference' while his family watches.
- The Great City Treasury Looting
As Seattle officials scramble to extradite a disgraced city treasurer, a deeper web of corruption, secret loans, and grand jury investigations emerges.
- The Tragic End of a Restaurant Proprietor
Louis Marri, owner of the struggling Maison Riche, was found dead of a morphine overdose, leaving behind a legacy of business failure and despair.
- Aberdeen's Schools Face a Budgetary Cliff
With a funding shortfall and the economic pain of the 1894 railroad strike hitting local coffers, the newly formed school board struggles to keep doors open for more than six months.
- A Night of Masks and Revelry
Yakima’s firemen transform the opera house into a glittering masquerade, capturing the spirit of a frontier city at play.
- The Price of Virtue in a Growing Boomtown
Mayor George W. Hall rejects 'vicious' municipal profits from sin, grappling with the fiscal reality of a rapidly expanding, fire-scarred Seattle in 1892.
- Seattle Rallies for the Victims of the Roslyn Coal Mine Disaster
Following a devastating explosion that claimed dozens of lives in the mining town of Roslyn, the city of Seattle opens its coffers to support the grieving widows and orphaned children left behind.
- Tacoma Methodists Refuse Theater Money for a Children's Home
A charity production of 'Richelieu' was meant to benefit the Crown Jewel Home—until the Puget Sound Methodist conference called the stage off-limits and the donation tainted.
- One Man Races the Chiefs to Washington to Open the Reservation
James Reuben of Lapwai passes through Spokane bound for the capital, determined to break his own powerful chiefs and see the Nez Perce reservation opened — and the first purchase money paid out to the poor families who need it.
- A City Accused of Stealing Its Water by Night
A rancher with an injunction, a mayor at the end of his borrowing power, and a reservoir that empties at dusk and fills by dawn: Tacoma's fight over Clover Creek water becomes a standoff between the city and the man who owns the creek.
- The Dairy Commissioner’s War on Adulterated Food
A Washington dairy official warns that fake honey, poisoned candy, oleomargarine and brewers’ grain are cheating farmers — and demands stronger pure-food laws.