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27 stories matching frye
- The Meat Market Feud
A bitter business dispute between partners of the Frye-Bruhn Company spills into the streets and the courtroom.
- The Cowboy Who Cashed His Own Checks
A visiting cowboy passed about $100 in forged Frye-Bruhn checks across Seattle saloons, then caught the steamer Kingston before the warrant could catch him.
- A Young Pioneer’s Tragic End
A promising life in the Seattle real estate trade is cut short by a workplace accident at the Vulcan Iron Works.
- The Great Seattle Fire Burned Their Meat Business. They Rebuilt It Bigger.
Three Montana cattlemen opened a Seattle meat plant just before the 1889 conflagration. Their building was reduced to ashes; within years they were running a regional slaughterhouse and feeding cattle by the thousands.
- The Butter Police Come for the Lumber Camp's Oleo
A Seattle dairy commissioner catches a McMurray lumber company serving colored margarine in its boarding house — and the company pleads guilty rather than fight.
- The Senator and the Boomer
Senator Frye recounts a colorful anecdote about Spokane Falls, gambling, and the ruthless competition between Washington cities.
- Packing House Ultimatum: Repeal the Ordinance or We Move to Tacoma
Frye & Bruhn want to rebuild their slaughterhouse inside city limits and warn Seattle will lose eighty jobs to its rival if the council refuses.
- The Battle for Seattle’s First Meatpacking Plant
A local firm threatens to move to Tacoma unless the Seattle City Council changes ordinances to allow a large-scale packing house.
- The $150 Lot That Became a $150,000 Block
A Seattle pioneer cashes out a Second Street property he held through fire and rebuilding, offering a simple recipe for fortune: buy early and hold on.
- A New Order in Seattle
The Ancient Order of Foresters organizes a grand state body in Seattle, marking the end of Oregon's regional control.
- The Slaughterhouse Tragedy
A young worker’s mental health decline is met with the blunt reality of institutionalization.
- 12,000 Cattle Roundup—Only 100 Good Enough to Sell
A Yakima rancher returned from the Columbia roundup with a hard tally: a long winter and scarce feed left almost the entire herd unfit for market.
- The Cattle Swindler of Jackson Street
A crafty imposter poses as a logging tycoon to steal three pairs of oxen, only to be caught when the victim spots his stolen livestock at the local stockyards.
- The Hidden Past of a Ballard Pioneer
A woman’s confession of a non-marital union reveals the precarious social status of women in the frontier period.
- Seattle’s Winning Knights Return from the North
Local Knights of Pythias divisions returned by steamer from a competition in New Westminster, carrying trophies and a 'mascot' terrier.
- The Phoenix of the Pacific: Seattle Three Years After the Great Fire
Reflecting on the 1889 conflagration, the city celebrates its rapid transformation from a pile of smoldering ruins into a booming commercial metropolis.
- The Palace of the Drama Rises from the Ashes
After the Great Seattle Fire of 1889 destroyed the old Opera House, the city finally secures a world-class theater built entirely with local capital and zero debt.
- The Senator, the Booster and the 39 Gambling Halls
A Spokane millionaire refused to clean up a vice-ridden building because, he said, Tacoma would happily take the business.
- A Libel Trial Over 'Sweet-Scented Houses' Puts Seattle's Police on Trial
Newspaperman C. H. Lugrin stands accused of criminal libel for printing that gambling and vice flourish under police protection — and the hunt for a jury drags from morning into night.
- Steaks, Monopoly and a Puget Sound Meat War
Seattle and Tacoma wholesalers are cutting prices and opening shops, while a Tacoma meat man blames a slump in demand and a fight to control the trade.
- The Last Gathering of Seattle’s Founders
Amos Brown, a pioneer who helped shape the city's early identity, is laid to rest in a ceremony attended by nearly every surviving member of Seattle's first generation.
- When Seattle Draped Its Church in Flags for the Union Dead
In 1895, veterans packed First Methodist at Third and Marion for an elaborate Memorial Sunday sermon, with stacked rifles, roses, palms and a choir.
- The First Wedding in Seattle, Celebrated Forty-Two Years Later
David and Louisa Denny gather four generations of pioneers at their Temperance Street home, where relics of the 1850s—and the certificate from Seattle’s first marriage—turn an anniversary into a founding story.
- A Missionary's Memory of the Russian Border
A Seattle Chamber of Commerce committee gathers testimony that the land north of Portland Canal was Russian, not British, as the Alaska boundary fight heats up.
- A Fraternal Leader Draws the Line at English—and at the Ballot Box
Visiting Knights of Pythias supreme chancellor W. W. Blackwell wants the order to require English and ties voting rights to language, warning of foreign anarchists.