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23 stories matching mule
- Abandoned Horses and Mules Left to Die at Green Lake
Neighbors report an instance of extreme cruelty as neglected animals are left to starve near the lake shore.
- Nellie Holgate’s Account Arrives Postmarked From Nebraska
After vanishing during a rowing trip to Madison Park, a Seattle woman reappears with a fantastical story of abduction by a mule-driving 'Italian' in the woods.
- The Neighborhood Kids’ Backyard Circus
A group of North Yakima children stage a backyard circus complete with a dog-drawn chariot, an educated rooster, and an ill-fated mule.
- Seattle's First Direct Cargo to Honolulu
The bark Oakland sails for Hawaii with flour, lumber, cattle, horses, mules, farm machinery—and 12,000 gallons of water for the livestock.
- The Tacoma Republicans Who Refused to Knife John McGraw
A Pierce County party committee tried to block the state ticket. A rival Harrison Club fired back with a mule-team metaphor and demanded candidates pledge loyalty.
- Fatal Blast in the Roslyn Mine
A driver is killed instantly when his lamp ignites gas in the coal pit, leaving his mule lost to the encroaching deadly fumes.
- Fatal Mine Explosion at Roslyn
A safety-lamp error leads to a crushing industrial accident at a local coal mine.
- Acquitted at Noon, Back in Handcuffs by One O'Clock
Frank Goodrich spent five months in the county jail awaiting trial on a charge of enticing Chinese laborers. A federal jury cleared him — and he tasted freedom for only a few minutes before a deputy marshal seized him on a fresh complaint.
- The New Woolen Mills of Kirkland
A state-of-the-art facility on Lake Washington begins turning local wool into blankets and flannels.
- The Outlaw Who Robbed a Colonel: A Seattle Man’s Wild Tale of Army Gold
A former quartermaster recounts how he and fellow officers were held up at gunpoint in Kansas by masked bandits who demanded government funds.
- Keeping the Miners Fed When the Coal Market Collapsed
Receiver John H. Bryant asks a judge to spend $500 clearing company land near the Gilman mines so idle miners can grow hay for the company's horses — and keep drawing wages through the slump.
- The Eighteenth Promise of Mr. Savage
Olympia's street railway president vows a coal-oil motor, fifteen-minute service, and an Eastside extension—mostly, the paper suspects, for real estate.
- The Great Park vs. Boulevard Debate
A skeptical citizen challenges the Park Commissioners' grandiose plans for miles of boulevards, calling them an unconstitutional overreach of power.
- A Coal Town Crawls Back From the Fire That Entombed Forty Miners
Six months after the Coal Creek disaster, a reporter follows Newcastle's superintendent a thousand feet underground into the new mine the company is racing to make bigger than the one it lost.
- A Breath of Fire-Damp Killed Twenty-Three Blue Canyon Miners
A coal-mine explosion near Lake Whatcom wiped out nearly an entire shift just before it was due to change, leaving only two survivors to tell what happened underground.
- The Last Stand of Denny’s Old Home: A Seattle Landmark Consumed by Fire
One of the city's oldest structures, a cedar-built house on Second Avenue, was reduced to ashes early this morning. The blaze, sparked by a fallen lamp in the room of a shoe company employee, claimed the home of Mrs. Kali Palmer and her children, who barely escaped through the roof.
- Thirty-Seven Miners Died Because They Stayed to Fight the Fire
A blaze in the Franklin coal mine sent smoke through the gangways on Aug. 24, 1894, killing 37 men and boys who thought they had time to escape.
- The City That Forgot How to Ride: Seattle’s Battle for Short-Term Streetcar Franchises
In May 1899, the Seattle Star warned that granting long-term monopolies to street railway companies would leave the city trapped with obsolete technology and inflated prices. The paper argued fiercely for short-term grants to keep corporations accountable—a debate that echoes in today’s transit infrastructure battles.
- The Seattle Grocer Who Died Chasing Central American Trade
J. E. Chilberg clawed back from a fire, a failed corporation and a panic to build a Puget Sound steamship trade with Guatemala — then went down with the foundering Colima on the voyage that was supposed to secure it.
- The Man Who Said He Spoke for the Czar
A smooth-talking stranger blew into Tacoma claiming to be the Russian government's agent in a Siberian railway steamship scheme — then turned out to be tangled up in the intrigue surrounding the state capitol commission.
- A Jury Called the Franklin Mine Fire Arson. Thirty-Seven Miners Were Already Dead.
A coroner's jury found that someone deliberately set the fire that suffocated 37 workers in the Franklin mine. The only survivor described how one opened door and one stopped fan turned the gangway into a death trap.
- Thirty-Seven Miners Died 150 Feet From Safety
An 1894 coroner's jury in Franklin, Washington, heard how a small fire in the Oregon Improvement Company's coal mine became a wall of smoke — and why the men who could have escaped stayed to fight it.
- 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.