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17 stories matching brook
- A Drunken Ex-Policeman Tries to Shoot a South Seattle Butcher
Frank Krebs, a butcher and former officer, is arrested after a cleaver-and-revolver quarrel with John Murphy.
- The Mud-Slinging Rivalry of Newcastle and Gilman
A friendly visit between two mining towns turns into a disastrous, mud-caked lesson in humility for a local horseman.
- The Hunt for Seattle’s Teenage Outlaw
A young robbery suspect leads police on a chase through the woods near Lake View Cemetery.
- The Political Sewer Job
City Hall prioritizes patronage and Democratic party loyalty over infrastructure, resulting in a disastrous street collapse.
- 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.
- Defective Sewer Construction in the Third Ward
Accusations of corruption and shoddy craftsmanship arise as city officials are caught using undersized rods and poor brickwork on public projects.
- The Mysterious Death of a South Seattle Miser
After a suspicious fire claims the home and life of a reclusive miner, neighbors and local officials clash over whether he was murdered for his gold.
- Who Was Blowing Up Seattle's New Sewers?
City engineers find more than 200 broken pipe lengths underground and suspect dynamite, labor grudges, or business sabotage.
- The City Goes After Its Missing $5,381 — and the Bondsmen Who Signed for It
Seattle sues ex-City Treasurer W. L. Ames over unaccounted street-assessment money, naming ten prominent citizens who pledged $10,000 each. Ames is conveniently away on Whidbey Island.
- Tambourine Drill Packs the Opera House, but the Boys Nearly Spoil the Night
A standing-room crowd cheered the young ladies' drill and a packed program—until local boys' 'hoodlumism' threatened to derail the evening.
- The Guard Mutinied Over a Railroad Strike
A 1894 court of inquiry found Tacoma’s Company G guilty of mutiny, cashiered a captain who surrendered to strikers at Sprague, and exposed a forged strike-edition letter.
- The Resolution They Had to Strike: A Port Townsend Convention and the Warrant-Forgery Fight
Jefferson County Republicans convened in Port Townsend, then recoiled when a platform resolution praised the prosecutor who had refused to pursue forgery charges against county warrant endorsers.
- A Judge's Verdict on the Pullman Strike: The Men Who Stayed on the Job Came First
A federal judge in Seattle refused to order the receivers of the Seattle, Lake Shore & Eastern to reinstate fifteen striking ex-employees, praising the non-union engineers who kept the trains running and condemning the boycott as an attempt to destroy the business that had paid them.
- The Soldiers Who Refused to Ride With Scabs
During the Pullman strike, a Washington National Guard company mutinied rather than travel on a train crewed by non-union men—and the colonel who disarmed them said the whole unit should be disbanded.
- The Editor, the Chief, and the 'Police Abomination' Libel Trial
Seattle Telegraph managing editor Charles H. Lugrin goes on trial over an article accusing Police Chief Robert Bolton Rogers of taking a cut from gamblers, as the defense argues the state has not proved its case.
- The General, the Strikers, and the Company That Wouldn't Ride With a Scab Crew
Brig. Gen. A. V. Curry explains why he handed the rifles back to Spokane's Company G after its men refused to travel with a substitute crew — and why he thought the colonel who disarmed them had acted too hastily.
- 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.