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5 stories matching confisc
- A Chinese Buyers' Pool, a Ring of Boosters, and a Near-Riot Over Confiscated Opium
At the Port Townsend marshal's sale, Seattle's Chinese merchants tried to buy back a confiscated lot in one block — until local bidders ran the price up for sport.
- The Underground Opium Pipeline
A bold smuggling operation involving pack animals and stages ends in a Spokane arrest.
- The Single Tax: A Seattle Paper Takes On Henry George
In 1894 the Post-Intelligencer mounts a full-throated attack on Henry George's land-value tax, warning it would 'rob labor' and hand the ground itself to the rich.
- The City vs. The Water Company
A federal judge blocks Walla Walla from building its own water works, citing an existing contract as an 'inviolate' property right.
- The City Against the Light Company
A judge threatens Tacoma's public works board with contempt as the city and a private electric company go to war over rates — and a newspaper editor with his own private electrical plant gets called out in the process.