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1. A School Superintendent's Fall from Grace

   J. C. Phelps of Anacortes is bound over to superior court on charges that he embezzled money from a wharf company and Western Union.

   Mar 6, 1895The Seattle Post-IntelligencerMount Vernon, Skagit CountyTrue Crime

2. A Penny War on Second Avenue: Newsboys Arrested After a Boycott

   Two newsboys were charged with stealing from a Cherry Street news stand after a fight over the retail price of the weekly World.

   Mar 6, 1895The Seattle Post-IntelligencerSeattle, King CountyWork & Pay

3. Tacoma Officials Ordered to Shut Off the Water—or Else

   A judge cites the mayor and public works board for contempt after they ignore an injunction to cut Clover Creek; the city's upper neighborhoods may soon pay the price.

   Mar 7, 1895The Seattle Post-IntelligencerClover Creek, Tacoma, Pierce CountyFollow the Money · City Hall

4. The Sidewalk Hole That Cost Seattle $1,000

   After two nonsuits and a Supreme Court remand, John McQuillan wins the city's first successful sidewalk-injury suit.

   Mar 7, 1895The Seattle Post-IntelligencerJackson Street, Seattle, King CountyCity Hall

5. A Street to Lake Union

   Property owners push a $7,500 grading of Lake Avenue to link Elliott Bay and Lake Union and drain the flooded Denny meadow.

   Mar 9, 1895The Seattle Post-IntelligencerSeattle, King CountyBoom & Bust · City Hall

6. The Mysterious Grass That Killed Hundreds of Klickitat Cattle

   A Bickleton stockman blamed a rarely ripened wire grass for a deadly outbreak among cattle in Klickitat County.

   Mar 10, 1895The Seattle Post-IntelligencerBickleton, Klickitat CountyDisasters

7. A Woman Vanishes Toward the Cowlitz River

   At Little Falls, a woman last seen walking toward the Cowlitz River has been missing since Monday, prompting search parties and fears she may have gone to the family claim or taken her life.

   Mar 11, 1895The Seattle Post-IntelligencerVader, Lewis CountyTrue Crime

8. The Feast of Lots: Seattle's Jewish Community Celebrates Purim with an Auction of Sacred Letters

   At the Hinckley block, the Orthodox congregation dedicated a new Torah scroll and auctioned off its letters to fund education.

   Mar 11, 1895The Seattle Post-IntelligencerSeattle, King CountyStrange But True

9. A University Built on Cold Water—and a Fight Over the Collection Plate

   Seattle prohibitionists incorporate a “temperance university” at Olympia, then a leading Good Templar editor calls it a scheme to tap the movement’s pocketbook.

   Feb 18, 1895The Seattle Post-IntelligencerChamber of Commerce, Seattle, King CountyNightlife

10. The Money Lenders Take Another Spokane Block

    A foreclosure suit on the Kaele block reveals a family that paid nearly $11,000 in interest — and still stands to lose the property to a Dutch mortgage bank.

    Mar 12, 1895The Seattle Post-IntelligencerSpokane, Spokane CountyFollow the Money · Boom & Bust

11. Hail, Snow, Thunder and a Shock Down the Telephone Wire

    For two and a half hours Seattle gets a storm almost no climate can produce — and a businessman on Second Street gets knocked against the door by lightning on the line.

    Mar 12, 1895The Seattle Post-IntelligencerSeattle, King CountyStrange But True

12. A Judge Too Reversed: Senate Blocks Allyn's Regent Seat

    The state Senate refuses to confirm Judge Frank Allyn of Tacoma as university regent, citing incompetence, extravagance and a remarkable reversal record.

    Mar 13, 1895The Seattle Post-IntelligencerOlympia, Thurston CountyCity Hall

13. A Murder Case Collapses, and Three Japanese Laborers Walk Out Free

    Charged with the throat-slitting of a fellow countryman at Auburn, three men are discharged when the state's own witnesses fail to make a case.

    Mar 14, 1895The Seattle Post-IntelligencerAuburn, King CountyTrue Crime

14. Puyallup's Bid to Steal the State Capitol From Olympia

    A Pierce County representative introduced a bill to repeal the $500,000 capitol-building appropriation and cancel the Olympia basement contract—reportedly to keep Puyallup's own hopes alive.

    Feb 19, 1895The Seattle Post-IntelligencerOlympia, Thurston CountyCity Hall

15. Bond Battle: King County Treasurer Resigns After Commissioners Reject His Surety

    A.P. Mitten steps down after the board refuses his bond, declaring the office vacant—but not before a pointed exchange over legal instructions.

    Feb 19, 1895The Seattle Post-IntelligencerSeattle, King CountyCity Hall

16. A Counterfeiter's Conscience: How the Salvation Army Led a Seattle Man to Turn Himself In

    Thomas Gorman, an iron moulder, confessed to making and passing $190 in counterfeit coin after a religious conversion, telling authorities he didn't care about jail as long as his conscience was clear.

    Mar 14, 1895The Seattle Post-IntelligencerSeattle, King CountyTrue Crime

17. The Plumbing Inspector Digs In

    Demanded out by the board of health, Inspector Brown refuses to go — and hints the whole quarrel began at a celebration over a reinstated police commissioner.

    Mar 15, 1895The Seattle Post-IntelligencerCherry Street, Seattle, King CountyCity Hall

18. The Colony Train Bound for Whidbey Island

    Eighteen Michigan farm families arrived in Seattle to take land near Oak Harbor, part of a Dutch-led colonization push promising dairies, fruit farms and a thousand new households on Puget Sound.

    Mar 17, 1895The Seattle Post-IntelligencerOak Harbor, Island CountyFollow the Money · Boom & Bust

19. A Thief's Thin Lips Tremble at the Word 'Guilty'

    R. H. Ford, an opium user accused in the Famous Clothing House burglary, expected eight years in Walla Walla. Judge Humes gave him three, and Ford congratulated himself on the luck.

    Mar 17, 1895The Seattle Post-IntelligencerSeattle, King CountyTrue Crime

20. A Judge Takes Aim at Seattle's Charter Reformers

    Judge Orange Jacobs mocks the men who promised a new city charter would cure every municipal ill — and doubts any document can make people honest.

    Mar 18, 1895The Seattle Post-IntelligencerSeattle, King CountyCity Hall

21. Seattle's Jewish Community Votes Down a 'Jewish Independent Political Club'

    An anonymously circulated call for a Jewish political club meets a packed and hostile meeting in Red Men's Hall, where community leaders insist religion has no place in city politics.

    Mar 18, 1895The Seattle Post-IntelligencerSeattle, King CountyCity Hall

22. The $1,000 Diamond Ring, the Saloonkeeper and 'Camille'

    A wealthy Seattle courtesan says she bankrolled her young lover's saloons and had her diamond earrings reset for him to wear behind the bar. Now he's charged with stealing the ring — and she's destroyed the will she wrote in his favor.

    Feb 21, 1895The Seattle Post-IntelligencerSeattle, King CountyNightlife · Scandal

23. A Land Office Says the Tide Flats Are Not for the Taking

    George Louchs tried to pre-empt 123.8 acres of Seattle tide flats. A federal commissioner said the unsurveyed shore belonged to the public—for now.

    Feb 21, 1895The Seattle Post-IntelligencerSeattle, King CountyFollow the Money

24. Port Angeles Pays $5,000 for a Failed Municipal Power Scheme

    City officials settle with a contractor after a water power project collapses, leaving taxpayers to cover the cost.

    Mar 21, 1895The Seattle Post-IntelligencerPort Angeles, Clallam CountyFollow the Money · City Hall

25. Red Pepper on the Stove, Stolen Gloves, and the School Board's Reckoning

    Seattle's board of education spends an afternoon suspending pupils: a girl accused of purloining a book and a pair of gloves, two boys who peppered the stove, and a young thief who took instruments from the Central School.

    Mar 21, 1895The Seattle Post-IntelligencerSeattle, King CountyCity Hall

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