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- Third Suspicious Fire in Ten Months Burns Montesano Restaurant
A 4 a.m. blaze destroyed the Elk restaurant and scorched a neighboring home—the third suspected incendiary fire in the area in ten months.
- Typhoid and Scarlet Fever Shadow Seattle's Sewers
Health officer blames bad plumbing and cesspools as 21 typhoid cases, four fatal, are reported; a doctor prepares to test Lake Union and Lake Washington water.
- The Telephone Franchise Fight: A Speculator's Bid Rejected
Aldermen refused S. H. Piles a phone franchise because he wouldn't name his backers or put up a bond — and the competitor they did trust never built a line.
- He Burned the Deed to Prove His Love — Then Sold Her House for $1
A Tacoma wife says her husband coaxed her into signing away the family home, torched the paper to win her back, and secretly sold the property to his son.
- Two Fires Before Dawn, and One Engine to Cover Both
Turner Hall burned to the ground at 2:50 a.m., and while the department was still out, a row of four cottages went up at Twenty-fourth and M.
- McGraw to Olympia: Cut Spending, Fix the Courts
With Washington $1.5 million in debt and revenues falling, the governor calls for retrenchment and warns that court costs shut the poor out of justice.
- The Libel Pamphlet That Ended With Psalm 52
Rev. M. H. Nichols, already convicted of libeling Elder T. B. Ford, circulated a new attack on Dr. W. P. George—and Judge Humes fined him $25.
- New Whatcom’s Ledger Had a Credit Side, Too
After a defalcation and the Panic of 1893, New Whatcom’s mayor and a local editor argued over whether the city was broke or merely bruised.
- The Fight for Salmon Bay's Tide Flats
State land commissioners hear the first of eleven contests over who gets to buy Salmon Bay harbor land, as shore owners, railroads and mill companies crowd the Ballard council rooms.
- The Lake Washington Land Fight That Turned on a Cabin, a Railroad Claim, and 'Crazy' Miller
A decade-long homestead contest ends with William L. Miller keeping first claim—if he or his guardian can prove it within 90 days. His rival says the cabin was never really a home.
- Dr. Fall Spent Christmas With Another Woman, His Wife Charged
Sarah S. Fall's cross-complaint accused the Seattle physician of adultery, secret letters, drunken cruelty and failure to support—and demanded the Nebraska property she said paid for his education.
- The Promoter Who Built a Town on Paper
J.K. Edmiston promised Columbia City buyers houses, church sites and Rainier Avenue lot profits. They got a lawsuit and a clouded title.
- The Packing Plant That Wasted Nothing
At Meeker on the Seattle–Tacoma line, the Pacific Meat Company turned cattle, hogs and sheep into cured meat, sausage and fertilizer with almost no waste—and kept a small town working.
- The Army Wanted a Fort on Magnolia Bluff
A federal board called most Puget Sound defenses obsolete and urged a permanent post overlooking Seattle.
- The Towns That Were Only on the Map
A federal engineer surveyed the Okanogan in 1895 and recommended improving the river. What he described was a mining country waiting for a boom that had already gone bust.
- Seattle's Fight to Land the Army Post at Magnolia Bluff
In 1895, the Chamber of Commerce touted a federal garrison as a monthly windfall—if Tacoma did not steal it first.
- A Body in the Ashes at Rolling Bay
An eyewitness to the coroner's inquest corrects the Post-Intelligencer's lurid account of a bullet-scarred, half-burned corpse found in a shack on Bainbridge Island — and lays out his own theory of an unsolved Kitsap County killing.
- Chief Seattle's Grandnephew to Give Fourth of July Oration in the City Named for His Family
Matthew P. Seattle, a 19-year-old Puyallup student, will speak at Seattle's Independence Day celebration—a rare platform for a young Native orator in 1895.
- The Pastor, the Circular, and the Hung Jury
For three days a Seattle courtroom heard accusations of adultery, an illegitimate son, and a pastor’s libelous circular. At 12:35 a.m., the jury was still deadlocked.
- Seattle’s Temple of Learning Rises Between Two Lakes
In 1895, contractors raced to finish a $200,000 campus between Union and Washington lakes—complete with copper finials, a gymnasium and a hillside observatory—before the September opening.