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10 stories matching rocki
- A Deputy Shot Dead and a County Up in Arms: The Hunt for the Cattle Rustler Simes
When Deputy Sheriff Conlee was killed by a suspected stock thief, Sprague's stockmen raised a $500 reward, formed posses, and vowed to wipe out the rustlers who had made Rocky Ford their rendezvous.
- Everett's Smelter Goes Cold, Leaving Tacoma Alone
A lack of ore shuts the Everett works for the third time since a fire two years earlier, exposing the fragility of the Puget Sound smelting boom.
- A Tired Opera Troupe Nearly Sinks, Then Saves Itself
The Pyke Opera Company reached Seattle after three days of hard travel, opened two comic operas under-rehearsed, and turned a rocky first night into a success.
- They Climbed Rainier First—and Slept in a Sulphur-Scented Ice Cave
In 1870, Hazard Stevens and P. B. Van Trump reached Mount Rainier's summit after a brutal 10½-hour climb, then spent a freezing night beside volcanic steam vents.
- A Mountain Ford, a Missing Body, and a Father’s Search
Seth Catlin crossed the Upper Cowlitz to fetch the mail and never came back. Days later, his father was still on the river with nets set for his son.
- The Chamber Wants 500 Letters to Congress for a Nicaragua Canal
Seattle's Chamber of Commerce trustees endorse a coast-wide letter-writing campaign aimed at forcing a Senate vote on the Nicaragua canal before the middle of January.
- 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.
- A Rockefeller Tells Seattle It Is Destined to Be the New York of the Pacific
Visiting Cleveland iron magnate F. Rockefeller—brother of John D.—says the harbor beats New York's and the ore is right here, if only the city will manufacture instead of import and steer clear of the boomers who killed Wichita.
- The Wooden Revolver That Sprung Tom Blanck
A murderer awaiting appeal in the King County jail used a hand-carved fake gun to force his way past the night jailer, then vanished into the Black River woods as a sheriff's posse rushed south by special train.
- 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.