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- The Banks That Wouldn't Pay Their Taxes
A county official fires back at his critics, revealing that the Municipal League members attacking him are stockholders in seven national banks suing to dodge their property taxes.
- Spokane's Revolt Against a Railroad-Backed Senator
In 1895, thousands of Eastern Washington voters signed a protest against John L. Wilson, charging that four transcontinental railroads had bought his Senate candidacy while freight rates drained the region dry.
- Acquitted at Noon, Back in Handcuffs by One O'Clock
Frank Goodrich spent five months in the county jail awaiting trial on a charge of enticing Chinese laborers. A federal jury cleared him — and he tasted freedom for only a few minutes before a deputy marshal seized him on a fresh complaint.
- Ballard's New School Board Fires Its Best Teacher to Settle a Score
A freshly elected school board in Ballard drops two veteran teachers — including the superintendent — and a director admits it's because Miss Funk belonged to the wrong faction.
- The City Could Still Take the Land
Judge Humes ruled that Seattle’s constitutional debt limit does not interfere with eminent domain, clearing the way for the Howell Street extension through the Ivey property.
- The County Seat Was in the Courtroom
Defendants in a Snohomish debt suit tried to derail the case by arguing the county seat had moved to Everett—and that the court was therefore sitting in the wrong place.
- A Law to Protect Debtors — or Scare Off Every Lender?
Washington's legislature passed the 'judgment deficiency bill' to shield mortgage debtors from ruinous foreclosures. The Portland Oregonian read it as a recipe for a credit freeze, and begged the governor to veto it.
- Streetcar Workers Demand Open County Meetings
Seattle’s Street Railway Employes’ Union petitions the legislature to force county commissioners to do the public’s business in public, after years of closed-door executive sessions.
- The Ground Under Rainier Addition: A Seven-Year Title Fight Ends—for Now
After three trials and repeated reversals, Henry S. Alger is declared owner of a tract already platted into lots and improved by buyers who trusted the Hill title.
- Veteran Accused of Misappropriating Relief Funds
A former commander of the Grand Army of the Republic in Tacoma faces court-martial over allegations that he pocketed money intended for indigent soldiers.
- Tacoma Tries to Halt the State Capitol
Tacoma's Chamber of Commerce calls Olympia's new capitol a waste in hard times, but lawmakers vote down a bill to stop the work.
- Free Water, No Horse Basin
The W.C.T.U. won permission for three small free fountains downtown—one basin for people, one for dogs, none for horses.
- Ballard's Tide Flats Belong to the Uplanders, State Board Rules
In a decision touching Shilshole Avenue and the Ballard waterfront, the state land commissioners gave upland owners the preferred right to buy tide lands—and warned cities not to become land speculators.
- The Road That Was Supposed to Build the Puget Sound Country
A canvasser reports that Seattle merchants back a permanent state road to Tacoma, promising winter travel, jobs for working men and a rush of small-holding settlement.
- Is There Gold Under Tacoma's School Land?
A federal geologist is sent to sample the gravel of school section 16, where John G. McElroy claims a fortune in placer gold and the state says it is ordinary school land.
- Seattle Packs the Armory to Bet on a Canal
A St. Louis promoter tells a cheering crowd that the city's canal will be built if Seattle raises the subsidy—and the subscription books open that night.
- 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.
- Spare Land for Hard Times: Seattle's Pingree Plan
Seattle's Pingree Plan offered vacant land to indigent families for a season's cultivation—on a contract that gave them crops but no claim to the ground.
- After the Franklin Mine Explosions, the Company Says the Worst Is Over
Two explosions tore through the Franklin coal mine on a Thursday afternoon, killing pit foreman Park Robinson and injuring nine. The company's manager insisted no more would die — and angrily denied rumors the blast was caused by boxing up a burning seam.
- The Legal Battle Over a Pioneer’s Legacy
A Skagit County estate dispute pits an Indigenous widow against a white wife, forcing the courts to reckon with territorial-era marriage customs.
- The Cabin Door That Killed: A Man-Trap, a Storm, and a Supreme Court Warning
A Whatcom County man rigged a gun to fire when his cabin door opened. A storm-driven traveler triggered it and died—and Washington's high court upheld the conviction, ruling property rights stop short of deadly traps.
- One Man a Car and Twenty-Five Miles an Hour: Labor Demands the Streetcars Keep Their Bargain
The Western Central Labor Union charges Seattle's trolley companies with running unsafe, understaffed cars — and the council gives them twenty days to comply or forfeit their franchises.
- Waterville Pitches the Great Northern for a Branch Line
A Douglas County town argues that a fifty-mile spur through the Moses Coulee and Foster Creek country would open twenty-five townships of homestead land — and bring the trade to Seattle.
- A Remarkably Low Death Rate—and Nowhere to Put the Fever Cases
Seattle's health officer reports 467 deaths in 1894, credits sewers for cutting typhoid, and asks for a small hospital for diphtheria and scarlet fever.
- The Ballard Council Seat That Turned on Two Votes
A recount in superior court puts J. H. Blake ahead in a contested Ballard election, with one ballot box opened and a handful of votes still to count.