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22 stories matching midnight
- A Dance-Hall Manager, a Terrible Beating, and the Midnight Train to Montana
Newport police only learned of the assault after the man had already boarded a midnight train out of town — and the paper's whole account turns on that gap.
- The Midnight Stand of a Ruralita Station Agent
A lone telegraph operator mistakes a visiting railroad superintendent for a robber, turning the tables with a toy revolver in a moment of high tension.
- The Midnight Cash-Out at the N.P. Bar
A local saloon proprietor vanished with the entire week's payroll just before payday.
- Joyride to South Tacoma Ends in Empty Tank
A stolen North End automobile was found abandoned in South Tacoma after the joyriders ran out of gas.
- Seattle's Anti-Cigarette Law Made Possession a Crime
A new Washington law going into effect in June 1909 banned not just selling cigarettes but simply having them.
- Tacoma's Chinese Community Welcomes the New Year
A small group of twenty-five celebrates the Lunar New Year with traditional customs, despite the lack of a formal Chinatown.
- A Night-Time Standoff in the North End
A curious police officer patrolling the North End finds himself staring down the barrel of a resident's revolver.
- The Reverend's Midnight Sledding Run
A Norwegian minister finds himself in the city jail after a late-night bob-sled arrest on the streets of Tacoma.
- Midnight Explosions Rock Pacific Avenue
A late-night blaze at the Robinson Clothing Company forced hotel guests to flee into the streets in their nightclothes.
- Mystery Abduction in Ballard Grading Camp
A young man was dragged from his tent by two men posing as officers, leaving his family to fear he was shanghaied for a fishing crew.
- A Grocery Clerk Stole a Streetcar and Made a Run for Puyallup
James M. Tankisley took a Tacoma Railway & Power repair car out of the company barns at midnight and got as far as the Puyallup road before the law caught up. By the next afternoon he had pleaded guilty, and by night he was in the county prison waiting for the March jury.
- Gunfire and a Moral Cleanup in Cusick
A whiskey-fueled crowd shot out the windows and back bar at Joe Cusick's saloon; the town's 'better element' answered by ordering 'lewd women' to leave.
- Portland Bank Bandit Arrested in Tacoma
A bartender named Charles Wells was quietly taken into custody by local authorities and spirited away to Portland to face robbery charges.
- The Great Everett Fire Scare of 1909
Eight suspicious fires in one night set the city into a panic, sparking rumors of professional arsonists.
- Washington's First Impeachment Trial Is Losing Its Charges to a Comma
Insurance Commissioner J. H. Schively's Senate trial drops twenty-six counts down toward half of them on a technicality, while the sixty-day legislative clock runs out Saturday at midnight.
- The Midnight Stand-Off at the Grand Restaurant
A breakfast patron turns into a bandit, but gets more than he bargained for from the night cook's poker.
- Tragedy in a South Tacoma Bedroom
After an evening of drinking, a Tacoma woman dies in a fire at her home while her husband, also intoxicated, fails to save her.
- The Four Days James McCutcheon Was Someone Else
A Roy butcher vanished on Sunday and reappeared near Auburn with no memory of where he had been—an early-twentieth-century case of “dual personality.”
- Newport Goes Dry on December 7 — and the Town Has to Refund the Saloons' Licenses
Local option, voted in September, shuts every saloon on the Washington side of the river next Tuesday. The council will borrow against the treasury to hand back about $900 in unearned license money, and warns bootleggers that blind pigs will be dealt with severely. Drinkers need only cross to Idaho.
- Drugged and Held at Sea for Seven Weeks, an Engineer Reappears in Tacoma
T. A. Cox, part-owner of an Arizona mining company, says he was drugged with a lemonade in San Francisco and held prisoner aboard an unknown ship before being put ashore at Des Moines — then walked to Tacoma without a cent.
- New Trains, New Track — and Three Railroads Circling Priest Lake
The Bonners Ferry local comes back, the Idaho & Washington Northern creeps toward Ione, and the Miner's editor sniffs hot air in a Spokane paper's talk of a Priest Lake line.
- A Legislature in the Homestretch: Saloons, Gambling and a Fight Over Pledges
With days left in Olympia, Washington lawmakers weigh local option, an anti-racetrack law, a sweeping criminal code and a bill aimed at unions and suffragists.