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- Fatal Mill Accident at Alder
A Japanese mill worker is killed instantly after an accidental encounter with a spinning circular saw.
- Tragedy at the N.P. Depot
An unidentified man is struck and killed by a dirt-hauling freight engine near the Northern Pacific depot.
- A Tree, a Right of Way, and a Man From Ontario
A hired hand clearing the Idaho & Washington Northern grade is crushed by a falling tree; his body comes home to Newport for burial before the long ride back to Walkerton.
- The Fight for Tacoma’s Pool Rooms
City council weighs whether to lower the age limit for young men in Tacoma's billiard parlors.
- Billiards Proprietor Stares Down Armed Bandit
W.W. Pickerell uses nerves of steel to repel a late-night street robbery at his doorstep.
- The Milwaukee Road Seeks Massive Tidelands Expansion
A railway franchise application reveals plans for new tracks, shops, and bridges across the Puyallup River, signaling a major industrial shift.
- The Fight for a Local Children's Home
After handling over 130 cases of abuse, the Everett Humane Society takes the first steps toward building a permanent home for the city's vulnerable children.
- Tacoma Cracks Down on Dirty Diners
A new health ordinance forces restaurants, fish markets, and milk stores to secure city licenses or face closure.
- A Three-Year-Old Lost to the Pend Oreille
Marvin Fewel slipped into the river while his father built a fence nearby; the community mourned a child gone in minutes.
- The Closure of the Sandberg District
City Attorney Stiles unilaterally forces the closure of Tacoma's red-light district, triggering a panicked exodus from the blocks between Court A and A Street.
- A Whiskey Flask on the Pend Oreille: Laborer Drowns at Usk Landing
Fred Campbell fell from the Steamer Spokane while intoxicated; his body was brought to Newport as officials searched for anyone who knew him.
- A Fortune Arrives Too Late for Tunnel Foreman
N. Wickstrom, a careful and sober tunnel foreman, was crushed by falling rock at Blueslide — on the same day a letter told him a long-awaited court judgment had come through.
- A Tacoma Nurse Shot a Stenographer, Then Drank Carbolic Acid
Grant fired on Miss Thorp as she came home, fled to his sister’s house at 8320 South M Street, and died before the ambulance arrived. Miss Thorp was wounded in the shoulder.
- The Boomtown Spirit of Cusick
A local Commercial Club meeting highlights a flurry of new construction and business expansion, fueling a rivalry with the neighboring townsite of Usk.
- The Tattooed Stranger in Fifteen Inches of Water
A man is found drowned in a shallow slough near the Little Spokane River. No wallet, no name—only tattoos, a pocket comb, and an old razor blade.
- She Started in a Tent and Fed the Men Who Built the Great Northern
Anna Quick, Newport's first hotelkeeper, arrived in 1890 when Old Town held two residents, cooked for the Great Northern construction crews out of a shack, and died this week of a cancer she had fought for a year.