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65 stories matching sumner
- The Horse, the Furniture, and the Sumner Theft
An abandoned horse and a cache of furniture tie a Sumner arrest to a grand-larceny investigation.
- The Borrowed Buggy and the Secret Flight to Sumner
A woman hires a horse and buggy for a short ride, but instead takes a man and a child on a 30-mile journey to Sumner, where they are arrested as supposed horse thieves.
- The Battle for the Puyallup Road
After a heated argument between commissioners and local boosters, the new state aid road will bypass Milton-Edgewood for a more direct route through Puyallup and Sumner.
- Sumner Mayor Faces Impeachment Over Stray Cattle
A local political feud in the town of Sumner lands before a grand jury as citizens debate the enforcement of ordinances and the limits of mayoral power.
- The Strike-Breakers of Sumner Iron Works
The Labor Journal calls out three specific workers who crossed the picket line to keep the machines running.
- Tragic Crossing at Sumner
An elderly woman is struck and killed by a passenger train just days before her planned relocation to Tacoma.
- The Sumner Chicken Thieves
A band of seven men accused of intimidating locals and raiding rural chicken coops in Sumner are hauled off to the county jail.
- A Bartender's Affair: Sumner Wife Flees with Her Lover
When Henry Brianer left for a business trip, bartender B. Grant moved in on his wife. Now the couple—and her two children—are missing, presumed headed to Seattle.
- The Contract Proof of a Hidden Strike
A labor newspaper exposes the desperate tactics used by the Sumner Iron Works to recruit strikebreakers through shady employment contracts.
- Tragedy at the Sumner Crossing
A weekend outing turned to mourning after a fatal collision between an automobile and a passenger train.
- Mystery of the Boy on the Freight Train
Local authorities seek to identify a boy found dead after a fall from a lumber train in Sumner.
- The Sudden End of a Tacoma Tycoon
A wealthy real estate developer and pillar of the financial community takes his own life following financial struggles.
- The Eight-Hour Day Fight Reaches Fever Pitch
Local machinists are holding firm in a region-wide strike against the Sumner Iron Works and other firms to secure the eight-hour workday.
- High Voltage Accident at Dieringer
A power company lineman suffers severe burns while working on a 60,000-volt transmission line near Sumner.
- City Officials Cover for Strikebreaking Police
A secret reversal of policy allows the Fire and Police Commission to hide the identities of special officers hired by the Sumner Iron Works.
- The Unbroken Line of Everett Machinists
Striking workers at the Sumner Iron Works receive community support as union solidarity continues to hold.
- The Politics of Scabbing
A scathing editorial in the Labor Journal attacks a city council candidate for his history of crossing picket lines at the Sumner Iron Works.
- Vandals Wreck New Sumner Newspaper
A newly launched publication is sabotaged just days after its first issue hits the stands.
- The Machine Behind the Badge
Striking Everett machinists allege that local industry and the police have merged, with company men serving as 'special police' to suppress picket lines.
- A Cannery Comes Courting Puyallup Valley
Chicago investors scout the valley’s fruit crop, eye the old Pacific Meat Company building, and dangle $1,000 for a bridge at Sumner.
- The High Cost of Being 'Across the River'
In 1878, Sumner settlers faced a familiar struggle: a transportation monopoly that forced them to pay as much to haul freight across the river as to ship it 150 miles by rail.
- The Strikebreakers Who Became Policemen
During a four-month strike at Sumner Iron Works, Everett's police commission armed strikebreakers with police authority—and the Labor Journal demanded to know who was protecting whom.
- The Detective, the Forger, and the Silverton Fiancée
Detective Sam Sumner captures a smooth-talking con man who posed as a Northern Pacific railroad official and nearly married into a Silverton family.
- The Shadowy Policing of Sumner's Iron Works
Everett labor organizers discover that local police badges were secretly handed out to strikebreakers, sparking a call for commission government.
- The Railway Expansion That Didn't Happen
Speculation about a new Green River line reveals the frantic, often unfulfilled, infrastructure dreams of 1890s Washington.