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- Spate of Burglaries Stirs North Yakima
A series of brazen daytime thefts has left residents guarding their doors and tallying their missing heirlooms.
- The Council Keeps the Charter Pen
Seattle’s city council refused to pay for a freeholders’ election and voted to rewrite the city charter itself—setting up a fight over cost, legality and who gets to redraw city government.
- Eighty-Five Portland Boosters Take Kennewick by Storm
A trade excursion rolls into town for four hours of speeches, store visits, and open-river boosterism — with the mayor, the railroads, and a 'cocktail' cherry orchard all in on the fun.
- A Fire Started in a Brothel. It Took Centralia's Opera House and Newspaper.
A blaze behind a Tower Avenue saloon jumped to the Binkley opera house and the Daily News office, gutting a commercial block despite heavy rain and a fierce firefight.
- City Council Launches Investigation into Police Judge
Corruption allegations involving the 'bartering' of justice lead to a formal probe by Seattle officials.
- The Territory's Loyalty Crisis
A bitter partisan divide breaks out in the Legislative Assembly over a set of resolutions affirming support for the Union and the Lincoln administration.
- The Railway Expansion That Remade the Cascades
Northern Pacific filed a blanket mortgage covering a planned rail line from North Yakima over the Cascades to the Pacific.
- The Streetcar Thief Who Traded Booze for a Pardon
A young man who hijacked a Tacoma streetcar avoided jail by swearing off cigarettes and alcohol for nearly a decade.
- Seattle Shut Every School for Scarlet Fever
With 53 cases and a council fight over authority, Seattle's health board ordered public, private and Sunday schools closed in May 1895.
- A Five-Million Dollar Railway Gamble
Northern Pacific interests reveal massive plans to connect North Yakima to Shoalwater Bay, signaling a new era of dominance in Washington transit.
- Puyallup Woman Wins Divorce—and Keeps Her Land
May Peone, daughter of Chief Peter Stanup, is granted an absolute divorce in Tacoma court while her 160 acres and city lots remain in view.
- 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 Custody Battle Over Indian Children in Tacoma
A legal dispute over the guardianship of children between a divorced Indigenous couple highlights the complexity of family law and property rights.
- The Child Acrobat's Ordeal
A young performer rescued from a traveling act bears the brutal marks of a stove poker and a buckled strap, sparking a court battle over his custody.
- The Motor Line Returns
Aberdeen and Hoquiam leaders revive the intercity motor line project with a new $40,000 investment plan.
- The Shadow Ledger: Seattle’s Monthly Arrest List
A raw, unfiltered tally of twenty-nine arrests made in June 1878 exposes the policing of Seattle’s streets—where poverty, Indigeneity, and ethnic status shaped the reach of the law.
- Settlers Declare War on Sheep Herders
Yakima County farmers organize to stop the 'wanton destruction' of range land and demand a new tax on foreign sheep.
- City Council Chaos Over Marshal’s Failure to Enforce Gambling Laws
A heated dispute breaks out in North Yakima's city government over allegations of corruption and a marshal who refuses to enforce ordinances against gambling.
- The Battle to Protect Civil Service Reform
Tacoma’s City Council faces a showdown as political machines push to dismantle merit-based municipal hiring.
- City Hall Factions Scramble for Power
Tacoma council members face a potential stalemate in selecting a new president, with rival factions vying for a decisive swing vote.
- The Tall Tale of a Shipwreck Survivor
A man claiming to be a shipwreck survivor arrives in Seattle with an incredible story, only for the local press to tear his narrative to shreds.
- Olympia Rejects Disunion
While the nation moved toward the brink of Civil War in January 1861, local Olympia leaders declared their firm loyalty to the Union, even as some proposed renaming the capital city.
- The Football Defense: A 19th-Century Debate on Brutality
Readers spar in the pages of the Post-Intelligencer over whether American college football is a ‘scientific’ athletic endeavor or a barbaric ‘prized-fight’ masquerading as sport.
- Fatal Forest Hazard Claims Life Near South Prairie
A falling tree at a railroad contractor's camp kills one worker and injures eight others, exposing the perilous conditions of logging near forest fires.
- City Council Blocks Charter Reform
Tacoma councilmen stall special election for new commission-style government to protect existing political machines.