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- The Teamsters’ Pay Protest
When city laborers weren't paid for grading Eleventh Street, they threatened legal action against Tacoma, revealing a messy clash between public works and local ordinances.
- Machinists Break the 'Open Shop' Blockade
A Seattle manufacturing firm finds their 'non-union' waiting list empty, forced to return to the union to keep their machinery running.
- An Eastern Critique of Seattle’s ‘Young Men’s Party’
A skeptical observer from Brooklyn weighs in on the age-based political movements shaping Washington Territory.
- The Promised Land That Wasn't: A Settler's Warning from Assiniboia
An immigrant recently arrived in Spokane describes how colonization companies lured families to the Canadian Northwest with loans and free transportation, only to leave them in debt and misery.
- A Prideful Property Shuffle Among Seattle's McNaught Brothers
When the McNaughts overdrew their bank accounts by $30,000, they staged a sale to Governor Ferry and a mortgage to a San Francisco firm rather than admit they needed a loan.
- The Case of the Substituted Diamond Rings
A famous Seattle divorce settlement turns petty and strange when ex-Senator Dyer says his former wife returned the wrong rings—twice.
- The Governor's 1895 Warning: Washington Is Spending Itself Into Debt
A message to the legislature tallies a looming deficit, runaway appropriations and a public-land system under pressure — while urging lawmakers to lease harbor areas cheaply and defend taxpayers.
- The Unladylike Ballot
When women marched to the polls in Pasco, it sparked a local scandal that challenged traditional notions of 'respectability' and gender roles.
- The Burlington Quarry Strike
Forty laborers left behind in Burlington after the Great Northern railroad’s stone quarry abruptly shut down without paying their wages.
- The Mystery of the Vanished Port Angeles Surveyor
A government townsite project stalls as the surveyor disappears, leaving the Interior Department scrambling to find his missing field notes.
- City Hall's Shameless Newspaper Scheme
Seattle's Board of Aldermen accused of violating the city charter by awarding a lucrative official contract to the Telegraph.
- The $10 Letter That Wasn't Meant to Be Read
A Democratic congressional hopeful solicits a Republican postmaster for $10—using party paper, an insurance-company envelope, and a paper trail that ends up at the Post-Intelligencer.
- The Missing Marshal
A city council committee tries to force the resignation of the town marshal, but the official simply fails to show up for the meeting.
- Whatcom and Fairhaven Almost Become One City — but Fairhaven Balked
A proposed merger of the two bay towns raised questions of debt, water and electric power, and who would control the new city.
- The Brokerage That Couldn't Show Its $5,000
A farm journal's editor made two visits to a First Avenue produce broker and came away telling farmers to demand cash before they shipped a single crate.
- Rep. LaFollette Tackles Merchant Marine Policy
At a Commercial Club luncheon, Congressman William L. LaFollette discussed his opposition to federal ship subsidies and defense propaganda.
- Federal Pressure on Port Angeles Settlers
Senator John B. Allen pressures the Land Department to resolve the stalled Port Angeles townsite survey.
- Seattle Shippers to the Railroads: Bring Your Steamers Here
At the Chamber of Commerce, merchants demanded that Northern Pacific steamships stop carrying Oriental freight past Seattle and pressed the Great Northern to make good on its terminal promises.
- The Canal Fund Creeps Toward Its Goal
Seattle’s Lake Washington waterway subsidy inches upward as a Northern Pacific Railroad lawyer promises Eastern capital will do its part.
- Washington's Boom Was So Furious It Predicted a Million People by 1910
A 1903 state report counted 241,584 new residents in three years, put Everett's growth at 144 percent, and projected a population of 1,347,067 within seven years.
- The Street That Couldn’t Get Paved
Contractors forfeited $250 rather than grade Cherry Street at their bid, and the paper argued Seattle should wait until 1884 rather than rush a muddy, expensive job.
- The Professor Who Gave Colour Photography Away for Free
An Oregon experiment-station scientist stumbles on a way to fix true flower colours permanently in a photographic print — then walks into Seattle and refuses to patent it.
- Every Cent Accounted For: The New Treasurer Counts Out the County's Gold
J. W. Maple relieves Dr. A. P. Mitten of the King County treasury — $464,905.37, more than eighty per cent of it coin — and hands the plum jobs to fellow Populists while the remaining Republicans start looking for the door.
- The Boarding-House Brawl
A South Seattle landlord takes matters into his own hands after being swindled by a fake engineer.