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837 stories matching june
- A Stern-Wheeler for the Pend d'Oreille: Newport Bets on the Metaline Trade
Seven thousand dollars subscribed, a hundred-foot boat drawing two feet of water, and a captain promising to be running ore to Newport by June 1.
- Labor Standoff at Renton Mines
The Seattle Electric Company reopens its Renton coal mines with non-union workers after contract negotiations regarding a 10% wage cut collapse.
- The Price of a Machine Government
Auditor records reveal Whatcom County’s debt ballooned to $600,000, sparking local outrage over fiscal mismanagement and political patronage.
- 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.
- Brutal Robbery of Chong Gill Long
A victim is assaulted with an iron bar in his own room after refusing to loan money to his assailants.
- The Postmaster’s Plight: A Decades-Long Betrayal in Skagit County
In the midst of a national economic depression, a respected elder and long-serving postmaster in Mount Vernon faces federal fraud charges, sparking a community debate over loyalty versus law.
- Ten Days Over Cascade Pass—and No Wagon Road
A member of Mayor Curtis's 1894 party recounts the camps, storms and lost pack animals on the route from Marblemount to Winthrop.
- The Road Supervisor Who Stole From the County — and the Wife Who Sued Him in Prison
Orva Thompson, convicted of embezzling county road funds, is served divorce papers behind penitentiary walls by the woman he married eleven months earlier.
- Four Years, Four Factions, and Still No Pavement on Pacific Avenue
Tacoma's property owners have bickered for four years over how to pave the street running through their town — bituminous rock, plank, wood, or plank-on-gravel — so the council has finally given them until June 1 to agree, or it will choose for them.
- Tragedy on the Monte Cristo Road
Two more immigrant laborers succumb to injuries from a dynamite blast, bringing the death toll to seven.
- The Price of a Home: How Seattle’s Real Estate Market Was Built on Death and Debt
In June 1876, the probate courts of King County were awash with estate sales. As families grieved, their homes—like that of C.C. Teery—were auctioned off to pay debts, revealing a housing market where survival depended on liquidating one's past.
- Embezzlement Scandal Rocks Spokane Insurance Firm
The secretary of the Washington Farmers’ Industrial Insurance Company is accused of missing funds and chaotic bookkeeping.
- The Passing of a Seattle Pioneer
Samuel Kenney, a merchant tailor who helped shape the city's early commercial landscape, dies at his home on Houghton Street.
- A Jurisdictional Clash Over the Port Townsend Belt Railway
Competing court orders lead to an unusual standoff between the local sheriff and a federal receiver.
- The Great 1890 Headcount
Federal agents prepare to survey Washington's rapidly growing population, bringing new jobs and a complex pay scale to the frontier.
- The Widow’s Gamble: A Seattle Man’s Death in Alaska Triggers a Federal Insurance Battle
Mrs. By H. Rietson sues the Penn Mutual Life Insurance Company for the payout on her husband Archie C. Rietson, who perished with 13 others when the steamer Jessie sank in the Kuskokwim River last June. The company refuses to pay until his death is positively proven.
- The Thief Who Stole a Watch and Then Returned It
A clumsy pickpocket at a Congregational picnic discovers that stealing from his neighbors isn't as rewarding as he expected.
- The Public Abandonment of Sabina Lilly
A husband’s newspaper notice signals a private marital rupture in 1876 Seattle.
- A Murder Case Cleared in Hours: Peter Brickley Sentenced to Life
In a swift Prosser court session, Brickley was tried and sentenced for the June killing of Charles Rasmussen, while other defendants pleaded or were acquitted.
- An 1875 Public Shaming in Seattle
A husband publishes a newspaper notice to strip his wife of her financial agency after she leaves their home.
- An 1874 Public Shaming of a Missing Wife
A husband publishes a newspaper notice to strip his spouse of financial agency after she leaves their home.
- 1876 Notice Cuts Off Wife's Credit After She Leaves
A husband in 1876 takes to the local press to declare his financial independence from his runaway wife.
- The Deserted Husband's Public Ultimatum
In a 1876 notice, Thomas Lilly takes to the press to publicly disavow his wife's debts after she leaves their home.
- The 'Not Responsible' Notice of 1876
In an era of restrictive domestic law, one Seattle man publicly disavows his wife's debts to protect his own assets.
- Puget Sound Logging Camps Stay Shut as Mills Chew Through Log Surplus
Puget Sound logging camps, closed since June 18, likely won't reopen before September 1 as mills continue cutting into surplus log inventories; a meeting later this month may decide.