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84 stories matching moran
- The High Stakes Battle for Seattle’s Waterfront
A landmark legal fight reaches the U.S. Supreme Court, threatening to upend state ownership of tide lands.
- Post-Election Wheelbarrow Rides and Wharf-Side Pranks
Seattle workers settle political debts with public spectacles and humiliating bets after the 1892 election.
- The Bullets That Whizzed Through Commercial Street
A quiet walk near the foundry turns into a terrifying brush with death as three men open fire on passersby.
- The Automatic Newsie: Seattle’s 1892 Vision of the Future
Before the digital age, Seattle inventors attempted to automate the news industry with a coin-operated machine that could sell papers, make change, and handle varying formats.
- Fifty Turns on the Shaft: A Foundry Apprentice's Miraculous Escape
Nineteen-year-old Charles Meydenbauer was caught in the shafting at Moran's foundry, spun fifty times twenty feet above the floor—and lived to describe it.
- The Great Seattle Carting Crisis
When the city moved to clear the streets of horse-drawn carriages, teamsters organized, setting a precedent for Seattle’s long-standing tug-of-war over public space.
- Building a Street over the Tidelands
A new ordinance pushes the city street grid out over the Seattle waterfront to reach the dry dock.
- The Sting at a Puyallup Avenue Saloon
A trio of men are robbed of cash and a gold watch by a woman acting as a decoy in a local saloon.
- The Burglar Who Ran: A Tacoma Woman’s Scream Saves the Day
When a thief tried to break into a South Tacoma home early yesterday morning, one resident’s quick thinking and loud voice turned the tables on the intruder.
- Rising from the Ashes: The Great Seattle Fire of 1888
While the downtown core smoldered, Seattle citizens gathered in the courthouse—lit by tallow dips—to demand a modern city of brick and stone, rejecting makeshift wooden shacks and dreaming of a reconstructed metropolis.
- The Unlucky Fate of the Steamer City of Ellensburg
Creditors protest a forced sale of a river steamer, claiming the vessel was sold for a pittance in a 'farce' of an auction.
- A Midnight Ride, a Volley of Shots, and No One to Blame
A farmer on the Moran Prairie road hurried home under gunfire; deputies found only darkness.
- Turning Slaughterhouse Waste Into Gold
A new industrial plant on the Grant Street bridge aims to convert city scraps into exportable fertilizer for the Hawaiian market.
- A 50-Year Teamster Tells the Legislature to Keep Its Hands Off His Wagon Wheels
A Moran Prairie farmer pushes back against a Seattle-backed bill to mandate wide wagon tires, arguing that city men who never drove a loaded team shouldn't legislate for the men who do.
- The Waterfront Turf War
A railroad tycoon and a dry dock company fight for control of Seattle's mud flats as the city transforms.
- The Switchback Brawl
A violent confrontation breaks out between railroad workers and locals over a disputed switchback rail line.
- The Great Bridge Bid: Seattle’s War for the Snoqualmie Crossing
As county commissioners open bids for a massive new bridge over the Snoqualmie River at Novelty, local engineers face stiff competition from San Francisco giants in a contest that will define Seattle's western infrastructure.
- The Great Seattle Cable Car Battle
A legal dispute over the City Railway Company's franchise forces a showdown between city officials and the company's ambitious construction plans.
- Smallpox Panic Grips Snohomish
Snohomish health officer vaccinates 20 saloon men, jails refusers as smallpox kills a bridge builder.
- The New Tide-Flat Plat Put a Foundry in the Street
Seattle shore owners crowded the county auditor's office to see how a new Elliott Bay plat redrew their waterfront—and some found their improvements sitting on paper streets.
- The Con Man and the Tacoma Jail
After swindling banks for a half-million dollars, a notorious criminal is captured in Tacoma and offers an interview from behind bars.
- The Seattle-Tacoma Shipyard Feud
How Seattle’s industrial might secured a major contract for the transport ship 'Victoria,' leaving Tacoma business leaders fuming.
- The Farmer and the One-Dollar Fee
A Stanwood farmer’s struggle to sell his own harvest in Seattle triggers an impromptu protest against city bureaucracy.
- The Great City Hall Heist
After the Seattle city treasurer vanishes with public funds, a desperate, rumor-fueled manhunt ensues, implicating bankers and brothel keepers in a massive scandal.
- The Dry Dock at Port Orchard Nears Completion
Surveyors, granite cutters and carpenters are closing in on the main structure at the Port Orchard naval station, with pumps expected next month.