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- Tragedy on the Colville Reservation
A mother returns to find her child dead after leaving the baby unattended near a tree.
- The Battle for Aberdeen’s Streetlights
Cash-strapped taxpayers and the city council clash over whether to go dark or pay the bill for municipal electric lighting.
- The Gold Rush Mania: A Cautionary Tale for Settlers
As disheartened miners return from the upper Columbia, the Standard warns local farmers and mechanics that steady work at home is worth more than the speculative, dangerous 'El Dorado' scramble.
- A Year's Savings Gone
A Buckley logger is robbed of his life savings after a night in the city's red-light district.
- Divorce and Domestic Violence in Rosedale
After his wife fled to Tacoma to initiate divorce proceedings, a Rosedale farmer was arrested for making violent threats against her and those helping her.
- The Soldier's Flask Returns After Thirty Years
A Civil War veteran finds his lost canteen in a second-hand shop on a Seattle street, decades after it was taken from him in Virginia.
- The Eagle Escapes the Hotel Yakima
A captive eagle, purchased from a local youth, picks its own lock and escapes back into the wilderness.
- The War on the Hatpin
Legislators move to curb the 'menace' of oversized fashion accessories in public spaces.
- Horses Plunge Off Pacific Avenue Cliff
A panicked team of livery horses creates a scene of destruction on the Tacoma waterfront, leaping twenty-five feet over a railing.
- Seattle's New Fire Engine Wrecked on a False Alarm
Answering a call from the Tremont block, the Watrous engine hit the streetcar tracks between South Second and South Third, snapped an axle and toppled—leaving driver Charles Murray and engineer F. M. Collins lucky to be alive.
- The City Editor Who Answered a Threat With His Fists
A druggist’s seduction scandal sent an angry stranger into the Telegraph newsroom. Joseph Costello met him with a windmill of punches.
- The Drunken Gentleman of Commercial Street
A tipsy passenger’s chaotic attempt to board a streetcar and his subsequent social performance in 1877 Seattle.
- The Roller-Skating Rink Disaster
A grocery man's customer describes the catastrophic attempt of his father, a self-proclaimed former skating expert, to navigate the local roller rink.
- A Near-Drowning at the Seattle Waterfront
A passenger taking a shortcut through a crowded dock ends up in the bay, saved by the quick thinking of a hotel bus driver.
- The 'Indian Doctoress' and the Seattle Faith Cure
A grueling, sworn testimony reveals the desperate medical landscape of 1888 Seattle, where patients turned from failed traditional surgery to 'Histo-genetic' remedies.
- The Annual Migration to the Puyallup Valley
A historic snapshot of the diverse, bustling encampments that formed every autumn when the hop harvest drew thousands to the riverbanks.