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668 stories matching scheme
- The High School's Secret Salary Scheme
A Seattle school board trustee was caught in a tangled web of pay-roll falsification, revealing a bizarre scheme involving a military instructor and a city official's confusion over government pay.
- The Price of a Subway
Tacoma officials set strict financial terms for a developer hoping to build a subway franchise.
- The Opium Conspiracy: How Seattle’s Customs Chief Played Both Sides
A dramatic trial reveals a scheme where federal inspectors smuggled contraband across the border while pretending to seize it, exposing deep corruption in early 20th-century Pacific Northwest law enforcement.
- The Iron Grip of the Railroad Lobby
Tacoma’s newspaper calls out the Northern Pacific for its historic dominance over city politics and its successful efforts to block competition on the waterfront.
- The City Hall Corruption Trial
A jury is empaneled to try an alleged accomplice in a $10,000 city embezzlement scheme.
- Should Seattle Have a Filipino Labor Commissioner?
A 1923 community-paper debate pits a call for Filipino labor representation against a columnist who says the workers should simply go home.
- The Great Sluicing Failure
A municipal engineering project designed to clear the Union Pacific tunnel construction site ends in a clogged pipe and embarrassing failure.
- A Bridge to Nowhere?
Local skepticism regarding a proposed bridge to Ocosta suggests the project is little more than a political favor.
- The Town's Bachelor Problem
An editorial tongue-lashing for four local men who chose independent living over marriage.
- The Opium Smuggling Ring of Pike Street
A failed nurseryman and a former grocer are arrested in a desperate scheme to smuggle opium in Seattle, orchestrated by a local 'fast young man.'
- The Groom Who Didn't Exist
A jilted lover's lawsuit in the Lewis River country unravels a bizarre family scheme to pass a son off as a different man to save the family farm from seizure.
- The Counterfeiter Caught in the Act
Dr. J. S. Methvin, an aspiring counterfeiter, is apprehended after escaping from federal marshals in South Park, claiming he was set up by a partner.
- Aberdeen Lures Big Shipyard with Eastern Capital
A new industry promises $50,000 in investment and jobs for 250 men by next summer.
- The Clambake at Olympia: A Congressman’s Final Days
Journalist Charles Prosch recalls the Pacific Northwest visit of Representative James Brooks, whose brilliant career ended in a disgrace that haunts political history.
- Couple Arrested for Alleged Trafficking of Swedish Immigrant
Police break up a scheme to force a young Swedish woman into prostitution at a Kinnear block tenement.
- The Great Boulevard Feud
A former city attorney accuses real estate speculators of using park plans to drive up land values.
- The Unsavory Political Machine of 1888
A scorching editorial from the Seattle Post-Intelligencer calls for a purge of 'tricksters' and 'nasty fellows' within the Territorial Republican ranks.
- Big Ambitions for the Horse Heaven Hills
A new company announces a $100,000 irrigation project to bring water from the Klickitat River to the parched Horse Heaven area.
- A Grassroots Rail Line Planned for Whatcom County
Granges in Ferndale and Custer initiate a cooperative traction railway project, with Lynden and neighboring towns invited to extend the line.
- The Price of Citizenship: John Adam Schmidt Convicted
A federal judge sentences a man to prison for orchestrating a fraudulent naturalization scheme for Russian immigrants.
- Street Sharks and Baggage Swindles
Seattle's waterfront 'sure thing' men are preying on innocent travelers and hard-working ranchers.
- Fugitive Arrested in Tacoma for California Extortion Scheme
A man accused of swindling a California woman under the false promise of marriage is captured by local detectives.
- The Real Estate Agent Who Thought He Was a Millionaire
George M. Armour’s hallucinations of vast wealth led to his institutionalization and the appointment of his brother as guardian.
- Railroad Monopoly Tightens Grip on Lumber
A newly formed 'Improvement Company' linked to the Northern Pacific Railroad establishes a monopoly over regional lumber trade.
- Aberdeen Capitalists Eye Mexican Sugar Trade
Local investors pour $120,000 into a grand scheme to import sugar cane production from Sinaloa, Mexico.