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340 stories matching subsequ
- The Fight to Tighten the Initiative Process
A landmark legislative struggle to regulate how Washingtonians propose and recall laws and public officials.
- The Palouse Professor Who Helped Rediscover Heredity
Before Mendel's laws were famous, an agriculturist at the Washington State Experiment Station stood alongside three European scientists as a co-discoverer of them — and proved the principle with velvet-chaffed wheat.
- The Governor’s 'Health' Trip to California
An editorial questioning whether Governor Ferry's convenient absence from the state was truly medical or a calculated political maneuver to avoid accountability.
- The Divorce Factory of 1861
Tired of a legislative session flooded with endless divorce petitions, the Washington Territorial Council finally moves to curb the practice.
- City Hall Battle Over City Wires
A fiery public confrontation between the Mayor and the City Council leads to the death of an ordinance designed to move unsightly and dangerous power poles underground.
- City Council Chaos Over Marshal’s Failure to Enforce Gambling Laws
A heated dispute breaks out in North Yakima's city government over allegations of corruption and a marshal who refuses to enforce ordinances against gambling.
- The Sovereign Grand Commander Comes to Port Townsend
General Albert Pike arrives by steamer to inspect the local lodges, lectures to the brethren, and is feted with a banquet and a Scow Bay clambake.
- The Everett Massacre: A Bloody Sunday on the Waterfront
An armed confrontation between I.W.W. protesters and a citizens' posse leaves six dead and scores wounded after a failed landing in Everett.
- A History of a Sad Honeymoon
A Seattle woman sues for divorce, alleging a brutal pattern of domestic abuse and betrayal mere months into her marriage.
- The Scandal that Wrecked Two Homes
A betrayal of friendship and marriage in Tacoma leads to a sudden disappearance and the ruin of two local families.
- The Confederate Major Who Set Type in Seattle
A German-born printer who saw Fort Sumter bombarded and later joined Seattle's typographical union died at Providence Hospital, taking an improbable Civil War past with him.
- The Shadow on the Great Street Bridge
A murder trial reveals the dark final hours of a man named Schoberbring, whose death on a lonely Seattle road sparked a search for his killer.
- The Bigamy Suit in Green River
A farmer is sued by his first wife after he moves West, remarries, and establishes a new family, triggering a complex property dispute in superior court.
- Violence on the Sound: Northern Raids at Bellingham Bay
Settlers at Bellingham Bay describe a harrowing series of robberies and murders, fueling fear that northern tribes intended to systematically attack frontier settlements.
- The Escape from Humboldt Street
A young woman fleeing a Victoria brothel tells her story to Seattle police after a daring cross-border escape.
- The Tragedy of a Guardian's Greed
A sick pioneer's recovery is threatened by the revelation that his own brother, who managed his affairs, billed him for everything from streetcar fares to tobacco for horses.
- Tragedy on the Columbia and Puget Sound Railroad
A young fireman loses his life in a switching accident during Seattle's cold snap.
- The Man Who Couldn't Sleep: A Murderer's Five-Year Nightmare Ends in Seattle
William Devitt, a fugitive from a Pennsylvania railroad murder, surrenders to Seattle police after five years of wandering the South, claiming his conscience has finally caught up with him.
- The Brutal Forced Exploitation of a Young Woman in Everett
A teenager is pressured into prostitution by her partner, exposing the dark underside of life in the booming town of Everett.
- She Came Back to Newport to Rescue Her First Husband's Grave
When Mrs. C. E. Anderson learned that an old Newport burying ground would be platted for building lots, she traveled from New York to move her first husband's remains to the Odd Fellows' cemetery.
- The Unbuilt Dream of the Seattle Ship Canal
In 1892, rail giants and civic leaders pressed Congress for a canal to connect Seattle’s lakes to the Sound, arguing that suffocating railroad tracks were strangling local industry.
- The City Council's Tug-of-War Over Curb-Side Commerce
An attempt to ban street peddlers in Seattle sparks a fierce debate over monopoly, public markets, and the rights of local farmers.
- A Brutal Encounter on C Street
A prominent cashier is left bleeding on a Tacoma sidewalk after an altercation with his former lodger.
- The Shadow of the Fetting Tragedy
After the mysterious murder of a Seattle woman, the subsequent death of her son-in-law in Tacoma exposes a web of conspiracy, desperate poverty, and local suspicion.
- The Passing of a Seattle Police Pioneer
A biography of Phil Sullivan, an ex-lieutenant of the Seattle police force, who died of consumption at the Pacific House.