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- Everett Pushes for a City-Owned Water System
Advocates argue that water is a public necessity, not a commodity for private corporate profit.
- A Whiskey Flask on the Pend Oreille: Laborer Drowns at Usk Landing
Fred Campbell fell from the Steamer Spokane while intoxicated; his body was brought to Newport as officials searched for anyone who knew him.
- The Republican Feud for State Control
A collapse of party harmony in Seattle threatens the GOP's grip on the emerging state government.
- The Steamboat That Played Tow Truck at Blueslide
When a touring car couldn't climb one of the worst grades in the district, Captain Stewart rigged a tackle to the steamer Spokane and hauled it up.
- The Town Debt Showdown
Aberdeen citizens pack the Chamber of Commerce to argue whether to bail out city finances or force delinquent land-barons to pay their share.
- Fairhaven's Civic Wish List: Taxes, Salmon, and $100,000 in Debt
Fairhaven's Commercial Club asked the legislature for semiannual taxes, state-run salmon propagation, and an end to county salary funds—while a commissioner explained $100,000 in floating debt.
- The Price of Our Forests
An 1877 reflection on the rapid industrial logging of Puget Sound and its potential impact on the climate and water supply.
- The River’s Toll on the Timber Trade
A sudden freshet on the White River washes away over 150,000 feet of logs, devastating local lumber operators and scattering timber as far as Smith’s Cove.
- The City’s Sick and the Floating Hazard
A growing public outcry in 1889 Seattle demands the relocation of the city’s pesthouse, currently moored in a dangerous, wind-swept location that threatens public health.
- The Hermit in the Hollow Pine: Loony Bill Comes Back From the Dead
Given up for drowned after his log raft broke apart in the Columbia rapids, an eccentric backwoodsman turns up alive — living inside a giant hollow stump.
- The Tragedy of a Forgotten Soul
After a man drowned at a Tacoma wharf, his body was left exposed among 'ravenous fishes' for a full day before a private citizen finally intervened to provide a burial.
- A Boiler Explosion on the Steamer Monticello
A fireman is fighting for his life after a high-pressure steam pipe failed mid-voyage near Kingston, marking the second such accident for the vessel.
- A Late-June Flood Chases Newport’s Riverfront
The Pend Oreille kept rising after mid-June, drowning grain in the Calispel Valley and tearing planks from the Lumbermen’s Transportation docks.
- A Former Seattle Policeman Fell Between the Logs — and the Tide Took Him Before Anyone Could
Edward Kane went out at nine o'clock to bring in a raft of spruce. At noon his hat and pike pole were floating on water barely four feet deep, and there was no body to be found.
- The Nativists Break Ranks: A.P.A. Refuses to March With the Hibernians
Tacoma's Fourth of July celebration splits in two as the American Protective Association, objecting to Irish Catholic marchers, stages its own morning parade — and the city council votes to march in both.
- The Sinking Ship at Colfax College
An open letter from the embattled president reveals the infighting and student discontent that led to the institution's crisis.
- The Great Seattle Sawmill Fire
A spark from a passing train ignites a massive blaze in the Seattle lumber district, consuming millions of feet of lumber and threatening to incinerate the city's waterfront.
- The Shadow Trade at Nooksack River
A government agent describes the precarious intersection of logging, displacement, and the illicit opium trade on the Lummi Reservation.
- The Mardi Gras Con Job
Tacoma's city government is accused of selling out to a traveling troupe of mediocre performers after being warned by Seattle newspapers.
- Seattle Shipwrights Refuse to Cross Picket Lines in Victoria
Local union men stand in solidarity with Victoria caulkers, refusing to take work from a contractor who bypassed labor standards.
- A Body in the Bay
A unidentified man is found dead in the waters near Yesler's wharf, bearing marks of a violent end.
- The Salvage Diver of Elliott Bay
A local diver describes his successful, DIY operation to raise a sunken boiler from the depths of Puget Sound to sell for scrap.
- The Floating Fortress at Baker's Wharf
Seattle prepares for the Fourth of July as a heavily armed U.S. Navy monitor arrives to show off its new steel power.
- Bodies of Colman and Patten Recovered from Lake Washington
After weeks of searching, a homemade underwater viewing device helps recover the bodies of two men murdered on the water.
- The Art of the 'Living Picture'
Behind the scenes at the Calhoun Opera Company, where stagecraft and quick-change artistry bring classical paintings to life.