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| Year | Stories |
|---|---|
| 1891 | 7 |
| 1892 | 2 |
9 stories
- A Customs House Boss and the Fight to Run Washington
A federal deputy collector resigns in Seattle and accuses the custom house crowd of building a machine for Senator Squire.
- The $150 Lot That Became a $150,000 Block
A Seattle pioneer cashes out a Second Street property he held through fire and rebuilding, offering a simple recipe for fortune: buy early and hold on.
- The Governor's $50,000 Bond
A defaulting King County treasurer's case reaches the U.S. Supreme Court, leaving Governor Ferry and other bondsmen on the hook for $34,000.
- The Newspaper Owner Who Disavowed His Own Editorial
Francis Murphy reads L.S.J. Hunt’s letter to a Seattle crowd, disowning the Post-Intelligencer’s anti-temperance editorial and sending $200 for the cause.
- A Defaulting Treasurer’s Debt Finally Comes Due—for a Governor and His Bondsmen
A Seattle judge orders E. P. Ferry and other sureties to pay King County $29,143.60 plus years of interest for George D. Hill’s vanished public funds.
- A Brick Barn or a University? Olympia Presses Seattle on Its Grand Campus
A newspaper duel over the University of Washington's costly new buildings asks who pays for civic grandeur—and whether Seattle's generosity comes with unpaid debts.
- Seattle Buries the Senator It Almost Had
Col. J. C. Haines's death draws a large Olympia delegation to Seattle—and the Tribune's regret over the 1889 convention that denied him a Senate seat.
- The City Can Tear It Down: The Supreme Court Backs Seattle's Fire Limits
Daniel K. Baxter put up a twenty-foot shell of wooden posts wrapped in corrugated iron inside Seattle's fire limits. The state Supreme Court said the city could knock it down without ever going to court — and municipal building codes came out of it stronger than before.
- The Newspaper Owner Who Was Supposed to Run Seattle
A New York interview made real-estate investor Hunt sound like a political kingmaker; Olympia's Tribune said the boast was mostly hot air.