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| Year | Stories |
|---|---|
| 1889 | 3 |
| 1892 | 3 |
| 1893 | 3 |
| 1894 | 2 |
| 1895 | 7 |
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- The Bottle Band of Jackson Street
Three boys were apprehended after a long string of petty thefts, caught in the act of raiding a saloon cellar for empty glass.
- The Bee-Keeper's Underground Cellar
A local apiarist shares his experimental method for keeping bees alive through the cold Washington winters using subterranean chambers.
- Gold Rush in the Cellar
A Tacoma resident digging a simple basement strikes a rich vein of gold and silver quartz, setting off a quiet, desperate race to stake a claim beneath the city's streets.
- The Grand Opening of Seattle's New Theater
A whirlwind of operatic and dramatic performances marks the unveiling of a theater still under construction.
- A Machinist Committed to the Asylum
A perfectly rational machinist is sent to Steilacoom despite his protests, leaving behind a wife and child.
- Witness Corruption in the Minkler Case
A key witness in a Centralia manslaughter case was jailed after evidence emerged that he accepted a bribe to skip trial.
- The Tinsmith Who Dug His Way Into a Dry-Goods Store
A Spokane tinsmith allegedly tunneled under a neighboring store to steal merchandise, in a caper that rivaled the era's famous bank robberies.
- The Tragedy at Engine House No. 1
When a popular young man takes his own life in a Seattle fire station, the city is left to grapple with the mystery of a life cut short in its prime.
- The Scandal of the Relief Committee
When Spokane city officials were caught raiding the relief pantry, the resulting arrests shocked the community and exposed a deep-seated culture of graft.
- The Oil That Could Burn the City: Seattle’s First Major Fire Safety Law
In a move to prevent catastrophic blazes, the Common Council passes strict new rules for storing gasoline and kerosene, forcing merchants to build brick vaults or face heavy fines.
- Mrs. Gatzert's Kindergarten to Open Among the Pear Trees
A memorial kindergarten funded by Mrs. Bailey Gatzert will open this fall, featuring a design by a renowned expert and a promise to spare a beloved pear tree.
- The Land Agent Who Cashed a Draft on a Man Who Never Existed
After the federal land agent's suicide, Seattle started talking: $4,800 drawn on a mythical San Franciscan, a friend's wine cellar drunk dry, and not enough cash left in the estate to bury him.
- The Shingle Trust: Northwest Millmen Build a Blacklist for Eastern Buyers
Twenty-three firms controlling nine-tenths of the Pacific Northwest's shingle output meet in Seattle to form an association, blacklist short-paying Eastern dealers and face down the railroads.
- The Elderberry Wine Defense: How a Contested Election Collapsed in Laughter
Populists dropped their challenge to Commissioner Nickerson, but testimony in the sheriff and coroner contests turned up sailors voting under protest and a lunch bag of elderberry wine at a Franklin polling place.
- Three Small Breweries, Thirty Acres, and a Thirsty Pacific
Seven years after two men opened a shed-sized brewery in South Seattle, the consolidated Seattle Brewing and Malting Company was shipping lager to Honolulu, Australia and Japan — and boasting that it had made the city the brewing capital of the Northwest.
- Seattle’s Park Chief Wanted a Boulevard Before the Speculators Got There
In his 1894 annual report, Superintendent E. O. Schwagerl argued that Seattle needed a grand park-and-boulevard plan before rising land values and piecemeal growth closed the window.
- A Wall of Smoke and Flame Across Puget Sound
Forest fires from Hood Canal to the Nooksack Valley left dozens of families homeless in 1894, while smoke turned steamboat travel blind and daily life in Seattle into a gray haze.
- A Christmas on the Ice King: The Climb That Saw Rainier Smoking
In 1894, Major Ingraham led six men, seven homing pigeons, and a camera onto Mount Rainier’s glaciers. They came back with frostbite, a story of steam and smoke rising from the crater—and one pigeon missing.