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| Year | Stories |
|---|---|
| 1889 | 3 |
| 1891 | 4 |
| 1892 | 6 |
| 1893 | 1 |
| 1894 | 7 |
| 1895 | 15 |
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- The Centennial Parade and the Future of the National Guard
A look back at the grand military display in New York as a blueprint for rapid mobilization on the Pacific Coast.
- The Strategic Dream of a Nicaragua Canal
A 1894 editorial argues that the United States must build and control a canal through Central America to project naval power and secure the Pacific coast.
- The Growing Divide: A 1889 Look at Wealth Inequality
A century before modern debates on income disparity, a Seattle newspaper reflected on a New York attorney's grim statistics concerning the extreme concentration of American wealth.
- A Frontier Town Washed Away in the Night
A catastrophic flood destroyed the business district of Conconully in Okanogan County, leaving residents destitute and the town in ruins after a suspected cloudburst.
- Seattle Angles for the Army's Puget Sound Rendezvous
As Congress takes up an army bill to concentrate troops at a handful of big Western posts, Washington's senators press Seattle's claim to the Puget Sound depot — while Oregon fights to keep its own fort alive.
- The Shipping Hub of the Northwest
A census of vessels loading in early 1891 reveals Seattle's emerging dominance in the maritime coal trade.
- A Frontier Discovery: Quicksilver in the Hills
A routine spring cleaning by a settler’s wife in Clallam County leads to a potentially major discovery of mercury ore.
- A Heart-of-the-City Gift for Seattle's Pioneers
P.H. Lewis offers a valuable corner lot at Madison and Fourth Streets to build a permanent home for the Washington Pioneers' Association.
- The Hop Louse War on the Green River
Farmers in the Puyallup and Green River valleys battle an infestation of hop aphids using new horse-powered sprayers.
- The Gigantic Mining Operation at Monte Cristo
A mechanical superintendent reports on the massive, singular challenges of building a tramway into the isolated mining camp of Monte Cristo.
- The Industrial Ambition of Monte Cristo
A detailed look at the massive capital investments and engineering feats transforming the Snohomish County mountains into a mining powerhouse.
- Yesler Avenue Cable Line Sold to Syndicates
A major transit deal changes hands as the Wilmans brothers exit the Seattle streetcar market to focus on mining interests.
- Seattle's 'Respectable' Citizens Attempt to Reform City Hall
A gathering of elite businessmen and professionals met at the Chamber of Commerce to form a non-partisan Municipal League, aiming to oust incumbent politicians and rewrite the city charter.
- The Banking Titans Building Modern Seattle
A look inside the financial engine driving Seattle’s rapid expansion in the early 1890s through the lens of a newly rising financial institution.
- The Great Squeeze: How Timber Barons Cut Wages in Mason County
By consolidating operations and forcing loggers into company-controlled boarding houses, the industry’s giants effectively reduced worker pay while crushing independent competition.
- A Clawhammer, a Tin Whistle, and a Judge Fight: Tacoma’s Wild 1894 Convention
Pierce County Republicans met in Tacoma to endorse Judge Pritchard for the Supreme Court. By 2 a.m. they had doused the lights, blown a tin whistle, and adjourned without deciding.
- The Price of Seattle's Growth
A desperate push to validate city warrants issued in the chaotic wake of the Great Seattle Fire and the city's sudden expansion.
- Seattle Cuts Its Own Payroll
Facing a tax shortfall, the council slashes salaries, drops clerks and accountants, and hands the comptroller power to police the city's licenses.
- The Council Keeps the Charter Pen
Seattle’s city council refused to pay for a freeholders’ election and voted to rewrite the city charter itself—setting up a fight over cost, legality and who gets to redraw city government.
- Rockefeller's Land Company Comes to Town—and Everett Smells a Deal
A packed council chamber hears that John D. Rockefeller now controls the Everett Land Company, that the mills may run full, and that the county seat fight is on.
- Three Bickering Land Departments, Millions in Tide Lands, and a Demand for Answers
A state land commissioner admits the tide-land situation is 'chaotic in the extreme' and calls for a no-whitewash legislative probe — warning that divided authority is an open door to corruption.
- The Towns That Were Only on the Map
A federal engineer surveyed the Okanogan in 1895 and recommended improving the river. What he described was a mining country waiting for a boom that had already gone bust.
- The Great Timber Land Swindle: How Seattle’s Elite Claimed Farmable Soil as Forest
A federal commissioner rules that the lands held by Bailey and Hawley are actually fertile agricultural soil, not timber land, overturning decades of speculative entries in the Samish Lake district.
- A Stranger's Bullet Leaves Fraser Dying—and Page Asking Seattle for a Fair Shake
Shot and dying, Fraser made his will and gave a statement to prosecutors while the accused gunman, held in the county jail, denied being a gambler or a tough and pleaded for a square hearing.
- Who Controls Washington's Tide Flats? A Sweeping Land Bill Lands in Olympia
A new Senate measure would strip power from county appraisers and put the state's school, tide, shore and harbor lands under one powerful board—starting with Seattle's waterfront.