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| Year | Stories |
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| 1889 | 2 |
| 1891 | 1 |
| 1892 | 8 |
| 1893 | 8 |
| 1894 | 10 |
| 1895 | 1 |
30 stories matching lilli
- Tacoma’s Fire Chief Lost His Job After a Drunken Ride in the Fire Wagon
A periodic bender, a joyride down Pacific Avenue in a fire wagon, and a mayor’s ultimatum ended Chief Lillis’s career—though supporters blamed the A.P.A.
- The Piano, the Pool Table and the Bar: A Roadhouse Wife's Last Hand
Julia Lillis says her husband has gambled and drunk away the takings at the Hyde Park House, the resort he keeps by the South Seattle race track, and now means to sell the furniture out from under her. A judge froze it first.
- The Soldier and the Elopement
Despite her father's protestations, young Lillie Bolton elopes with a recently discharged soldier, sparking a threat of imprisonment from her veteran father.
- Tacoma’s City Jobs Become a Sectarian Battleground
A Catholic vicar general says the anti-Catholic A.P.A. is driving Catholics off the public payroll—and the fire chief’s firing has the city trading charges.
- Tacoma's Volunteer Firefighters Face Disbandment
A clash over civic spending and fire safety policy threatens to dissolve the city's volunteer fire department.
- A Miner's Jealous Rage: Esau Baltimore Weeps Over the Roslyn Murder
Esau Baltimore waives examination for the shooting death of Mrs. Lillie Turner and is bound over to superior court, while friends of the victim debate taking justice into their own hands.
- The Professional Beggars of Seattle
A mother is deemed unfit by the courts after training her children to beg on the city streets.
- The Unlucky Fate of a Runaway Teenager
After being detained by detectives, 16-year-old Lillie D. Cline faces institutionalization as local authorities attempt to force her back into a domestic role.
- The Industrial Vision for Washington's Colleges
Professor George Lilly, head of the State Agricultural College, outlines a plan to turn higher education toward practical workshop training.
- A Young Girl Vanishes from a Spokane Variety Theater
A teenage girl is missing after being allegedly coerced into a variety theater, sparking a public outcry and exposing local police corruption.
- The Tragedy of the Chico Gulch
A minor dispute over a killed pet dog escalates into a brutal, fatal shooting in the quiet community of Chico, revealing the violent tensions lurking behind rural neighborly relations.
- The Perpetual-Motion Man Came Downtown Armed
Before Dr. Hannibal Mills shot a man in the Occidental saloon, he told a restaurant waiter he would not live until morning and announced, “I'm God, the devil and himself.”
- The Tragedy of a 'Box Rustler' at the Standard Theater
After being abandoned by her partner and facing a string of personal losses, 18-year-old Lillian Stewart took her own life in a downtown hotel.
- A Deadly Triangle in Mineral City
A rancher takes the life of his friend who had been relentlessly harassing his 17-year-old wife.
- A Deadly Christmas Eve Dispute in Willapa
A drunken argument over railroad work ended in a shooting at a gravel pit, leaving a respected foreman dead and his killer in jail.
- The Struggle for a Child in a Tacoma Tenderloin
A teenage girl’s infant becomes the center of a dispute among the inmates of a red-light district boarding house.
- The Standard Theater Scandal
A theater manager flees a business deal, leaving his cast and crew empty-handed and furious.
- Theater Brawl Ends in Knife Attack
A rivalry between two performers at the Standard Theater erupts into violence over a stolen box seat.
- A Captain at Eighteen, a Pioneer at the End
John A. Steeves survived a Cape Horn shipwreck, mined in Butte, and became one of Squak Valley’s most trusted settlers. He died at his Sixth Street home after a three-week illness.
- The Forger Who Ordered Champagne to the Mansion of J. M. Colman
For two weeks a smooth-talking stranger worked Front Street with forged order slips and a taste for the good stuff — until six bottles of champagne went to the wrong address.
- The Opium Shack on Vashon Island
A recluse on the south end of Vashon Island shot himself after years of opium use, leaving a needle, eight ounces of the drug, and a letter blaming a man named George Weston.
- The Eight-Year-Old Hero of West Street
While bystanders watched in horror as a heavy wagon rattled down the hill, a young boy showed remarkable poise to rein in a runaway team of horses.
- Eighth Ward Republicans Revolt Over County Delegate Math
A packed Seattle club meeting denounces the King County Republican committee's apportionment and votes to carry the fight to every ward.
- The Resolution They Had to Strike: A Port Townsend Convention and the Warrant-Forgery Fight
Jefferson County Republicans convened in Port Townsend, then recoiled when a platform resolution praised the prosecutor who had refused to pursue forgery charges against county warrant endorsers.
- A Life-Changing Fall on Second and Yesler
A hotel worker narrowly survives a twenty-foot plunge after a window sash collapses, highlighting the precarious reality of daily labor in 1889 Seattle.
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