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3 stories matching plainest

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  1. A Senate Report Exposes the National Guard's 'Go-As-You-Please' Spending

    A military deficiency report finds the Washington National Guard has escaped civil control and wasted money, including $1,000 for each election of Adjutant General O'Brien.

    Mar 11, 1895The Seattle Post-IntelligencerOlympia, Thurston CountyCity Hall

  2. A Switch Thrown in the Dark: The Plot to Wreck the Portland Train

    Someone opened a Northern Pacific switch on a waterfront trestle just before the night express from Seattle came through — and a quick-thinking crew stopped a hundred passengers short of the deep water.

    Aug 7, 1894The Seattle Post-IntelligencerSeattle, King CountyTrue Crime

  3. A Sinking Buggy, a Borrowed Team, and a Reservation About to Open

    In 1892 a newspaperman packed his wife and infant into a rickety buggy to cross the soon-to-open Colville Reservation, fording the Kettle River and leaning on Native families along the way.

    Aug 22, 1892The Seattle Post-IntelligencerOsoyoos Lake, Oroville, Okanogan CountyExclusion & Resistance · Strange But True

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