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| Year | Stories |
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| 1888 | 13 |
| 1889 | 33 |
| 1891 | 16 |
| 1892 | 55 |
| 1893 | 69 |
| 1894 | 60 |
| 1895 | 63 |
309 stories matching spring
- A Wife Says Her Husband Tried to Shoot Her—Then Altered the Deed
Rachel McDonald's divorce suit describes years of cruelty, a terrifying revolver threat, and a scheme to erase her name from their Ravenna property.
- The Whatcom Widow Who Bought the Coffin Before the Death
A five-times-married former Whatcom County first lady is back in the news—and old suspicions about her commissioner husband’s death at Steilacoom have followed her east.
- Tacoma Sues Water Company for $1 Million Over a Dry Promise
City officials say Patterson Springs delivered a fraction of the promised flow, making the costly gravity system practically worthless.
- Tragedy at the Spring: A Mother’s Drowning in Cathlamet
A logger returns home after a week of work to find his wife dead in a two-foot deep spring and his three children alone in the snow.
- A Seattle Expedition Sets Out to Map Mount Rainier's Glaciers—and Find a Hidden Volcano
Major Ingraham's party leaves Seattle for three weeks on the mountain, hoping to name glaciers, test mineral springs, and locate a smoking volcano seen from the foothills.
- The Forgotten Spring of Cherry Street
City Treasurer Adolph Krug proposes reviving a historic natural spring near Sixth and Cherry to provide free, pure water to the city.
- 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.
- The Goat Meat Grift
A Seattle housewife takes matters into her own hands after a local butcher tries to swindle her.
- Tacoma's $1.75 Million Water Deal Went Bad—and Taxpayers Were Just Catching On
A special dispatch from Tacoma reports that the city's purchase of the old water plant was sold on a false promise of mountain water, while a new bidder offers a cheaper gravity system.
- The First Wedding in Seattle, Celebrated Forty-Two Years Later
David and Louisa Denny gather four generations of pioneers at their Temperance Street home, where relics of the 1850s—and the certificate from Seattle’s first marriage—turn an anniversary into a founding story.
- Tacoma Offers to Hand Its Water System Back to the Man It Bought It From
With springs shut off and a fire engine pumping to keep taps flowing, Tacoma's mayor writes C. B. Wright a remarkable offer: take back the light and water plant.
- An Unknown Man Found Dead in South Seattle
A woman discovering a man's body in the brush near a local spring leads to an investigation that unearths a tragic, nameless end.
- A Desperate Jump at the Spring Street Wharf
Deserted, drinking, and despondent, Kate Johnson tried to drown herself in Seattle harbor—then fought the men who pulled her out.
- The Midnight Hold-Up Near Hot Springs
A masked trio halts a Northern Pacific sleeper, terrifying passengers and making off with $1,200 in cash and gold.
- The Great Tacoma Water Heist
City leaders uncover a massive discrepancy in the city's newly purchased water plant after boosters inflated the daily flow of local springs.
- The Great Train Robbery Clue
A ten-minute fuse found near the tracks sparks theories that the bandits who held up the Northern Pacific train are ex-railway men.
- Sixteen Seattleites Climb Rainier, With Carrier Pigeons and a Night on the Crater
Two members of a Seattle climbing party return from Mount Rainier after the rest push on to the summit, where they plan to camp amid volcanic steam and signal the city with bonfires.
- A Forest Fire Nearly Erases a Mountain Resort
Flames at Hot Springs destroy cottages and outbuildings near Tacoma, sparing only the hotel, a store and the station.
- Samuel Gompers Tells Seattle: Organize, and Dare Not Do Otherwise
The president of the American Federation of Labor writes to Seattle organizer Abe Spring, lamenting the bloodshed of the era's labor wars, urging union solidarity, and declining a Western trip.
- Tacoma Voters Hand the Mayor a Council — and Unlock the Water Fund
A rain-soaked municipal election gives Tacoma's administration a working majority and lets the city redirect money from springs judged inadequate.
- Snohomish, 1898: A Ferry Claim Becomes a Booster's Dream City
A promotional tour of the inland Puget Sound town traces its founding by I.C. Ferguson, its lumber and fishing wages, and the railroad that turned a river landing into a self-described city of homes.
- A Terrifying Mountain Encounter
A visiting tailor from Tacoma fled for his life after a face-to-face confrontation with a cougar in the hills near Hot Springs.
- The Rain-Soaked Fields of the Palouse
Heavy, unrelenting rains delay the spring wheat planting in Eastern Washington, causing concern for farmers.
- A Banker, a Stolen Watch, and a Servant Girl’s Accusation
Herman L. Chase—already accused of assaulting his servant girl—is arrested in Tacoma after a silk robe and gold watch vanish from a hotel. His friends cry blackmail.
- The First Train Robbery in Washington Territory
Masked gunmen held up a Northern Pacific Pullman car near Hot Springs, terrorizing passengers and sparking a region-wide manhunt.
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- The Deadly Spring Gun of Whatcom
A man who set a loaded trap for intruders in his cabin faces a murder conviction, setting a major legal precedent for property defense.