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7 stories matching anaconda
- The Anaconda Goes Into Elliott Bay to Eat the Flats
The giant dredger that will dig the Lake Washington canal is launched at Moran's foundry tonight — and its pumps, chewed to honeycomb by Swinomish sand, hint at how hard Elliott Bay's bottom will fight back.
- The Dredge That Built a Dyke — and Then Went to Dig Seattle's Ship Canal
At La Conner a 200-horsepower suction dredge finished carving Swinomish Slough, pumping mud a thousand yards to wall off the tide. Next week the Anaconda leaves for Seattle and the south canal.
- The Sad Case of Eight-Year-Old Albert
A young boy, orphaned and abandoned by his father, is sentenced to reform school for petty theft.
- Seattle Canal Endorsement Sparks Political War Between Tacoma and King County
A Tacoma paper fumes that King County's push for a Seattle canal endorsement at the Republican state convention backfired on Pierce County, turning a side issue into a major fight—and King County won.
- Timber and Ore: Why Washington's Two Great Industries Must Rise Together
An editorial argues that the state's stalled lumber trade and its untapped mines are a single economy — and that a live lumber market means flush times for everyone on the Sound.
- A Montana Millionaire's Secret Seattle Wedding
Hugh F. Galen, a wealthy Helena mine owner and politician, secretly married schoolteacher Laura B. Tague at a Seattle church, then slipped away to California—leaving friends in Montana to plan a reception.
- A Fruit Grower's Pitch: Stop Sending Cash East — Feed Alaska Instead
Before the Northwest Fruitgrower's Association, S. L. Moore argued that Washington farmers should diversify beyond wheat and prunes, supply Alaska and Western markets, and let the Northern Pacific's traveling fruit exhibit lure settlers west.