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33 stories matching arizona
- Embezzlement Charges Target Candidate for Supreme Bench
A political scandal erupts as accusations of financial impropriety in Arizona shadow a candidate's judicial run in Washington.
- A Mining Manager Vanishes, Then Walks Into Tacoma With a Kidnapping-at-Sea Story
T. A. Cox, missing from his Arizona home since December, resurfaces on Puget Sound claiming he was drugged, robbed and forced aboard a strange ship in San Francisco, then turned adrift.
- Drugged and Held at Sea for Seven Weeks, an Engineer Reappears in Tacoma
T. A. Cox, part-owner of an Arizona mining company, says he was drugged with a lemonade in San Francisco and held prisoner aboard an unknown ship before being put ashore at Des Moines — then walked to Tacoma without a cent.
- The Shingle Weavers’ Solidarity
Everett workers raise hundreds for a member with tuberculosis, highlighting the brotherly bonds of unionism in a changing industrial landscape.
- A Mental Health Crisis Near Kent
A woman suffering from severe mental illness is detained by authorities after a crisis at a local hotel.
- Washington Votes Dry
Benton County joins a statewide landslide for prohibition, leaving only two 'wet' counties in Washington.
- The Great Opera House Escape
A suspected swindler slips his guard and vanishes from a Seattle building mid-construction.
- The Ex-Mayor’s Long Road Back to the Courthouse
After three years on the run, former Seattle Mayor Thomas J. Burke has finally been apprehended in Port Townsend.
- The Deadly Cost of a Family Feud
A brutal skirmish near Snohomish between the Scott and Miller families ends in a standoff and death.
- National Eight-Hour Day Proposed for Working Women
Federal legislation seeks to ban interstate shipment of goods produced under long-hour conditions.
- A Bureaucratic Demand for Indigenous Soldiers
The U.S. government attempts to recruit Yakima men into the army, ignoring the history of the conflict between the state and the reservation.
- The Administrator, the Heir, and the Living Dead Man
General R. G. O'Brien faces a court showdown after a legal battle over an inheritance that traveled all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court.
- A 21,000-Mile Bicycle Ride, Just to Show He Could
Buffalo newspaperman Tom M. Winder rolled into Seattle in 1895 midway through a bicycle circuit of the United States—and promptly let local wheelmen talk him out of the Great Northern route.
- Corruption Scandal Sweeps Whatcom
Former city officials are arrested for embezzlement while the community demands a grand jury to investigate municipal rot.
- A White-Haired Husband's Thousand-Mile Hunt for the Wife Who Vanished
Since his wife eloped with another man last August, J. B. Small has crisscrossed the country and now reaches Seattle with nothing but a clue and a broken heart.
- The Bicycle Craze Is Killing the Horse Trade
A traveling horseshoe salesman reports that the wheel has gutted demand for horses, harnesses and carriages — and that Western horses are now worth 'less than nothing.'
- The Tale of the Dreamer and the Practical Planner
A satirical editorial sketches the divergent paths of two Seattle-area visionaries: one chasing a 'paradise' of industry and wealth, the other a dreamer building canals and libraries.
- The Great Rail Strike Cripples Pacific Northwest Logistics
Defective equipment and massive delays plague the Harriman system as the national strike by railway workers intensifies.
- The Great Reclamation: Opening the Interior
How a 1877 federal law sought to transform the 'Great American Desert' of the Yakima plains into a productive landscape.
- A California Mining Veteran Bets Everything on the Coeur d'Alene Gold Rush
George Henderson, a hardened prospector out of Martinez, California, arrives in Spokane Falls, spends one day in the Coeur d'Alene diggings, and walks out having staked claims, built two houses, and hired a crew to winter over — telling the town the mines 'could not be exaggerated.'
- A Treasure of Extinct Art
A massive collection of rare Indigenous basketry, gathered over a decade, is donated to the State College of Washington museum.
- The Millionaire, the Colonel, and the $100,000 Snowbank
Montana copper king Marcus Daly poured a fortune into a Cascade mountain mining camp — then sent an auditor up to see what the colonel had been doing with it.
- The Strange Afterlife of a Murdered Man
Letters from disgruntled ex-wives and rivals surface after a Waterville man is murdered, revealing a long, chaotic trail of failed marriages.
- The Gold Rush That Was Coming for the Colville Reservation
A Spokane prospector returns from the northern mineral belt with news of rich rock—and a prediction that the Indians will not long keep their land.
- The 'Dead Horse' Auction of 1892
Hundreds of curious Seattleites crowded a Commercial Street warehouse to bid on the mysterious, unclaimed cargo of the Northern Pacific Express Company, turning forgotten packages into a city-wide gamble.