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| Year | Stories |
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| 1885 | 1 |
| 1886 | 1 |
| 1893 | 1 |
| 1894 | 1 |
| 1917 | 1 |
5 stories matching boa
- The Effigy in the Pine Tree
Charles Gloystein crossed Spokane County's Populists and woke to find himself hanged in straw. Then he vanished.
- The Great Kennewick Snake Hunt
A quiet, sultry Tuesday afternoon takes a turn when the local editor comes face-to-face with a five-foot intruder on a downtown sidewalk.
- The Perilous Bathing of the Seattle Snake-House
A keeper's routine bath for his serpents turns into a life-or-death struggle when a 14-foot boa constrictor decides to coil around his leg.
- The Shoalwater Bay Indigenous Exhibit
A meticulously assembled collection of maritime technology and daily life from the Shoalwater Bay tribes prepares for the World's Fair.
- The Grand Master’s Crusade Against the Gaming Tables
A stern decree from the Royal Arab Masons attempts to purge 'monstrous' gambling and intemperance from lodge halls in Seattle and beyond.
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- The Well in the Wenas
A local carpenter, suffering from the effects of alcohol, met a gruesome and solitary end after falling into a spring in the Wenas Valley.
- The Nahcotta Bear Fighter
A meat market man from the coast fends off an angry mother bear using only his boot.
- A Community Evening at the Schoolhouse
A local teacher organizes an ambitious evening of recitations and dialogues to fund a needed school expansion.
- The Business of the Orchard
A Yakima Valley fruit grower shares his pragmatic, profit-driven approach to orchard management, from battling codling moths to the economics of the Ben Davis apple.
- One Pump Between the Crew and the Bottom of the Sea
The bark Nona Jitum survived a two-day gale off the Columbia River only by keeping one pump running—then limped into Seattle with a ruined cargo and no insurance.