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- Outside Capital Plans a Log Hotel at Sullivan Lake
A new $10,000 resort company wants to turn the lake into a base for fishermen, hunters and tourists — with a 20-room hotel, tent camps and a trail to the Metaline caves.
- The Anti-Chinese Convention of 1885
Delegates from across the Puget Sound gather in Seattle to organize for the mass expulsion of Chinese laborers.
- Seattle Rallies Against Chinese Labor at the Standard Theater
An overflow crowd packs the Standard Theater to demand the total exclusion of Chinese laborers and the termination of the Burlingame Treaty, revealing the deep economic anxieties of the era.
- A Plea Against Mob Violence
Prominent citizens petition Congress to protect the treaty rights of Chinese residents amidst a wave of xenophobic riots on the Pacific Coast.
- The Blundering Firefighters of Pioneer Square
A satirical look at a day when a local livery stable fire turned into a slapstick comedy of errors for Seattle's volunteer hook and ladder company.
- The Street Hawker's Stand Against Discriminatory Laws
When a Chinese produce seller was arrested for violating city peddling ordinances, he challenged the legality of a law targeting his livelihood all the way to the Chief Justice's chambers.
- The Union Veteran Who Sued the Railroad for a Million-Dollar Tacoma
Anthony P. Carr says Northern Pacific agents helped a claim-jumper steal his homestead. More than a thousand Tacoma lots—and the people living on them—depend on what the Supreme Court decides.
- An Ecological Disaster on Pine Creek
Local farmers find hundreds of pounds of dead trout after a creek is diverted into an irrigation ditch.
- Resuscitated from the Lake Union Depths
A milling company worker narrowly survives a terrifying drowning incident after a log turns under him in the freezing waters.
- Kennewick Snubbed on the Map
Local boosters clash with Pasco neighbors over the routing of a major automotive trail.