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2 stories matching busher
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- The Labor Council Tackles Wage Rumors
Everett labor leaders confront local management over alleged wage cuts at a downtown retail store.
- The Great Tacoma Piano Liquidation
When the Tayler-Gardner Music Company overextended itself during the boom, the court ordered a massive, fire-sale liquidation of over 200 pianos to satisfy creditors.
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- The Automatic Suitor-Smacker
A fed-up father builds a booby-trapped gate to drive away his daughters' persistent suitors, turning a domestic headache into a mechanical triumph.
- Bushwhackers in the Puyallup Woods: How the Pullman Strike Became a Criminal Manhunt
A federal grand jury indicts a Northern Pacific clerk for threatening to draw locomotive fires, while Sheriff Matthews finds rifles and a shotgun used to ambush passenger trains near the Puyallup reservation.
- The Butcher Who Walked to Kill the President
John Bushey, a displaced laborer from Pendleton, was arrested in Walla Walla after claiming he carried a rifle and cartridges for both Theodore Roosevelt and the German Emperor.
- The Station Master’s Garden Oasis
A bachelor station agent in Elk, Washington, earns national acclaim for transforming a railway depot into a picturesque landscape masterpiece.
- The 'Blasher' Walks: A Razor Fight in a Seattle Saloon Ends in Acquittal
William Robinson, known to police for carrying two or three razors, was cleared of slashing Alander Strom outside the Mint saloon—after witnesses convinced a jury he was the one being thrown out.
- The 'Crusher' Strikes Again
The steam collier San Pedro continues its destructive streak on Puget Sound.
- Drunken Brakeman Crushed on Northern Pacific Line
A railroad worker is killed near Meeker after falling between cars while intoxicated.
- The Bunco King of Riverside Avenue
A Wisconsin farmer falls for a classic card-sharping trap in downtown Spokane, while local firemen demand more pay for shoveling coal.