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- The $1-an-Acre Tip: How Washington's School Timber Was Sold Cheap
A legislative investigation hands the attorney general evidence that well-connected buyers used paid cruisers to lowball the value of the state's school lands — with a wink and a dollar an acre.
- The Castle on Capitol Hill: Seattle’s $1 Million Gamble for a Grand Hotel
Arthur Denny and his board of trustees have spent months sifting through dozens of architectural plans to find the perfect design for a new landmark. The winner? A Gothic stone fortress that will tower over Second Avenue.
- The Unpaid Streets of Tacoma
A bitter legal battle reveals the messy, unpaved reality of infrastructure development in late 19th-century Tacoma, pitting laborers against local developers.
- The Shrewd Landlady of Kennewick
A local boarding house manager turns a favor into a profitable transaction, proving that in the rental business, every crumb counts.
- The Worst Storm on the Sound: A Train Wreck, a Drifting Ship, and Dead Wires
A landslide derails a Northern Pacific freight near Castle Rock, a British ship is blown across Tacoma bay, and the telegraph goes dead from Seattle south.
- Spokane’s Mayor Dictates Red Light Rents
In a sweeping police regulation, the Spokane municipal government sets price caps on rents in the 'whitechapel' district and mandates fines for landladies and their residents.
- Tragedy in Two Acts on the Cowlitz
A young man's accidental death in the woods is followed by the complete destruction of his family's home by fire, leaving the mourning parents with nothing.
- The Slave Ship That Vanished: An Old Man’s Confession in Seattle
A weathered sailor walks into a Seattle saloon and recounts the night his crew mutinied against a slaver, only to watch the ship sink with 200 souls aboard.
- Nativist Rally at Ranke Hall: 'Close the Gates'
In 1895 Seattle, an anti-Catholic, anti-immigrant A. P. A. meeting warned of 'unrestricted immigration' and claimed Catholic nurses secretly baptized Protestant infants.
- Released Prisoner Arrested at the Gates
Richard Perkison walked out of the penitentiary a free man only to be immediately detained by an officer from Nebraska.
- A Fraternal Leader Draws the Line at English—and at the Ballot Box
Visiting Knights of Pythias supreme chancellor W. W. Blackwell wants the order to require English and ties voting rights to language, warning of foreign anarchists.
- The Sheriff Who Shot a Convict: A Wenatchee Neighbor’s Defense of Deadly Force
In July 1905, just days after a chaotic manhunt in Ellensburg, local residents weighed in on the ethics of Sheriff Thomas shooting an escaped convict. One guard called it 'right,' while others questioned the necessity—echoing modern debates over police accountability.
- Fatal Industrial Failure at Toutle River
A logger is struck and killed by a runaway shingle bolt, highlighting the extreme dangers of manual timber work.
- The Ghost of Windom Ranch
A lonely rancher’s remains are discovered months after he vanished from his homestead.
- The Forest Empire That Built Washington
A sweeping 1900 survey of the state's lumber industry counted billions of feet of standing timber, 250 sawmills, and $7 million a year in wages—proof that the trees, not the cities, came first.
- A Ghastly Discovery Near Sugar Creek
A set of skeletal remains, pinned under a decayed fir tree, suggests a lonely, long-forgotten death in the remote mountains.
- The 'Crusher' Strikes Again
The steam collier San Pedro continues its destructive streak on Puget Sound.
- The Butter Paradox
Why is Seattle, surrounded by some of the world's richest grazing land, importing its butter from California?
- The Real Estate Boom of 1890
A booster’s pitch for West Seattle highlights the city's turn-of-the-century obsession with land development and panoramic vistas.
- Fairhaven's Secret Society Debut
The local Knights of Pythias chapter officially forms as the largest lodge of its kind in Washington state, complete with an all-night induction ceremony.
- A Young Lawyer's Lesson in the 'Great American Game'
A visiting English lawyer is conned in Tacoma by an elaborate 'customs officer' scam; the suspect is arrested after a quick police coordination.
- The Storm That Snarled the Wires: Seattle's First Snow of 1895
Three inches of snow fall on the city in a single evening, telegraph lines between Portland and Tacoma go dead, and the streetcar companies send out their plows to keep the tracks clear.
- Lawyers vs. Insurance Men: A Charity Ballgame and a Mock-Biblical Declaration of War
Seattle's bar association answers the 'tribe of Insurance Men' on the diamond at Madison Street Park, with the gate money going to the Bureau of Associated Charities.
- Tragedy in the Mount St. Helens Backcountry
A toddler is maimed after an accident with a hatchet in a remote squatter camp.
- The Real Estate Poet of West Seattle
In an era of aggressive land speculation, developers sold West Seattle not just as property, but as a vision of the Mediterranean transplanted to the Pacific Northwest.