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11 stories matching clifton
- The Escape from Humboldt Street
A young woman fleeing a Victoria brothel tells her story to Seattle police after a daring cross-border escape.
- A Desperate Night at the Clifton House
A Clallam County resident struggling with alcoholism and personal heartache attempts to end his life in a downtown hotel.
- Justice Glasgow Sets New Fines for Dance House Girls
Judge Glasgow increases bail and fines for women working in dance halls and brothels, signaling a harsher crackdown on vice in the city.
- Divorced Women Expose Husbands' Cruelty and Gambling
A Seattle judge grants three separations after testimonies of physical abuse, betrayal, and abandonment.
- The Struggle for the Seattle Mills
Striking workers at the Seattle mills face a stalemate as employers struggle to find enough non-union labor to maintain operations.
- Runaway Gravel Train Near Hood Canal
A dozen laborers on a Port Gamble railroad work train are forced to jump for their lives as their cars lose control on a steep grade.
- The Tragedy on the Quinault
A ranching partnership ends in a fatal, accidental shooting in the remote wilderness.
- The Deadly Prescription of Clifton House
A physician’s sinister plot to poison his young wife for her inheritance ends in a gruesome, ironic justice on the frontier.
- The Jailbreak at Chehalis
Three prisoners on the run from the Chehalis jail are recaptured by a diligent Sheriff in Seattle, ending their brief taste of liberty.
- The Renegade's Return: A Confederate Exile's Seattle Confession
Decades after the Civil War, an expatriate recounts his painful realization of displacement while watching the American flag from across a border.
- The Poet-Waiter Who Drowned in Seattle Harbor
C. W. Chantrell came from a noble French family and carried a love poem in his pocket. He died broke, alcoholic, and alone on the steamer Idaho—and Seattle's coroner called it an accident.