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  1. The Sunday Dry Law Crackdown

    Two prominent Pacific Avenue druggists face charges for allegedly turning their shop into a weekend speakeasy.

    Feb 3, 1909The Tacoma Times1526 Pacific Ave, Tacoma, Pierce CountyCity Hall · Nightlife

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  1. The Tramp Problem in the Palouse

    Unemployed men camping outside Colfax have turned to raiding gardens and chicken coops to survive.

    Aug 22, 1893The Seattle Post-IntelligencerColfax

  2. Tension and Violence at the Colville Reservation

    Settlers at Colville petition for military intervention following reports of burned hay fields and armed conflict with local Indigenous people.

    Jul 28, 1889The Seattle Post-IntelligencerColville

  3. The Colfax Sack Elevator

    A local inventor creates a machine designed to eliminate the back-breaking labor of stacking grain in regional warehouses.

    Feb 23, 1900The Colfax GazetteColfax

  4. The Price of Disposal: Colville Reservation Opens to Homesteading

    Federal authorities announce the opening of 350,000 acres of the Colville Reservation to white homesteaders, touting the financial management of tribal wealth.

    Sep 22, 1916Coulee City DispatchColville Reservation, Nespelem

  5. Colville Boosters Redrew the Map, and the Taxpayers Paid for the Surveys

    Northport cries foul after County Surveyor Clare Hunt moves the Newport–Metaline–Orient road off its original line, leaving a direct-route town side-tracked — and several thousand dollars spent on surveys that produced no road at all.

    May 14, 1908The Newport Miner (Newport, WA) 1899-CurrentColville

  6. Blood Shed Over a Mining Claim

    A dispute over a placer mining claim in the Chewelah district turned violent, leaving three men fatally shot.

    Nov 3, 1893The Seattle Post-IntelligencerChewelah

  7. Washington Asked Congress for $34,500 to Finish Carving Up the Colville Reservation

    An 1894 dispatch from the capital details the surveying and allotment machinery behind opening the northern Colville Reservation to settlement — right down to the promise that the cost would be repaid 'from the proceeds of the lands when sold.'

    Jul 14, 1894The Seattle Post-IntelligencerColville

  8. The Expensive Cipher Mistake That Rocked Colfax

    A bungled telegram message causes a small-town grain buyer to accidentally trigger a massive payout to local farmers.

    Jan 22, 1893The Seattle Post-IntelligencerColfax

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