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- A Cougar at Twenty Feet: A Hood Canal Family's Close Call
Walter Bywater was walking a Hood Canal trail with his wife and child when a seven-foot cougar crouched to spring. A Scotch terrier and a quick rifle shot changed the ending.
- The Senator and the Irish Couple
A Western politician’s misguided attempt to intervene in a domestic brawl on the frontier results in an unexpected, four-way showdown.
- The Siege and Tragedy at Friday Harbor
A reclusive farmer's descent into madness and murder in the San Juan Islands ended in a gruesome, fiery standoff with local law enforcement.
- An Anti-Chinese Assault at the Seattle Waterfront
A group of Chinese laborers is attacked while attempting to depart for Portland, highlighting the escalating racial tensions in the city.
- The Sea Gives Up a Member of the Ganiard Party
Four months after a storm swallowed a family of musicians bound for a dance, the body of young Wesley Ganiard is recovered near the mouth of the Snohomish River — but his mother is still missing.
- 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.
- The Orphan’s Plea: A Poem That Moved Seattle to Tears on Decoration Day
As the city honored Civil War dead with solemn processions and speeches, a young girl’s grief over her father’s unmarked grave brought the Grand Marshal to tears.
- The Child on the Train
A conductor discovers a feverish little girl wandering a train alone with only her doll for comfort.
- The Gilman Counterfeit Ring
Federal marshals catch two men in a Gilman boarding house, caught in the act of minting bogus coins by the light of a stove.
- The Lion in the Boiler Room
When a traveling circus lion escaped into a Seattle industrial district, two workers found themselves trapped in a boiler-house, staring down a predator while attempting a quiet rescue.
- The Midnight Stand at the Iron Works
A routine patrol turns fatal when a Seattle officer encounters an armed man in the shadows of an industrial plant.
- The Cowboy Lion Hunters of Rock Creek
Two local stockmen display frontier grit by lassoing a massive lion in the hills near Yakima.
- Midnight in the New York Block: A Creditor Catches a Stock Shuffle
William Harris watched from an alley as goods were moved between Rumpf's and Mayer's stores, then helped attach the stock before dawn.
- The Perilous Climb of St. Peter's Lantern
A daredevil’s afternoon of ‘roof climbing’ in 1876 Seattle turns into a life-or-death struggle when a simple stunt leaves him dangling a hundred feet above the pavement.
- The 'Bear of Third Street' Prank
A group of rowdy boys in 1880s Seattle found a cruel way to terrorize women walking home alone at night.
- Two Hunters Left Clinging to the Bottom of Their Boat in Lake Washington
After an energetic Irish setter caused their rowboat to capsize, two men spent two chilling hours adrift on the lake before being rescued by passing boys.
- Trapped by the Beast in Eden Valley
A rancher’s attempt to capture a predatory panther results in a harrowing fight at the edge of a cliff.
- Caught Red-Handed: A Midnight Grocery Heist
A burglar's attempt to crack open a downtown Seattle grocery store was thwarted by an alert clerk sleeping just upstairs.
- The Dueling Tomcats: A Hunter’s Tale of Feline Fury in Spring Brook
A local hunter witnesses a violent territorial battle between two male wildcats, fought over the affections of a female observer, before intervening with his shotgun.