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- The Lonely End of a Prosser Pioneer
A man claiming to be the first postmaster of Prosser passes away in a rural shack, leaving behind only questions about his past and his family.
- An Ex-Priest Turns a Packed Seattle Hall Against the Jesuits
At Ranke's Hall, former Catholic priest J. B. Daly tells the A.P.A. that the Society of Jesus is a secret political machine—then drapes himself in the flag and leads three cheers.
- The Industrial Army Crosses the Cascades
Unemployed men, part of the Coxeyite movement, use cunning, boxcars, and mountain trails to make their way toward Washington D.C.
- The Great Seattle Tide-Land Grab
Powerful corporate interests are organizing to seize Seattle’s valuable waterfront, leaving citizens and commerce at the mercy of speculators.
- The Iron Rush: Seattle’s Early Fight Against Monopoly
When mining magnates and railroad tycoons clashed over the future of Washington's natural resources, Seattle’s civic leaders took a stand to protect local control.
- The Sailors' Union Fights Back Against the Waterfront Crimps
Seattle's Sailors' Union answers charges from two boarding-house men, calling them crimps and accusing them of drugging and shanghaiing sailors onto ships.
- The Ice Water Gambit: How a Seattle Drifter Was Framed for Theft
A local vagrant was doused in freezing water and coerced into a false confession by a cunning runner, only to be caught red-handed on Third Street.
- The Railway's Shadow Over Washington Politics
A scathing editorial exposes how the Northern Pacific Railroad is buying influence by handing out free travel passes to political aspirants in Washington Territory.
- A Forged Passage: The Counterfeit Papers That Nearly Smuggled Chinese Immigrants Into Seattle
A ring selling near-perfect imitation government certificates was caught trying to land Chinese immigrants at Tacoma, Seattle and Port Townsend — and the customs collector was not impressed by their craftsmanship.
- The Eight-Hour Day as a Moral Mandate
A fiery editorial argues that the eight-hour movement is the most significant moral and social reform of the age, transcending the 'superior intelligence' of lawyers and editors.
- The Governor’s War on the Railroad Lobby
Governor Henry McBride calls out corporate influence in the Washington state legislature during a fiery speech to Whitman County farmers.
- Firebug Terrorizes North Walla Walla
A series of mysterious barn fires and a woodshed blaze keep police on high alert.
- The Great Walla Walla Water Heist
City officials discover a massive, clandestine system of secret pipes siphoning irrigation water into the municipal supply.
- The Sad End of a Local Pet
A harmless land otter, kept as a mascot, was killed by an erratic local resident in a senseless act of cruelty.
- The Great Rat War of the Seattle Waterfront
A local commission merchant argues that poor box design is turning Seattle apple shipments into a banquet for waterfront vermin.
- The Last Rally: How Seattle’s Republicans Tried to Buy the Vote with Prima Donnas and Quartets
As election day approaches, the Republican party stages its final grand spectacle at the Armory, promising musical entertainment for ladies and a landslide victory for Frank D. Black over the 'mongrel' Populist ticket.
- The Forger Who Could Not Outrun the Telegraph
A determined sheriff tracks a cunning forger from the Midwest to the Pacific Northwest by leveraging a new network of law enforcement telegrams.
- The Jailhouse Performance of an Insanity Faker
A man accused of horse theft attempts a desperate, bumbling ruse to avoid trial by feigning madness, only to be caught plotting his escape with stolen keys.
- The Astral Power Struggle
A Philadelphia mystic claims the late Madame Blavatsky’s spirit has hand-picked him as her successor, sparking a bitter schism within the Theosophical Society.
- Murphy Forever: A Rival Editor Skewers Olympia's Perpetual Councilman
Days before the First Ward election, the Tribune turns its sarcasm on Councilman John Miller Murphy — newspaper editor, theater proprietor, professed temperance man, and, by this account, a fixture in the council chamber and at the bar he once voted to close.
- The Great Walla Walla Manhunt
An elderly convict pulls a vanishing act, leaving local authorities chasing shadows after allegedly swindling locals out of thousands.
- The Art of the 'Back-Seat Sermon'
A Seattle preacher shares his cunning, slightly cynical strategy to force young couples in the back pews to stop courting and actually listen to the gospel.
- The Terror of the Middle Valley
A massive cougar that plagued local settlers with livestock raids finally meets its end through a cunning trap.
- The Band Serenades a Surprise Wedding
A popular music teacher and the leader of the Aberdeen Cornet Band marry, only to be surprised by their own bandmates.
- The Boy Who Wanted a Gun: Seattle’s Satirical Take on Sunday School Prizes
A local columnist mocks the absurdity of juvenile weekly papers offering .32-caliber revolvers to boys who recruit eight subscribers, arguing that this 'philanthropy' teaches murder rather than morality.
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- A Gold-Headed Cane for the Man Who Stayed on the Phone in a Burning Mine
Newcastle honored C.C. Anderson, who kept giving orders to trapped miners as the roof burned above him.
- The Skirmish at Chelan River
Two Indigenous farmers and two white squatters face off in a dispute over land rights and cultivation.
- Cusick Wants a Calaboose as Railroad Roughs Run Wild
A justice of the peace petitions county commissioners for a jail after railroad construction crews bring drinking, brawling, and black eyes to town.
- The Copper Wire Heist
Four laborers are taken into custody after allegedly stealing 50 pounds of copper wire from local transit facilities.
- The Commercial Hotel Changes Hands
Management of Kennewick’s Commercial Hotel shifts as the proprietor departs to pursue mining ventures.
- A Discharged Laborer Speaks Out
Patrick Lavan, a laborer dismissed from city water works, writes to the press to dispel rumors of violent threats and describe the hardship of supporting seven children.