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- The Loggers Who Built a Town: How an Indian Settlement Thrived on the Banks of Port Discovery
While Snohomish debated its own agricultural future, a thriving community of Indigenous farmers and loggers was quietly building a prosperous life in Dungeness, complete with schools, hotels, and dairy herds.
- The S'Klallam Village That Bought Its Own Ground on Dungeness Bay
A traveler describes Jamestown, a community of young Clallam Indians who pooled their earnings to buy a 160-acre farm and built an orderly village beside the logging railway.
- The Buried Gold of Dungeness and the Woman Ansel White Left Behind
Neighbors near Dungeness take up divining rods and dig out stumps hunting a dead man's fortune — and turn up instead the fifty-year-old story of the woman he ruined.
- Three Sailors Drown in Squall Near Dungeness Mill
A sudden winter gale capsizes a supply boat, claiming the lives of three men just off the coast of Dungeness.
- The Final Voyage of the Eritrea
A Chilean ship navigating the Strait of Juan de Fuca mistakenly identified a fog signal, leading to a total wreck on Dungeness Spit.
- A War Party Among the Makah
James G. Swan recounts the violent return of a Makah war party to Neah Bay after a retaliatory expedition against the Elwha people near Dungeness.
- The Teenage Outlaw of the Dungeness Valley
A sixteen-year-old boy armed with a rifle terrorizes settlers, holding up officials and sparking a manhunt.
- The Hermit Rancher Who Died Without Ever Knowing He Was Worth $4 Million
For years Ansel White scratched a living from a Clallam County farm while a fortune waited for him in the East. By the time his nephew tracked him down, he had been dead three years — and sixteen heirs were still waiting for the money.
- The Canoe Habit: A Barrier to Progress
A traveler visits Dungeness and finds the local reliance on canoes and traditional methods a stubborn obstacle to the region's economic modernization.
- The Estate That Outran Its Will
A New York inheritance officer comes to Port Townsend to sort out Ansel White's estate, where a will written before the money arrived may leave dozens of cousins fighting over a fortune.
- Judge Chambers’s New Mill Turns New Dungeness Wheat Into ‘Superb’ Flour
A newspaper tour of the just-finished grist mill found machinery ‘complete in every particular’ and a cleaning apparatus that astonished the visitors.
- An Explorer’s Report from the Northwestern Frontier
A detailed dispatch describing the agricultural potential, wildlife, and natural beauty of the Clallam County prairies.
- A Barber’s Last Walk: No Work, No Way Home, and a Family Left Behind
D. D. Vail left his Clallam County home looking for work. When he found none, he told his wife he would walk back—then took laudanum, hoping a $2,000 insurance policy would do more for his family than he could.
- Nine Good Men Never Came Home From the Seal Grounds
A hurricane off Cape Flattery swallows three canoes full of the strongest seal hunters of the tribe, all in the perilous work of gathering furs.
- A Trail of Fire Through Port Townsend
When four hundred torch-bearers paraded the bluff at night, they turned the seaside town into a spectacular display of political theater.
- The Seal Pup Wars: A Local Naturalist vs. The Smithsonian’s ‘Sense-Keeper’
James G. Swan, a long-time Neah Bay resident and customs inspector, challenges Henry W. Elliott’s decades-old claim that newborn fur seal pups sink like stones, offering eyewitness testimony from Captain Elijah McAlmond that they swim.
- The Sheriff vs. The Reservation Agent: A Neah Bay Standoff
When a federal agent refused to obey a district court order, a deputy sheriff took a midnight steamer to enforce the law—only to be met with a threat of the guardhouse.
- The Hidden Interior of the Olympics
An expedition traverses the rugged mountain interior, mapping glacial ranges and dispelling legends of a 'giant race' within the Peninsula.
- The Bold Navigator and the Tatoosh Island Light-Keeper
A maritime dispute over a salvaged anchor reveals the shady side-hustles of a government lighthouse official.
- The Hermit’s Missing Millions
A young Olympia lawyer inherits a $4 million fortune from an eccentric Port Angeles rancher—if the old man’s buried money, vanished books, and multiple wills can be untangled.
- A Close Encounter at Dungeness
A duck hunter narrowly escapes a twelve-foot shark after wading into the bay to retrieve his prize.
- Puget Sound's Fishing Future, Blocked by Ice and Freight
A federal fisheries report praises the region's deep harbors and salmon runs, but explains why deep-sea halibut and cod fishing has failed to pay—and what it will take to change that.
- The Puyallup Indian Agency Was Abolished
Federal officials declared the agency obsolete, shifted its schools to a new superintendent, and retired Agent Eells after more than 23 years.
- The Transformation of Whidbey’s Bottomlands
A local correspondent dispatches a vivid account of agricultural modernization on Whidbey Island, capturing the shift from back-breaking scythe work to the era of mechanized farming.
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- The Sack Famine Hits the La Conner Flats
Farmers face a crippling shortage of grain sacks, threatening the season's oat harvest as dealers refuse to speculate on the necessary supplies.
- Tragedy in the Basement on Washington Street
A cook and cannery worker, struggling with isolation and mental illness, was found dead in a basement apartment.
- The Stench of the Exchange
A Snohomish newspaper takes aim at an upstream sanitation disaster, warning that the town’s growth is outpacing its infrastructure.
- Ezra Meeker’s Golden Rules for Hop Success
The legendary pioneer shares his controversial methods for baling hops hot to secure the crucial foreign market.
- Seven Years of Sagebrush
A Highlands farmer transforms raw desert land into a productive bungalow estate.
- A Monster in the Mud
An unusually large sulphur bottom whale ends up stranded on the Olympia mudflats.
- A Foul Nuisance in the Indian Addition
A rotting horse carcass left in the street sparks an urgent health complaint from a neighborhood near 34th and V.
- Brush Fire Consumes Hay and Hog Pens at Costello Ranch
A routine cleanup of orchard waste turns into a local disaster when a sudden wind catches the rancher's winter feed supply.