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16 stories matching eden
- 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.
- The Scandal at the Hotel Room
An embarrassed couple flees a hotel after being interrupted in a state of 'Edenic' undress.
- A Million-Dollar Land Grab and the Wife Left Behind
Abandoned for ten years in Pennsylvania, Mrs. J. E. Jordan comes to Seattle's superior court to stop her husband from deeding away the community's real estate to a medicine company — and names the men who helped him do it.
- The Iron City on the Lake: Peter Kirk’s $20 Million Steel Empire Rises in Kirkland
British industrialist Peter Kirk has secured 2,000 acres on Lake Washington to build a massive iron and steel works, complete with a planned company town. Local leaders hail it as the catalyst for Seattle's transformation into a global manufacturing hub.
- Vigilantes of the Big Bottom: A Land War in Lewis County
When an aggressive claim jumper tried to terrorize a homesteader, twenty-five settlers organized a committee of order to run him out of the woods.
- First Election in Skagit County
Voters braved the rain to select the new county’s first officials, with eighteen women casting ballots in Laconner.
- The High Court Rules on 'Dry' Possession
A state supreme court decision clarifies that possessing legally obtained liquor is not a crime, sparking debate over the future of Washington's prohibition laws.
- The Vagabond Philosopher of Yakima
A traveling drifter offers a bizarre, theological defense of his nomadic lifestyle to a local reporter.
- The Man Who Would Be Mayor: How Spokane’s Elite Saved a Local Hero from Political Ruin
When John Metcalfe was accused of bribery in the fight for state senate, twenty prominent citizens rose to defend his character. The verdict? He wasn't just innocent; he was a pillar of moral integrity.
- A Minister Takes a Geologist's Hammer to Genesis
Rev. Napoleon Hoagland tells a packed hall that the rocks do not show six days of creation, and that reason — not an infallible book — is the believer's best authority.
- Seattle's New Methodist Church Debt-Free
A local reporter discovers the secret behind the rapid funding of the city's new Methodist Protestant Church.
- The Midnight Poker Raid on Jackson Street
Police break up a late-night game in a saloon, arresting seven men who couldn't afford to bail themselves out.
- The Battle for the Cascade Pass
Skagit County residents argue that the state’s proposed route for a cross-Cascade wagon road is a geographic absurdity designed only for political patronage.
- Selling the Pend Oreille Valley as an Agricultural Eden
A booster’s tour of bench land, clover, and bumper potato crops—and why the railroad and Spokane cream market changed everything.
- The Last-Day Bill Rush—and a Women’s Suffrage Amendment
Washington’s Senate introduced dozens of measures on the final day of bill introduction, from railroad assessments and a company-store ban to a referendum on votes for women.
- The City That Vanished: Seattle’s First Real Estate Bubble and the Ghosts of Terry’s Addition
A look back at January 1890, when Seattle’s land boom was in full swing, prices were soaring, and developers like George Dorffel were selling lots in new subdivisions to speculators eager for a quick profit.
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- A Violent Encounter at the Waterfront
A non-union sailor claims he was robbed and beaten by union agitators, highlighting the growing tensions on the Seattle docks.
- A Freethinker Takes On the Pulpit in Olympia
At Liberal Hall, P. D. Moore answers a minister’s sermon on law with a call for a religion of nature, reason, and good conduct rather than wrath and dogma.
- A Deadly Dispute on the Whatcom Road
A rancher takes his own life after a violent domestic confrontation and a days-long standoff with the sheriff.
- The Desert Awakens in Kittitas
A massive engineering feat to bring water to 15,000 acres, bankrolled by local Ellensburg businessmen.
- The Serpent Slayer of Chehalis
A man wanders into town wearing a top hat to battle a monster he believes is terrorizing the rail lines.
- A Wife, a 25-Cent Bed, and a Husband's Public Complaint
Mandy Heinegabubler left her husband for the Missouri Chop House in Old Town Newport—and Alec's notice disavows her debts before admitting he hates sleeping alone.
- Tragedy at the Cosmopolis Wharf
An epileptic fit claims the life of a local man when he falls into the Chehalis River.
- The First Legal Hanging in Kittitas County
Richard 'Boosy' Anderson faces execution for the murder of Charles Fox following a dispute over a dice game in a Roslyn saloon.