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56 stories matching edwin
- The Groom Who Didn't Exist
A jilted lover's lawsuit in the Lewis River country unravels a bizarre family scheme to pass a son off as a different man to save the family farm from seizure.
- The Match King’s Monopoly: How Edwin Gould Bought Seattle’s Competition
A look at the massive consolidation of the American match industry by J.P. Morgan’s ally, Edwin Gould, and what it means for local manufacturers.
- A Redmond Boy Runs Away to Live Out a Storybook
Edwin Keller’s father sided with his teacher, so the blue-eyed country boy started for Seattle—until Officer Hadeen found him at police headquarters.
- The Battle for Block Eight: Two Men, One Lot, and the Law
In a dispute that highlights the chaotic land rush of early Seattle, two settlers find themselves locked in a legal battle over the same pre-emption claim, forcing a federal judge to intervene.
- Tragedy Strikes Children Under Poorly Installed Building Shutters
Two young children are critically injured after a heavy iron shutter, improperly secured to the brick exterior of the Squire-Latimer building, collapsed onto them.
- The Price of a Falling Shutter
A father files a massive lawsuit against Senator W. C. Squire after an iron shutter falls on his young children.
- The Looming Partition of the Quinault Reservation
Government agent Edwin Eells details the imminent survey and allotment of reservation lands, signaling a shift in local land ownership and settlement.
- The $1,000 Christmas Theft and the Clean-Shaven Fugitive
A Tacoma bookkeeper accused of lifting a gold-stuffed pocketbook is caught in Seattle after shaving off his beard and plotting a steamer run to Victoria.
- The Night Olympia Went to War — and Nobody Shed a Drop of Blood
A touring tragedian closes his engagement with six acts of Shakespearean murder, and the army court-martial in town turns out in force to watch.
- The passing of a pioneer sheriff
Edwin T. Dodge, a veteran of the California gold rush and early lawman who helped dismantle legendary highwayman gangs, has died at the Occidental Hotel.
- Prominent Territorial Pioneer Seriously Scalded at Home
Edwin Eels, the first white child born in Washington Territory, suffered severe burns after a boiler accident at his home.
- A State Board Told Dentists to Sign Away Their Ads — One Seattle Man Refused
At the 1903 licensing exams in Tacoma, Washington's dental examiners demanded applicants sign a code-of-ethics contract before they could sit down. Edwin J. Brown of Seattle said no — and the whole profession waited to see whether he'd be barred from practice.
- The Real Fight at City Hall Was Never About the Nominee — It Was About the City Engineer
A routine appointment to the board of public works turned into a proxy war over R. H. Thomson, whose appointment a year earlier had ended Edwin Hall Warner's brief and bitter tenure as Seattle's city engineer.
- The Y.M.C.A. Takes Root in Tacoma
Civic leaders form a new Association to organize literary and social work, echoing the rapid growth of the region.
- The Sewer Scandal: Seattle Engineer Fired for Refusing Corrupt Bricks
A political machine ousts City Engineer R.H. Thomson to bypass safety standards, sparking fears of city infrastructure collapse.
- A Circular Saw Opened His Skull—and He Stayed Conscious
At the Stetson Post Mill on Commercial Street, engineer Horatio Stetson crawled under a rip-saw table to fix a belt. The saw caught his head, cutting through bone and into his brain, yet he never lost consciousness.
- Judge Hanford Lets Railroad Cross Puyallup Reservation
A federal judge rules in favor of a railroad contractor over U.S. Army soldiers stationed on Indigenous lands.
- The Seattle School Board Executes the High School
A legal dispute over the state constitution prompts the sudden, controversial dissolution of Seattle's only high school, leaving teachers and students adrift.
- Inside the Tulalip Indian School
A rare 1883 report on the daily operations, hardships, and boarding school labor practices at the Tulalip reservation.
- The Dark Secrets of a Deathbed Will
A Centralia druggist claims his arrest on fraud charges is a retaliation for his testimony regarding a coerced deathbed will that disinherited a dying man to benefit his doctor.
- Tragedy in the Ashford Coal Mine
A foreman dies in a heroic but doomed effort to rescue his colleagues trapped by an explosion of fire damp deep beneath the earth.
- Proprietor of Rainier Valley Record dies after fiery explosion
Richard Nash, a Seattle newspaper proprietor, succumbs to burns after a gasoline tank he was repairing exploded, igniting his office.
- Seattle High School Students Petition for Their Right to Learn
After the school board abolished the city's high school, students and volunteer teachers showed up to class anyway, refusing to let their education end.
- Everett Saloon Shooting Ends in Acquittal
A jury clears a bartender of murder charges after he killed a former coworker who threatened his life.
- The Siege of the City Engineer’s Office
When an incoming engineer faced a stubborn incumbent, it took a locksmith, a drill, and a policeman to settle the power struggle.
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- The Sedro-Woolley Auto Thieves
Two youths sentenced to the reformatory after a desperate joyride across the state.
- The Doctor Who Wanted Everything
A Prince Edward Island physician wrote to a Seattle paper requesting a mountain of free market research, leading the editors to publicly shame him for his stinginess.
- Stadium Construction Site Leads to Youth's Arrest
A 15-year-old student finds himself behind bars after interfering with the construction machinery at the new high school stadium.
- A Missed Deadline for the Rainier Avenue Line
A failed payment leads to the forfeiture of earnest money for a local electric railway.
- The Miner Who Hung by His Teeth
A coal miner's miraculous survival after a terrifying fall through a trestle near Palmer highlights the dangers of early industrial work.
- The Black Engineer Who Guarded Franklin Mine—and Was Cleared of Assault
After the mine disaster, Oscar Martin stopped a trespassing engineer with a gun. A justice ruled he was doing his job.
- A Final Journey from Kansas to Hover
A young pharmacist’s search for health in the Washington climate ends in tragedy.
- English Homesteader Runs Out of Money Near Seattle
An immigrant family struggling to clear their homestead near Seattle loses their only daughter and everything they own to a tragic logging accident.