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36 stories matching gus
- The Mail-Order Bride Who Chose Another Man
Katherine Glad traveled west to marry a Northport farmer, but a chance meeting with Gus Maki changed everything.
- Two Men Crushed in a Railroad Cut — and Fifteen Walked Off the Job
A 35-foot construction cut collapsed at Gilbert Brandt's camp opposite LeClerc Creek, killing Otto Blad and Gus Nelson and injuring two others.
- A Miner's Last Spree: The Newcastle Suicide That Shocked a Coal Town
August Sanders, a veteran Newcastle coal miner, shot himself after a drinking spree and the Coal Creek fire left him broke—an intimate glimpse of life and despair in Washington's coal country.
- The Everett Massacre: A Bloody Sunday on the Waterfront
An armed confrontation between I.W.W. protesters and a citizens' posse leaves six dead and scores wounded after a failed landing in Everett.
- The Party Says Not Guilty—and Cheers the Man It Removed
Seattle Democrats put their scandal-scarred administration on trial at Haake's Hall, buried a First Ward delegate fight, and sent David E. Durie into the mayor's race while J.M. Wolfe got the ovation.
- A Missing Man, a Dead Wife, and a Sewing Machine Full of Money
Joseph Von Lingenau vanished after his wife died in childbirth. His friends fear murder; his neighbors remember a man coming apart.
- Four Sections Burn Along the Pend Oreille
A week-long blaze near Ruby Creek is finally checked, leaving ranchers, timber and a county bridge in ashes—and one firefighter carried ten miles to safety.
- The Perpetual-Motion Man Came Downtown Armed
Before Dr. Hannibal Mills shot a man in the Occidental saloon, he told a restaurant waiter he would not live until morning and announced, “I'm God, the devil and himself.”
- Tragedy at Lake Washington
A roller coaster at the end of the Madison street line collapsed, injuring a local carpenter and five young boys.
- The Padlock Swindle on the Sidewalks of Seattle
A new arrival in Seattle was relieved of his life savings by a pair of confidence men using a trick lock and a fake partnership.
- Two Coal Colliers Vanished With Seattle Men Aboard
The Keweenaw and the Matanzas, both familiar in Seattle harbor, were given up for lost between British Columbia and San Francisco—taking a crew that included the Keweenaw's captain, his son, and a Seattle engineer.
- King County Democrats Revolt Over an Anti-Canal Platform
At the 1892 state Democratic convention, a plank against the Lake Washington canal so enraged Seattle Democrats that many vowed to vote for Republican John H. McGraw — “patriotism first, partisanship after that.”
- The Shingle War at Ballard
Workers at the Seattle Cedar Lumber and Stimson mills walk off the job to resist a wage-cutting campaign, testing the limits of non-union labor.
- The Shadowy Death of Charles Smith
A suspected opium smuggler dies by his own hand in the Puyallup reservation jail, leaving behind a cryptic note that hints at corruption and a hidden fortune in contraband.
- The Steamboat Race for the White River
As farmers in the White River valley struggle to move their produce to market, two rival steamboat captains rush to launch new, shallow-draft vessels to dominate the river trade.
- Left for Dead Under a Trestle
After a terrifying night spent injured beneath the tracks, a rail worker is finally rescued by a passing engine.
- Tragedy at the Mouth of the Columbia
A broken hawser on a tow line claimed the lives of three sailors in a sudden, violent accident off the bar of the Columbia River.
- Gambling in the Stag Saloon
A municipal judge rules that draw poker is punishable as a misdemeanor under city ordinance.
- The Fanny Lake Burns to the Waterline
A Seattle jobbing steamer meets a mysterious end in Sullivan's Slough, marking the third local boat lost to fire in two months.
- The Councilman and the Kentucky Saloon
A Tacoma city councilman faces a public scandal after a local bartender accuses him of ruining business.
- The Deadly Feud in Palouse
A long-standing domestic conflict culminates in a fatal confrontation in the street.
- The Forger Who Ordered Champagne to the Mansion of J. M. Colman
For two weeks a smooth-talking stranger worked Front Street with forged order slips and a taste for the good stuff — until six bottles of champagne went to the wrong address.
- A 3 A.M. Saloon Fire Puts a Whole Block in Peril
Smoke seeping from the basement of A. L. Ries's Eagle saloon roused the Dunlap Hotel and threatened an entire frame row on Washington Avenue — and renewed Newport's long push for a real fire company.
- The Loneliness of the South End Chicken Rancher
Neighbors discover Johann Neugerg, a solitary 66-year-old rancher, dead in his shack after days of silence.
- The Town's Growing Pains
A wave of petty crime in Aberdeen leads to the arrest of five men, highlighting the social tensions of a city suddenly flooded with transient workers.
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- The Boarding-House Brawl
A South Seattle landlord takes matters into his own hands after being swindled by a fake engineer.
- The 'Wild Man' of Kearney Street
A profile of Leonor Borcharts, known as 'Oofty Goofty,' a performer who made a living by enduring physical abuse for public entertainment.
- The Unseen Toll of Seattle’s Great Fire
A Norwegian immigrant, unable to cope with the ruin of his family life following the Great Seattle Fire, is declared insane by the probate court.
- The Case of 'Doc' Stewart
A young man is headed to the county jail after an altercation in the streets of downtown Seattle.
- The Well in the Wenas
A local carpenter, suffering from the effects of alcohol, met a gruesome and solitary end after falling into a spring in the Wenas Valley.
- The Logger's Disguise
A Tacoma patrolman pulls off a sting operation against a hotelier selling illicit spirits.
- The Great Gasoline Boat Chase
A stolen launch from the Pasco docks is recovered on a remote island near Yellepit after a river pursuit.
- The Hero of the Jersey Express
A young railroad engineer risks his life to save a passenger train, sparking a community celebration in Spokane.