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- The Perilous Seventh and Pine Coasting Crash
A dozen youths riding a 'double-header' sled collided with a laundry wagon, resulting in injuries during a winter snowstorm.
- Cheaper to Ship Wheat to Liverpool Than to Seattle: An Inland Empire Farmer's Case Against the Railroads
A Whitman County grower tells the Post-Intelligencer that Palouse wheat can be raised for about 30 cents a bushel — and sent 16,000 miles to England for less than the railroad charges to haul it 400 miles to the Sound.
- Trapped in the Gears
A farm worker is severely injured in a gruesome accident while operating a header in the fields near Walla Walla.
- A Suspected Arson Fire Wiped Out a Farm's Machinery North of Prescott
The Grote brothers saved only a wagon and some header boxes after $4,000 in equipment burned on the Preston farm.
- Tacoma Tigers Sweep Seattle
The hometown baseball team clinches their hold on the league's top spot after a hard-fought double-header victory against the Seattle squad.
- The Judge Who Was Both Defendant and Accused
In a stunning legal double-header, Judge Wickersham is convicted of seduction in one court, then immediately indicted for perjury by the federal grand jury in the very same day.
- A Night of Vengeance in Horse Heaven
Twenty-eight draft animals were found slaughtered in a calculated act of malice, suspected to be the work of a disgruntled farmhand.
- Under Fire on the Way to Spokane: Seattle's Militia Rode Into a Rail War
Col. Joseph Green's detachment returns from Spokane after escorting a mutinied company through burned bridges, ambushes and striker country—and the city turns out to cheer.
- Harvest Hand Brutally Whipped by Crew Near Hadley
A threshing crew allegedly used a fabricated charge of sexual assault to justify the violent beating of a fellow laborer.
- The Black Miners Who Came to Save Roslyn
In February 1885, a special train carrying 300 African American laborers from the East Coast arrived in Washington Territory to break a coal strike. Their arrival ended weeks of unrest and restored order to the struggling mining town.
- The Day the Slash Hills Burned
A devastating fire sweeps through the rural settlement, consuming homes, crops, and winter stores, leaving families to pick through the ashes.
- Fire Ravages Miller Farmstead
A devastating blaze wipes out essential equipment and stores at the Miller residence, narrowly averted from total loss by neighborly aid.
- The Greasy Pole Gambit: Seattle’s Summer of Slapstick and Sweat
On a sweltering July evening in 1889, thousands gathered at the foot of Madison Street not for politics or protest, but to watch three men fail spectacularly at climbing an oiled pole—a moment of pure, unadulterated civic joy.
- A Christmas on the Ice King: The Climb That Saw Rainier Smoking
In 1894, Major Ingraham led six men, seven homing pigeons, and a camera onto Mount Rainier’s glaciers. They came back with frostbite, a story of steam and smoke rising from the crater—and one pigeon missing.
- When the Hills Tried to Wash Away the Railroad
A series of massive landslides repeatedly blocked the Seattle & Montana tracks, forcing a superintendent into the muck and halting all rail traffic between Seattle and Everett.
- Pitchfork Violence in the Harvest Field
A simple argument over a whiskey bottle near Pullman escalated into a violent assault with a pitchfork and a heavy roller.
- A Double-Header at Madison Park
Seattle's local baseball team endures a grueling day of two back-to-back games, marked by high-energy fielding and unruly fans.
- Brakes Fail on the Yakima River Embankment
A young woman leaped into a runaway automobile as it rolled toward a ditch, highlighting the dangers of early car ownership.
- The Green City Kid in the Harvest Field
A young, inexperienced laborer struggles to keep pace with a rough, veteran wheat-harvesting crew in the Big Bend region.
- The Invisible Laborers of 1891 Seattle
A glimpse into the daily domestic and service-based grind through the classified advertisements of a booming pioneer city.
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- A Cable Car Derailment on Madison Street
A dangerously packed cable car hurtles off its tracks while heading toward the West Street turntable, leaving passengers scrambling for safety.
- The 'Chicken Oath' in Municipal Court
To ensure truthful testimony, a Seattle courtroom turns to a traditional Chinese oath involving the decapitation of a rooster.
- A Perilous Crossing on the Slough
A mail carrier and his companion nearly drown after their boat capsizes while crossing a river slough.
- The Logger’s Sunday Best
A small-town transformation: How one local logger swapped his camp clothes for city attire to blend in with the townspeople.
- 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 Unlikely Companions of the Dairy Farm
A persistent hen and a reluctant cow form an inseparable, if highly annoying, bond in rural Washington.
- Modernizing the Woods
The shift from oxen to steam power and wire cables is changing the face of the logging industry along the Wishkah River.
- Home of Boom Overseer Destroyed by Fire
Passengers on the Clan McDonald discover a house engulfed in flames while passing, but it is too late to save the structure.