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22 stories matching inebri
- Twelve Days in Jail for a Drunken Woman—and the Men Who Walked Free
A Port Townsend letter protests a double standard after a woman is locked up for disorderly drinking while the town's inebriated men go unpunished.
- The Tailor’s Basket: A Drunkard’s Violent Encounter with a Chinese Laundryman
In the tense racial climate of late-19th century Port Townsend, an intoxicated tailor attempted to pick a fight with a Chinese immigrant, only to be knocked unconscious by his own laundry basket.
- Narrow Escape from the Rising Tide
A man who fell into a drunken slumber near the waterfront was rescued just before the incoming tide could overtake him.
- A Night Out on Front Street Ends in Glass
An intoxicated patron’s stumbling walk through downtown Seattle leads to a costly encounter with a store display window.
- A Desperate Plunge from the Coal Bunkers
A delirious man, suffering from the effects of alcohol, jumped forty feet from the Oregon Improvement Company's coal bunkers into the sound, surviving the fall only to be hauled back to shore.
- Populists Clash with the Militia
Legislators demand the state militia disband after accounts of drunken revelry at the inaugural ceremonies.
- A Radical Proposal for the Saloon Trade
A local lawyer proposes a city ordinance that would force saloon keepers to provide free drinks to those on the police blacklist.
- Brutal Attack on Madison Street
A local contractor remains in serious condition after being assaulted for an sarcastic remark made on a streetcar.
- The Miracle Cure Con-Man
A supposed benefactor who won city council acclaim for his 'alcoholism cure' is arrested for fraud.
- A Soaking and a Saving at the Seattle Waterfront
A porter on the City of Topeka fell overboard while inebriated and had to be prodded with a pike pole to save his life.
- A Woman Takes Port Townsend Police to Court
Elizabeth Scott is suing the city for $5,000, alleging that a police officer broke her wrist for the 'crime' of smiling at the Chief of Police during a parade.
- The Bachelor’s Secret: Why He Loves a Crying Baby
A humorous anecdote from the May 5, 1877, *Seattle Daily Intelligencer* reveals the cynical charm of a local bachelor who finds comfort in infant noise because it clears the room.
- The Drunkard’s Fortune: Tacoma Bank Takes Over $1,100 from an Inebriate
In a stark display of 19th-century temperance law, Officer Frank Cavanagh has declared wealthy Tacoma man Michael Murphy legally incompetent due to alcoholism, depositing his cash into the bank for 'safekeeping.'
- The North Bend Ducking Stool
When a man terrorized his family during a drunken rampage, his neighbors took justice into their own hands with an icy river dip.
- The Wild West at the N.P. Hotel
A young man, fueled by a 'periodic drunk,' terrorizes a hotel proprietor with a revolver in downtown Spokane.
- A Forger's Mind Was Ruined by Opium, Cocaine and Cigarettes
Prosecuting Attorney James F. Miller told a Seattle court that H. Miller, an electrician addicted for a decade, was not responsible for passing a forged order.
- A Drunken Man, a Barren Tract and a Race to Freeze the Money
A Tacoma guardian says Frank and Mamie Aylwin plied George Ward with liquor and sold him nearly worthless land; a judge orders the proceeds held.
- Olympia Debates How Far the Law Should Reach Into a Man's Glass
At Liberal Hall, the Unity Club argued the limits of temperance legislation — whether the state may police private drinking or only the liquor traffic itself.
- The First Gold-Cure Club in Washington
At Olympia's Keeley Institute, former patients formed the state's first Bi-chloride of Gold Club—part mutual-aid society, part fundraising engine for poor alcoholics who could not afford the cure.
- The Editor Who Sold His Paper to a Brothel Keeper
A scathing letter in the Puget Sound Dispatch exposes the corrupt alliance between Seattle’s Republican party and its most notorious vice kingpins, asking: 'What of that newspaper publisher... who for a palm share in the wages of prostitution gives his aid and influence?'
- The Great Fourth of July Exodus: Tacoma’s Streets Empty as Seattle Claims the Holiday
While Tacoma lay quiet and deserted on Independence Day, its residents flocked to Seattle for steamers, picnics, and political meetings, leaving behind only a few 'pocket pickets' and a marching army of women.
- The Tinderbox of the Waterfront: Fire Chief Warns of Seattle’s Oil-Fueled Doom
Chief Collins warns that Standard Oil’s wooden warehouses along the waterfront are a 'match away' from destroying the city, while overcrowded lodging houses threaten the poor with similar fates.