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- Tacoma Loses College Bid Over Financial Incentives
Despite preferring Tacoma as a location, trustees of the Swedish Lutheran college chose Everett due to a superior $10,000 bonus offer.
- The Fight for the Agricultural College
Colfax officials accuse the state government of fraud and collusion in the selection of the site for the new Agricultural College.
- The City’s Sick and the Floating Hazard
A growing public outcry in 1889 Seattle demands the relocation of the city’s pesthouse, currently moored in a dangerous, wind-swept location that threatens public health.
- Was the College Location Bought?
A regent suggests the Pullman site for the agricultural college was secured through secret payments.
- The Struggle for a Central Union Depot
As Seattle rapidly expanded, competing railroad interests vied for the prime waterfront site at the foot of Main Street, mirroring modern battles over urban infrastructure and transit hubs.
- The Battle for Seattle’s First Meatpacking Plant
A local firm threatens to move to Tacoma unless the Seattle City Council changes ordinances to allow a large-scale packing house.
- The Bitter Battle for the Yakima Depot
A railroad official defends the controversial move of the townsite to North Yakima, dismissing long-standing charges of corruption and 'outrage'.
- Yakima Fights Back Against the 'Pullman Deal'
A legal battle erupts as Yakima citizens challenge the state government's decision to locate the new agricultural college in Pullman.
- Puget Sound Secures the New Navy Yard
Washington State beats Oregon in Senate lobbying, winning the site for the Pacific naval station.
- The Preacher Who Shot His Client: A Land Grab Gone Deadly
In a bizarre twist of frontier justice, Reverend G. W. Walker allegedly shot settler Herbert Wilson in the breast after a dispute over land titles, revealing a pattern of fraud that had already drawn legal complaints.
- Who Owns the Mud Beneath Smith Cove?
Seven King County men file claims on twenty acres apiece of Seattle tide flat, then protest the state's plan to fill and sell the same ground out from under them.
- City Council Ignores Art Club's Plea Against Fire Station Site
Walla Walla officials vote to move forward with a fire substation at Park and Alder, despite local concerns over location and urban planning.
- The Corruption of the College Location
North Yakima residents fume over the 'corrupt' decision to place the state agricultural college in Pullman rather than the Yakima Valley.
- The Rival Engineers Who Carved the Pacific Northwest
A look back at the lives of General Anderson and Major Rogers, the architectural titans whose competition through the Cascades and Selkirk mountains built the backbone of the region's railroad legacy.
- The Battle Over Tacoma's High School Site
A local critic argues against repurposing the controversial 'Tourist Hotel' property for a new city high school.
- The Great Washington Land Grab
A federal investigation reveals how the Northern Pacific Railroad manipulated land office officials to claim 600,000 acres of prime territory in the Walla Walla Valley.
- The Case for an Irrigation University
Yakima boosters argue that the arid environment makes the city the only logical choice for the new state Agricultural College.
- The Great Capital Debate of 1889
Proponents of North Yakima push to designate the rising agricultural hub as the state capital, highlighting its central geography.
- 1889 Ballot Pairs Capital Site With Suffrage and Prohibition
North Yakima lobbies to become the permanent seat of government as the territory prepares for statehood.
- Newport's $5,000 Industrial Bounty
The town launches an aggressive campaign to lure a major sawmill or woodworking plant to the Pend Oreille valley.
- The Dream of a Working-Class Suburb at Palatine Hill
Promoters marketed the new Palatine Hill addition near Salmon Bay as the ideal, affordable commuter retreat for the city's growing workforce of laborers and mechanics.
- The Iron Road Reaches West
Surveyors are racing to connect the Snake River to Puget Sound, signaling a massive shift for Seattle’s future.
- The Elma Iron Rush
Local prospectors are convinced they have struck it rich in the hills east of Elma, filing claims for iron deposits by the wholesale.
- The Lumber Barons Who Built the Sound
A 1882 reflection on the pioneers of the Puget Sound lumber industry, mapping the rise of the men who transformed Washington’s forests into fortunes.
- The Lumber Land Swindlers
A pair of con artists operating in Tacoma were arrested for selling fraudulent timber claims to unsuspecting laborers.