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  1. The Man Who Came Back from the Tundra with $1.8 Million

    Nels Peterson sinks his fortune in a Yukon steamboat, hits rock bottom in Nome, then strikes it rich on a bench claim—arriving in Seattle with enough gold to buy a city block.

    Jul 10, 1905The Wenatchee Daily WorldSeattle, King CountyBoom & Bust · Strange But True

  2. Two Chinese Men Ordered Deported After Prison Term

    Lee Wung and Wun Lung were ordered deported for lacking immigration papers after serving a year for forgery—a minor hearing inside the era's exclusion machine.

    Sep 16, 1904The Tacoma TimesTacoma, Pierce CountyExclusion & Resistance

  3. After the Clallam Went Down, a Seattle Man Asked Why No Puget Sound Steamer Had a Lifeboat That Floated

    J. Walton wrote to the president and to Congress with a plain charge: not one passenger steamer on the Sound is properly equipped to save lives — and in two round trips to Nome he never once saw a fire drill.

    Jan 12, 1904The Tacoma TimesSeattle, King CountyCity Hall · Disasters

  4. The Government Can Work You Ten Hours and Pay You for Eight

    A federal appeals ruling overturns 256 Seattle laborers' overtime claims, holding that the government may punish the officer who orders extra hours — but owes the worker nothing for them.

    Dec 3, 1903The Evening StatesmanSeattle, King CountyWork & Pay

  5. The Great McNeils Island Prison Break

    Two convicts who vanished while building jetties for the government spark a frantic, bloodhound-led manhunt across the Puget Sound.

    Sep 2, 1904The Tacoma TimesSteilacoom, Pierce CountyTrue Crime

  6. A Seattle Domestic’s Sudden Inheritance

    A Kansas prosecutor travels to the Pacific Northwest to track down a former domestic worker entitled to a $20,000 estate.

    Aug 19, 1903The Evening StatesmanSeattle Hotel, Seattle, King CountyTrue Crime

  7. The Baker Who Walked Up Fourth Street and Vanished

    Herman Schwarzbach, proprietor of Olympia's city bakery, left work one Thursday afternoon and was never seen again — leaving a small debt, a failed property sale, and friends who feared foul play.

    Jun 15, 1903The Evening StatesmanOlympia, Thurston CountyTrue Crime

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