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15 stories matching penn
- The Confession of a Century: Allen Hewitt Admits to Poisoning a Rival
Prominent Seattle attorney and son of the city's namesake dies at his father's home after confessing to a murder committed decades ago in Spokane.
- The Wild New Town of Penn’s Cove
Construction is booming at the head of Penn’s Cove as a new town rises, while residents grapple with a local scarlet rash and the arrival of a new real estate office.
- The Whidbey Island Rancher Who Vanished Without a Trace
John G. Phinney has been missing for days from his ranch at Penn Cove. A search party aboard the steamer Idaho has not returned, and neighbors now fear he drowned — or met foul play.
- The California Building Changes Hands
A major real estate transaction hits the Tacoma market, marking the sale of a prominent downtown structure for over $100,000.
- The Widow’s Gamble: A Seattle Man’s Death in Alaska Triggers a Federal Insurance Battle
Mrs. By H. Rietson sues the Penn Mutual Life Insurance Company for the payout on her husband Archie C. Rietson, who perished with 13 others when the steamer Jessie sank in the Kuskokwim River last June. The company refuses to pay until his death is positively proven.
- A Street to Lake Union
Property owners push a $7,500 grading of Lake Avenue to link Elliott Bay and Lake Union and drain the flooded Denny meadow.
- Tragedy at the Occident Hotel
A woman seeking refuge at a Seattle hotel is gunned down by her estranged husband in a violent murder-suicide.
- Tragedy at the Stoecke Home
A peaceful household is shattered when a violent dispute ends in a fatal shooting.
- The Double Wedding Surprise
A quiet wedding service at a Yakima home takes a dramatic turn when the officiating clergyman unites the mother and the daughter in marriage simultaneously.
- The Political Landscape of Snohomish, 1878
As the November election approaches, the citizens of Washington Territory weigh the merits of local candidates for Sheriff, Auditor, and beyond.
- The Broken Promises of Washington Territory
James G. Swan argues that federal mismanagement and bureaucratic neglect are the true causes of unrest, urging the government to honor its treaty obligations to Indigenous nations.
- A Coal Train Kills a Miner on the Tracks at Renton
Bradbury Whittaker, a miner from Pennsylvania, was run over by a backing coal train near Renton—the third such death in a short time—and a coroner's jury found no one to blame.
- Steel on the Grade: The I.W.N. Pushes North From Usk
Twelve carloads of steel arrived in Newport this week as the Idaho & Washington Northern extension resumed tracklaying, with a new station open at Usk and a tunnel still to finish at Blueslide.
- He Sailed Around the Horn in '49. Thirty-One Years Later, He Went Home.
S. S. Bassett, who farms at the mouth of the Snohomish, has come back from six months east — a boyhood village he could no longer read, a Centennial he will not stop describing, and a hard-times East that sent him home more convinced than ever about Washington Territory.
- The Pulpit vs. the Tax Assessor: Seattle Pastor Fights a Bill to Tax Church Property
Rev. Clark Davis told his congregation that a proposed state law would punish churches for doing the state's moral work—and warned that saloons and 'unbelievers' were cheering it on.