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23 stories matching perc
- The Nez Perce Gold Rush Begins
Vivid reports from Walla Walla suggest a major new gold strike is underway in the Nez Perce country, drawing hundreds of prospectors despite brutal winter conditions.
- A Correspondent Reports on the Nez Perce Conflict
Writing from Olympia in 1877, a local correspondent describes Nez Perce leaders’ refusal to relocate and the surprise attack that sparked a war many understood as a defense of home.
- One Man Races the Chiefs to Washington to Open the Reservation
James Reuben of Lapwai passes through Spokane bound for the capital, determined to break his own powerful chiefs and see the Nez Perce reservation opened — and the first purchase money paid out to the poor families who need it.
- The Nez Perce Spend Their Windfall
After receiving a large payment, the Nez Perce people arrived in Farmington to trade, filling the town with new buggies, blankets, and curiosity.
- The Nez Perce Treaty Funds Scandal
A political war in the newspapers exposes missing funds and potential embezzlement in the Indian Superintendency.
- The Suffragist in the Hall: How One Woman’s Plea Shook Washington’s Constitutional Convention
In the sweltering heat of 1878, a delegation from Seattle petitioned the territorial convention for women's voting rights. Mrs. Dunaway was invited to speak, delivering an eloquent appeal that momentarily softened the hearts of the 'sage' delegates before the vote closed.
- The U.S. Government Pushes for Tribal Land Relinquishment
Federal legislators secure funding for moving California tribes and pushing the Nez Perce off their reservation in Washington Territory.
- The Governor’s Visit and the Militia’s March: July 1877 in Snohomish
Governor Perry addresses a rapt crowd on Independence Day, while local men scramble to organize volunteer companies for the Nez Perce War.
- An Old Warrior Arrested in North Yakima
A remnant of the 1877 Nez Perce conflict is taken into custody following a dispute over his wife.
- The Forgotten Pioneer Missionary
Before Marcus Whitman, there was Samuel Parker, an elderly preacher who braved the frontier to map the way for the mission of 1836.
- The Indian Giant of Germania Hall
A towering Nez Perce wrestler from Montana defeats a Tacoma local in a high-stakes match.
- The Gold Rush at Nez Perces
A local captain reports on the booming prospects for thousands of miners seeking quartz gold in the Blue Mountains.
- Wrestling Star Chief Two Feathers Takes Down Local Challengers
A crowded Germania Hall witnessed the Nez Perce wrestler defeat two local opponents in a series of grueling bouts.
- A City Grain Buyer Says the Farmers Are Being Robbed — and That San Francisco Is Stealing Washington's Wheat
After a sweep through the Inland Empire, Seattle wheat man C. G. Austin reports a 24-million-bushel crop tributary to the Sound selling at a ruinous 25 to 30 cents a bushel, with bankers and merchants holding the grain and growers taking whatever they are offered. Worse, he says, San Francisco merchants blend Washington wheat into 'California wheat' and pocket an extra 8 cents a hundredweight for the reputation.
- The Long-Delayed Railroad Link
Speculation mounts that the Oregon Railway and Navigation Company is finally moving to finish a 100-mile rail line through the Nez Perce country.
- The Senate Ratifies the Treaties That Remade the Northwest
Ratified in 1859, the 1855 treaties with tribes across Oregon and Washington promised annuities, schools and mills while ceding millions of acres to settlement.
- The Shadow of the Indian Wars in the Snohomish Valley
As rumors of conflict and uprisings on the upper Columbia stir the frontier, Snohomish locals organize a volunteer militia to defend their settlements.
- Remembering the Whitman Massacre Fifty-Six Years Later
A commemorative address at the Congregational church reflects on the life and violent death of Dr. Marcus Whitman, an event that defined the early history of the Walla Walla Valley.
- Walla Walla’s 1884 Sales Pitch: From a Tent Store to a ‘Metropolitan’ City
A reprinted commercial sketch boasts of wheat, railroads, gasworks and thousands of souls — and lets slip the town’s whole origin story, from a tent on Mill Creek to the great fire of 1866.
- The Territory's Failed Constitutional Bid
In a formal proclamation, Governor Elisha P. Ferry officially declared the rejection of a proposed state constitution and its supplemental articles by the voters of the Washington Territory.
- A Politically Charged Appointment in Olympia
The local press rails against the appointment of B.F. Kendall as Superintendent of Indian Affairs, calling him a political turncoat and an opportunist.
- The Forgotten Heroines of the Oregon Trail
A look back at the arduous 1838 bridal trek across the continent to a missionary post in the Colville country.
- The Last Laugh of 'Old Si': A Black Veteran's Take on War and Wages in Pioneer Seattle
In a rare moment of candid journalism from 1877, the *Daily Intelligencer* sits down with 'Old Si,' a local African American man who served as a Union soldier. His unvarnished take on racial loyalty, wages, and the upcoming Centennial Exposition reveals the complex social fabric of early Seattle.