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- Everett Workers Plan Their Own Home
Local union members launch a stock drive to fund a permanent headquarters for the Everett Trades Council.
- The 1878 Patent for Long-Distance Kissing
A satirical inventor in Snohomish introduces a bizarre 'kisograph' machine to keep lovers connected across thousands of miles.
- The Logjam at Priest Point
A long-standing practice of mooring logs in the Snohomish River clashes with federal authority, leaving local loggers caught in a bureaucratic net.
- The City That Couldn't Host Its Guests
As steamers bring hundreds of travelers to Seattle, local hotels are full and a new building sits empty in legal limbo, leaving strangers sleeping on docks.
- Chinese Residents Ordered to Register—Or Face Deportation
Federal notices circulating in Seattle warned Chinese laborers that they must produce photographs and a credible witness to obtain certificates of residence under the Geary law.
- The Post Office Scandal of 1878
A scathing critique of patronage and mismanagement at Seattle's local post office reveals a city struggling with corruption in the early days of territorial expansion.
- A Heartbreaking Plea for a 'Stout' Boy
A desperate local advertisement seeks a home for an eight-year-old child in exchange for farm labor in the late 1870s.
- The Unlucky Runaways of Tacoma
Two young men who walked from Kalama to Tacoma seeking work instead find themselves behind bars after a clumsy theft from a local wood hauler.
- The Flooding of the Talbot Coal Mine
A sudden rush of water from a subterranean reservoir halts production, leaving the company to debate expensive drainage tunnels versus imported pumping gear.
- The Great Seattle Front Street Excavation of 1876
As teams and scrapers descend on the heart of the city, laborers begin carving out the steep terrain between Cherry and James to make way for the future.
- The Fire Chief’s Citizenship Papers
Chief Hunt says he will fight a Pierce County indictment charging that his 1892 naturalization certificate was fraudulently obtained.
- An Election Challenge in the 39th District
A candidate launches a formal contest against Representative-elect Will R. White, alleging bribery and illegal voting in King County.
- A Pinkerton Man’s Deception in Prosser
A high-stakes manhunt for a horse thief ends in North Yakima after a Pinkerton operative goes undercover to secure a suspect.
- A Perilous Afternoon near Lake Union
A brush with disaster in the rugged timberlands of 1877 Seattle, where an accidental axe blow turned a day of surveying into a desperate journey for survival.
- The Housekeeper's Lie: A Seattle Wife's Wild Chase to Honolulu
A servant's false tale of an elopement sends a Seattle grocer's wife racing to the Islands, while the scheming housekeeper quietly ships the family's furniture to San Francisco.
- A Missing Paper, a Man Detained at the Wharf
Federal Chinese Exclusion enforcement turned on a residency certificate Yee Wing said he had lost.
- The Price of Protection
A local businessman pleads guilty to habitual drunkenness to trigger a legal guardianship, hoping to shield his assets from local gamblers.
- The Miracle Bologna That Fought a Cat
A local man tests a dubious 'elixir of life' on his lunch, with shockingly violent results for his sandwich.
- Seattle’s Fire Chief Fights a Naturalization-Fraud Indictment
Chief Hunt’s lawyers argued that false statements on his citizenship papers did not matter—because Washington’s constitution had already made him a citizen.
- Prospecting Tragedy on the Columbia
Two men set out from Prosser in search of fortune, but a capsized boat on the Columbia River left one man lost to the current.
- The Jail That Wasn't: A Tour of Port Madison’s Fortress
While Seattle’s own jails were often little more than wooden rooms with locks, the new facility on Port Madison was built like a fortress—iron spikes, windlass doors, and a view of the sound. But its warden faces a grim reality: no work for his prisoners.
- Couple Arrested for Alleged Trafficking of Swedish Immigrant
Police break up a scheme to force a young Swedish woman into prostitution at a Kinnear block tenement.
- A Fatal Nap on the Great Northern Track
John Elwell, a twenty-year Snohomish County resident, lay down on the rails near Monroe and was struck by the morning passenger train.
- The Puyallup Protest Against Land Commissions
Indigenous leaders unite to condemn fraud, bribery, and intimidation by federal land commissioners.
- A Potter's Field Grave and a Countrymen's Tombstone
After a Japanese laborer died alone in a West Seattle shack, fellow immigrants considered marking his county grave.