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57 stories matching stephen
- The Hidden Fortune of the Seattle 'Miser'
A young man arrives in the Territory with a half-million-dollar inheritance, yet lives in total poverty—until a secret letter reveals his true, noble motive.
- The Final Voyage of the St. Stephen
Tragedy strikes the Pacific Northwest as a beloved vessel goes missing in a violent storm, leaving a city in mourning.
- The Battle Over Gold and Greenbacks in Walla Walla
A legal dispute over whether debts must be paid in gold or federal paper money echoes the era's financial uncertainty.
- The Ghost Ship of Puget Sound
While a steamer crew vanished into the waves, Port Townsend customs officials sat in their offices waiting for 'official notification' before launching a rescue, fueling public outrage.
- The Lynching of an Innocent Youth in Conconully
An Okanogan boy was snatched from legal custody and murdered by a mob, despite having been granted bail by a court commissioner.
- The Silent Cutters of Puget Sound
A standoff at the Custom House reveals that government revenue vessels sat idle while local sailors risked their lives in the waves.
- The Brotherhood of Mutual Aid
A grand reception for Grand Master Workman T. A. Stephens reveals the philanthropic scale of the Ancient Order of United Workmen in 1880s Seattle.
- The Forgotten Wreck of the St. Stephen
For six weeks, the federal revenue cutter Wolcott sat idle while the public clamored for a search for survivors of a shipwreck off the Washington coast.
- The Judge Who Declared Unions Illegal
In a landmark charge to the grand jury in 1893, Chief Justice Thomas Burke declared that any combination of workers preventing employment was a 'conspiracy against the law of the land,' effectively criminalizing the labor movement before Washington even became a state.
- The Alyssum Mystery
A young man is wrongly accused of the murder of his aunt until a patch of garden flowers reveals the truth.
- The Tragedy of Stephen Collins: A Squak Valley Life Lost to Paranoia
A haunting account of a young man whose mounting mental distress led to a fatal end on the edge of the wilderness.
- The Tragedy at Tenino: A Mother’s Search for Her Child in the Flames
When a fire destroyed the home of Stephen Hogden and his boarder B.W. Ward on February 15, 1877, most escaped—but nine-year-old Nellie Ward was lost to the inferno.
- The Confederate Major Who Set Type in Seattle
A German-born printer who saw Fort Sumter bombarded and later joined Seattle's typographical union died at Providence Hospital, taking an improbable Civil War past with him.
- The Reverend’s Estate: A Seattle Administrator Accused of Paying Himself First
Rev. L. Parker wants the court to approve his accounts, but a special administrator says he spent estate money without permission, inflated legal fees, and sent a mortgage to his brother in Canada.
- Seattle’s $400,000 Railway Subsidy Drive Hits the Streets
Boosters for the Seattle and Lake Washington Railway report nearly $400,000 pledged, with liquor dealers and suburban notaries drafted to close the deal.
- The Pioneer Shingle-Packer of Snohomish County
A young woman who made waves in the male-dominated world of shingle mills at Getchell has moved on to a new role as a teacher.
- A Senator Looks South and Sees Seattle's Fortune
Stephen B. Elkins tours the city, praises Puget Sound, and argues that Seattle—not the East—should supply Mexico with rails, shovels and plows.
- The Riotous Push for Exclusion
A massive, chaotic anti-Chinese protest in Tacoma turns violent, drowning out local leaders who argue for the legal rights of Chinese merchants.
- The Lynching of a Teenager in Okanogan
A fifteen-year-old boy, accused of murder, was dragged from a jail cell by a masked mob and executed, igniting a cycle of violence in the Washington territory.
- The 'Pompous Autocrat' of the Sound
A Seattle newspaper lashes out at a revenue cutter captain who refused to aid a vessel in distress, claiming his uniform shouldn't be 'rubbed the wrong way.'
- The Shack Murder Mystery
An elderly woman is found dead in her South Seattle home, setting off a local investigation as neighbors—and suspects—scramble to prove their innocence.
- The Newspaper War of Tacoma
A confrontation between the Ledger and the News turns physical as a publisher faces off against a union printer over the use of machinery.
- Tragedy on the Skagit: Six Miners Lost in River Crossing
A supply-laden canoe capsized near the Portage, ending the lives of six men seeking their fortune in the gold-rich mountains.
- The Great Timber Land Swindle: How Seattle’s Elite Claimed Farmable Soil as Forest
A federal commissioner rules that the lands held by Bailey and Hawley are actually fertile agricultural soil, not timber land, overturning decades of speculative entries in the Samish Lake district.
- A Tragic Canoe Crossing on the Chehalis
A desperate attempt to save his children during a river crossing ends in a father's drowning.
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- Tragic Household Accident Claims a Young Life
A seven-year-old boy has passed away at St. Joseph's Hospital after a freak accident involving a window sash at his family's home.
- Sentenced to Reform School
Two young boys, including the son of a former police captain, are committed to the reform school at Chehalis for petty theft and wayward behavior.
- The Guardian of the Stuck River
An Indigenous man appointed by local farmers to guard a river channel finds himself in court after confronting trespassers with a rifle.
- Late Night Hold-Up Near 26th Street
The proprietor of a local drug store is intercepted by an armed robber who spent time casually chatting while searching his pockets.
- The Sudden Awakening of Samuel Baxter
After years lost to the shadows of insanity, a Seattle man shocks his family by abruptly returning to his senses.
- Brutal Highway Robbery Outside Spokane
A Hungarian farmer is fighting for his life after being attacked and robbed by three men on his way home from town.
- The Well in the Wenas
A local carpenter, suffering from the effects of alcohol, met a gruesome and solitary end after falling into a spring in the Wenas Valley.
- A Sudden End in the Aberdeen Ballroom
A prominent local businessman collapses and dies while dancing.