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308 stories matching trace
- Tragedy on the Mudflats
A search continues for five people lost from a yacht after a violent storm near Everett.
- A Port Townsend Lawyer Vanishes Without a Trace
Capt. George H. Jones, a constitutional convention delegate and Republican county leader, had been missing for days when his family's Puget Sound search came up empty.
- The Origin of Lynch Law
A local resident traces his ancestry to the infamous Irish namesake of America's most brutal form of vigilante justice.
- The Law Student Who Vanished Into Love Poems and Everett
J. L. Reed left Snohomish on a Friday morning and never came back; friends traced him to Everett, where he showed signs of mental collapse. An officer went after him.
- 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.
- The Mysterious Disappearance of Sergeant Brown
A career soldier vanished without a trace after leaving his post on the cableship Burnside in Tacoma.
- The Poultry Thief Turns Cattle Rustler
A repeat offender leads police on a chase through the Snohomish River valley.
- Arson Suspected in Yakima Hay Fire
A thousand-dollar loss leaves authorities tracing boot prints from the ashes.
- The Surveyor Who Walked Into the Nemah Woods and Vanished
Capt. G. C. Brophy left his survey crew to walk back to camp near South Bend and never arrived; searchers have found no trace.
- Where Is D. P. Ballard? The Lawyer Who Vanished With the G.A.R. Fund
A well-known Olympia attorney disappears leaving debts, a destitute family, and a fraternal post asking what happened to its money.
- The Vanishing of Fred York
A farmhand on the Abbott ranch vanishes while herding stock near the river; only his horse returns, leaving the community to fear the worst.
- The Mail Finally Comes to the Skagit
After months of persistent advocacy and cartographic lobbying by Edward McTaggart, the Skagit Valley secures its first semi-weekly mail route.
- The Hermit Rancher Who Died Without Ever Knowing He Was Worth $4 Million
For years Ansel White scratched a living from a Clallam County farm while a fortune waited for him in the East. By the time his nephew tracked him down, he had been dead three years — and sixteen heirs were still waiting for the money.
- The Disappearance of the Traveling Minister
A Presbyterian preacher sets out from Seattle for the wilderness outposts of Acme and Nooksack and vanishes without a trace.
- The Disappearing Mill Owner
A Lewis County lumberman vanishes after a devastating factory fire, leaving his brothers to search for him in a desperate, cross-state manhunt.
- Typhoid Outbreak Traced to Wapato Creek Dairies
City and state health officials issue urgent sanitation ultimatum to local dairymen after tracing typhoid fever cases to contaminated creek water.
- The Mysterious Disappearance of a Squak Valley Farmer
R. W. Barto, a reticent rancher near Redmond, vanished into the woods leaving behind only a thirty-dollar debt and questions about his fate.
- The Forged Check and the Third-Story Leap
J. R. Seeley tried to cash a check bearing another man's name, then fled across the college campus and out a third-story dormitory window. His father is searching for him in Moscow.
- A Laundryman's Return to a Hostile City
A Chinese resident attempts to collect back pay after being expelled from Seattle.
- The Great Seattle Clothesline Robbery
A local druggist rallies the neighborhood after a daring nighttime heist of freshly washed laundry.
- The Grain Thief's Defense
An accused thief avoids conviction by arguing that his alleged crime was actually an attempt to settle a debt.
- The Old Cascades Blockhouse Falls
A historic log fortification dating to the 1856 Indian Wars has collapsed in a windstorm, marking the end of a physical connection to the territory's early conflicts.
- Wireless Expert Disappears Following Mysterious Note
A Marconi Company employee vanishes after writing a cryptic message to his assistant.
- The Okanogan Murder Mystery
A brutal killing on the frontier leaves a community searching for answers.
- The Disappearance of L. L. Clifford
A member of the A.O.D.W. has vanished after traveling to Portland on lodge business, leaving his wife in a state of distress.