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33 stories matching transmiss
- A Dangerous Fall for a Local Utility Manager
George Turner, the local manager for the Priest Rapids Light & Power Company, is recovering in a Pasco hospital after a severe fall from a transmission pole.
- Manager Seriously Injured in Fall from Power Line
Local utility manager suffers broken leg and strained back in 20-foot tumble from transmission pole.
- Summer Storms Cut the Juice
A severe thunderstorm fried local electrical transformers, leaving the White Bluffs pumping plants idle for three days.
- High Voltage Accident at Dieringer
A power company lineman suffers severe burns while working on a 60,000-volt transmission line near Sumner.
- The Great Coyote Roundup
White Bluffs residents mobilize for a coordinated, town-wide hunt to rid the area of coyotes.
- The $10,000 Price of a Power Line: Tacoma’s Battle for the Right to Flow
A jury awards the City of Tacoma $10,000 in damages against the Puget Sound Power Company, settling a bitter legal dispute over who owns the right to use the county road for power transmission lines.
- The Hanford Water Wars
A federal court ruling protects local ranchers from mortgage holders in the complex bankruptcy of the Hanford Irrigation Power Company.
- The Power Company Buys Up Washington Avenue
The Northern Idaho Montana Power Co. assembles frontage at Pine, First and Washington, plans a fireproof substation, and pulls its lines off the main street.
- The Railroad That Burned the Forest—and Paid the Bill
In 1908, locomotives and clearing crews set eleven fires in the Wenatchee National Forest. The Great Northern Railway’s $2,312.62 payment was an early reckoning for industrial damage to public land.
- Power Company Balks at Rate Cut
Pacific Power & Light manager warns that a state-mandated rate reduction will kill rural electricity expansion.
- The President Intervenes for Chinese Merchants
President Cleveland challenges Congress to reconcile the restrictive Chinese Exclusion Act with the reality of international trade.
- The Waterfall That Would Light Seattle
In 1895, promoters promised to harness Snoqualmie Falls—taller than Niagara and only 23 miles from Seattle—and send thousands of horsepower over copper wire.
- The Falls That Would Light Seattle
In January 1895 a syndicate of New York capitalists and Seattle men capitalized a company at $1,500,000 to dam Snoqualmie Falls and wire 5,000 horsepower twenty-five miles into the city — the Northwest's answer to Niagara.
- One Day Late: The Veto That May Hang a Man
A clerk's date stamp, a messenger who cannot recall which day he ran an errand, and a condemned Italian at Tacoma whose last chance at a new appeal may have expired in the paperwork.
- The 1889 Dream of Instantaneous Picture Transmission
A Seattle man claims to have invented an electrical device capable of sending handwritten notes and drawings over telegraph wires at the speed of a pen, promising to revolutionize newspaper journalism.
- The Wild Rush for a Mining Exchange
Prominent investors race to establish a formal trading floor on First Avenue as the Klondike Gold Rush transforms Seattle into a global commercial hub.
- The Mail System is Broken
In 1880, Seattle residents faced endless delays and 'willful neglect' from the postal service—an early grievance about failing public infrastructure.
- The Government's Bid for a National Telegraph
A proposed legislative act aims to link major cities, including Seattle, into a government-owned communication network.
- The Weight of Responsibility: A Victorian Lesson for Snohomish Parents
In an 1877 editorial, a Snohomish observer argued that character was a hereditary and domestic inheritance, placing the burden of societal progress squarely on the shoulders of the home.
- The Most Noted Killer in the West Sits Smoking His Pipe
Convicted of killing a woman and burning her body in a pine-log heap, James F. Logan waits out his appeal in a steel cell — cheerful, confident he'll never hang, and happy to receive the curious.
- Newport Weighs a Fifty-Year Electric Franchise
The Commercial Club hears that the Northern Electric Co. and Chicago's H. M. Byllesby Co. plan an $85,000 light-and-power system, and calls citizens to City Hall before the council vote.
- Walla Walla Tells the Gas Company: Put Your Wires Underground — and Pay Up
A 25-year gas and electric franchise goes before the council tonight, rewritten to bury every wire on Main and Alder and to hand the city a grand total of $7,750 by 1928.
- A Power Station to Light Newport
The Northern Idaho & Montana Power Co. is building a $15,000 fireproof office and substation at Washington and Pine, promising 24-hour electric service within ninety days.
- He Kept a $5,000 Reward Posted for His Missing Wife. Then He Drank Himself to Death.
Christine Nelson stepped into a New York hotel room in October and was never seen again. Her husband spent a fortune and two trips East searching — and died this morning at St. Joseph's.
- The Niagara of the Northwest: Wiring Snoqualmie Falls to Seattle
A new company with $2 million in capital proposes to harness a 265-foot waterfall 23 miles east and sell 5,000 horse power of electricity to the city — if the capitalists will foot the bill.