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30 stories matching unaccount
- Tragedy at Sea: The Loss of the T.W. Lake
Nine bodies have been recovered following the sinking of the steamer T. W. Lake in a deadly gale.
- Island View Ranch Barn Destroyed by Fire
A workshop and barn burned to the ground while the owners were away fishing.
- The Great White Bluffs Penny Famine
Local businesses are so short on small change that the bank is offering a premium to bring pennies out of hiding.
- A Boy’s Near-Fatal Caprice
A 14-year-old boy who accidentally hanged himself while experimenting was saved by doctors using artificial respiration.
- The City Goes After Its Missing $5,381 — and the Bondsmen Who Signed for It
Seattle sues ex-City Treasurer W. L. Ames over unaccounted street-assessment money, naming ten prominent citizens who pledged $10,000 each. Ames is conveniently away on Whidbey Island.
- A Seattle Murder Hearing, and a Widow's Jailhouse Visit
Paul Page was set to face a justice of the peace for killing Harry Fraser. Then Fraser's wife returned from Boston and tried to see the accused.
- Gunfight in the Teanaway Basin
A sheriff's posse ambushes suspected bank robbers in the Cascades, sparking a mountain manhunt.
- The City Settles with Embezzler's Bondsmen
A complex financial deal ends the civil litigation over Adolph Krug’s flight from the City Treasurer’s office.
- A Mill Worker's Life-Altering Accident
A young sawmill worker suffered the loss of his hand in a workplace accident, highlighting the lack of industrial safety in 1886.
- City Left in the Dark by Gas Failure
A mechanical error at the gas works plunged Tacoma into darkness, ruining breakfasts and sparking public frustration.
- The Cross-Threaded Nozzle That Cost Ellensburg the Race
In an 1889 hose-cart contest, North Yakima’s fire team beat Ellensburg—but the day’s real drama was a stuck coupling and a heartbroken nozzleman.
- Tragic Industrial Death at Spokane Rail Yard
A switchman is killed instantly after his foot is trapped at a crossing during a freight car maneuver.
- A Scandal on the Yakima Frontier
A husband seeks legal separation after his wife abandons the family for a local sheep herder.
- The Women of Seattle Organize for Social Change
In an era of rapid growth, the King County W.C.T.U. gathered to hold the city's power brokers accountable for the moral and social decay they saw gripping the port city.
- Territorial Jobs and the Politics of Pay Cuts
Local outrage over congressional moves to slash federal salaries in Washington Territory, sparking fears of a political power grab.
- The Burglar and the Midnight Yell
An Edgewater resident uses his voice to thwart a home intruder.
- The Potato Famine That Never Left the Sound
A century and a half ago, Seattle farmers lamented the mysterious collapse of the Puget Sound potato trade, marking the end of a boom that once promised regional prosperity.
- The Vanishing Steamer: Seattle Waits in Fog for the 'Port Albert'
Passengers and agents grow anxious as the British-American steamer goes missing off the Pacific Northwest coast, sparking fears of a wreck or mechanical failure.
- The Executor Who Tore Down the House
When a court ordered an executor to account for an estate, he decided to simply remove the buildings from the land entirely to bypass the judge.
- The Renters and the Landless: Seattle’s Early Conflict over Property
An 1876 editorial from the Pacific Tribune calls out wealthy landowners for reaping the benefits of city growth created by the labor of the landless.
- The Unsolved Disappearance of John H. Wisely
A man disappears from his home in broad daylight, only for his body to be discovered days later on the shores of Elliott Bay.
- The Mayor’s Labor Pact: How Organized Labor Bought Spokane’s City Hall
Mayor Byrne opens up about the 'organized labor' machine that secured his election and warns of a looming anti-Republican coalition in Washington State.
- The Unfortunate Travels of an 'Imperial' Grifter
A self-proclaimed Russian noble finds that Seattle hospitality—and the local church choir—has its limits when his 'aristocratic' habits turn out to be nothing more than petty fraud.
- The Auditor and the Sheriff: A Public Spat Over Corruption
In the lead-up to the 1876 election, a public war of words between King County's Auditor and former Sheriff exposes the messy, opaque, and highly questionable state of territorial bookkeeping.
- The Man Who Bought a Pile-Driven Mind
A Seattle laborer’s sudden descent into delusion—claiming he lost $5,000 to a ghost and that neighbors were plotting his murder—leaves the court baffled and his family terrified.