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- A Jury Called the Franklin Mine Fire Arson. Thirty-Seven Miners Were Already Dead.
A coroner's jury found that someone deliberately set the fire that suffocated 37 workers in the Franklin mine. The only survivor described how one opened door and one stopped fan turned the gangway into a death trap.
- The Sky Turned to Smoke: Forest Fires Choke Puget Sound
Fires across Whatcom, Skagit and the Olympic Mountains destroyed bridges, barns and a shingle mill, derailed a Great Northern train and left Puget Sound under a suffocating haze.
- A Wall of Smoke and Flame Across Puget Sound
Forest fires from Hood Canal to the Nooksack Valley left dozens of families homeless in 1894, while smoke turned steamboat travel blind and daily life in Seattle into a gray haze.
- The Midnight Wait for Sunnyside Land
Homesteaders staked out a long, cold vigil at the land office, only to find the government had already cut a backroom deal.
- A Mental Health Crisis in North Yakima
A young Scandinavian immigrant struggles with radical political theory before a desperate suicide attempt at the McGlothlen House.
- The Decoy in the Rubbish Heap: How Tacoma Residents Outsmarted a Private Detective
When a notorious private eye attempted to frame two young express employees for a phantom theft, their friends staged an elaborate performance to expose his heavy-handed tactics.
- The Secret Corral in the Rocks
A Whitman County stock association uncovers a hidden canyon hideout used by a gang of rustlers to hoard stolen hogs.
- Three Drowned in the Columbia's Whirlpool
A Seattle official watched a small boat capsize near the mouth of the Methow, drowning two men and a woman in the roiling current.
- The Sad End of 'Shannon the Wag'
After surviving a previous brush with death, a Vancouver man found his final end in a lonely shed—and the town was in no mood to wait for a second resurrection.
- The Redemption of a Drunkard
A harrowing night of domestic violence and neglect ends a decade later in an unexpected act of grace.
- The Jury That Sang for Its Supper
After a heated, near-violent deliberation over an attorney's fee, a sequestered jury finally reached a verdict—but only after singing 'Home, Sweet Home' to calm their nerves.
- The City Clock-Watchers
Tacoma’s electric linemen accused of turning city work hours into a full-time pinochle parlor.
- The Town That Owes Nothing: Oakesdale’s Fiscal Miracle
While other municipalities drown in debt from the boom years, this small Washington town boasts a cash-rich treasury and zero bonds.
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- The Watchful Companion
An elderly saloon worker dies in a local barn, found only because his dog refused to abandon the site.
- Vigilantism in Wiser
A deputy sheriff takes three men into custody for the targeting of Chinese laborers.