The Saloonkeeper’s Gunshot on Front Street
A quiet night near the Seattle Coal Company’s bunkers was shattered when a local woman took matters into her own hands regarding a stray dog.
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A woman who keeps a saloon near the Seattle Coal Company’s bunkers was arrested last night on a charge of disorderly conduct, the offense being the shooting of a dog on Front street, opposite the Maison Doree restaurant. This morning she was fined $10 and costs in Justice Scott’s court.
“The offense being the shooting of a dog on Front street, opposite the Maison Doree restaurant.”
The intersection of Front Street (now 1st Avenue) and the area near the coal bunkers—once the industrial heart of the Seattle waterfront—now sits in the center of the bustling Pioneer Square and downtown district. The incident reflects the era’s 'frontier' style of civic justice, a stark contrast to modern-day animal control ordinances, though the casual nature of urban violence in the downtown core remains a recurring, if evolving, theme in Seattle news.
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