The Price of Frontier Survival: A Seattle Sheriff's Sale

By virtue of an execution issued out of the District Court of the Third Judicial District of Washington Territory, holding terms at Seattle, in King county, on the 19th day of March, A.D. 1878, in the case wherein James Crawford and Arthur Denny are plaintiffs, and the Talent Coal Company are defendants, I command to take into execution the personal property of the said defendants, and if sufficient personal property cannot be found, then the real property of said defendants, to satisfy a judgment for the sum of eight hundred and thirty-four and sixty-one hundredths dollars ($834.61) in silver coin, with interest thereon at the rate of one and one-half percent per month from the 9th day of February, A.D. 1878, until paid, and costs of suit amounting to twenty-nine and ninety-one hundredths dollars ($29.91), and increased costs. Now, therefore, no real property being found, by virtue of said execution I have levied upon the following described real property: The east half of the southeast quarter, and the southwest quarter of the southeast quarter of section 29; the northeast quarter of the southwest quarter of section 29; the west half of the northwest quarter of section 29; and the east half of the northeast quarter of section 30, all in township twenty-three (23) north, in range five (5) east, and containing one hundred and twenty acres. I will sell the same on Thursday, the 25th day of April, A.D. 1878, at the hour of 10 o'clock A.M., at the court house door in Seattle, in said county of King, at public auction, to the highest bidder, for cash in silver coin or so much thereof as will satisfy said judgment, interest, costs and increased costs.