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Black Diamond mine purchased

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Originally published in the Seattle Post-Intelligencer, May 14, 1904

Pacific Coast Company pays more than $1,000,000 for property

SAN FRANCISCO, May 13.—(Special.)—Papers will be signed tomorrow transferring to the Pacific Coast Company the entire property and interests of the Black Diamond Coal Company, the owner of important coal mining interests in Washington. The purchase price is considerably over $1,000,000, but the exact terms are not made public.

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Coal miners take governor to task

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Originally published in The Seattle Daily Times, May 13, 1914

Black Diamond and Cumberland local unions register protests against removal of John H. Wallace

Consider executive’s action unwarranted; assert deposed industrial insurance commissioner performed duties well and protected workingmen

By C.D. Stratton

Asserting that an injustice was done John H. Wallace when he was removed from office as a member of the state industrial insurance commission, the mine workers of Black Diamond, where Wallace once dug coal, today forwarded to Gov. Ernest Lister a letter registering their indignant protest against the executive’s action in requesting the resignation of their friend and former fellow workman. The letter was drafted by a committee of three appointed by Black Diamond Local No. 2257 or the United Mine Workers of America. The local is one of the largest in the state.

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Shots fly in rum raid

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Originally published in The Seattle Daily Times, May 14, 1924

Woman and men caught; big booze stock found

Fifth suspect eludes federal officers after five-mile chase in automobile

Four persons, one of them a woman, were held in the United States immigration detention station and city jail on charges of violating the prohibition act as a result of the activities of federal agents and special detail police officers, yesterday and late last night. A fifth suspect made his escape from the federal agents after a five-mile chase in which several shots were fired at his fleeing automobile.

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