Fresh Young Fellow Gets Six Inches of Cold Steel at a Sporting Resort, Seattle, Wash.

A gay young fellow walked in a well known sporting resort, Seattle, Wash., recently, and when asked to buy drinks he said he didn’t have to. He had an arrangement with the proprietress of the place, and before he knew what was going on he was out in the street with a stab wound between the shoulder blades.

Reprinted from The National Police Gazette, February 18, 1899

Jolly sport among the giddy Vassar girls, fun in the forecastle, and a lonely New Year’s Eve on the desolate prairie. 

“Seeing the New Year in,” is a time-honored custom and is invested with many pleasant ceremonies. Our artist has depicted the sailors telling yarns and drinking grog in the forecastle, and the emigrant on the plains wishing that he was home again by a warm fireside. But the giddy Vassar girls are having the best time of all. A genuine jollification is in progress and as the hands of the clock are on the point of midnight glasses are raised in air and the girls drink success in the New Year and wish a husband apiece to each other.

National Police Gazette, January 10, 1885.