in 1904, Beverly Waugh "B.W." Coiner was a major figure in the Washington State Republican Party. From 1882 to 1884, he was the mayor of Mount Pleasant, Iowa; from 1887 to 1889 and again from 1895 to 1896, he was the prosecuting attorney of Pierce County, Washington; from 1910 to 1912 he was the chairman of the Washington State Republican Party; and from 1912 to 1913 he was the United States Attorney for the United States District Court for the Western District of Washington.