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| Year | Stories |
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| 1858 | 2 |
| 1860 | 1 |
| 1861 | 1 |
| 1883 | 1 |
| 1889 | 4 |
| 1890 | 1 |
| 1891 | 1 |
| 1892 | 20 |
| 1893 | 12 |
| 1894 | 7 |
| 1895 | 10 |
| 1897 | 1 |
| 1898 | 3 |
| 1899 | 3 |
| 1900 | 1 |
| 1902 | 1 |
| 1903 | 8 |
| 1904 | 13 |
| 1905 | 13 |
| 1908 | 1 |
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| 1910 | 4 |
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| 1922 | 1 |
| 1923 | 3 |
| 1924 | 6 |
4 stories
- The Smoke Over the Okanogan
Forest fires fueled by arsonists are devastating the landscape and choking the residents of the Okanogan country.
- A Bloody Dispute Over a Debt in Wenatchee
A local man is fighting for his life after a heated confrontation over unpaid money turned into a violent gunfight.
- The Skirmish at Chelan River
Two Indigenous farmers and two white squatters face off in a dispute over land rights and cultivation.
- The Great Migration to the 'Power of Central Washington'
An 1889 promotional poem and report lured families from the 'crowded cities' of the East and Midwest to the promised land of the Wenatchee River valley.