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| Year | Stories |
|---|---|
| 1889 | 5 |
| 1891 | 4 |
| 1892 | 24 |
| 1893 | 39 |
| 1894 | 20 |
| 1895 | 26 |
118 stories
- The Price of a Broken Heart in Clallam County
A local justice of the peace wins a $1,000 judgment after a public accusation of theft cost him both his professional standing and his fiancée.
- The Great Whale Hunt at Neah Bay
Seventeen canoes descend on a leviathan, turning a tribal bounty into a winter food supply.
- The Mystery of the Vanished Port Angeles Surveyor
A government townsite project stalls as the surveyor disappears, leaving the Interior Department scrambling to find his missing field notes.
- A Night of Political Pandemonium in Port Angeles
A local committee meeting descends into shouting, proxy-throwing, and rival factionalism as Clallam County Democrats split over patronage.
- The Opium Smuggler of the 'City of Kingston'
A Port Angeles woman is arrested for running a profitable cross-border smuggling operation.
- The Fight for Port Angeles Public Funds
Mayor M.J. Maloney of Port Angeles travels to Washington D.C. to lobby for a bill that would keep land sale revenue in the city for local improvements.
- Will Clallam County Strike Coal?
Prospectors are drilling in Port Angeles, hoping that sandstone discolorations signal a rich coal vein beneath the city.
- A Timber From the Lost Collier: Wreckage of the Montserrat Comes Ashore at Cape Flattery
Six feet of painted stanchion, dragged from the sea off Tatoosh Island, convinces veteran mariners that the missing coal ship Montserrat has finally given up a piece of herself.
- The Woman They Unseated: A Contested Election in Port Angeles
A Populist woman won the county school superintendent's race, a judge ruled her election illegal, and a filing deadline left the door open for her return.
- A County Treasurer Vanishes—and Turns Up in Honolulu
A defaulting Clallam County official is reportedly living openly in Hawaii, but an old treaty may keep him beyond the reach of Port Angeles authorities.
- A Tragic Accident in the Solduck Valley
A mother and child were severely scalded after a household accident involving a stove and a boiling kettle.
- The Political Value of Infrastructure
Port Angeles residents celebrate Senator John B. Allen's success in federalizing local infrastructure projects.
- The Legend of Dan Pullen
A profile of a pioneer 'bull puncher' and pilot in the Quillayute Valley, whose reputation for fearlessness and run-ins with wolf packs defined a generation of settlers.
- A Tragic End for a Lovestruck Youth
After his romantic advances were rejected, a Tennessee man took his own life in Port Angeles.
- The Final Voyage of the Eritrea
A Chilean ship navigating the Strait of Juan de Fuca mistakenly identified a fog signal, leading to a total wreck on Dungeness Spit.
- The Tugboat Border War
A British tug is seized by U.S. authorities for towing a ship through the Strait of Juan de Fuca, triggering an international violation of maritime law.
- Delayed Hopes in Port Angeles
A much-anticipated townsite lot sale in Port Angeles is postponed as officials scramble to clear legal hurdles and land records.
- Port Angeles Taxpayers Revolt
Citizens unite to investigate city council corruption and the misuse of public warrants after the council voted to pay its own members.
- The Neah Bay Sealing Fleet Returns
Local Makah hunters report a windfall catch during the seal migration, demonstrating the significance of traditional maritime economies.
- A Battered Coal Ship and a Ghostly White Boat Off Cape Flattery
The overdue J.B. Brown limps into San Francisco after a storm off the Columbia, while a swamped ship's boat sighted off Washington's coast deepens the mystery of missing steamers.
- The County Treasurer Who Walked Out of Custody
With $2,063 missing from Port Angeles accounts, ex-Treasurer M. J. Clump slipped away from a deputy and inspired a reward nobody expected to collect.
- A Costly Pursuit of Justice in Clallam County
County commissioners face backlash for spending more on legal fees than the amount they hope to recover from a former treasurer.
- Told to 'Subsist on the Climate': A Homesteader's Plea Denied
A poor woman near Port Angeles asked the General Land Office for leave to leave her claim and earn money to improve it. The commissioner refused, and told her she would have to stay home and live on the weather.
- Port Angeles Pays $5,000 for a Failed Municipal Power Scheme
City officials settle with a contractor after a water power project collapses, leaving taxpayers to cover the cost.
- The Tug Mogul's Last Run and the Engineers Who Took the Blame
A letter from Victoria defends the engine-room crew of the tug Mogul, insisting the vessel was unfit to reach Neah Bay and that no one panicked as the water rose.