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| Year | Stories |
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| 1861 | 1 |
| 1862 | 2 |
| 1863 | 4 |
| 1883 | 1 |
| 1885 | 1 |
| 1889 | 3 |
| 1891 | 1 |
| 1892 | 16 |
| 1893 | 26 |
| 1894 | 7 |
| 1895 | 15 |
| 1904 | 1 |
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79 stories
- The Collector of Customs and the Steamer Eliza Anderson
A dramatic standoff between a local Customs Collector and a naval lieutenant highlights the administrative dysfunction and power struggles in Port Angeles.
- The Port Angeles Townsite Dispute
Settlers protest the federal government's slow and vacillating policy regarding the appraisement of land titles in Port Angeles.
- Port Angeles Cedar Cutters Sail for Hawaii — And Warn Puget Sound Is Losing the Trade
A Port Angeles lumber schooner returns from Honolulu after delivering 650,000 feet of cedar ties, and its manager says California is capturing the island trade that Puget Sound should own.
- Port Angeles Wanted to Build Its Own Railroad—and Lure a Thousand New Colonists
A Board of Trade meeting heard that an Eastern syndicate might finance a Port Angeles & Everett line, while locals pushed a home-built railroad to Oak Harbor and a colony scheme to bring 1,000 settlers.