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| Year | Stories |
|---|---|
| 1897 | 2 |
| 1898 | 5 |
7 stories
- The Persimmon Pilgrimage
A local man returns from Missouri with fruit that brings homesick settlers to tears.
- The Invasive Threat in Kittitas Valley
A local rancher reports the arrival of the Russian thistle, a destructive weed, on farms near Ellensburg.
- The Business of Better Breeding
A Kittitas farmer shares his success in upgrading his dairy herd, proving that selective breeding and data-driven management were the keys to agricultural prosperity in the 1890s.
- The Water Belongs to the People—Not the Syndicates
A.M. Stevens of Ellensburg warns that handing arid lands to the states is the first step toward private control—and argues the federal government must build the reservoirs.
- The Creamery Boom in Kittitas Valley
How specialized dairy production transformed the landscape and economy of Ellensburg at the turn of the century.
- The Creamery Shuffle
A major dairy operator moves his business, leaving a vacuum in the Kittitas Valley market.
- Four Hundred Sheep Went Over a Cliff. Then the Herder Vanished.
A band of sheep near Roslyn plunged 35 feet to their deaths. The hired man in charge was nowhere to be found, and the owner was left to survey the wreckage.