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| Year | Stories |
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| 1854 | 11 |
| 1858 | 4 |
| 1859 | 6 |
| 1860 | 6 |
| 1861 | 28 |
| 1862 | 19 |
| 1863 | 9 |
| 1864 | 2 |
| 1865 | 3 |
| 1871 | 3 |
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| 1878 | 97 |
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| 1888 | 81 |
| 1889 | 217 |
| 1890 | 36 |
| 1891 | 164 |
| 1892 | 377 |
| 1893 | 356 |
| 1894 | 368 |
| 1895 | 332 |
| 1897 | 3 |
| 1898 | 20 |
| 1899 | 83 |
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| 1903 | 165 |
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| 1905 | 18 |
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| 1918 | 5 |
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| 1924 | 22 |
| 1925 | 14 |
| 1928 | 3 |
| 1929 | 5 |
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- The Vultures on Steilacoom's Streets
A furious 1858 editorial accuses local authorities of letting California gamblers plunder the town in plain sight.
- The Trail That Wasn't: How Bellingham Bay Boosters Sold a Gold-Rush Route
A Steilacoom editor accuses Whatcom land speculators of luring miners and immigrants with false reports that the Bellingham Bay trail to the gold fields was nearly finished.
- The Priest Writes Back: A Territorial Feud Over 'Romanism'
A Methodist minister's warning in Olympia draws a sharp reply from the Catholic missionary he accused.
- Gold in the Wenatchee, but the Miners Were Told to Leave
Pearson's party returns to Steilacoom after Indians warn them off the new gold fields; a handful of dirt shows a dollar's worth of gold.