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| Year | Stories |
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| 1854 | 6 |
| 1858 | 5 |
| 1859 | 6 |
| 1860 | 2 |
| 1861 | 12 |
| 1862 | 14 |
| 1863 | 2 |
| 1864 | 1 |
| 1871 | 1 |
| 1872 | 15 |
| 1876 | 92 |
| 1877 | 75 |
| 1878 | 39 |
| 1879 | 5 |
| 1880 | 21 |
| 1882 | 15 |
| 1883 | 66 |
| 1884 | 50 |
| 1885 | 55 |
| 1886 | 35 |
| 1887 | 38 |
| 1888 | 35 |
| 1889 | 103 |
| 1890 | 19 |
| 1891 | 66 |
| 1892 | 149 |
| 1893 | 119 |
| 1894 | 148 |
| 1895 | 226 |
| 1896 | 1 |
| 1897 | 6 |
| 1898 | 23 |
| 1899 | 28 |
| 1900 | 8 |
| 1902 | 4 |
| 1903 | 65 |
| 1904 | 46 |
| 1905 | 6 |
| 1907 | 3 |
| 1908 | 35 |
| 1909 | 62 |
| 1910 | 24 |
| 1911 | 15 |
| 1912 | 3 |
| 1914 | 18 |
| 1915 | 13 |
| 1916 | 26 |
| 1917 | 23 |
| 1918 | 4 |
| 1922 | 1 |
| 1923 | 10 |
| 1924 | 4 |
| 1925 | 3 |
| 1928 | 2 |
| 1929 | 1 |
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- Gold Fever Lands at Bellingham Bay
Mail-steamer dispatches report 1,400 argonauts bound for the new mines, Victoria land prices climbing to a 'dizzy elevation,' and rumors of a fresh townsite at Semiahmoo Bay.
- Fighting Whisky and a Free Fight in Steilacoom's Streets
A dozen strangers brawl outside Jerry Dennis's house, prompting the editor to demand the disorderly den be closed.
- The Vultures on Steilacoom's Streets
A furious 1858 editorial accuses local authorities of letting California gamblers plunder the town in plain sight.
- Gold in the Wenatchee—and a War Warning at Fort Simcoe
A hard-riding express reaches Steilacoom with word of 300 miners in the new Wenatchee and Naches diggings—and a settler's letter warning of a wider Indigenous war over the invasion.
- The Winter War Blueprint: An 1858 Campaign to Subdue the Tribes
A field letter from the Indian war in Oregon and Washington urges the Army to occupy the Colville Valley, cut off Indigenous trade, and expel missionaries and Hudson’s Bay Company employees.