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| 1854 | 2 |
| 1858 | 2 |
| 1859 | 4 |
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| 1864 | 1 |
| 1872 | 11 |
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| 1894 | 141 |
| 1895 | 162 |
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4 stories matching die
Scanning errors are common in old newsprint. Also try:diem, dier, diet, dieu, diego, dietz
- A Child's Fatal Fire at Point Roberts
The second son of Alexander Hahn died after his clothes caught fire while playing with his brother.
- A Fatal Mistake in the Nursery
A young child dies after accidentally consuming sulfuric acid left in a tub.
- A Territory Mourns: Olympia Buries Charles H. Mason
When Washington Territory's secretary and frequent acting governor died in 1859, Chief Justice McFadden and Olympia's leading men gathered at the capitol to call him a public servant 'of both soul and nerve.'
- A Settler's Plea for Too-e-pi-ti
An old Pierce County resident says a white man, Jim Riley, shot an Indigenous man without cause—and asks voters not to let the case die.