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| Year | Stories |
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| 1854 | 6 |
| 1858 | 5 |
| 1859 | 11 |
| 1860 | 2 |
| 1861 | 13 |
| 1862 | 15 |
| 1863 | 2 |
| 1864 | 2 |
| 1865 | 1 |
| 1871 | 3 |
| 1872 | 24 |
| 1876 | 163 |
| 1877 | 101 |
| 1878 | 77 |
| 1879 | 8 |
| 1880 | 26 |
| 1882 | 21 |
| 1883 | 162 |
| 1884 | 80 |
| 1885 | 117 |
| 1886 | 79 |
| 1887 | 59 |
| 1888 | 79 |
| 1889 | 218 |
| 1890 | 37 |
| 1891 | 186 |
| 1892 | 273 |
| 1893 | 271 |
| 1894 | 300 |
| 1895 | 436 |
| 1896 | 1 |
| 1897 | 18 |
| 1898 | 45 |
| 1899 | 85 |
| 1900 | 9 |
| 1902 | 8 |
| 1903 | 124 |
| 1904 | 109 |
| 1905 | 17 |
| 1907 | 8 |
| 1908 | 68 |
| 1909 | 157 |
| 1910 | 42 |
| 1911 | 12 |
| 1912 | 6 |
| 1914 | 19 |
| 1915 | 38 |
| 1916 | 54 |
| 1917 | 28 |
| 1918 | 4 |
| 1922 | 1 |
| 1923 | 22 |
| 1924 | 12 |
| 1925 | 5 |
| 1929 | 4 |
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- The Jury's Boozy Banquet
A Pierce County jury demands a lavish spread of food and a gallon of Scotch while deliberating a verdict.
- Speculators Send a Surveyor to San Juan, and a Boundary Dispute Turns Hot
Americans from Victoria and Puget Sound move to preempt land on the disputed island, betting that U.S. jurisdiction will follow—and warning that trouble may follow first.
- The Night Seattle Danced Until Two: A Steamer Excursion from Steilacoom
In July 1859, the steamer Julia carried Olympia and Steilacoom society across the Sound to Seattle, where three supper tables and a hall full of dancers made territorial news.
- The Widow’s Pig-Feeding Innovation
A resourceful widow in Steilacoom finds a way to feed her livestock using garden weeds and a boiler, turning a chore into a sustainable practice.
- A Boomtown Year: Steilacoom Runs Out of Empty Houses
In its first-anniversary survey of Puget Sound, the Herald finds every vacant building in Steilacoom filled — and thirty new ones thrown up in eight months.
- A Majority of 108 from Seventy Voters
The territorial election returns smelled of the ballot box: Whatcom County, with barely eighty voters, reported a majority of 108 for Stevens.
- The Volunteers Were Paid Twice—Sometimes Thrice—For the Same War
A federal commission auditing the 1855–56 Indian War muster rolls finds men drawing captain's, wagon-master's and private's pay all at once—including a Nisqually ferry keeper who billed the government for the same ten ferrymen he never properly mustered in.
- Steilacoom Empties Its Garrison for a Near-War on San Juan Island
On Aug. 9, 1859, soldiers and two brass cannon left Steilacoom aboard the steamer Julia to reinforce Capt. Pickett’s tiny command, as the U.S. and Britain edged toward war over a boundary and a pig.
- San Juan Islanders Draw a Line in the Salish Sea
At a packed meeting in the little town of San Juan, American settlers pass defiant resolutions against the Governor of Vancouver Island and thank the U.S. troops sent to hold the island — an early scene in the boundary standoff remembered as the Pig War.
- The Quartermaster’s Arithmetic: Scrip, Pork, and Profiteering in Washington Territory
A detailed audit of Quartermaster General W. W. Miller’s books exposed inflated prices, unexplained payments, and scrip issued for vouchers the commissioners had already disallowed.
- The Senate Ratifies the Treaties That Remade the Northwest
Ratified in 1859, the 1855 treaties with tribes across Oregon and Washington promised annuities, schools and mills while ceding millions of acres to settlement.