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| Year | Stories |
|---|---|
| 1854 | 10 |
| 1858 | 1 |
| 1859 | 5 |
| 1860 | 4 |
| 1861 | 8 |
| 1862 | 10 |
| 1863 | 2 |
| 1865 | 2 |
| 1872 | 8 |
| 1876 | 44 |
| 1877 | 43 |
| 1878 | 28 |
| 1879 | 3 |
| 1880 | 14 |
| 1882 | 10 |
| 1883 | 77 |
| 1884 | 34 |
| 1885 | 67 |
| 1886 | 43 |
| 1887 | 49 |
| 1888 | 37 |
| 1889 | 121 |
| 1890 | 20 |
| 1891 | 89 |
| 1892 | 210 |
| 1893 | 232 |
| 1894 | 197 |
| 1895 | 194 |
| 1897 | 6 |
| 1898 | 12 |
| 1899 | 48 |
| 1900 | 8 |
| 1902 | 3 |
| 1903 | 102 |
| 1904 | 89 |
| 1905 | 11 |
| 1907 | 7 |
| 1908 | 30 |
| 1909 | 118 |
| 1910 | 31 |
| 1911 | 16 |
| 1912 | 4 |
| 1914 | 16 |
| 1915 | 30 |
| 1916 | 29 |
| 1917 | 23 |
| 1918 | 2 |
| 1920 | 1 |
| 1922 | 1 |
| 1923 | 9 |
| 1924 | 8 |
| 1925 | 5 |
| 1928 | 2 |
| 1929 | 2 |
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- The Democrats’ Loyalty Test in Olympia
A December 1859 caucus of Democratic territorial legislators spent the evening arguing over who was pure enough to hold House offices — and who had backed the party’s last congressional nominee.
- A Plan to Move Indigenous People to San Juan Island Stirs a Border Dispute
A Victoria proposal to resettle Native people on disputed San Juan Island draws a sharp warning from Washington Territory.
- The Steamer That Never Came: Steilacoom's Broken Promise of a Pleasure Trip
A hundred neighbors set aside their work for a promised steamboat excursion to Olympia — but the boat failed to show, the crowd simmered, and the day ended in a dance hall instead of on deck.
- 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.
- 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.