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| Year | Stories |
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| 1860 | 2 |
| 1862 | 1 |
| 1872 | 1 |
| 1876 | 31 |
| 1877 | 25 |
| 1878 | 20 |
| 1879 | 6 |
| 1880 | 2 |
| 1882 | 6 |
| 1883 | 34 |
| 1884 | 13 |
| 1885 | 20 |
| 1886 | 12 |
| 1887 | 12 |
| 1888 | 12 |
| 1889 | 32 |
| 1890 | 9 |
| 1891 | 30 |
| 1892 | 51 |
| 1893 | 54 |
| 1894 | 68 |
| 1895 | 98 |
| 1897 | 16 |
| 1898 | 37 |
| 1899 | 14 |
| 1900 | 7 |
| 1902 | 5 |
| 1903 | 47 |
| 1904 | 19 |
| 1905 | 4 |
| 1907 | 3 |
| 1908 | 9 |
| 1909 | 24 |
| 1910 | 13 |
| 1911 | 11 |
| 1912 | 2 |
| 1914 | 21 |
| 1915 | 16 |
| 1916 | 31 |
| 1917 | 21 |
| 1918 | 3 |
| 1922 | 1 |
| 1923 | 15 |
| 1924 | 7 |
| 1925 | 4 |
| 1929 | 1 |
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- The Promised Valley: A Land of Promise and Grit
A detailed dispatch from Kittitas County outlines the rapid transformation of the wilderness into a grain-producing powerhouse and the desperate need for rail infrastructure.
- The Struggle for the Mountain Pass
A plea to Congress to finish the Snoqualmie Wagon Road, a vital link intended to connect the farmers of the Cascades to the markets of Seattle.
- Farmers Organize Against Northern Pacific Monopoly
Producers in Ellensburg hold an indignation meeting to protest freight discrimination and the railroad's broken land grant promises.
- Fire, Graft, and Feuding at City Hall
A City Council meeting descends into chaos as member F.W. Wusthoff is grilled for accusing the Mayor of corruption.
- A Distraught Mother’s Unfounded Claims
After previously accusing others of harboring her runaway daughters, a woman attempts to involve the Tacoma police in a new delusion.
- Seattle’s Relentless Boom
A rival paper questioned Seattle's future without a railroad, but the Post-Intelligencer argues that the city's growth is too rapid to ignore.
- The Kendall Combination Delivers a Moving Performance of 'M'liss'
Seattle theatergoers are captivated by Mrs. Julia Kendall’s portrayal of the waif M'liss at Yesler's Hall.
- The Teamsters’ War Over Police Leadership
A group of Seattle teamsters organizes to nominate a new police chief, sparking a bitter war of words with the local Chronicle.
- A Watch Snatched on Howard Street, and a Call for a Real Jail
A late-night robbery in the alley by Rima's store prompts the paper to warn that the gold rush is importing 'tough citizens' faster than Spokane Falls can lock them up.
- The Town That Grew 'In Spite of Reason'
A Walla Walla editor visits Spokane Falls and tries to explain its explosive growth — new brick blocks, crowded lodging houses, idle men in the streets, and a land office so busy it needs two more clerks.
- The Newspaper War Between Spokane Falls and Cheney
Spokane's Review savages the county seat of Cheney as a mud-bound, half-deserted village of one brick building — and admits the whole feud is over which town will boom.
- The Boomer Who Lied About the Gold Fields
Spokane Falls' paper takes a Minnesota editor to task for a wildly inaccurate account of the Coeur d'Alene mines — and in doing so lays bare the whole machinery of Western town-site hype.
- Walla Walla’s 1884 Sales Pitch: From a Tent Store to a ‘Metropolitan’ City
A reprinted commercial sketch boasts of wheat, railroads, gasworks and thousands of souls — and lets slip the town’s whole origin story, from a tent on Mill Creek to the great fire of 1866.