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| Year | Stories |
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| 1861 | 2 |
| 1862 | 1 |
| 1863 | 1 |
| 1883 | 2 |
| 1884 | 4 |
| 1885 | 1 |
| 1887 | 2 |
| 1889 | 5 |
| 1891 | 4 |
| 1892 | 14 |
| 1893 | 6 |
| 1894 | 4 |
| 1895 | 6 |
| 1903 | 6 |
| 1909 | 2 |
| 1911 | 1 |
| 1924 | 2 |
4 stories
- The Boy Too Tough for the Reform School
A teenage burglar escapes Chehalis, stumps the trustees, and triggers a constitutional standoff over who must deal with an incorrigible child.
- A Medical Board Member’s $100 Ghost Bill
Dr. Minkler told Thurston County he had paid two Centralia doctors for help. They said they never got the money — and a legal technicality kept the case alive only as a threat of removal.
- The Iron Road Through the Wilderness
By 1891, the rush for transcontinental rail connections was transforming the remote timberlands of Lewis and Pacific counties, promising to turn quiet river valleys into bustling industrial hubs.
- The Judge, the Leaky Courthouse, and the County That Wouldn't Pay
Lewis County commissioners told Judge Hunter they would neither fund nor permit his order to find better court quarters in Chehalis—leaving the old courthouse and a legal fight in their place.