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| Year | Stories |
|---|---|
| 1854 | 62 |
| 1858 | 29 |
| 1859 | 52 |
| 1860 | 27 |
| 1861 | 101 |
| 1862 | 87 |
| 1863 | 69 |
| 1864 | 32 |
| 1865 | 11 |
| 1871 | 11 |
| 1872 | 140 |
| 1876 | 812 |
| 1877 | 678 |
| 1878 | 526 |
| 1879 | 64 |
| 1880 | 180 |
| 1882 | 130 |
| 1883 | 911 |
| 1884 | 499 |
| 1885 | 838 |
| 1886 | 492 |
| 1887 | 484 |
| 1888 | 440 |
| 1889 | 1,324 |
| 1890 | 287 |
| 1891 | 1,115 |
| 1892 | 2,855 |
| 1893 | 2,829 |
| 1894 | 2,116 |
| 1895 | 1,830 |
| 1896 | 2 |
| 1897 | 62 |
| 1898 | 196 |
| 1899 | 446 |
| 1900 | 114 |
| 1902 | 34 |
| 1903 | 1,332 |
| 1904 | 1,126 |
| 1905 | 124 |
| 1907 | 53 |
| 1908 | 351 |
| 1909 | 1,545 |
| 1910 | 413 |
| 1911 | 160 |
| 1912 | 73 |
| 1914 | 261 |
| 1915 | 300 |
| 1916 | 545 |
| 1917 | 332 |
| 1918 | 45 |
| 1919 | 5 |
| 1920 | 1 |
| 1922 | 18 |
| 1923 | 185 |
| 1924 | 151 |
| 1925 | 64 |
| 1928 | 14 |
| 1929 | 19 |
2,116 stories
- The Curious Catch at Meighan's Wharf
A local fisherman pulls an unlikely stowaway from the depths of Elliott Bay.
- A Lonely Death and a Superstitious Ritual
When Mrs. Emily Williams took her own life in a Seattle boarding house, she covered the mirrors in her room, revealing a grim adherence to old-world folklore.
- Furniture Maker Attacked in Late-Night Ambush
C. Walter, proprietor of a shop at Fourth and Marion, reports a mysterious assault in the early morning hours.
- The Heist at the Seattle Saloon
Clever thieves target a West Yesler Avenue saloon, concealing themselves in a ladies' box to bypass security and escape with cash.
- A One-Legged Man, a Stolen Boat, and a Cork Leg to the Gut
A stolen rowboat, a determined owner, and a watchman with a wooden leg turn a quiet evening at the Madison Street slip into a comedy of errors.
- The Opium Shack on Vashon Island
A recluse on the south end of Vashon Island shot himself after years of opium use, leaving a needle, eight ounces of the drug, and a letter blaming a man named George Weston.
- Ten Years for a North Seattle Robbery
Three men who held up a local citizen face a decade of hard labor in the penitentiary.
- The passing of Amos Bowman, Anacortes founder
A polymath pioneer of the Pacific Northwest and journalist who once worked for Horace Greeley has died in his home city.
- The Youngest Was Saved; Three Children Died in the Embers
A two-story home in Wallula burned on the night of July 3, killing three of four grandchildren inside. The youngest child survived; the others were found in the charred ruins.
- Tacoma’s Engineers Crossed the Picket Line
As the Pullman boycott convulsed the nation, nearly all Northern Pacific engineers in Tacoma returned to work under guard—prompting American Railway Union men to vow a fight to the finish.
- Four Dead at the Two-Mile Trestle, and a Verdict That Names No One
A coroner's jury concludes that an overland train was wrecked by unknown hands, leaving an engineer and three privates dead and the community without an arrest.
- Tacoma Railway Men Refuse to Call Off the Strike
At a packed American Railway Union meeting, speakers from Seattle and Fern Hill insist the Pullman boycott is still on—and Debs wires that the men must be reinstated first.
- A Railroad Plots Its Path Across the Yakima Reservation
Engineers for the Vancouver, Portland & Northern have staked a route straight through tribal land — and will soon sit down with the Yakima to ask for a right-of-way.
- A Seattle Divorce Trial Turned a Woman’s Private Life Into a Public Spectacle
Mrs. Steel spent hours on the stand denying adultery with Mr. Dugan, while a Black witness’s testimony exposed the racial boundaries of respectable Seattle.
- The $100,000 Gamble on a Seattle Ship Canal
A federal river-and-harbor bill would set aside money for locks linking Puget Sound to Lake Union and Lake Washington—if Seattle's right-of-way and liability problems could be solved first.
- A Convicted Killer's Last Chance at the King County Bar
Defense attorney Melvin G. Wylie attacks the murder conviction of Holmes for the killing of William Russell, while Prosecutor Miller fights to keep the verdict.
- The Homesteader Who Beat the Railroad and the Land Company
A Tacoma land dispute turns on a settler's 1883 claim, a canceled filing, and the Northern Pacific's grant.
- A Thousand Men Apply to Replace 400 Striking Railroad Machinists
After the American Railway Union ordered Northern Pacific carshop workers out at Edison, the company found a long line of replacements—while the old hands looked toward the Lakeview rolling mill.
- The Navy Wants a Freshwater Harbor in Seattle
A federal board backs the Lake Washington canal as a strategic refuge for steel ships—and a way to escape the teredo worms eating Puget Sound's timber wharves.
- Roslyn's Coal Strike Ends—but the Company Wants to Blacklist Its Leaders
Miners have accepted the company's wage scale, yet the coal operator refuses to rehire the dozen men it blames for leading the strike.
- A Judge's Verdict on the Pullman Strike: The Men Who Stayed on the Job Came First
A federal judge in Seattle refused to order the receivers of the Seattle, Lake Shore & Eastern to reinstate fifteen striking ex-employees, praising the non-union engineers who kept the trains running and condemning the boycott as an attempt to destroy the business that had paid them.
- A Judge Freezes Seattle's $118,000 School-Building Fund
Queen Anne Hill residents win a temporary injunction barring the school board from spending 1894 tax money on anything but that year's warrants and new school buildings.
- A Seattle Courtroom Packs for a Murder Arraignment
Henry Craemer, charged with killing Mrs. Philippine Miller and her baby Frieda, faced a crowded courtroom without counsel—and without a flicker.
- The Night Ballard Almost Burned
A kerosene lamp in a candy store touched off a blaze that leapt across Ballard Avenue—then the town’s water gave out just as the business district caught.
- The Gold That Wasn't There: How Speculators Tried to Mine Their Way Into a Public School Section
A Tacoma hardware merchant swore a state school tract was rich placer ground. The state bored over a thousand feet of shafting, found less than a cent of gold per yard, and still had to fight to keep its own land.