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| Year | Stories |
|---|---|
| 1854 | 8 |
| 1858 | 17 |
| 1859 | 12 |
| 1860 | 8 |
| 1861 | 23 |
| 1862 | 23 |
| 1863 | 6 |
| 1864 | 6 |
| 1865 | 1 |
| 1871 | 5 |
| 1872 | 39 |
| 1876 | 209 |
| 1877 | 205 |
| 1878 | 140 |
| 1879 | 17 |
| 1880 | 49 |
| 1882 | 41 |
| 1883 | 202 |
| 1884 | 102 |
| 1885 | 218 |
| 1886 | 124 |
| 1887 | 116 |
| 1888 | 134 |
| 1889 | 365 |
| 1890 | 53 |
| 1891 | 279 |
| 1892 | 585 |
| 1893 | 491 |
| 1894 | 520 |
| 1895 | 657 |
| 1896 | 1 |
| 1897 | 10 |
| 1898 | 51 |
| 1899 | 142 |
| 1900 | 22 |
| 1902 | 12 |
| 1903 | 255 |
| 1904 | 219 |
| 1905 | 26 |
| 1907 | 14 |
| 1908 | 92 |
| 1909 | 278 |
| 1910 | 101 |
| 1911 | 45 |
| 1912 | 12 |
| 1914 | 52 |
| 1915 | 61 |
| 1916 | 105 |
| 1917 | 72 |
| 1918 | 9 |
| 1922 | 2 |
| 1923 | 37 |
| 1924 | 17 |
| 1925 | 8 |
| 1928 | 6 |
| 1929 | 6 |
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- The Great Northern Cut Wages—and the Unemployed Took the Jobs
Car cleaners and repairers at Interbay quit rather than accept cuts to $1.50 and $1.25 a day. The company had a full replacement crew before the day was over.
- Labor Day at Madison Park—and a Boycott Aimed at Minneapolis
Seattle union delegates planned a citywide Labor Day celebration and answered a flour-mill wage cut in Minneapolis with a boycott.
- King County's Almshouse 'Vindication' Came With a Taxpayer Bill
A committee appointed to investigate charges against King County commissioners billed the public for its own defense—including $10-a-day duty and a detective sent after a newspaper leak.
- Memorial Day Parades and Politics
Seattle celebrated Memorial Day with a massive procession and a theater program, where speakers linked the memory of Union veterans to modern anxieties over labor unrest and immigration.
- Aberdeen Bought Its Railroad With Town Lots, Timber and Days of Labor
At the Acme Opera House, mill owners and laborers alike pledged what they had—lots, ties, board and work—to persuade the Northern Pacific to extend its line into the young Grays Harbor town.
- The Miner Who Went Back to Warn Them
In the Franklin mine disaster, young Joseph Dawson chose to save his fellows and lost his own life—an editorial page's portrait of ordinary courage.
- Ballard Mill Workers Win Wage Fight
After an attempt to cut pay, Ballard shingle mill workers successfully pressured owners to maintain the old wage scale.
- The Price of 'Protection': Judge Glasgow Cuts the Fine for Unlicensed Saloons
A routine municipal court case reveals the city's long-standing 'ninety-day' tax on houses of ill fame.
- The Deputy Who Was 'More Dead Than Alive'—and Came Back
Shot in the back at North Yakima, Deputy U.S. Marshal Jack Jolly survived blood poisoning after a desperate abdominal operation in Tacoma.
- The Great Northern Strike Ends
After an eighteen-day standstill that paralyzed the Northwest, President James J. Hill and the American Railway Union reach an uneasy truce.
- Coxey’s Army and the Capital Crackdown
Industrial protesters are jailed for trespassing on Capitol grounds, as federal troops mobilize across the West to protect railroad lines.
- The Officer, the Wife, and the Bouquet: A Seattle Courtroom Melodrama
John Brown gets thirty days for disorderly conduct, but he blames a handsome policeman for stealing his wife—who arrives in court with flowers and a secret for the judge.
- Seattle and Tacoma Call a Truce for the Interstate Fair
A Tacoma delegation arrives in Seattle to plan a joint Seattle-Tacoma day at the fair, with city officials pledging exhibits, parades and a united front.
- Seattle’s Sewers and the City Hall Purge
Mayor Ronald removes two public works board members following an eight-day inquiry into municipal corruption and wasted funds.
- The Seizure of the Steamer Fairy
Federal authorities seize a vessel accused of smuggling eight Chinese laborers into Puget Sound.
- Five Years Old, Alone in a Canoe, and a River That Would Not Give Him Back
Neighbours and loggers dragged the Snohomish for a day and a night before a boy's body was found and carried to town for burial.
- County Surveyor Pocketed $2 a Day From Subordinates
A Seattle newspaper exposes how the local county surveyor was illegally skimming off the wages of his subordinates for his own personal profit.
- Who Gets to Dig Seattle’s Sewers? Knights of Labor Accuse City Hall of Hiring by Party Ticket
A labor committee charges that Seattle’s sewer crews were filled with nonresidents and Democratic loyalists while taxpaying workmen were turned away—and that some men were paid for less than they worked.
- Senator Squire Speaks Out Against 'The Day of Doom'
Washington State’s Senator Watson Squire takes to the Senate floor to argue that the pending Democratic tariff reform will destroy the state's lumber and mining industries.
- The Tacoma Bridge Scandal
Local contractors and builders suspect civic corruption in the rushed bidding process for the Eleventh Street bridge project.
- The Water Famine on Kenton Hill
Residents get water only about three hours a day while Seattle’s two council houses argue over pumps, sprinkling schedules and fire hose.
- The Struggle for Liberty in the Boomtown
Aberdeen celebrates Independence Day with political oratory, sports, and a reflection on the economic tensions of 1894.
- Tragedy on the Sound: Two Edmonds Men Lost at Sea
A supply mission for an Odd Fellows dance turns into a frantic search as two prominent citizens vanish during a gale.
- A Bank Scandal in Whateom
The Cashier of the First National Bank of Whateom faces a bench warrant over a $10,000 loan, allegedly secured with inflated land values.
- The Untimely Death of a Spiritualist's Patient
A coroner investigates a woman's death after she was treated by a spiritualist practicing in the Kline & Rosenberg building.