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| Year | Stories |
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| 1871 | 1 |
| 1872 | 1 |
| 1876 | 118 |
| 1877 | 186 |
| 1878 | 137 |
| 1879 | 33 |
| 1880 | 6 |
| 1882 | 1 |
| 1883 | 5 |
| 1884 | 4 |
| 1885 | 13 |
| 1886 | 9 |
| 1887 | 3 |
| 1888 | 4 |
| 1889 | 12 |
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| 1892 | 41 |
| 1893 | 32 |
| 1894 | 10 |
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| 1911 | 4 |
| 1923 | 1 |
10 stories
- The Brutal Ambush Near Dubuque
A multi-year saga of land-use violence concludes as the mastermind behind a bloody road-access dispute is convicted.
- The Battle for the Snohomish River Claim
A landmark interior department decision favors an ailing settler over a speculator who tried to exploit a technicality in federal land law.
- A Child Lost to the Woods
A tragic accident occurs near Snohomish as a young boy, out with his rifle, fails to return home.
- Western Washington’s Spring Floods
Heavy rains and rising rivers in the Skagit, Fraser, and Columbia valleys damage crops and farmland.
- Snohomish to Everett: ‘We’ll Teach You a Lesson in County Politics’
A cannon-call mass meeting at the Cathcart Opera House rallies Snohomish against the county-seat removal campaign, with cheers loud enough to reach Everett.
- Snohomish's Standard Mill Goes Up in Flames
A boiler-side fire consumes the Loggie Bros. mill and its lumber, threatening a town payroll already strained by strike.
- The Saloonkeeper and the 'Fire' Scam
A Snohomish business owner accused of fraud faces court after a dubious claim that his saloon had burned down to escape a debt.
- 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.
- The Fight Over Public Printing in Snohomish
A judge rules that the county treasurer has the discretion to choose which newspaper receives taxpayer money for publishing delinquent tax lists.
- Fire Threatens Major Snohomish Mill
Workers and citizens labor through the afternoon to save a prominent local lumber mill after its dry kiln catches fire.