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| Year | Stories |
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| 1854 | 45 |
| 1858 | 9 |
| 1859 | 21 |
| 1860 | 15 |
| 1861 | 51 |
| 1862 | 42 |
| 1863 | 45 |
| 1864 | 3 |
| 1865 | 2 |
| 1871 | 4 |
| 1872 | 42 |
| 1876 | 178 |
| 1877 | 174 |
| 1878 | 157 |
| 1879 | 14 |
| 1880 | 49 |
| 1882 | 20 |
| 1883 | 156 |
| 1884 | 94 |
| 1885 | 200 |
| 1886 | 118 |
| 1887 | 90 |
| 1888 | 81 |
| 1889 | 211 |
| 1890 | 10 |
| 1891 | 57 |
| 1892 | 53 |
| 1893 | 39 |
| 1894 | 21 |
| 1895 | 69 |
| 1897 | 4 |
| 1898 | 6 |
| 1899 | 8 |
| 1900 | 2 |
| 1902 | 1 |
| 1903 | 16 |
| 1904 | 12 |
| 1905 | 2 |
| 1907 | 2 |
| 1908 | 19 |
| 1909 | 34 |
| 1910 | 20 |
| 1911 | 1 |
| 1912 | 2 |
| 1914 | 6 |
| 1915 | 5 |
| 1916 | 10 |
| 1917 | 6 |
| 1918 | 2 |
| 1923 | 3 |
| 1924 | 2 |
| 1929 | 2 |
69 stories matching territori
- Oregon Officers Cross the Columbia to Arrest Washington Fishermen
Seattle's paper accuses an Astoria judge of sending raiders into Washington waters to kidnap citizens for violating Oregon's salmon laws — an armed invasion of state sovereignty, it charges.
- The End of the Territory's First Hotel
The historic Eight House in Steilacoom, which once hosted Grant and Sheridan, has been destroyed by fire.
- The Governor, the British Officer, and One Tiny Revenue Cutter
Elisha P. Ferry's old colleague recalled how the territorial governor ordered a British garrison off San Juan Island—backed by a worn-out cutter and a howitzer or two.
- Arthur Denny Recalls the 1865 Election
Thirty years after his election to Congress, the Seattle pioneer reflects on a campaign defined by the Civil War and the assassination of Lincoln.
- Before the Tide Lands Sold, Seattle Had to Erase Its Own Streets
Property owners rushed the City Council to vacate old street lines across Elliott Bay tide lands before a May 13 purchase deadline—or risk tangled titles and lost waterfront.
- A Power Grab in Olympia: Electric Companies Win the Right to Condemn Land
A bill allowing electric power companies to seize private property for transmission lines squeaked through the Washington House on a reconsideration vote in 1895.
- Seattle to Ottawa: Hands Off Alaska
The Chamber of Commerce refused arbitration over Britain's boundary claims, warning that Canada was trying to take Alaska's harbors and the young city's northern trade.
- The $3,000 Health Office That Vanished
A lawsuit between rival health officers ends with a lucrative post abolished and steamship companies refusing to pay for certificates they never legally owed.
- Harnessing the Snoqualmie Falls
A new company of Seattle capitalists plans to transmit electrical power from Snoqualmie Falls, aiming to rival the scale of Niagara and spark a regional economic boom.
- A City Divided Over Disease
As scarlet fever spreads through Seattle, the Board of Health and the House of Delegates clash over funding for an inspector, leaving the city vulnerable.
- A Railroad and a Tide-Flat Fight: Who Gets to Fill Smith's Cove?
Great Northern objected to a plan by W. F. Hayes and Frank Shay to fill the tide flats between Pike Street and Smith's Cove, setting up a hearing over who controls Seattle's shoreline.
- A Missionary's Memory of the Russian Border
A Seattle Chamber of Commerce committee gathers testimony that the land north of Portland Canal was Russian, not British, as the Alaska boundary fight heats up.
- The Redcoats Have Landed in Seattle
A detachment of Northwest Mounted Police arrives in Seattle, turning heads and fraternizing with U.S. sailors before heading to the Yukon.
- The Fight Over Washington’s Missing School Sections
A Port Townsend case over “lieu lands” reaches a federal courtroom—and the title to hundreds of thousands of acres of school land.
- The Old Indian Fighter Who Taught Himself to Read After Paralysis Took His Limbs
Jim Foley fought in the territory's early Indian wars, logged its woods for thirty years, and spent his last quarter-century as a ward of Snohomish County — where the old campaigner, unable to move, finally learned his letters.
- The Homegrown Railroad That Opened the Snoqualmie Country
Seattle citizens incorporated the Seattle, Lake Shore & Eastern in 1885 to reach Gilman, North Bend and Snoqualmie Falls. Northern Pacific took control, receivership followed, and the line kept loggers alive through the depression.
- Seattle's University Pleads for a Building Worthy of the State
An 1895 editorial makes the case that the University of Washington has outgrown its territorial-era quarters — and that the legislature must fund the new campus between Lake Union and Union Bay.
- The Legal Battle Over a Pioneer’s Legacy
A Skagit County estate dispute pits an Indigenous widow against a white wife, forcing the courts to reckon with territorial-era marriage customs.
- Waterville Pitches the Great Northern for a Branch Line
A Douglas County town argues that a fifty-mile spur through the Moses Coulee and Foster Creek country would open twenty-five townships of homestead land — and bring the trade to Seattle.
- A Senate Report Exposes the National Guard's 'Go-As-You-Please' Spending
A military deficiency report finds the Washington National Guard has escaped civil control and wasted money, including $1,000 for each election of Adjutant General O'Brien.
- Seattle's Pingree Plan: Free Garden Plots for the Unemployed
A city-backed scheme opens an office at 14 Railroad Avenue to hand out land so jobless families can grow their own food — provided the subscriptions come in fast enough.
- What and Where Is Puget Sound?
A church naming dispute over a new Episcopal bishopric spirals into a history lesson on the waterway's true boundaries — and how mapmakers, old settlers and Congress each drew the line differently.
- Miners Urged to Revolt Against the Northern Pacific Land Grab
The Spokane Mining Review calls on miners across a million acres of mineral-bearing land to file protests before the railroad locks up the ground under them forever.
- A Pioneer's Last Entry: J. P. Stewart of Puyallup
A banker, postmaster, probate judge and territorial legislator died suddenly at 61, leaving behind a handwritten memoir of a journey from New York to the Puyallup Valley.
- England Wants Glacier Bay: A Seattle Miner’s Alaska Warning
Miner W. Bruce tells Seattle that Britain’s boundary claim would seize the Lynn Canal trail and Glacier Bay—and hand the Alaska tourist trade to Canadian Pacific steamers.