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| Year | Stories |
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| 1854 | 10 |
| 1858 | 9 |
| 1859 | 13 |
| 1860 | 6 |
| 1861 | 23 |
| 1862 | 12 |
| 1863 | 20 |
| 1864 | 3 |
| 1865 | 3 |
| 1871 | 2 |
| 1872 | 31 |
| 1876 | 178 |
| 1877 | 147 |
| 1878 | 92 |
| 1879 | 12 |
| 1880 | 33 |
| 1882 | 28 |
| 1883 | 209 |
| 1884 | 123 |
| 1885 | 211 |
| 1886 | 126 |
| 1887 | 111 |
| 1888 | 110 |
| 1889 | 308 |
| 1890 | 53 |
| 1891 | 250 |
| 1892 | 649 |
| 1893 | 527 |
| 1894 | 618 |
| 1895 | 550 |
| 1896 | 2 |
| 1897 | 14 |
| 1898 | 50 |
| 1899 | 133 |
| 1900 | 12 |
| 1902 | 10 |
| 1903 | 224 |
| 1904 | 223 |
| 1905 | 20 |
| 1907 | 13 |
| 1908 | 90 |
| 1909 | 302 |
| 1910 | 97 |
| 1911 | 45 |
| 1912 | 20 |
| 1914 | 46 |
| 1915 | 44 |
| 1916 | 85 |
| 1917 | 65 |
| 1918 | 11 |
| 1919 | 1 |
| 1922 | 5 |
| 1923 | 26 |
| 1924 | 12 |
| 1925 | 7 |
| 1928 | 5 |
| 1929 | 6 |
14 stories matching men
- The Great Sheep Boom of 1897
As drought devastates Australian herds, Northwest sheepmen anticipate a massive windfall in wool and mutton prices.
- The Middleman Trap: A Farm Journal Warns the Growers About Shady Commission Houses
A Northwest agricultural paper tells fruit shippers to beware 'snide concerns' that report produce as damaged and pocket the difference — and names a Tacoma firm closing its season 'under the cloud of shady transactions.'
- Spokane Had Mining Fever, and the Men Selling the Stock Had the Only Sure Thing
A Yakima correspondent visits Spokane and finds a city where hotel clerks, newsboys and waiter girls are all buying mining shares — and where even Ezra Meeker has traded hops for a stock prospectus.
- Battling the Invasive Thistle
A coordinated effort between the state college and the Northern Pacific Railroad aims to eradicate destructive weeds from the Washington landscape.
- The Book-Keeper and the Plumber Who Milked Twenty-Six Cows Before Breakfast
Two Spokane office men built a dairy on the Spokane River without quitting their day jobs — and sent Hoard's Dairyman the receipts, down to the price of bran.
- The Butter Swindler's Comeuppance
A clever farm wife turns the tables on a traveling salesman peddling a fraudulent 'miracle' churn.
- Counterfeit Yakima Potatoes on the Sound
A Tacoma paint dealer tells the valley's paper that Puget Sound merchants were passing off second-grade Western Washington spuds as Yakima's prized crop — and that in a full year he got the genuine article only three times.
- A Thousand Dogs for the Klondike
A Seattle syndicate imported stray dogs by the carload from Chicago, trained them to haul gold-rush supplies, and kenneled the pack in an abandoned brickyard.
- The Cattle Boom That Was Selling Off Its Own Future
A Northern Pacific land examiner warns that Nebraska buyers are sweeping up Washington breeding stock, prices are surging in Yakima County, and an Adams County artesian well could open a new grazing frontier.
- The Mountains Closed: Stockmen Fight the Cascade Forest Reserve
Eastern Washington's cattle and sheep men warn that locking up the Cascades as a federal forest reserve would beggar every valley town — and train their anger on the Yakama Reservation boundary, which they want opened to their herds.
- Six Restaurants, One Sacrificial Lamb: Seattle's War on Fake Butter
Six Seattle restaurants caught passing oleomargarine off as butter cut a deal with the dairy commissioner — but not before white proprietors tried to make the Japanese owner of the California take the fall.
- Wenatchee Growers Told a Railroad: Give Us Water and We'll Fill Your Freight Cars
A delegation of Wenatchee Valley orchardists met Great Northern officials at Seattle's Hotel Butler to argue that irrigation—not mines or timber—would turn eastern Washington into a freight-producing countryside.
- The Orchardist's Revolt: Wawawai Grower Accuses Yakima Commission Firm of Withholding $1,100
J.W. Offield says Thompson Kain refused to pay for his peach and pear crop; the firm counters that he misrepresented varieties and freight rates.
- Don't Bond the Valley to a Dry Ditch
A Wenatchee editor warns that a $100,000 Wright-law irrigation bond would repeat the Kennewick failure—leaving settlers with debt, abandoned orchards, and no water.