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| Year | Stories |
|---|---|
| 1858 | 5 |
| 1859 | 7 |
| 1860 | 4 |
| 1861 | 11 |
| 1862 | 6 |
| 1863 | 4 |
| 1864 | 2 |
| 1865 | 2 |
| 1871 | 2 |
| 1872 | 7 |
| 1876 | 74 |
| 1877 | 66 |
| 1878 | 42 |
| 1879 | 5 |
| 1880 | 21 |
| 1882 | 8 |
| 1883 | 68 |
| 1884 | 26 |
| 1885 | 59 |
| 1886 | 27 |
| 1887 | 38 |
| 1888 | 28 |
| 1889 | 87 |
| 1890 | 13 |
| 1891 | 58 |
| 1892 | 136 |
| 1893 | 138 |
| 1894 | 129 |
| 1895 | 138 |
| 1897 | 5 |
| 1898 | 17 |
| 1899 | 37 |
| 1900 | 2 |
| 1902 | 3 |
| 1903 | 76 |
| 1904 | 61 |
| 1907 | 1 |
| 1908 | 23 |
| 1909 | 84 |
| 1910 | 6 |
| 1911 | 4 |
| 1912 | 1 |
| 1914 | 5 |
| 1915 | 10 |
| 1916 | 13 |
| 1917 | 4 |
| 1918 | 1 |
| 1922 | 2 |
| 1923 | 4 |
| 1924 | 2 |
| 1925 | 1 |
17 stories matching late
- Brawl at Skip Lee's Saloon Leaves Bystanders Maimed
A violent late-night fight involving billiard cues and brass knuckles forces a call for better police protection in the growing town.
- A Hearth Turned to Ash
A family breakfast was interrupted by a devastating chimney fire that consumed their home ten miles outside of town.
- Four Hundred Sheep Went Over a Cliff. Then the Herder Vanished.
A band of sheep near Roslyn plunged 35 feet to their deaths. The hired man in charge was nowhere to be found, and the owner was left to survey the wreckage.
- The Missouri-Washington Migration
An editorial reflection on why newcomers should give the Palouse time before retreating to the East.
- A Patriotic July 4th Celebration in Ritzville
Thousands of residents gathered to celebrate the American naval victory at Santiago with parades, races, and patriotic fervor.
- The Bessie K. Lost at Sea
A steamship overdue from Alaska is discovered shattered against the rocks north of Victoria, with no signs of survivors.
- The False Gold of the Klondike
A local editor warns against the 'senseless rush' to Alaska, predicting disaster for the fortune-seekers and economic ruin for the state.
- The Great Potato Feeding Experiment
Agricultural researchers in the late 1890s tested whether potatoes, mangels, or sugar beets were the most profitable feed for range-raised lambs.
- The Day Northport Vanished
A single cigarette discarded in a tailor shop behind a saloon triggers a conflagration that consumes the entire business heart of Northport.
- The Sheriff’s Bold Stand Against Mob Rule
A newly minted newspaper editor-sheriff argues that local complicity, not just law enforcement failures, fuels vigilante violence in Washington.
- The Hungry Democrats of Adams County
A local lawyer files a mock legal complaint humorously detailing the political squabbling over patronage and power in late 19th-century Washington.
- The Weed That Beat Wheat Hay
A Cheney-area farmer's experiment with prickly lettuce convinced him the despised weed was better cattle feed than his best wheat and oat hay.
- When Every Eastern Market Was Swamped: The 1897 Fruit Glut That Broke Northwest Growers
A Northwest agricultural writer tallies the wreckage of a boom season — glutted markets, freight and icing bills nobody could pay, and a blunt prescription for growers: dry your prunes and hold for a price.
- The Orchardist Who Told the State Its Moth Spraying Was Useless
In 1898, a North Yakima grower argued that the state's codlin-moth spray schedule did not fit the Yakima Valley's climate—and warned that apple and pear growing might be doomed without better field science.
- The Berry Math That Made Puyallup
A fruit-growers' manager laid out the 1898 economics of Western Washington berries: $1 a crate, 75-cent hired labor, and a cannery on the horizon.
- The Night the Chickens Sang Backup: Spokane’s Poultry Show
Spokane’s annual poultry exhibition drew hundreds of birds, a towering silver trophy, and an orchestra the chickens refused to let finish alone.
- The $80,000 Cranberry Bog Behind the Ilwaco Beach
A state commissioner tours Pacific County's cranberry marsh — 1,600 acres, 7,280 bushels shipped to San Francisco, 200 pickers at fifty cents a bushel, and a company openly hoping to replace its Chinese crew with white labor.