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| Year | Stories |
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| 1854 | 6 |
| 1858 | 7 |
| 1859 | 8 |
| 1860 | 4 |
| 1861 | 6 |
| 1862 | 7 |
| 1863 | 4 |
| 1864 | 3 |
| 1865 | 1 |
| 1871 | 1 |
| 1872 | 13 |
| 1876 | 151 |
| 1877 | 118 |
| 1878 | 66 |
| 1879 | 6 |
| 1880 | 24 |
| 1882 | 24 |
| 1883 | 148 |
| 1884 | 74 |
| 1885 | 111 |
| 1886 | 66 |
| 1887 | 72 |
| 1888 | 79 |
| 1889 | 211 |
| 1890 | 38 |
| 1891 | 158 |
| 1892 | 322 |
| 1893 | 259 |
| 1894 | 313 |
| 1895 | 422 |
| 1896 | 1 |
| 1897 | 21 |
| 1898 | 39 |
| 1899 | 82 |
| 1900 | 16 |
| 1902 | 8 |
| 1903 | 139 |
| 1904 | 119 |
| 1905 | 15 |
| 1907 | 6 |
| 1908 | 61 |
| 1909 | 169 |
| 1910 | 46 |
| 1911 | 13 |
| 1912 | 7 |
| 1914 | 31 |
| 1915 | 27 |
| 1916 | 65 |
| 1917 | 30 |
| 1918 | 3 |
| 1923 | 26 |
| 1924 | 16 |
| 1925 | 7 |
| 1928 | 5 |
| 1929 | 7 |
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- A Runaway Boy Found on the Frontier
A fourteen-year-old runaway, fleeing cruelty in Roslyn, finds temporary refuge with a kindly rancher after being cast off a train.
- The Fugitive and the Missing Saddle
After an accused man jumps bail, a local deputy tracks him to a remote ranch, but the suspect vanishes into thin air.
- The Hypocrisy of the Saloon Petition
The local editor lashes out at the moral contradiction of community members who sing hymns in church on Sunday while petitioning for a new saloon on Monday.
- James J. Hill's Gamble to Make Seattle the Cheapest Port on the Pacific
The Great Northern's president arrives in Seattle with the country's foremost elevator builder and a plan to carve a ship canal, fill it in, and plant a 500,000-bushel steel grain terminal beside it — before this year's harvest comes in.
- 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.
- Land Crazy in the Big Bend: A Dollar an Acre and a Warning
A traveller back from the Columbia's Big Bend reports farmers who owned nothing a year ago now signing for quarter sections as the railroad unloads its land — and predicts many will live to regret it.
- Hog Cholera Breaks Out in Snohomish County, and the Swine Industry Is Warned It Faces Annihilation
Fifty head already dead in a single herd; the paper demands the state act before the disease gets a permanent foothold on the coast.
- A Cannery Comes Courting Puyallup Valley
Chicago investors scout the valley’s fruit crop, eye the old Pacific Meat Company building, and dangle $1,000 for a bridge at Sumner.
- The Price of Patriotism at Home
As war with Spain breaks out, the Adams County News editor urges Ritzville residents to guarantee support for the families left behind by local volunteers.
- The Million-Dollar Lot
After a decade of litigation, a pioneer wins a judgment against the Northern Pacific Railroad for a prime section of downtown Spokane.
- The Parasitic Weed Threatening San Juan Clover
A local farmer warns neighbors of a strangling weed that threatens to wipe out clover fields across the island.
- Tragedy on the Rails: Two Die in Pasco Train Wreck
A passenger train derails through a trestle, killing two men riding the rails.
- Farmers' Hopes Dashed as Wheat Yields Fall Far Short in the Palouse
Despite promising reports a month ago, farmers near Farmington are finding their wheat averaging only 12 to 15 bushels per acre, forcing some to cut their crops for hay. A bug infestation is adding to the misery.
- 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.
- Every Street a Sled Trail: Seattle Breaks in Dog Teams for the Klondike
In the winter of 1898 the thoroughfares of the Sound cities turned into training grounds — sleds, go-devils and sail-carts everywhere, companies buying and selling sled dogs at $25 to $100 a team, and one man solemnly breaking in a team of billy goats.
- A Centennial Benefactor
A local church society, struggling under the weight of debt, receives a surprise donation from a 101-year-old woman in Massachusetts.
- The Poison That Was Too Weak to Hurt a Child
Yakima County's fruit inspector found orchards sprayed and Paris green so adulterated that a child who ate it showed no serious symptoms.
- The Filth on Ritzville's Back Streets
A stern warning to city officials and residents that neglected alleys are brewing a public health crisis for the summer months.
- Poisoned Horses on the Horse Heaven Range: How One Sheepman Went to War With Coyotes
A Yakima County sheep raiser buys up 26 cayuses, shoots them, laces the carcasses with strychnine and arsenic, and reports that dozens of coyotes have already taken the bait.
- A Steel Bridge to Make Vineland a Boom Town
A 1,485-foot span across the Snake River to Lewiston is under construction, and its promoters promise it will raise property values more than any improvement ever could.
- A Valley Selling Itself: Vineland’s Orchard Boom
Strawberries at $400 an acre and cottages starting at $300: an Asotin County correspondent reports a settlement growing faster than its houses can be built.
- 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.
- Seattle's Fruit Growers Take On the Wholesalers — and City Hall
A lively meeting of the King County Fruitgrowers' Society pushes for a cooperative cannery, hears a pioneer judge denounce the middlemen who ship in California's cast-offs, and calls out a city council that once tried to license peddlers out of business.
- The Butter Police Come for the Lumber Camp's Oleo
A Seattle dairy commissioner catches a McMurray lumber company serving colored margarine in its boarding house — and the company pleads guilty rather than fight.
- Judge Hanford Draws the Line: Sheep Can't Graze on Railroad Land Without Consent
A federal court ruling in Yakima County upholds the Northern Pacific Railway's right to protect its unenclosed lands from sheep, setting a precedent for property rights and land use in the West.