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| 1854 | 3 |
| 1858 | 1 |
| 1859 | 9 |
| 1860 | 2 |
| 1861 | 2 |
| 1862 | 8 |
| 1863 | 2 |
| 1864 | 1 |
| 1865 | 1 |
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| 1872 | 9 |
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| 1877 | 55 |
| 1878 | 40 |
| 1879 | 2 |
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| 1885 | 36 |
| 1886 | 24 |
| 1887 | 33 |
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| 1889 | 85 |
| 1890 | 11 |
| 1891 | 64 |
| 1892 | 141 |
| 1893 | 127 |
| 1894 | 174 |
| 1895 | 253 |
| 1897 | 10 |
| 1898 | 16 |
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| 1903 | 90 |
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| 1923 | 11 |
| 1924 | 6 |
| 1928 | 2 |
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- The Vagrant Preacher: An Elderly Man’s Desperate Plea for Dignity in Spokane
Paul Hoffman, a German Lutheran minister turned job-seeker, was arrested for vagrancy after collecting donations from churchgoers. In his cell, he wept as he recounted his fall from grace.
- The One-Armed Commission Man Who Took Yakima Farmers for $4,000
A Selah farmer travels to Seattle's federal grand jury to haul a smooth-talking produce swindler back from California — and the stationery he left behind may be the evidence that hangs him.
- The Bunco King of Riverside Avenue
A Wisconsin farmer falls for a classic card-sharping trap in downtown Spokane, while local firemen demand more pay for shoveling coal.