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| 1862 | 1 |
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| 1865 | 1 |
| 1872 | 1 |
| 1876 | 14 |
| 1877 | 3 |
| 1878 | 9 |
| 1880 | 2 |
| 1882 | 4 |
| 1883 | 35 |
| 1884 | 7 |
| 1885 | 18 |
| 1886 | 7 |
| 1887 | 14 |
| 1888 | 13 |
| 1889 | 20 |
| 1890 | 4 |
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| 1892 | 37 |
| 1893 | 39 |
| 1894 | 49 |
| 1895 | 67 |
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| 1899 | 7 |
| 1902 | 4 |
| 1903 | 16 |
| 1904 | 6 |
| 1905 | 1 |
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| 1908 | 4 |
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13 stories matching pretti
- The Town and the Team
Oroville celebrates a victory on the diamond, even if the play was a bit 'scaley.'
- Ledwena Mowitch's Plea for Safety
A young woman escapes a violent marriage through the court system, forcing a reckoning for her abusive husband.
- Monopoly on the Produce Market
Tacoma hucksters claim that a select group of large garden concerns is colluding to fix prices on all greenstuffs, squeezing out small sellers and local buyers.
- The Battle for the West Waterfront
Tacoma citizens are urged to confront railroad attorneys tonight to prevent the Northern Pacific from monopolizing the city’s waterfront access.
- The Fruit Feud: Oroville vs. Riverside
A war of words erupts between local newspapers over winter damage to orchard crops.
- The Morning Brawl at City Hall
A deputy city controller’s public intoxication and volatile temper lead to a physical altercation and his immediate arrest.
- A Late-June Flood Chases Newport’s Riverfront
The Pend Oreille kept rising after mid-June, drowning grain in the Calispel Valley and tearing planks from the Lumbermen’s Transportation docks.
- A Close Call at the Favorite Mine
A worker is nearly killed at the Favorite mine when a piece of waste quartz thrown from the dump strikes him in the throat.
- The State’s Powerless Labor Inspector
A deputy labor commissioner finds poor conditions for women and children in Everett, but discovers the law offers her no teeth to force compliance.
- The Man Who Told James J. Hill There Would Be Two Railroads
F. A. Blackwell came west from Pennsylvania with cash, timber sense and nerve — now his Pend Oreille line is racing the Great Northern to the Canadian border.
- A Niagara-Scale Power Play Comes to Newport
A Spokane-backed electric company takes over Newport's service, seeks a city franchise, and eyes 75,000 horsepower at Cabinet Gorge.
- A Knife on Union Avenue: Newport Lunch Wagon Owner Chases Down Cook Who Robbed Him
H. McGraw, a cook at 'Red' Warren's lunch wagon, took the night's receipts and skipped town. Warren caught him, recovered the money, and then stabbed him between the ribs.
- New Trains, New Track — and Three Railroads Circling Priest Lake
The Bonners Ferry local comes back, the Idaho & Washington Northern creeps toward Ione, and the Miner's editor sniffs hot air in a Spokane paper's talk of a Priest Lake line.