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| Year | Stories |
|---|---|
| 1854 | 2 |
| 1858 | 1 |
| 1859 | 1 |
| 1860 | 1 |
| 1861 | 6 |
| 1862 | 2 |
| 1863 | 4 |
| 1864 | 1 |
| 1865 | 1 |
| 1871 | 1 |
| 1872 | 8 |
| 1876 | 42 |
| 1877 | 33 |
| 1878 | 48 |
| 1879 | 6 |
| 1880 | 8 |
| 1882 | 6 |
| 1883 | 55 |
| 1884 | 32 |
| 1885 | 37 |
| 1886 | 27 |
| 1887 | 20 |
| 1888 | 54 |
| 1889 | 94 |
| 1890 | 11 |
| 1891 | 55 |
| 1892 | 123 |
| 1893 | 94 |
| 1894 | 114 |
| 1895 | 193 |
| 1896 | 1 |
| 1897 | 7 |
| 1898 | 18 |
| 1899 | 25 |
| 1900 | 1 |
| 1902 | 1 |
| 1903 | 40 |
| 1904 | 34 |
| 1905 | 3 |
| 1907 | 3 |
| 1908 | 28 |
| 1909 | 48 |
| 1910 | 11 |
| 1911 | 2 |
| 1912 | 1 |
| 1914 | 6 |
| 1915 | 5 |
| 1916 | 15 |
| 1917 | 9 |
| 1918 | 1 |
| 1922 | 1 |
| 1923 | 3 |
| 1924 | 1 |
| 1925 | 1 |
| 1928 | 1 |
| 1929 | 5 |
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- County Cuts Public Services to Lower Taxes
Benton County commissioners eliminate the positions of county agent and club leader to reduce the tax burden, ending agricultural extension services.
- Priest Rapids Apple Growers Win Grading Concession
State inspector clears the way for 'striped' apples to be sold as 'extra fancy,' a major relief for local orchardists.
- Organizing the Valley's Harvest
Hay growers meet in White Bluffs to discuss stabilizing the market through a new state-wide cooperative.
- The Fight for Public Power
Seattle municipal power superintendent J. D. Ross defends the controversial Bone Bill in White Bluffs, arguing for cheaper rates through public competition.
- Bremerton's Filipinos Build a Mutual-Aid Society — and a Young Ally Wins Their Hearts
A new Filipino association in Bremerton adopts a platform of unity and self-help, honors a Japanese-American woman who organized their Rizal Day celebration, and sets its sights on Philippine independence.
- The Land Commissioner Halts the Olympic Highway Land Rush
Speculators are lining up to snap up land along the new Olympic Highway, but State Land Commissioner C. V. Savidge says the state isn't selling yet.
- A Filipino Editor Fires Back at Arthur Brisbane Over Philippine Independence
When the great American columnist claimed Filipinos had abandoned their fight for freedom over a sugar tariff, the Filipino Forum answered: courtesy to a departing governor is not surrender.
- Should Seattle Have a Filipino Labor Commissioner?
A 1923 community-paper debate pits a call for Filipino labor representation against a columnist who says the workers should simply go home.
- Labor's Third-Party Question: Washington's Federation Chief Reports from Cleveland
After a Seattle paper misreported a vote to launch an independent party, State Federation of Labor president William H. Johnston sets the record straight: organized labor chose to keep working with the A.F. of L. and progressive allies rather than split the vote in 1924.
- A Filipino Writer Confronts Exclusion — and the Seattle Times — in 1926
A local column challenges a Filipino student's call for exclusion, calls for cross-racial labor solidarity in the Pacific Northwest, and rebuts the Seattle Daily Times on Philippine independence.
- “Close Your Gates to Us — But Give Us Independence First”
A Filipino student in Seattle goes before the Labor Union's legislative committee to head off an exclusion bill, and finds the union men surprisingly reasonable — because independence, he argues, gives them exactly what they want anyway.
- The Filipino Answer to a Labor Organizer’s Exclusion Demand
In 1929, Seattle’s Filipino Forum took on the Central Labor Council’s campaign to bar Filipino workers—and dismantled the racist case line by line.