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| 1854 | 5 |
| 1858 | 2 |
| 1859 | 7 |
| 1860 | 4 |
| 1861 | 8 |
| 1862 | 4 |
| 1863 | 3 |
| 1864 | 1 |
| 1865 | 1 |
| 1872 | 10 |
| 1876 | 100 |
| 1877 | 71 |
| 1878 | 56 |
| 1879 | 2 |
| 1880 | 20 |
| 1882 | 15 |
| 1883 | 100 |
| 1884 | 35 |
| 1885 | 88 |
| 1886 | 39 |
| 1887 | 47 |
| 1888 | 63 |
| 1889 | 136 |
| 1890 | 28 |
| 1891 | 118 |
| 1892 | 283 |
| 1893 | 220 |
| 1894 | 224 |
| 1895 | 276 |
| 1896 | 1 |
| 1897 | 6 |
| 1898 | 20 |
| 1899 | 39 |
| 1900 | 3 |
| 1902 | 5 |
| 1903 | 115 |
| 1904 | 78 |
| 1905 | 12 |
| 1907 | 7 |
| 1908 | 47 |
| 1909 | 100 |
| 1910 | 29 |
| 1911 | 10 |
| 1912 | 8 |
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| 1915 | 20 |
| 1916 | 54 |
| 1917 | 31 |
| 1918 | 4 |
| 1922 | 4 |
| 1923 | 11 |
| 1924 | 13 |
| 1925 | 3 |
| 1928 | 1 |
| 1929 | 1 |
2,607 stories matching four
- The Aftermath of the Roslyn Mine Explosion
A town mourns forty-five dead while the community rallies to support eighty-four orphaned children.
- The Four-Year Schoolhouse Commute
A rural school district finally completes its long-delayed migration, ending years of hardship for pupils and teachers.
- Newport High School Earns State Accreditation
After only four years of operation, the local high school secures a major milestone, allowing its graduates to enter state universities without entrance exams.
- A Tragedy at the Duwamish River
A four-year-old child loses his life in a tragic accident along the banks of the Duwamish River.
- Typhoid Fever Cases Climb in Seattle
Three new cases reported to the city health officer bring the count to twenty-four since January 1.
- Vigilante Justice on the Monte Cristo Road
After a foreman was killed in a brutal dispute at a railroad camp, the workers took the law into their own hands and lynched four suspects.
- Four Drown at Wild Goose Bill Ferry
A ferry accident on the Columbia River leaves four men dead as their wives watch helplessly from the shore.
- Four Drown Near Coupeville
A boat capsized in high winds while traveling from Port Madison toward Victoria, claiming the lives of four passengers.
- Unemployed Workers Displaced from Portland to Seattle
Sixty-four longshoremen arrive on the City of Topeka seeking work after being pushed out of Portland to reduce their local unemployed rolls.
- A Near-Death Fall at the Mount Si Hotel
While working on a hotel construction project in Snoqualmie, a man miraculously survives a thirty-four-foot plunge after a scaffold gives way.
- Twenty-Four Officers Wanted the Adjutant General Gone
A petition against Adjutant General O’Brien reached the governor, who refused to demand a resignation—prompting a theatrical outburst from Tacoma’s “Little Corporal.”
- A Four-Day Escape into the Snoqualmie Wilderness
Four Seattle men trade the monotony of office life for a rustic expedition into the King County woods.
- Four Prisoners Escape City Jail Through Brick Wall
Four prisoners vanish from the city jail after a creative structural modification to the facility's masonry.
- Tragedy in Fern City: Four Children Perish in Home Blaze
A mother’s brief errand ends in unimaginable loss when her home is consumed by flames, trapping her four young children inside.
- The Four Days James McCutcheon Was Someone Else
A Roy butcher vanished on Sunday and reappeared near Auburn with no memory of where he had been—an early-twentieth-century case of “dual personality.”
- A Frontier Double Standard
In an 1878 column, Captain John of the Siutes calls out the brutal hypocrisy of territorial justice: while white criminals get a trial, Indigenous people get the army.
- The City Council’s Hammock Scandal
Seattle’s city fathers clash over the 'reckless extravagance' of buying thirty-four hammocks for the city jail.
- An Indignant Patron
A Chinese man refuses a segregated ticket policy at a local circus.
- The Night Seattle's Chief Emptied the Variety District
A weekend sweep of Seattle's saloon district ended with twenty arrests and most prisoners ordered out of town within twenty-four hours.
- German Lutheran School Expands in Kennewick
A new bungalow-style schoolhouse rises on Tacoma Street as the local German Lutheran community invests in its own educational infrastructure.
- The Half-Finished Skeleton on Second and University
After contractors were left hanging without payment, a court orders a developer to pay over $8,000 for a four-story building that never rose past the first floor.
- The Waldron Block Inferno
A landmark four-story brick building in Fairhaven is destroyed by fire, leaving the community reeling after a disastrous attempt to control the blaze with faulty equipment.
- The Four Cities of the Bay: A Failed Marriage
Delegates from four separate municipalities on Bellingham Bay meet to debate the dream—and the logistical nightmare—of merging into a single metropolis.
- The Great Oil Puzzle: How Three Men Solved an Impossible Measure
A local grocer and two farmers spent a long afternoon cracking a mathematical riddle to split eight gallons of oil evenly using only three uneven containers.
- Declared Dead for Four Years, a Widower Writes Home — and Asks Only for Money
Jacob Claterbos vanished after leaving Germany for Chicago; his sold property raised his children. Now he wants cash to come home, and never asks about the children at all.