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| Year | Stories |
|---|---|
| 1876 | 2 |
| 1877 | 2 |
| 1878 | 2 |
| 1882 | 1 |
| 1883 | 7 |
| 1884 | 3 |
| 1885 | 15 |
| 1886 | 5 |
| 1887 | 4 |
| 1888 | 2 |
| 1889 | 106 |
| 1890 | 120 |
| 1891 | 133 |
| 1892 | 151 |
| 1893 | 8 |
| 1894 | 12 |
| 1895 | 6 |
| 1897 | 30 |
| 1898 | 28 |
| 1899 | 7 |
| 1902 | 1 |
| 1903 | 23 |
| 1904 | 3 |
| 1905 | 4 |
| 1909 | 6 |
| 1910 | 4 |
| 1914 | 5 |
| 1915 | 4 |
| 1916 | 9 |
| 1917 | 5 |
| 1922 | 1 |
| 1923 | 6 |
| 1924 | 2 |
717 stories
- The Mining Expert of Gold Hill
A trailblazing female mining expert navigates the Cascades to secure property and bring industrial development to the Gold Hill district.
- The Curse of Engine 671
Northern Pacific railroad workers avoid a locomotive they believe is possessed by evil spirits.
- Farmer Chases Engineers Away with Barbed Wire
A landowner in the lower Yakima Valley defended his property rights in spectacular fashion, chasing an engineering crew off his land with a lasso of barbed wire.
- The Murphy Temperance Crusade
Evangelist Francis Murphy visits North Yakima, leading hundreds to sign the pledge as the city contemplates a permanent temperance society.
- The Mysterious Case of the Missing $530
A traveler reports being robbed in a local saloon, but the perpetrator remains as elusive as the money itself.
- An Exile at the Edge of Home
While the town celebrated the completion of the new irrigation ditch, a man watched from the hills, barred from the home he once built.
- The Sheriff’s Cold Night and A Surprise Marriage
After evading capture in a dramatic escape from the Moxee, a fugitive is arrested and promptly married by the local justice.
- The Tieton Gold Rush
Seattle mining experts claim they have found a fortune in gold-bearing rock in the Tieton drainage.
- An Old Warrior Arrested in North Yakima
A remnant of the 1877 Nez Perce conflict is taken into custody following a dispute over his wife.
- The Jealousy of Mr. McIntyre
A carpenter is warned to flee town under threat of gunfire following an alleged affair.
- A Hop Yard Carousal Turns Violent
A night of drinking and robbery on the Ahtanum leads to a shooting in downtown Yakima.
- Building a Neighborhood on Easy Terms
A local firm introduces a development plan for the city's north side to help residents build their own homes.
- Political Retaliation at the Yakima Reservation
An Indian Agent attempts to replace an old Union soldier with a Confederate veteran, only to be overruled by federal authorities after local veterans organize.
- The Battle for the Irrigation Ditch
North Yakima residents clash with the city council over the right to water their gardens after a street grading project cuts off their supply.
- From Nuisance to Gold: The Klondike Rescue of Washington's Horses
A Yakima Valley horse company capitalizes on a remarkable market turnaround—from horses sold to canneries for $2 a head to prized stock for the Klondike and beyond.
- The Sugar War: Why Yakima Farmers Wanted Hawaii's Sweet Deal Axed
Northern Pacific distributed beet seed in North Yakima to test sugar production, but farmers argued they couldn't compete with Hawaiian sugar grown with cheap labor.
- Counterfeit Yakima Potatoes on the Sound
A Tacoma paint dealer tells the valley's paper that Puget Sound merchants were passing off second-grade Western Washington spuds as Yakima's prized crop — and that in a full year he got the genuine article only three times.
- Turning Salt Flats into Wheat Fields
A Yakima sheepman discovers how to reclaim abandoned alkali-ridden soil through careful irrigation.
- The Hay Market Heats Up in the Yakima Valley
As alfalfa prices climb, local agricultural managers weigh the risks of livestock investment against the volatility of the regional market.
- A Dry-Hills Gamble: Sixty Settlers and a Well
When boosters claimed Yakima’s brown hills could farm, thirteen families put up $25 each to drill for water and prove it.
- The Debts a Country Owes Its Farmers — and Its Farmers' Wives
An 1898 farm-column editorial tallies what rural Washington neglects: untrained road supervisors, school directors so illiterate the legislature had to bar them, and farm women who never see a newspaper or a neighbor.
- Yakima Farmers Answer the Call to Organize
At Mason's Opera House, A. B. Leckenby tells North Yakima growers that cooperation—not outside capital—is the valley's best hope, and a countywide farmers' club takes shape for Feb. 12.
- Two Hundred Feet of Solid Rock: The Well That Might End Yakima's Water War
For years, the old settlers of the lower Ahtanum and the newcomers up on the bench lands have fought it out in the Yakima courts over who owns the creek. Now four farmers are betting on an artesian well instead — and paying for it out of their own pockets.
- Two Creamery Men Split Yakima County's Milk — Then Went to War Over It
Between them, E. E. James and Jacob Frazer control nearly every creamery in the county. Instead of agreeing on a price for milk, they are raiding each other's routes, poaching suppliers, and appealing to the state dairy commissioner over who can even run a Babcock test correctly.
- A Divorce Scandal Becomes a Defamation Suit
After the Snell divorce, Bertha Denton sues Jennie Snell for calling her a prostitute and a 'low and lewd woman' before a crowd at the state encampment.
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