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| 1858 | 2 |
| 1859 | 1 |
| 1861 | 1 |
| 1872 | 1 |
| 1876 | 14 |
| 1877 | 1 |
| 1878 | 6 |
| 1880 | 3 |
| 1883 | 5 |
| 1884 | 5 |
| 1885 | 10 |
| 1886 | 7 |
| 1887 | 16 |
| 1888 | 25 |
| 1889 | 33 |
| 1890 | 6 |
| 1891 | 26 |
| 1892 | 27 |
| 1893 | 26 |
| 1894 | 48 |
| 1895 | 56 |
| 1897 | 1 |
| 1898 | 4 |
| 1899 | 9 |
| 1900 | 2 |
| 1903 | 8 |
| 1904 | 10 |
| 1905 | 4 |
| 1907 | 2 |
| 1908 | 10 |
| 1909 | 31 |
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435 stories matching jone
- A Hunter's Final Trip Near South Yakima
After successfully bagging a deer, a hunter is swept away by the current of the Naches River.
- The Wild Life and Vanishing Legacy of Betsy Jones
A century-old property dispute in Bellingham unearths the chaotic, cross-continental saga of a woman whose life defied Victorian conventions.
- A Fistfight at City Hall
A political dispute in Spokane turns physical, landing councilmen and a street commissioner in a public brawl.
- The Confidence Woman of Akron
A local employment agent is charmed by a fellow Midwesterner and left empty-handed.
- Candy, Land Claims and a 'Confidence Man': Arlington's Commissioner Hits Back
George Morrell denies stealing ginger snaps and swindling settlers—then accuses his accuser of running an extortion racket with a Seattle police escort.
- The Saloon Men Who Saved a Logger from a Pauper's Grave
When Frank Johnson died at the county farm, his old friend Tommy Jones called on Seattle's saloon keepers to give him a proper burial in Lake View.
- Death of a Local Coal Baron
Benjamin B. Jones, a foundational figure in the development of the Coast's coal mines, passes away at 64.
- An Honest Find in the Snow
A local laborer, despite his own poverty, turns in a lost gold watch to the police.
- The Unfinished Business of Alfred B. Jones
A legal notice from 1876 reveals the mundane yet pressing reality of settling an estate in the early days of Seattle.
- The Ghost of the White River Massacre
Decades after the violence of 1855, the estate of a pioneer family is resurrected in court, revealing a grim history of frontier life.
- The Ghost House of Monte Cristo
A widow with two children was lured to the mining camp with the promise of a house that didn't exist.
- The Unfinished Business of Alfred H. Jones
A standard probate notice reveals the vanishing point of a pioneer's life in 1876 Seattle, where debts and assets were tied to the rapidly developing corners of Third and Union.
- The Street Preacher on Pioneer Square
A Seattle man, parading through the city with a Bible and an American flag, faces a jury trial to determine his sanity while his wife struggles to support their family.
- A Dramatic Arrest and a 'Whisky Fit' at the Police Station
A suspect arrested for jumping a boarding house bill and passing bogus checks collapses in his wife's arms while in police custody.
- A Wife Arrived Too Late: The Theater-Builder's Fatal Fall
H. M. Jones slipped from a board atop the unfinished Seattle Theater at Third and Cherry, leaving six children and a neighbor's quiet tribute.
- Twenty Thousand Acres vs. the River: Calispel Valley Takes Its Case to Congress
Farmers around Usk and Cusick organize a diking district and send a committee to Spokane to beg a rivers-and-harbors congressman for a dredge, a dike, and a federal appropriation.
- The Sham Colony of Whatcom County
Federal investigators expose a fraudulent scheme to seize timber lands using dummy 'pre-emption' entries.
- A Petition to Open Calispel Land—and Remove Its People
Congressman Wesley L. Jones carried a Cusick-area removal petition to the Indian Office, where officials weighed how to open the land to white settlement.
- The Pastor Who Took His Whole Flock With Him
Rev. Allen W. Whaley, ousted from Seattle's Jones Street African Methodist Episcopal church, preaches to a packed hall on the university grounds and vows to have the matter 'sifted to the bottom.'
- City's New Fire Engine Destroyed in Rail Wreck
A critical piece of infrastructure, a Clapp & Jones fire engine, was ruined in a freight train accident, leaving the city to seek a replacement.
- The Pugilist and the Player: A Seattle Clash of Champions
A local boxing favorite and a Philadelphia fencing master prepare for a high-stakes showdown at the Jefferson Street Theater.
- Railway Contractors Bet Big on Usk as Milwaukee Line Speculation Swirls
A 480-acre ranch sells for $15,500, then the Usk townsite itself changes hands, fueling talk that the new railroad will remake the Calispel Valley.
- The 'Carpet-Bag' Scramble for Political Spoils
As Seattle Democrats fret over Judge Jones's delayed appointment of a court clerk, local tensions boil over regarding the influence of 'foreign' party outsiders in the territory.
- The Professor and the Stewardess
A Vashon Island college professor was physically confronted on a steamer by a former employee over accusations of theft.
- The Great Thistle Dispute of White River
Two neighbors take their feud over farm maintenance and agricultural knowledge to a Seattle courtroom.