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| 1858 | 1 |
| 1859 | 1 |
| 1860 | 1 |
| 1861 | 4 |
| 1862 | 2 |
| 1863 | 1 |
| 1864 | 2 |
| 1872 | 6 |
| 1876 | 44 |
| 1877 | 25 |
| 1878 | 13 |
| 1880 | 11 |
| 1882 | 4 |
| 1883 | 32 |
| 1884 | 15 |
| 1885 | 32 |
| 1886 | 11 |
| 1887 | 24 |
| 1888 | 24 |
| 1889 | 42 |
| 1890 | 9 |
| 1891 | 29 |
| 1892 | 89 |
| 1893 | 77 |
| 1894 | 101 |
| 1895 | 133 |
| 1896 | 1 |
| 1898 | 8 |
| 1899 | 19 |
| 1900 | 5 |
| 1902 | 4 |
| 1903 | 35 |
| 1904 | 39 |
| 1907 | 1 |
| 1908 | 13 |
| 1909 | 51 |
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- A Doctor’s Departure Ends in a Station House Theft
A traveling physician is swindled of his life savings by a trio of 'Whitechapel fraternity' members while waiting for a train.
- The Unintended Romance
After attending a Chautauqua lecture on marital advice, a Seattle-area farmer attempts to woo his wife with small acts of kindness, leading to an unexpected thaw in their long-stagnant marriage.
- The $3 Million Capitol Olympia Was Still Waiting For
Residents grumble that nothing is being built, but the state says it must wait for the next legislature to sell land granted at statehood.
- The Ghostly Tenements of Early Seattle
Before the city’s rapid transformation, Seattle’s housing market was a landscape of cramped, 'little rooms upstairs' and boarding house advertisements catering to the transient laborer.
- The Price of Pioneer Street
A suspected incendiary blaze tears through a grocery and saloon, narrowly missing the Kink Opera House.
- Tacoma Council Ghosts Water Works Bidders, Raising Questions of Corruption
Four engineers waited two hours to present plans for a gravity water system. Not a single council member showed, and observers whispered the fix was in for the private water company.
- The Long Wait for the Priest Rapids Dam
For six years, settlers have waited for the federal government to allow the development of the Priest Rapids power site, hoping it would turn their land into productive farms.
- Rough Waters Halt Timber Production
High winds and choppy seas on the Puget Sound create a supply chain crisis for local mills.
- The Laundress Who Broke a Heart
A romantic tragedy in Walla Walla turns out to be a classic tale of modern frustration: the laundry wasn't ready.
- The 'Industrial Army' Mobilizes at Mapel’s Hall
Unemployed men marching across Washington are shadowed by federal marshals and local militia as tensions rise over the threat of train seizures.
- The Great County Road Debate
Aberdeen’s civic leaders square off over a controversial proposal to mortgage the county for infrastructure, exposing deep fractures between farmers and town boosters.
- A Convent Escape and a Steamer Waiting: The Elopement That Ended in Port Townsend
When her parents opposed the match on religious grounds, Mary Emma Kealy was cloistered in a convent. She escaped in a carriage, reached a waiting steamer, and married Ward Debeck in Port Townsend.
- Gold in the Hills at the Foot of Mount St. Helens
Rich assays, anthracite coal and a waiting fortune lure an Eastern syndicate to the remote mineral district of eastern Lewis County — if only a railroad would come.
- The Ghost Town That Wasn't: A Port Townsend Lament
In 1872, the residents of Port Townsend were waiting on a railroad that never arrived, stuck in a cycle of speculation and stagnation.
- The Town That Can't Be Bought
Federal land withdrawals have frozen property rights in Metaline, leaving residents in a legal limbo as they wait for the government to clear their titles.
- The Midnight Hotel Fire
A suspected incendiary targets a local hotel, only to be thwarted by staff before the flames reach the dining room.
- Railroad Blunder Leaves Fifty Stranded at Pullman
A college lecture and track meet left dozens of visitors without a ride home after a train company skipped the scheduled late-night pickup.
- The Hotel That Built Tacoma Falls for a Brick Depot
Northern Pacific crews began tearing down the old Blackwell Hotel at the wharf, a weathered landmark that had sheltered early settlers, longshoremen and Chinese merchants, to make room for a modern passenger and freight station.
- Seattle's Canal Subsidy Climbs Another Notch—and the Big Money Is Still Waiting
Boosters for the Lake Washington Waterway Company's ship canal report another $1,000 in pledges, while banks and business houses hold back to see what their neighbors will give.
- The Hermit Rancher Who Died Without Ever Knowing He Was Worth $4 Million
For years Ansel White scratched a living from a Clallam County farm while a fortune waited for him in the East. By the time his nephew tracked him down, he had been dead three years — and sixteen heirs were still waiting for the money.
- The World's Champion Pugilist Hits Seattle
Thousands mob the waterfront to catch a glimpse of John L. Sullivan as he brings his traveling boxing roadshow to Yealer's Hall.
- The River Opened Under Him
A Dalkena man kept himself above the Pend Oreille after the ice gave way and waited for rescue.
- Farmers Take Matters Into Their Own Hands to Escape Floods
Tired of waiting for the county to act, valley farmers organize a private committee to drain Lake Washington floodwaters.
- Vengeance at the Dog Show
A Fox Island rancher executes a bloodhound on the streets of Tacoma to avenge his wife's previous injury.
- The Self-Help Gospel of the Wishkah Mill
An editorial urging local unemployed men to bypass wage labor and directly operate a shuttered sawmill to kickstart the regional economy.