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| 1854 | 15 |
| 1858 | 10 |
| 1859 | 19 |
| 1860 | 8 |
| 1861 | 23 |
| 1862 | 20 |
| 1863 | 12 |
| 1864 | 7 |
| 1865 | 3 |
| 1871 | 3 |
| 1872 | 49 |
| 1876 | 222 |
| 1877 | 210 |
| 1878 | 131 |
| 1879 | 12 |
| 1880 | 48 |
| 1882 | 40 |
| 1883 | 257 |
| 1884 | 137 |
| 1885 | 256 |
| 1886 | 118 |
| 1887 | 160 |
| 1888 | 136 |
| 1889 | 372 |
| 1890 | 59 |
| 1891 | 337 |
| 1892 | 652 |
| 1893 | 596 |
| 1894 | 667 |
| 1895 | 845 |
| 1896 | 2 |
| 1897 | 26 |
| 1898 | 69 |
| 1899 | 136 |
| 1900 | 21 |
| 1902 | 18 |
| 1903 | 288 |
| 1904 | 250 |
| 1905 | 19 |
| 1907 | 5 |
| 1908 | 79 |
| 1909 | 359 |
| 1910 | 85 |
| 1911 | 29 |
| 1912 | 17 |
| 1914 | 52 |
| 1915 | 43 |
| 1916 | 128 |
| 1917 | 62 |
| 1918 | 13 |
| 1919 | 1 |
| 1920 | 1 |
| 1922 | 6 |
| 1923 | 26 |
| 1924 | 21 |
| 1925 | 14 |
| 1928 | 6 |
| 1929 | 11 |
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- The Clerk, the Councilman, and the Five-Dollar Standoff
A budget dispute in Richland turns personal when a council member challenges the city clerk's pay, leading the clerk to offer a defiant ultimatum.
- The Hospital Door Slams Shut
A local doctor fights for hospital access after being barred from treating his patient at St. Joseph’s.
- The Colored Independents Demand Recognition: A Fight for Political Dignity in 1886 Seattle
As the city prepares to elect Frank Black as mayor, a newly formed club of Black voters secures a rare agreement from Republican leaders for political recognition, rejecting bribes and demanding respect in a segregated era.
- The Political Battle for Power
A state senator warns that municipal utility expansion could shift tax burdens onto rural farmers.
- James J. Hill's Railroad Ultimatum to Seattle
The Great Northern president tells Seattle's council he will build freight and passenger terminals 'right away'—if the city grants the track franchises he wants across the tide flats and South Third.
- The Jailer's Hospitality
Skagit County prisoners find their incarceration is surprisingly comfortable.
- A Mayor Willing to Resign Over a Ballot Technicality
When Olympia’s election tickets were printed under the wrong law, Mayor Horr offered to step down rather than hold office on a legal loophole—and urged the council to appoint the people’s chosen successors.
- The Bering Sea's Brazen Seal Poachers, as Told by a Port Townsend Captain
A sealing schooner back from five months in the Bering Sea describes a coordinated scheme of lookouts, false alibis and cached skins used to outwit the revenue cutters.
- The Great Garbage Debate: Seattle’s Early Fight for Sanitation
While the city council opted for a cheap, pollutive scow system to dump waste into the Sound, local doctors warned that the tides would only bring the filth right back to Seattle’s doorsteps.
- A Nighttime Divorce to Escape Violence
A woman schedules her divorce hearing late at night to ensure her husband—who had threatened to kill her—would not be present to interfere.
- The Outlaw's Only Friend Comes Home to Seattle
Tom Blanck's sole confidant returns from Victoria and tells a reporter what the notorious Northwest criminal was really like — a killer who never touched liquor or tobacco, and who swore he'd never be taken alive.
- The Economic Anxiety of the 1893 Tariff Debate
Washington's leading industries feared that a new trade bill would prioritize Eastern markets and force local businesses to lower wages to compete with international labor.
- Six "Extra Secretaries" and $60: How Seattle Paid Its Way Into the Tacoma Fair
A committee of Seattle boosters comes home from Tacoma with free space, free light and a free steamboat ride — then talks the city council into funding an exhibit through a bookkeeping dodge.
- The City's Indifference to Religious Debate
A week-long debate on religion at the Armory draws apathy from a changing Seattle.
- The Violent End of the McDonald Marriage
A domestic dispute over a $100,000 ransom led to a desperate shoot-out at the Arcade Hotel.
- The Con Artist of the Y.M.C.A.
A smooth-talking grifter exploited the goodwill of Seattle churchgoers by playing on his 'sick wife's' needs, until an umbrella heist landed him in the city jail.
- The Street That Couldn’t Get Paved
Contractors forfeited $250 rather than grade Cherry Street at their bid, and the paper argued Seattle should wait until 1884 rather than rush a muddy, expensive job.
- Yakima Sheepmen Stand Together Against Railroad's Strings-Attached Lease
Two dozen Yakima-area sheepmen signed a pact to reject Northern Pacific's demand that all their wool and sheep ride its rails—only to hear the company might hand their range to outsiders.
- The 1885 Vision for Publicly Owned Railroads
A visiting labor activist in Seattle argued that government ownership of the nation's railroads would eliminate corporate greed, reduce travel costs to mere cents, and create thousands of safe, well-paying jobs.
- The City Hall Stumping Standoff
A citizen refuses to pay a surety bond for the 'privilege' of removing eight stumps from his own property.
- The Battle Over Kennewick's Port Future
A fiery public debate erupts as boosters defend the creation of a port district against claims of government overreach and potential tax hikes.
- The Human Cargo in the Ash Pan
A steamship captain reveals the desperate lengths to which his crew went to smuggle Chinese laborers past authorities in the Puget Sound.
- A South End Street Would Cost More Than Everything on It Is Worth
Residents of the Sixth Addition want South L Street graded. The city engineer says bridging the Northern Pacific tracks would run $30,000 past the value of the abutting property.
- The Governor Vetoes Debt Relief, and the Paper Cheers
A bill meant to soften deficiency judgments after foreclosure is killed — on the theory that frightened capital would simply stop lending, hurting the very debtors it was meant to save.
- Kennewick's Close Encounter with the Great War
An editorial reflecting on the sudden, violent onset of World War I and the fear of its reach into a small Washington town.