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| Year | Stories |
|---|---|
| 1888 | 421 |
| 1889 | 1,084 |
| 1891 | 492 |
| 1892 | 2,259 |
| 1893 | 2,699 |
| 1894 | 2,015 |
| 1895 | 1,830 |
10,800 stories
- The Real Estate Titan Who Fell to Earth
Allen C. Mason, the man who built the Tacoma boom, sees his mortgage empire collapse under the weight of taxes and hard times.
- Masters and Pilots Revolt Against Port Inspector
A powerful local maritime union files formal charges against U.S. Inspector W. J. Bryant, alleging systemic corruption, bullying, and insurance kickbacks.
- The Boodle Battle: Political Corruption and Vagrancy in Tacoma
As local politicians fight for control of city offices, Tacoma's Populists take aim at 'boodlers' and the importation of vagrants to influence local elections.
- Manhunt in the Woods
A fugitive flees into the wilderness after a violent altercation at a coal mine leaves a local constable fighting for his life.
- The Brutal Ambush Near Dubuque
A multi-year saga of land-use violence concludes as the mastermind behind a bloody road-access dispute is convicted.
- The Groom, the Bride, and the Exclusion Act
After being ordered deported, a Chinese merchant successfully fights the federal government to reunite with his wife.
- The 'Hell-Trap' Murderer Sentenced to Ten Years
A man who built a lethal spring-gun trap in a remote cabin is sentenced for the death of a laborer who simply sought shelter from the cold.
- The Streetcar Strike at Rainier Avenue
Electric rail workers refuse to accept a 10 percent wage cut after a winter of working for starvation wages.
- Seattle’s 'Industrial Army' Mobilizes for Washington, D.C.
Unemployed workers organize under strict military discipline to march across the country to protest economic conditions during the Panic of 1893.
- The Mysterious Death at Steilacoom Asylum
Did a state representative die of natural causes, or was he poisoned by a lover?
- The Collapse of a Fairhaven Empire
A prominent banker faces arrest as the Bank of Fairhaven closes its doors, leaving the county's finances in chaos.
- The Receiver Cut Their Pay 2 Cents an Hour. A Judge Made Him Put It Back.
When the Rainier Avenue Electric Railway's court-appointed receiver trimmed motormen's wages from 20 cents to 18 cents an hour, the crews — months behind on pay, with houses in Columbia City bought out of their own wages — took him to court and won.
- The Great Northern Strike: Quiet on the Tracks
Striking workers for the Great Northern railroad maintain a disciplined presence, even stepping in to clear dangerous landslide debris to protect the company's property.
- The Opium Ring's Man on the Inside?
A government inspector alleges that a U.S. Deputy Marshal in Spokane is actively protecting opium smugglers.
- Nineteen Japanese Immigrants Arrested After Trek from Canada
Destitute group walks from Vancouver, B.C., to Whatcom in hopes of finding work in Seattle.
- The Industrial Remaking of Everett's Waterfront
Federal authorities grant permission for a massive engineering project to wall off the Snohomish River delta, transforming a shallow tidal area into a deep-water harbor for industrial commerce.
- The Working People of Seattle Protest Wage Cuts
Thousands pack the Armory to demand relief and protest corporate wage suppression across the city.
- 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 Border-Walking Japanese Laborers
An early 1894 legal test of the 'pauper and assisted immigrant law' sees laborers shuttled back and forth across the Washington-Canada border.
- The Commonweal Army's Standoff in Puyallup
While General 'Jumbo' Cantwell rallies unemployed protesters with fiery rhetoric, Northern Pacific officials and U.S. marshals prepare for a train-seizure confrontation.
- The Great Northern Strikers Hold the Line
Despite pressure from commercial bodies and federal military intervention, railway workers in Seattle and across the Pacific Northwest refuse to abandon their demand for fair wages.
- Tacoma’s Wealthy Elite Demand End to Public Schools
A committee from the Chamber of Commerce, led by industrialist Nelson Bennett, argues that public education is a wasteful burden on taxpayers and poor citizens.
- A Bank President’s Paranoia
After surviving a shooting attempt in Walla Walla, a failed bank executive flees to Seattle in fear of a vengeful depositor.
- The Industrial Army's Seattle and Tacoma Divisions Near Collapse
Striking workers and the 'Industrial Army' face infighting and skeptical local authorities as they try to push for transport to Washington, D.C.
- The Bank Failure Vendetta
After his bank deposits evaporated, an enraged depositor stalked a banker to Tacoma, bringing a revolver and a sense of ruinous betrayal.