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| Year | Stories |
|---|---|
| 1854 | 7 |
| 1858 | 3 |
| 1859 | 3 |
| 1860 | 3 |
| 1861 | 7 |
| 1862 | 3 |
| 1863 | 1 |
| 1864 | 2 |
| 1865 | 1 |
| 1871 | 1 |
| 1872 | 8 |
| 1876 | 88 |
| 1877 | 69 |
| 1878 | 35 |
| 1879 | 3 |
| 1880 | 12 |
| 1882 | 17 |
| 1883 | 90 |
| 1884 | 45 |
| 1885 | 67 |
| 1886 | 30 |
| 1887 | 54 |
| 1888 | 45 |
| 1889 | 134 |
| 1890 | 20 |
| 1891 | 96 |
| 1892 | 223 |
| 1893 | 178 |
| 1894 | 201 |
| 1895 | 236 |
| 1896 | 1 |
| 1897 | 6 |
| 1898 | 12 |
| 1899 | 40 |
| 1900 | 7 |
| 1902 | 1 |
| 1903 | 72 |
| 1904 | 60 |
| 1905 | 7 |
| 1907 | 4 |
| 1908 | 62 |
| 1909 | 113 |
| 1910 | 39 |
| 1911 | 3 |
| 1912 | 3 |
| 1914 | 17 |
| 1915 | 16 |
| 1916 | 45 |
| 1917 | 22 |
| 1918 | 4 |
| 1919 | 1 |
| 1923 | 5 |
| 1924 | 6 |
| 1925 | 5 |
| 1928 | 1 |
| 1929 | 2 |
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- Accident at the N.P. Depot
A local factory operator suffers serious injury while unloading grapes during the busy harvest season.
- The Commuter’s Chill: East Side Transit Grievance
McKinley Park residents protest streetcar service cuts that leave riders waiting in the night air.
- A Boom in Desks: Newport's School Census Doubles in a Year
Clerk Lusher counted 276 school-age children in District No. 115—double the number from a little over a year before. The census, which excluded the Idaho side of the line, was read as a clear sign of Newport's growth.
- Ambushed by the Tracks
Striking workers and federal marshals exchange fire on the rails near Puyallup as the 1894 Pullman strike grips Western Washington.
- Richland Ferry Sinks in River Accident
The local crossing between Richland and Pasco is out of commission after an unexplained mid-week sinking.
- Thirteen Carloads of Rail and Four Miles of Track: Olympia Gets Its Electric Streetcar
Delayed by a blizzard back East, the rails are finally in Tacoma and due tonight — and a crew will start laying them down the middle of Fourth Street tomorrow morning.
- The Iron Horse and the Muddy Streets of Seattle
While the shipping of Talbot coal promises a bright economic future, the city's infrastructure remains stuck in the mud, waiting for the arrival of the railroad.
- She Chose Her Sister's Grave
A young woman walks to Lake View Cemetery, asks a laborer to help her find a grave, and then turns a revolver on herself.
- The Battle to Protect Civil Service Reform
Tacoma’s City Council faces a showdown as political machines push to dismantle merit-based municipal hiring.
- The grueling, mountain-carving work of mapping the Puget Sound
A survey crew spends the summer hacking paths through the dense, uncharted forests of the Olympic Peninsula and Straits of Fuca to measure the rugged frontier.
- A Small-Town Wage Fight Goes to Arbitration—and Both Sides Pay Half
When a Richland nursery salesman disputed his pay, the town improvised a three-man board instead of a courtroom.
- Sidewalks Torn Up and Abandoned
Tacoma residents vent frustration as contractors rip up streets and leave them barricaded for months without completion.
- Suspicious Blaze Destroys Inglewood Schoolhouse
A rural schoolhouse on the east side of Lake Sammamish is lost to a fire that trustees suspect was deliberately set.
- The Eight-Day Juror Walkout
After eight days on a murder trial, a group of Tacoma jurors refused their meager $1-a-day pay, protesting the economic injustice of the state's compensation laws.
- Holiday Tragedy in Olympia
A local automobile dealer was fatally shot while pursuing a robber who had held up the J.C. Penney store during the Christmas shopping rush.
- Tragedy on the Ridge: A Lightning Strike in the Mesan District
A brutal mountain storm leaves one prospector dead and another miraculously stumbling into camp to report the horror.
- The Desert Drill: A Quest for Water in North Yakima
A bold territorial experiment to strike water in the arid landscape of North Yakima hit a snag as machinery languished on the wrong side of the mountains.
- A Governor's Buggy Ride Through a Wall of Fire
Gov. Newell and Rev. J. K. Thompson returned to Olympia after a forest fire closed in on both sides of the road, scorching their faces and nearly dropping a tree across their path.
- The Newport Barber Who Faced a Manslaughter Charge in Seattle
Frank Poquette, once a familiar South Side shopkeeper, is on trial for a saloon altercation that left a man named King dead.
- The Seattle Invention That Promised to Banish the 'Tremor' of Steamboats
A local citizen trials a double-inclined plane water wheel on Lake Union, aiming to solve the vibration and loss of power plaguing the steam-powered era.
- A Dance-Hall Manager, a Terrible Beating, and the Midnight Train to Montana
Newport police only learned of the assault after the man had already boarded a midnight train out of town — and the paper's whole account turns on that gap.
- A Mild Smallpox Case Was Enough to Bar Old Town Pupils From School
One patient recovering at the Newport Hotel and one suspected case in quarantine lead the school board to suspend every old-town child — though, as patrons point out, none of them had been exposed.
- Huntsville Merchants Declare War on Trading Stamps
Local business owners unite to end a lucrative, one-sided loyalty program that had been draining local profits.
- The Flying Coupling: Engineer Shanno Chases Down a Runaway Locomotive
When a detached engine tears toward Ellensburg, a quick-thinking engineer uncouples his own locomotive and catches the runaway on the fly.
- An Old Tacoma Church Crumbles
A historic Catholic building, moved to make way for development, is destroyed by a winter storm before it could be repurposed.