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| Year | Stories |
|---|---|
| 1888 | 59 |
| 1889 | 113 |
| 1891 | 57 |
| 1892 | 227 |
| 1893 | 213 |
| 1894 | 216 |
| 1895 | 276 |
1,161 stories matching four
- The Aftermath of the Roslyn Mine Explosion
A town mourns forty-five dead while the community rallies to support eighty-four orphaned children.
- Typhoid Fever Cases Climb in Seattle
Three new cases reported to the city health officer bring the count to twenty-four since January 1.
- Vigilante Justice on the Monte Cristo Road
After a foreman was killed in a brutal dispute at a railroad camp, the workers took the law into their own hands and lynched four suspects.
- Four Drown Near Coupeville
A boat capsized in high winds while traveling from Port Madison toward Victoria, claiming the lives of four passengers.
- Unemployed Workers Displaced from Portland to Seattle
Sixty-four longshoremen arrive on the City of Topeka seeking work after being pushed out of Portland to reduce their local unemployed rolls.
- A Near-Death Fall at the Mount Si Hotel
While working on a hotel construction project in Snoqualmie, a man miraculously survives a thirty-four-foot plunge after a scaffold gives way.
- The City Council’s Hammock Scandal
Seattle’s city fathers clash over the 'reckless extravagance' of buying thirty-four hammocks for the city jail.
- The Night Seattle's Chief Emptied the Variety District
A weekend sweep of Seattle's saloon district ended with twenty arrests and most prisoners ordered out of town within twenty-four hours.
- The Half-Finished Skeleton on Second and University
After contractors were left hanging without payment, a court orders a developer to pay over $8,000 for a four-story building that never rose past the first floor.
- The Waldron Block Inferno
A landmark four-story brick building in Fairhaven is destroyed by fire, leaving the community reeling after a disastrous attempt to control the blaze with faulty equipment.
- The Great Fire at Schwabacher Bros.
A massive blaze destroys a landmark wholesale house in downtown Seattle, shaking the foundations of Pioneer Square.
- The Political Gamble of Statehood
As Washington prepares to enter the Union, party operatives sweat over the balance of power in Congress.
- The End of the First Coal Bunker on the Pacific Coast
After thirty-four years, the historic Bellingham Bay coal bunkers are being dismantled, marking the close of the region's first industrial era.
- The Day a Buggy Rolled Into the Quillayute Woods
After 24 years of settlement, the remote Clallam County woods see their first carriage—and locals can hardly believe their eyes.
- Northern Pacific Railroad System Collapses into Receivership
Four local branch rail lines in Washington are placed under court control as the main Northern Pacific system fails to cover operating costs.
- A Jury Played Cards While a Murder Case Hung in the Balance
Convicted murderer Murphy was sentenced to fifteen years—again—as his lawyer attacked a jury that reportedly spent its 42-hour deliberation playing whist and pedro.
- The House of the Good Shepherd Faces Foreclosure
A sanctuary for wayward girls and orphans, run by sisters who have struggled for four years, is now on the brink of losing everything to an overdue mortgage.
- The Mother, the Boarding House, and the Hostage Baby
A mother is forced to involve the police when a boarding-house keeper attempts to hold her four-year-old son as collateral for an unpaid debt.
- A Terrifying Drop from a Fir
An infantryman at Vancouver Barracks survives a forty-four-foot fall from a tree while attempting to catch a raccoon, an experience that left him shaken but alive.
- A Preacher's Attack Becomes Free Publicity for Seattle's Potter-Bellew Run
A Portland minister accused the touring actors of scandalous church behavior; telegrams from Victoria said he had the wrong couple, and Seattle theatergoers got a four-night engagement to judge for themselves.
- The Great Rebuilding: How the Great Seattle Fire Forced a Modern City
In the smoldering aftermath of the 1889 Great Seattle Fire, city leaders and engineers seized the catastrophe as a singular opportunity to abandon the crooked, cramped street grid for a rational, expanded future.
- The Trial of the Jar Thieves
Three men face time in the penitentiary after confessing to a clumsy burglary at a local store.
- The Man Who Stopped the Train
A landowner takes matters into his own hands by tearing up railroad tracks after failing to receive payment for his property.
- The Sewers Were Cracking — And Seattle Wanted to Know Why
City engineers trace a rash of shattered pipes to Ballard and Olympia, and to the manufacturers who made them.
- The Desperate Foraging of the Waterfront Four
When four men living in an abandoned Seattle shack ran out of supplies, they launched a clumsy, doomed heist—leading to a quick sentence and a warm bed behind bars.