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| Year | Stories |
|---|---|
| 1888 | 33 |
| 1889 | 43 |
| 1891 | 24 |
| 1892 | 107 |
| 1893 | 109 |
| 1894 | 149 |
| 1895 | 186 |
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- The Lost Letter of Port Townsend
A postal worker at the Port Townsend wharf brushes off a man’s frantic search for a missing letter, revealing a small, forgotten drama of 1888.
- Handcuffed in a Seattle Beer Hall
When an all-round sport got into a tavern brawl, a bystander tracked down an officer to break it up—only for the lawman to escalate the violence personally.
- The Spokane Baseball Mutiny
When two ballplayers demanded early payment fearing the league was going bust, the team left them behind in the dust.
- Firefighters Battle Freezing Hose at 1893 Blaze
When an arctic blast hit Seattle, firemen responding to a blaze returned to their stations as living statues of ice.
- A Wooden Gun and a Jailbreak: The Hunt for Thomas Blanck
Nine prisoners escaped from the King County jail. Only three have been recaptured. The notorious Thomas Blanck is still at large, armed men guard the roads, and a woman's description may be the key.
- The Bear That Burned Down the Neighborhood
A Spokane resident’s attempt to treat a sick horse with home remedies went up in flames when his pet bear caused a catastrophe.
- The Price of a Broken Heart in Clallam County
A local justice of the peace wins a $1,000 judgment after a public accusation of theft cost him both his professional standing and his fiancée.
- A Sinking Buggy, a Borrowed Team, and a Reservation About to Open
In 1892 a newspaperman packed his wife and infant into a rickety buggy to cross the soon-to-open Colville Reservation, fording the Kettle River and leaning on Native families along the way.
- A Soaking and a Saving at the Seattle Waterfront
A porter on the City of Topeka fell overboard while inebriated and had to be prodded with a pike pole to save his life.
- Mike O'Brien's Irreverent Grand Jury Testimony
A witness summoned regarding a city water scandal mocks the grand jury as a collection of the 'blind and the mangy.'
- A Man Frozen to Death as the Big Bend Storm Strands Trains and Madness Follows
In Washington's Big Bend country, a blizzard stalls trains, drives a stage driver out of his mind and leaves a young rancher dead in the snow.
- A Close Encounter at Dungeness
A duck hunter narrowly escapes a twelve-foot shark after wading into the bay to retrieve his prize.
- The Devil's Dance at the Hop Ranch
A brutal assault at an Orillia hop ranch leaves an elderly Indigenous doctor clinging to life after a dispute over a bottle of whiskey.
- The Teenager Who Enlisted Himself
A young man with no family and no means travels from Skagit County to Seattle to find a legal guardian, simply so he can join the U.S. Army.
- The Mystery of the Cedar River Monsters
A fishing expedition into the wilderness turns into a strange, unexplained struggle against an unseen force in the depths of the river.
- A Rough Night in the Tenderloin
A Skagit man's night out in Seattle ends in a police cell after he attempts to force a young girl to accompany him.
- Ballard Businesses Devastated by Early Morning Fire
A grocery store and adjacent saloons were lost in a significant blaze, with one family narrowly escaping the flames.
- The Saloon Tip-Off That Saved Six Italians From a Shangaied Ship
A sailor boarding-house man promised six Italian longshoremen 35 cents an hour at Port Townsend. Union men smelled a shanghai and got word to the waterfront before the ship sailed for South America.
- The Beating of Henry Brown: A Runaway Elevator Boy and a Family's Violent Secret
A 14-year-old black elevator operator flees his home after a savage whipping by his father, revealing a tangled story of poverty, pride, and punishment in 1894 Seattle.
- Hops of Port Blakely: The Cast-Off Clothes Protégé Who Saved a Captain
A Post-Intelligencer reporter hears from John Corbett how an Indigenous man named Williams earned a lifetime of beer, boarding-house meals, and the run of the Port Blakely mill.
- The Madison Street Park Riot
Seattle baseball fans fight, claw, and crush each other to catch a shutout victory against Tacoma.
- The Seven-Year-Old Stick-up Artist
A young boy pulls a professional-style robbery on a peer in broad daylight, leaving police baffled.
- Tragedy at the Old Robbins Mill
A thirteen-year-old boy is crushed to death while fishing along the Duwamish River.
- A Lake Chelan Man Says He Was Beaten and Robbed in a Seattle Saloon
Martin Fleming claims the proprietor and a bartender of the Bureau saloon took $95 in gold from his pockets while a woman held his arms — but the saloonkeeper tells a very different story.
- The City of Checks and Balances
A Seattle man is indicted for a $2,160 forgery spree, while a local police officer’s sudden wealth—and his suggestion that he made it smuggling opium—becomes a matter of intense public curiosity.