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| Year | Stories |
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| 1903 | 24 |
| 1904 | 2 |
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- Was the School Board's Building Spree Illegal?
A taxpayers' league claims the local school board has overstepped its constitutional authority by plunging the district into massive debt to fund new construction.
- The High School Building Scandal
A legal opinion alleges the Walla Walla School Board acted illegally by building a new high school without taxpayer authorization and exceeding constitutional debt limits.
- Sunday School Picnic Ends in Tragedy
A streetcar carrying Sunday school students plunged down a twenty-foot embankment in Seattle after losing control on a steep grade.
- The Price of Citizenship: John Adam Schmidt Convicted
A federal judge sentences a man to prison for orchestrating a fraudulent naturalization scheme for Russian immigrants.
- The Ghost of Windom Ranch
A lonely rancher’s remains are discovered months after he vanished from his homestead.
- A Painful Pitcher's Dilemma
A boil on the arm of the star pitcher forces a last-minute scramble to find a replacement for a local amateur baseball game.
- The Hazards of the Harvest
Industrial machinery brings pain to the fields as two laborers are severely injured in separate harvest accidents.
- The Penitentiary's Unprecedented Surge
Walla Walla's state prison population is exploding at a rate that has authorities scrambling to explain the cause.
- The Bureaucratic Bind at Puyallup
A legal dispute over private property rights leaves the Interior Department unable to build new structures on the Puyallup Indian School grounds.
- The Politics of Public Health
As the city grows, Dr. Lueders argues that the municipal health officer's role must evolve beyond basic contagion management to include systemic urban sanitation.
- The Tragedy of the Forgotten Mine
A suspected mining accident in Whatcom County may finally explain the mysterious disappearance of four Finnish laborers months earlier.
- Walla Walla's Growing Pains and Water Worries
A civil engineer lays out a blueprint for the city's future water supply, warning that small, aging pipes are a danger to fire safety.
- Live Fire Near the Garrison
A local farmer narrowly avoids tragedy when target practice at the fort goes dangerously off-course.
- The Domestic Toll of 'Race Suicide'
A skeptical response to President Roosevelt's rhetoric on birth rates, highlighting the physical, financial, and emotional costs of motherhood at the turn of the century.
- A Neighborhood Terrorized by Revolver
A domestic dispute turns volatile at Third and Poplar streets.
- The War Against the Russian Thistle
Walla Walla County officials launch an aggressive campaign to eradicate the invasive Russian Thistle before it chokes local wheat fields.
- City Hall's Business Blueprint
Walla Walla's Commercial Club gathers at City Hall to plot massive infrastructure upgrades, demand military support, and lure new industry.
- The Ghost Chairman of the Democratic Party
Washington State Democrats wonder if their leader is actually living in Utah or just avoiding the job.
- Pioneer and Pataha Prairie Founder Dies at 77
Zenas A. Baldwin, an early settler of Garfield County who arrived in California during the vigilante era, passes away near Pomeroy.
- An Indigenous Burial Site Exposed by Rains
Heavy winter storms have unearthed a historic burial ground on the Walla Walla River, revealing items from the Hudson Bay era and beyond.
- The Perilous Ring at the Empire Theater
A local boxing match turned into a comedy of errors when the floor collapsed under the combatants twice, sending one fighter into the sub-cellar.
- The Great 'Lacum Duckum' Campus Cold War
After Whitman College students staged a 'ducking' of classmates for skipping a reception, a retaliatory social boycott by the women of Reynolds Hall has divided the campus.
- The Executor Who Tore Down the House
When a court ordered an executor to account for an estate, he decided to simply remove the buildings from the land entirely to bypass the judge.
- Walla Walla Weighs Water Rights Against Costly Lawsuits
A legal dispute over riparian rights forces the city to weigh the cost of a new gravity system against the risk of massive damages.
- Whitman's Freshman Flag Raid Ended With a Presidential Sermon on Anarchy
A Sophomore rush on the Memorial Building tower broke glass and plaster—prompting President Penrose to suspend the flag contest and lecture students on class spirit, property and citizenship.