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| Year | Stories |
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| 1903 | 41 |
| 1904 | 6 |
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- The Traveling Salesman Who Out-Wrestled a Footpad
When an armed robber tried to hold up a local salesman late at night, he found himself in a Greco-Roman wrestling match instead of an easy mugging.
- A Child’s Desperate Escape
A twelve-year-old girl pleads with a judge to send her to reform school to escape her abusive stepfather.
- The Sermon That Rocked the Elks
A Presbyterian minister uses a memorial service for the departed to launch a fiery, public crusade against the morality of his fraternal hosts.
- The Supreme Court Stops Corporate Bullying
A landmark Washington State Supreme Court ruling protects minority shareholders from being forced out by predatory syndicates.
- Laundry Monopoly Targets Chinese Competitors
A newly formed interstate association of laundry owners eyes a coordinated campaign against Chinese-run businesses while resisting union wage demands.
- Carnegie Offers Walla Walla $25,000 — If the City Will Say Yes
A Thanksgiving-week letter from Andrew Carnegie promises a library building for the city, on the condition that Walla Walla furnish a site and $2,500 a year. The council has not yet voted, and the Statesman is impatient.
- The Fight for the Waterfront
A local women's art club rallies to block a fire station from being built on prime public land, arguing for a park instead.
- Violent Windstorm Shreds Walla Walla County Infrastructure
A sudden, shifting gale rips roofs from elevators and destroys miles of railroad sand fencing across the valley.
- Lincoln School Destroyed by Fire
A faulty water system leaves the city’s largest school in ruins after an outbuilding fire spreads.
- The Corporate Battle for Cosmopolis
Citizens of Cosmopolis are racing to annex their town to Aberdeen to escape the control of the Grays Harbor Commercial Company, which they fear plans to turn the city into a company-run mill settlement.
- Released Prisoner Arrested at the Gates
Richard Perkison walked out of the penitentiary a free man only to be immediately detained by an officer from Nebraska.
- Fatal Leap from a Moving Train
A young, enterprising contractor met a gruesome end while attempting to jump from a moving freight train near Wallula.
- The Struggle for Walla Walla's Water
An engineer’s report declares Mill Creek the city's only viable future lifeline, dismissing local springs and wells as inadequate for a growing population.
- Abandoned by Her Husband
After her husband drained their assets and abandoned the family for a life abroad, a Waitsburg woman wins a divorce and custody of their children.
- The Struggle for Walla Walla’s Gravity Water System
City officials and private citizens spar over the future of the municipal water supply as debates over Mill Creek and private rights boil over.
- A Year-Old Schoolhouse Blown Over as Waitsburg Schools Strain
The Lost Spring schoolhouse was wrecked by wind just as the district hired an extra teacher for a first-primary room bursting with 61 children.
- The Silent Stage: Walla Walla Theater Musicians Walk Out
A labor dispute between the Opera House management and the local Musicians' union leaves the stage quiet and the future of live theater in doubt.
- The Bank Tax Standoff
A citizen letter details how the Walla Walla City Council's compromise with a local bank cost taxpayers thousands, while the courts later sided with the Assessor's original valuation.
- White River Valley Farmers Rise Against Federal Engineer
Local ranchers threaten to take matters into their own hands as a canal project triggers fears of catastrophic flooding.
- Neglect on the Range
A prominent local farmer faces allegations of animal cruelty for allowing his starving herd to wander the public roads.
- A Deadly Runaway Near Lakeside
An Italian gardener dies in agony after a team of horses bolts, dragging him through the road.
- The Railroad Lobby's Quiet Plan to Buy a Governor and Kill the Commission
A Walla Walla editor warns that railroad interests will avoid an open fight over regulation by nominating a friendly, colorless candidate—then using him to veto the commission bill.
- A Barber Died Behind the Saloon. The Coroner Blamed One Soldier — Then the Other One Walked Out of the Guardhouse.
A Ballard inquest names Joseph Veno in the clubbing death of barber James Sullivan, but when Veno's companion slips out of the Fort Lawton guardhouse, the soldiers begin to wonder which man actually swung the club.
- The Great Alarm Debate
Walla Walla’s City Council considers whether to invest in a modern fire alarm system or rely on an improvised network of city telephones.
- Levi Ankeny’s Tax Fight Reaches the Supreme Court
The prominent banker battles a tax assessment on his First National Bank stock, sparking a legal struggle over school funding and corporate accountability.