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| 1854 | 4 |
| 1858 | 1 |
| 1859 | 4 |
| 1860 | 1 |
| 1861 | 7 |
| 1862 | 4 |
| 1863 | 3 |
| 1864 | 1 |
| 1865 | 1 |
| 1872 | 10 |
| 1876 | 99 |
| 1877 | 71 |
| 1878 | 56 |
| 1879 | 2 |
| 1880 | 20 |
| 1882 | 15 |
| 1883 | 78 |
| 1884 | 19 |
| 1885 | 88 |
| 1886 | 38 |
| 1887 | 47 |
| 1888 | 63 |
| 1889 | 132 |
| 1890 | 26 |
| 1891 | 111 |
| 1892 | 254 |
| 1893 | 209 |
| 1894 | 209 |
| 1895 | 68 |
| 1896 | 1 |
| 1897 | 3 |
| 1898 | 3 |
| 1899 | 37 |
| 1900 | 3 |
| 1902 | 5 |
| 1903 | 103 |
| 1904 | 73 |
| 1905 | 12 |
| 1907 | 3 |
| 1908 | 6 |
| 1909 | 49 |
| 1910 | 8 |
| 1911 | 10 |
| 1912 | 8 |
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| 1915 | 20 |
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| 1917 | 26 |
| 1918 | 3 |
| 1922 | 4 |
| 1923 | 8 |
| 1924 | 10 |
| 1925 | 3 |
2,105 stories matching four
- The Day Burrard Inlet Rowed Away With Lake Washington
At the first amateur regatta ever held on Lake Washington, British Columbia crews dominated the junior fours and senior singles while Seattle prepared for its turn on the water.
- The First Wedding in Seattle, Celebrated Forty-Two Years Later
David and Louisa Denny gather four generations of pioneers at their Temperance Street home, where relics of the 1850s—and the certificate from Seattle’s first marriage—turn an anniversary into a founding story.
- The Four Days James McCutcheon Was Someone Else
A Roy butcher vanished on Sunday and reappeared near Auburn with no memory of where he had been—an early-twentieth-century case of “dual personality.”
- The City That Built Itself: Seattle’s Boastful Declaration of Independence
On the Fourth of July in 1888, The Post-Intelligencer published a massive editorial celebrating Seattle’s explosive growth, claiming it had 'doubled its population and quadrupled its business' while fiercely defending its economic survival against federal trade policies.
- The Price of Debt in 1877 Seattle
Foreclosure notices reveal the rapid shift in property ownership as King County land was liquidated at the courthouse steps.
- Thirty-Seven Miners Died 150 Feet From Safety
An 1894 coroner's jury in Franklin, Washington, heard how a small fire in the Oregon Improvement Company's coal mine became a wall of smoke — and why the men who could have escaped stayed to fight it.
- The Mugwump’s Ledger: How Seattle’s Territorial Secretary Gamed the Law Printing Contract
A fierce editorial exposes Secretary Owings for delaying the publication of territorial laws to favor a cronies’ printing bid, while padding the bill with 40 pages of his own party platform.
- The Four Cities of the Bay: A Failed Marriage
Delegates from four separate municipalities on Bellingham Bay meet to debate the dream—and the logistical nightmare—of merging into a single metropolis.
- The Navy Secretary Goes Down Into the Big Hole
Secretary of the Navy Herbert rides the lighthouse tender Manzanita across the Sound to inspect the giant new dry dock at Port Orchard, settles a bitter dispute over how deep to drive the pilings, and dances the night away at the Rainier.
- 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 at Wild Goose Bill Ferry
A ferry accident on the Columbia River leaves four men dead as their wives watch helplessly from the shore.
- Olympia’s Booster Year: Brick, Bridges and a 50,000-Person Promise
As 1891 closed, the capital city counted $3 million in new buildings, a record bridge, electric lights and new rail lines — and predicted 50,000 residents within a decade.
- Four Drown Near Coupeville
A boat capsized in high winds while traveling from Port Madison toward Victoria, claiming the lives of four passengers.
- A Four-Day Escape into the Snoqualmie Wilderness
Four Seattle men trade the monotony of office life for a rustic expedition into the King County woods.
- The Aftermath of the Roslyn Mine Explosion
A town mourns forty-five dead while the community rallies to support eighty-four orphaned children.
- The $6 Million Secret: How Seattle’s Future Railroads Were Sold to Washington Politicians
A shocking dispatch reveals that the Northern Pacific Railroad and its associated land companies were secretly divided among top U.S. Senators, Grant, and a 'army of lobbyists'—proving that the infrastructure shaping Puget Sound was built on political patronage.
- The Night They Walked to an Indian Village: A Shipwreck Survivor’s Tale
After the steamer *Port Gordon* smashed against rocks near Destruction Island, four men survived a nightmare of broken lines and drowning comrades by building a raft from hatches—and then walking ten miles through the brush.
- 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.
- 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 Frontier Double Standard
In an 1878 column, Captain John of the Siutes calls out the brutal hypocrisy of territorial justice: while white criminals get a trial, Indigenous people get the army.
- Gambling Dens Raided After Backroom Deal Goes Public
Mayor Ronald's 'reform administration' is forced to shut down four gambling houses after a secret protection scheme becomes a public scandal.
- Seven Lots, Three Judges, and a Railroad's Sky-High Bill
With jurors suspected of being bribed, three judges took over the Great Northern condemnation case—and the valuations for a few lots near King Street swung wildly.
- The Four-Year Schoolhouse Commute
A rural school district finally completes its long-delayed migration, ending years of hardship for pupils and teachers.
- A Lone Rancher Found Murdered Near Puyallup
The body of Frank Mozen was discovered near his cabin with four bullet wounds, suggesting a targeted robbery.
- A Twelve-Ton Locomotive Rolled Down the Street to the Water
Seattle's Washington Iron Works spent months building a geared logging engine. When it was finished it drove itself through town on temporary track to the foot of Washington Street, to be lashed to a scow and floated north to the woods.