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| Year | Stories |
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| 1854 | 1 |
| 1858 | 4 |
| 1859 | 4 |
| 1860 | 2 |
| 1861 | 6 |
| 1862 | 1 |
| 1863 | 4 |
| 1864 | 3 |
| 1865 | 1 |
| 1872 | 13 |
| 1876 | 94 |
| 1877 | 66 |
| 1878 | 38 |
| 1879 | 2 |
| 1880 | 24 |
| 1882 | 22 |
| 1883 | 93 |
| 1884 | 50 |
| 1885 | 102 |
| 1886 | 69 |
| 1887 | 65 |
| 1888 | 65 |
| 1889 | 114 |
| 1890 | 17 |
| 1891 | 105 |
| 1892 | 343 |
| 1893 | 307 |
| 1894 | 338 |
| 1895 | 384 |
| 1897 | 3 |
| 1898 | 14 |
| 1899 | 61 |
| 1900 | 7 |
| 1902 | 7 |
| 1903 | 97 |
| 1904 | 109 |
| 1905 | 10 |
| 1907 | 2 |
| 1908 | 39 |
| 1909 | 115 |
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| 1911 | 10 |
| 1912 | 4 |
| 1914 | 12 |
| 1915 | 17 |
| 1916 | 51 |
| 1917 | 25 |
| 1918 | 3 |
| 1922 | 3 |
| 1923 | 8 |
| 1924 | 11 |
| 1925 | 5 |
| 1929 | 1 |
2,966 stories matching went
- The Day Newcastle Went Mad: A Woman’s War on Clerks and Clubs
In April 1877, a frustrated businesswoman in Newcastle, Washington Territory, escalated a shipping dispute into a violent rampage involving a club and a six-shooter, forcing local men to intervene.
- Coxey’s Army Prisoners Sent to Prison
Striking laborers and supporters of the 'Commonweal of Labor' are marched under guard to the Seattle docks to begin their sentences.
- Street Commissioner Arrested for Domestic Assault
Street Commissioner Lawrence Cummings was jailed without bond after his wife swore out an assault warrant.
- Teredos Ate the Piles—and 800 Sacks of Oats Went Into the Harbor
A warehouse on the Harrington & Smith dock collapsed at the Seattle waterfront, nearly trapping workers and dumping a cargo of oats into the silt.
- The Midnight Extortion at the Cherry Street House
A Seattle restaurant owner claims he was held at gunpoint and forced to empty his bank account, sparking a sensational lawsuit.
- The Miracle Pill That Saved a Patient
A desperate physician recounts how, after failing to save a dying patient, he turned to 'sugar pills' in a moment of pure professional panic.
- A Sudden Tragedy at the Homestead
A quiet farming life in Seattle ends in a moment of accidental violence when a young man meets an untimely end.
- Political Conflict in an Olympia Classroom
A student is driven from school after being bullied for his vocal support of the Union.
- 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 Relentless Fate of the Tug Blanche
For the fourth time in a single year, a local tugboat has met a watery end at the Seattle Lumber company wharf.
- The Hero of the Ferndale Disaster
When the British bark Ferndale went down in a freezing storm off the Washington coast, one local woman braved the surf to save the lives of three sailors.
- The School of Unionism
A young worker discovers the power of collective bargaining when he moves from a non-union shop to a city factory.
- The Newport Hardware Man Who Went Through Johnstown — and Kept the River Mud to Prove It
In his store window, E. E. Reid displays a gilded St. George torn from a clock and a rocking chair pulled from the 1889 Johnstown flood — silt still hardened in the crevices — and jokes that he is still selling hardware because the flood only went through him, not over him.
- The Price of a Random Shot
A Fremont resident discovers the high cost of silencing a neighbor's noisy horse.
- The Hunt for Two Children in a Custody Feud
A mother stalks her estranged husband across the region after he snatches their two young daughters from a Portland home.
- Late Night Intruder Frightens Local Resident
A Kennewick woman discovers someone tampering with her telephone wires in the dead of night.
- A Mutiny of the Seas at Port Blakely
When sailors on the ship 'Carrie E. Davenport' refused to sail, a local legal battle over labor rights and ship contracts ignited in the courts.
- The Sad End of a Seattle Merchant
A longtime local clerk and tobacco merchant passes away at home after a long illness.
- A Robbery, a Room at the Hotel, and a Prisoner Who Walked Away
With no jail to hold her, a woman accused of robbing a rancher in the Riverside cribs was lodged at the Newport Hotel — and vanished before breakfast. Old Town suspects a conspiracy, and a Sandpoint grand jury is listening.
- The Seattle Standard Paper Takeover
A power struggle at a local newspaper leads to a nocturnal raid and the relocation of printing equipment.
- The Illegal Ring at Richmond Beach
Police stopped an Everett boxing match; at Richmond Beach, Morrisey knocked out Barbour in two rounds.
- Tragic Drowning at Snoqualmie Falls
A young civil engineering student loses his life in the currents below the falls while on a fishing trip.
- A Near-Death Experience on Lake Union
Three young men capsized in a pleasure boat, saved by the quick thinking of two local boaters who paddled out to rescue them.
- Scalded at the Black Diamond Mine
A foreman investigating a steam plume slipped into near-boiling water, a reminder of how quickly industrial work could turn.
- The Girls Locked in the Walla Walla Jail
Two young women who went missing were briefly detained by police, much to their dismay.