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| Year | Stories |
|---|---|
| 1907 | 31 |
| 1908 | 304 |
| 1909 | 440 |
| 1910 | 223 |
775 stories
- The Spokane Tribe's Bargain: Timber Revenue for a Forest Reserve
At the agency in Miles, tribal members agreed to set aside unallotted mountain land as a forest reserve and to open Walker's Prairie to homesteaders—if the government paid $5 an acre.
- Dynamite and an Empty Water Tank: Springdale Burns
A noon fire that began in a meat company smokehouse destroyed nearly every store in Springdale, exposing a water system that had been broken for a week.
- Newport's Petition to Expel the Kalispel
In 1909, a petition circulated by a local captain asked Congress to move Calispel families off their Pend Oreille Valley lands—using smallpox and timber fires as arguments for removal.
- A Petition to Open Calispel Land—and Remove Its People
Congressman Wesley L. Jones carried a Cusick-area removal petition to the Indian Office, where officials weighed how to open the land to white settlement.
- Government to Build School for Pend Oreille Indians as Settlers Push for Removal
A new school is planned for Indigenous families opposite Cusick, but the report reveals settler pressure to move them off prime hay lands and allot the land instead.
- Fifteen Believed Dead After Gas Blast Turns Roslyn Mine Shaft Into a Furnace
A Sunday explosion at the Northwestern Improvement Company’s Mine No. 4 ignites a roaring underground fire, cuts off pumps and water, and threatens Washington’s coal supply.
- A Million Acres on the Block: Colville Reservation Slated for Settlement
Secretary of the Interior James R. Garfield's annual report listed the Colville and Coeur d'Alene reservations among the Indian lands being prepared for opening to settlement in 1908.
- The Fake Postal Inspector Who Robbed the Great Northern — and Got Away With Less Than $5
A bogus federal inspector bound two mail clerks, rifled registered pouches, and slipped off the Oriental Limited at Spokane, leaving Newport authorities to piece together a brazen, almost profitless heist.
- An Armed Posse Meets a Railroad Camp Riot
After a crew of Bulgarian laborers turns on their roadmaster at Ruby, Newport sends an armed posse to Usk and jails 56 men.
- A Spokane Judge Said the Mayor Couldn't Silence the I.W.W. While Letting Everyone Else Speak
Judge Mann struck down a street-speaking ordinance that favored the Salvation Army and political celebrities, even as jailed Wobblies weakened on a hunger strike.
- Springdale Burned. The Reformer Didn’t Miss an Issue.
A fire swept away Springdale’s entire business district and wiped out its newspaper office. Editor Burrows still published an account of the blaze and promised a new press.
- The Federal Government Begins Land Allotments for the Calispel Tribe
Clair Hunt arrives in the Calispel Valley to begin the process of partitioning land for the Calispel people, a move following a special act of Congress.
- The Colville Reservation Is Set to Be Broken Into Homesteads
A federal allotment plan would divide 1.3 million acres and assign parcels to about 2,452 Indians, opening the rest to settlement.
- A Banker's Last Note: G. S. Thomas Dies by Poison in a Spokane Hotel
The cashier of Newport's First State Bank was found dead in the Colonial Hotel after months of strain over the bank's suspended payments and last-minute sale.
- A Knife on Union Avenue: Newport Lunch Wagon Owner Chases Down Cook Who Robbed Him
H. McGraw, a cook at 'Red' Warren's lunch wagon, took the night's receipts and skipped town. Warren caught him, recovered the money, and then stabbed him between the ribs.
- Four Sections Burn Along the Pend Oreille
A week-long blaze near Ruby Creek is finally checked, leaving ranchers, timber and a county bridge in ashes—and one firefighter carried ten miles to safety.
- Head-On in the Tunnel: A Fatal Collision Beneath Olympia
Two Northern Pacific trains met inside the Olympia tunnel, killing Engineer Warren of Tacoma and wrecking freight cars and tunnel roof.
- A Saloonkeeper's .32 Ends a Masked Raid on Old Town
Three masked men with Winchester rifles walked into the Dougherty & Wilcox saloon at eleven o'clock Saturday night. One of them never walked out.
- The Fern Hill Streetcar Siege
Residents of a Tacoma suburb blockade streetcar tracks for nearly 24 hours to protest a fare hike.
- Two Caucuses, One Town, and a Fight Over Water
A planned Citizens' Independent caucus split into rival meetings, producing two tickets and a resolution that candidates oppose the town's pending water-rights purchase.
- A Wall of Fire Above Tacoma Creek
A lightning-sparked blaze burns 2,000 acres, jumps a three-mile trench and pulls lumber companies, settlers and the state fire warden into a desperate fight.
- A Dollar for Three Children: Newport Officers Rescue the Zink Children
After their mother’s death, Maggie, Ruth and Clarence Zink were found underfed and living among loggers; a Spokane children’s home and a Christmas box intervened.
- The Lamp That Killed a Nurse
Margaret Humphrey, burned in an alcohol-lamp explosion at Colville's Harvey Hospital, died of her injuries.
- Drugged on the Waterfront, Shipped to Australia—and Back
J. W. Ellsworth vanished from Everett last September. His family gave him up for dead. His explanation: a shanghaied voyage aboard a lumber schooner.
- The Monster Chain: A Mill Worker Pulled Back from the Jaws of a Conveyor
At the Hoquiam Lumber Shingle Company, a conveyor chain seized a worker and began dragging him toward death — until his fellow hands stopped the machinery in time.