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| Year | Stories |
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| 1854 | 4 |
| 1859 | 1 |
| 1861 | 2 |
| 1862 | 3 |
| 1863 | 2 |
| 1871 | 2 |
| 1876 | 22 |
| 1877 | 25 |
| 1878 | 10 |
| 1879 | 1 |
| 1880 | 2 |
| 1882 | 5 |
| 1883 | 38 |
| 1884 | 19 |
| 1885 | 27 |
| 1886 | 11 |
| 1887 | 9 |
| 1888 | 14 |
| 1889 | 46 |
| 1890 | 8 |
| 1891 | 48 |
| 1892 | 76 |
| 1893 | 74 |
| 1894 | 79 |
| 1895 | 89 |
| 1897 | 2 |
| 1898 | 4 |
| 1899 | 10 |
| 1900 | 1 |
| 1902 | 5 |
| 1903 | 27 |
| 1904 | 23 |
| 1905 | 5 |
| 1908 | 6 |
| 1909 | 44 |
| 1910 | 5 |
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| 1912 | 3 |
| 1914 | 7 |
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| 1923 | 8 |
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| 1925 | 1 |
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- A Spokane Lumber Giant Swallows the Arden Mill
The Fidelity Lumber Company bought out Arden's holdings and promised a new crew, creating one of Eastern Washington's largest lumber combinations.
- The Town That Owned Nothing: Metaline's Squatters Fight Two Companies for Their Own Ground
Fifty residents of an unsurveyed Pend Oreille River mining camp petition the Spokane land office for a federal townsite — after a silver-lead company and a cement-clay claimant both tried to patent the ground out from under their homes.
- A 'Non-Partisan' Judgeship Descends Into Mud, Ink and a Socialist Wildcard
Stevens County's race for superior judge turns into open personal warfare between newspaper offices, while a Socialist candidate from Northport quietly builds what his rivals fear is an 800-vote bloc.
- A Valley Drowns Every Spring—and One Farmer Wants a Better Dike
A correspondent warns that the Pend Oreille freshet has wrecked $50,000 worth of Calispel Valley crops—and argues the proposed diking districts are too piecemeal to save the basin.
- A Wall of Flame at Newport's Doorstep
Wind-driven fires jump trenches in the Pend Oreille timber country, threatening Scott's Addition and costing ranchers and mills thousands in cordwood and logs.
- The Councilman Who Lived Across the State Line
A lawyer’s residency challenge nearly voided a railroad franchise—and forced Councilman Eckerson to offer his resignation.