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- Clayton Burned: A Brick-Plant Town Loses Its Whole Business Block
A Tuesday afternoon blaze took Clayton's entire business section on the Spokane Falls & Northern, including the Washington Brick & Lime Co. plant — a $100,000 loss, and another Inland Empire town left to rebuild.
- Fire Aboard the Steamer Newport, Caught Before It Spread
A defective steam-pipe covering sparked a blaze at the Newport docks that damaged two staterooms and cost crew members their clothes, but the boat left on schedule.
- A Fire in Grand Forks May Bring the Railroad Shops to Marcus
With Great Northern's Grand Forks shops destroyed, Colville's Statesman-Index reports the company may finally build its long-planned repair shops at Marcus, where the line branches to Republic and Nelson.
- The Kaniksu’s 1908 Fire Season: 40 Blazes, $3,569 Spent, and a Warning in the Young Timber
Federal rangers and local crews kept the Kaniksu National Forest from another Alispel-scale conflagration, but the season still burned 700 acres and cost an estimated $15,000 in damaged reproduction.
- After the Mill Burned, the Neighbors Got Their Day in Court
A Spokane judge orders White Pine Lumber to pay four homeowners for a 1905 fire, while the company's failed suit against Great Northern leaves perjury charges in its wake.