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- Valley Ranchers Organize to Dike the Pend Oreille: A $40,000 Flood Control District Proposed
About 25 landowners met at Gifford's ranch to sign a petition for a diking district covering nearly 10,000 acres, aiming to protect their fields from the river's annual overflow.
- Lynden Mourns a Civil War Veteran
The town pays its final respects to Captain Jarhos O'Neil, a soldier and community leader.
- The Town Hauls the Groom Home on a Baggage Truck
Charles Bell slipped off to Spokane to marry quietly. Two hundred neighbors had other plans — and a mule, cowbells and a slasher saw.
- Tragedy at the Lynden Light Plant
A dedicated engineer is killed while volunteering his time to maintain local machinery.
- The Price of a Machine Government
Auditor records reveal Whatcom County’s debt ballooned to $600,000, sparking local outrage over fiscal mismanagement and political patronage.
- A Valley Votes to Hold Back the Water
Property owners in the proposed Calispel Diking District No. 1 unanimously back a 5,250-acre flood-control district and elect three commissioners.
- 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.
- The Dredge Gappa Bites Into the Pend Oreille
After years of waiting, a Seattle contractor's steam dredge finally starts cutting a federal channel just below Boundary Island — and Newport's steamboat men begin to talk about a river that never runs dry.
- Metaline Had No Telephone — and Newport Was Ready to Take the Deal
A veteran line builder asks Colville to back a countywide telephone company. If Colville hesitates, the paper notes, Newport will gladly step in.
- New Capital, New Mill: Dalkena Lumber Co. Takes Over
A Minneapolis-backed corporation buys the D. K. Mill, plans a band mill and retail lumber trade, and bets on the coming railroad.
- The River Took the Whole Calispel Crop. Now the Farmers Want a Dike.
After backwater from the Pend Oreille drowned nearly every acre in the Calispel valley — a loss of $50,000 to $75,000 — landowners meet, hire a Spokane lawyer and move to organize a diking district under state law.
- Twenty Thousand Acres vs. the River: Calispel Valley Takes Its Case to Congress
Farmers around Usk and Cusick organize a diking district and send a committee to Spokane to beg a rivers-and-harbors congressman for a dredge, a dike, and a federal appropriation.
- Selling the Pend Oreille Valley as an Agricultural Eden
A booster’s tour of bench land, clover, and bumper potato crops—and why the railroad and Spokane cream market changed everything.
- The Chambermaid Who Foiled a Newport Crime Spree
Two well-dressed thieves from Butte stole pants and shirts from local merchants—then a rooming-house maid overheard their plan to rob a saloon bartender.
- A Church Built of Cement Blocks and Small-Town Pride
Hope Congregational Church dedicated its new $7,400 edifice, filled the pews, and raised $1,200 on the spot to pay down the debt.
- The Cave at the End of the Boundary Trail
A 1908 Newport writer follows a blazed trail north of Metaline into a limestone cavern of bath-like basins, a 'Guardian of the Baths' and a music room already being vandalized.
- The Banker Who Steered Newport Through the Panic of 1907
G. S. Thomas founded Newport's first bank, helped bring the city its water system, and died after guiding the institution through the financial stringency of November 1907.
- An Engineer Bets Newport Could Rival Spokane
A Spokane mining engineer reports on the Bead Lake and Conquest claims, arguing that capital, a concentrator and a five-mile rail spur could turn a dormant district into Newport’s future.