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10 stories matching quick
- After a Lifetime at the Inn, Anna Quick Hands Over the Keys
A Spokane hotel man leases the Newport Hotel for a year as its founder — who opened a house in Old Town before the Great Northern ever arrived — retires for a well-earned rest.
- Lost for Days, 'Scotty' Crawls Out of the Metaline Woods
A young hunter loses his way near Sullivan Lake and survives on luck, hunters, and sheer endurance—shoes worn through and fingernails down to the quick.
- A Conviction, a Quick Marriage, and a Town's License Protest
E. T. Montgomery was convicted of criminal intimacy with his stepdaughter and released on bail. When his new wife kept running the hotel and saloon at Elk, residents asked Spokane County to deny the license.
- 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.
- Newport Was Building a Fleet on the Pend d'Oreille
Twenty men rushed the steamer Ione while Captain Lanneau's Ruth took shape and ship carpenters arrived from Portland. Newport, the paper boasted, had more shipbuilding underway than any other town in eastern Washington.
- A Locked Furniture Store and a Mattress Fire in Colville
Citizens broke in to haul out furniture while smoke filled the upper floors of M. C. Kelly's store; the blaze was stopped, but the damage outpaced the insurance.
- Fidelity Lumber Says the Mill Will Rise This Summer
A 25-million-foot sawmill across the Pend Oreille, a Great Northern spur, and a cable ferry: Newport's timber future looked certain in 1908.
- The Cry That Came Too Late on the Pend Oreille
A deck hand fell from the steamer Ione near Locke Landing while trying to catch a wind-blown parcel. His crew heard the cry but could not reach him in time.
- Newport Merchants Agree to Close at 6:30 — and Fine Themselves $50 If They Don’t
In 1908, local shopkeepers signed a pact to shorten business hours, hoping clerks and owners alike could finally take part in public life. Violators owed $50 to the Commercial Club.
- 1,500 Men and a Steam Shovel: Newport Builds the Metaline Line
The Idaho & Washington Northern extension turns Newport into a construction boomtown, with subcontractor camps, mule trains, dynamite barges and a temporary hospital.