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5 stories matching robert
- Panhandle Logging Camp Reopens, 50 Jobs Return
After a temporary shutdown due to impassable roads, the Panhandle logging camp south of Newport will reopen within ten days, employing about 50 men through the summer under Robert McInnis.
- Lynden Votes to Go Dry
A landslide local election victory mandates the end of licensed saloons in the town for the coming year.
- Found Dead in the Cabin at Downs' Landing
A well-known Pend Oreille River pioneer dies of carbolic acid, leaving a sleeping lumberjack, a neighbor who discovered the body, and a brother who insisted it was an accident.
- 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.
- Two Hundred Spokane Boosters Ride the New Line Into Newport — and Get a Sleigh Ride
President F. Blackwell of the Idaho & Washington Northern brought nearly 200 Spokane business and railroad men over his brand-new road to Newport, where the band, the Commercial Club and five sleighs were waiting to sell them on the town.