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6 stories matching root
- Legislator Faces Expulsion Over Scandal
Fresh from a victory in the Forty-Seventh District, E. B. Palmer faces a legislative inquiry that could end his term before it begins.
- The Horror in Happy Valley
A husband confesses to murdering his wife and burying her remains under the roots of a stump, only to be discovered months later after tending to the site.
- The Legacy of the Stickney Home
A look at the origins and daily life of the mission school for Nooksack children, established on a Nooksack River island.
- Saloonkeepers Try to Clean Up Their Own Trade Before the Prohibitionists Do
Newport liquor men joined a new county lodge at Colville, pledging to purge minors, drunkards and dance halls from the business—and asking for “fair treatment” in return.
- 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 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.