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| Year | Stories |
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| 1859 | 5 |
| 1861 | 2 |
| 1862 | 1 |
| 1863 | 1 |
| 1864 | 1 |
| 1871 | 1 |
| 1872 | 1 |
| 1876 | 20 |
| 1877 | 13 |
| 1878 | 10 |
| 1879 | 1 |
| 1880 | 2 |
| 1882 | 2 |
| 1883 | 19 |
| 1884 | 16 |
| 1885 | 11 |
| 1886 | 9 |
| 1887 | 9 |
| 1888 | 15 |
| 1889 | 41 |
| 1890 | 7 |
| 1891 | 41 |
| 1892 | 49 |
| 1893 | 64 |
| 1894 | 72 |
| 1895 | 96 |
| 1898 | 4 |
| 1899 | 12 |
| 1900 | 3 |
| 1902 | 1 |
| 1903 | 26 |
| 1904 | 17 |
| 1905 | 1 |
| 1907 | 3 |
| 1908 | 5 |
| 1909 | 46 |
| 1910 | 6 |
| 1911 | 3 |
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- The Survey That Stalled Because the Homesteaders Weren’t Local Enough
A federal commissioner refused to order a Pend d’Oreille township survey after examiners questioned whether the applicants actually lived on the land.
- 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.
- The Judge, the Primary, and the Socialist Scare
A Newport lawyer begs Stevens County voters to put judicial fitness above party—then a Chewelah paper warns that Socialists could capture the superior court.
- A Midnight Council Fight Over Rails, Rubbish and Residency
Newport's council spent a long May evening weighing a railroad franchise, ordering alleys cleaned, and questioning whether one of its own members actually lived in town.
- A Valley Drowns Every Spring—and One Farmer Wants a Better Dike
A correspondent warns that the Pend Oreille freshet has wrecked $50,000 worth of Calispel Valley crops—and argues the proposed diking districts are too piecemeal to save the basin.