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7 stories matching index
- Alone in the Tunnel: A Mine Superintendent Is Overcome by Gas and Not Found Until Morning
James Pecola, longtime superintendent of the Edison and Washington-Iowa mines, went back underground after supper to check two misfire holes. The gas got him first, and the crew did not miss him until Sunday.
- Newport Makes Its Case for a Court of Its Own
Five hundred signatures back a push to carve a new judicial district out of the east side, with Newport as the place to hold court.
- A County Divided: Newport’s Bid for the County Seat
A Colville editor mocks the east-west county division scheme, but dry-vote fallout and Newport’s county-seat ambitions expose real fault lines across Stevens County.
- The Petition That Put Stevens County's Saloons on the Ballot
Local option forces filed 1,398 signatures to force a September 7 special election on liquor sales across rural Stevens County, with Newport organizers claiming momentum and Springdale and Northport holding out.
- A Jury Walks the Ditches: Chewelah’s Drainage War Ends
After weeks of testimony and a field inspection, a jury ruled that draining the Colville Valley would harm no one—clearing the way for the Chewelah district and weakening objections elsewhere.
- Temperance Leagues Launch County-Wide Fight to Make Stevens County Dry
Two hundred delegates pack a Colville church, form the Stevens County Local Option League, and plot a precinct-by-precinct petition drive to force a special election on liquor sales.
- The False Solution to Homelessness
A radical critique of the 1909 railroad industry's plan to solve unemployment by mass imprisonment.