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93 stories matching past
- The Nagles Take On the Railroad Over a Spur Past Their Door
Phillip and Mary Nagle are suing the Idaho Washington Northern Railroad for $3,000 over a dock spur built past their State Line Avenue property.
- Counterfeit Case Ends in Ink-Stained Chaos
A woman facing counterfeit charges turns a Tacoma courtroom into a battlefield, pelting the Secret Service chief with office supplies.
- Newport's Petition to Expel the Kalispel
In 1909, a petition circulated by a local captain asked Congress to move Calispel families off their Pend Oreille Valley lands—using smallpox and timber fires as arguments for removal.
- Newport's Cedar Pole Trade Comes Back to Life
After a lean year, buyers return to the Pend Oreille River for cedar poles—Newport's best-known export, shipped as far east as New York.
- A Late-June Flood Chases Newport’s Riverfront
The Pend Oreille kept rising after mid-June, drowning grain in the Calispel Valley and tearing planks from the Lumbermen’s Transportation docks.
- Newport's Schools Burst at the Seams as the Town Booms
Enrollment growth pushes School District No. 115 past capacity, forcing directors to weigh new bonds and a second building.
- Newport Iron Works Moves Into a Concrete Palace of Machines
The local machine shop shifted from its old frame building into Mr. Miner's new concrete plant and was turning iron again before nightfall.
- Five Levels Down, Orient's First Thought Mine Hits a Wall of Gold
A sixty-foot stope averaging better than $100 a ton — and assays running to $800 — convinces the Stevens County camp that the deeper it digs, the richer the ground gets.
- Students Brave the Deep Freeze
Oroville's school children endure a brutal winter, sacrificing comfort to keep their education on track.
- Steamer Vashon Disabled in Puget Sound Accident
A faulty boiler plate leaves a fireman injured and passengers stranded off Manzanita Beach.
- Newport to Great Northern: Where Is Our Depot?
Newport's Commercial Club tells state regulators that promised Great Northern depot improvements have stalled—and that the new fast mail train now rushes past too quickly to load the mail.
- Woman Admits to Fraud, Past Life Investigated
Winnie Moter Daniels pleaded guilty to obtaining money under false pretenses in Judge Hinkle's court last week. Sentencing was delayed while authorities look into her background.
- Public Harassment Crackdown
A local man faces the maximum fine for his behavior toward women walking along Pacific Avenue.
- Five Million Feet of White Pine Sold Off the Kaniksu
A federal forestry agent comes to Newport to close a deal with the Fidelity Lumber Co. — 5,000,000 feet of standing timber at four dollars a thousand.
- Kansas Lumbermen Buy the Eagle Mill and Bet on Newport
Moeser Bros. of Topeka take over the idle sawmill south of the Great Northern depot, promising a planing mill, timber holdings and a steady run.
- The Mysterious Return of Mrs. Andrew P. Nelson
After vanishing for months under the shadow of her husband's violent past, a woman returns to face the aftermath of his death.
- The Tragic End of 'Old Despair'
A local musician, known to the town as 'Old Despair,' dies in a dance hall, leaving behind his only treasure—a violin—to a man he barely knew.
- A Homesteader’s Cattle, a Neighbor’s Feed, and Sick Children
A LeClerc Creek homesteader says a neighbor poisoned his cattle, then his children fell ill after drinking the milk.
- The Last Colony of Snohomish Departs
A mother chooses her family over a religious sect’s move to California, pulling her children from the train at the final moment.
- The Confederate Counterfeiters
A local drifter finds himself behind bars after attempting to pass a reassembled Confederate bank note at a city saloon.
- Three Hours Flagging a Freight Train Past a Broken Rail — The Railroad Offered Him $1.50
With no telegraph in reach, John Ryan stood on a broken Northern Pacific rail for three hours and waved down a rushing freight. The company's thanks came to fifty cents an hour.
- Loggers Used a Dead Man's Skull for a Ball Game — and Wrecked the Only Clue to a Wood Full of Skeletons
A week of horseplay in the timber near Newport has left the coroner unable to explain why one body after another keeps turning up in the same thicket.
- The Railroad Cut Through His Property; He Wants $10,000
Philip Nagle sued the Idaho & Washington Northern, claiming a new track and excavation isolated his Newport land and ignored his property rights.
- Everett Labor Leaders Organize Bellingham Trades
Local union activists Jim Ballew and Dave Watt travel to Bellingham to help workers there establish their own Building Trades Council.
- Preserving the Past at Old Fort Sales
Local residents rally to save and restore a historic site south of Tacoma where the first white child in the region was born.