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| Year | Stories |
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| 1861 | 1 |
| 1862 | 1 |
| 1863 | 1 |
| 1865 | 1 |
| 1871 | 2 |
| 1872 | 9 |
| 1876 | 31 |
| 1877 | 21 |
| 1878 | 16 |
| 1879 | 1 |
| 1880 | 7 |
| 1882 | 7 |
| 1883 | 33 |
| 1884 | 4 |
| 1885 | 28 |
| 1886 | 6 |
| 1887 | 11 |
| 1888 | 10 |
| 1889 | 31 |
| 1890 | 5 |
| 1891 | 28 |
| 1892 | 62 |
| 1893 | 40 |
| 1894 | 30 |
| 1895 | 41 |
| 1896 | 1 |
| 1897 | 8 |
| 1898 | 7 |
| 1899 | 4 |
| 1900 | 3 |
| 1903 | 23 |
| 1904 | 23 |
| 1905 | 4 |
| 1907 | 1 |
| 1908 | 8 |
| 1909 | 21 |
| 1910 | 4 |
| 1911 | 1 |
| 1914 | 10 |
| 1915 | 14 |
| 1916 | 10 |
| 1917 | 11 |
| 1918 | 1 |
| 1922 | 1 |
| 1923 | 6 |
| 1924 | 4 |
21 stories matching tree
- The Dispute Over the Pumping Station Trees
A landowner battles the city's light department after linemen clear-cut trees for a new high-tension line.
- The Unbreakable Christmas Tradition
An immigrant inventor finds success in America with intricate, indestructible bead trees once commissioned by European royalty.
- A Father’s Ax, a Lodged Tree, and a Boy’s Death in the Woods
Seventeen-year-old Charles H. Day was killed near Chewelah while cutting railroad ties with his father when an ax glanced off a lodged tree and severed an artery behind his knee.
- A Tree, a Right of Way, and a Man From Ontario
A hired hand clearing the Idaho & Washington Northern grade is crushed by a falling tree; his body comes home to Newport for burial before the long ride back to Walkerton.
- The Fruit Feud: Oroville vs. Riverside
A war of words erupts between local newspapers over winter damage to orchard crops.
- A Killing Winter
A brutal freeze destroys orchards and crops, threatening the livelihoods of settlers across Okanogan County.
- The Curious Case of the Stolen Vermillion Wagon
A stolen express wagon is found abandoned, but the horse thieves remain at large.
- A Contractor's Bloody Trail Ends Beneath a Fir Tree
Tacoma detectives follow bloodstains from J. A. Frace's home to his bullet-riddled body, and suspect revenge.
- The Thief Who Stole the Wrong Suitcase
A burglar targeting a North Yakima Avenue home made off with a suitcase, only to find the contents were not quite what he expected.
- Cattle Dog Saves Teen from Cougar Attack Near Spokane
An 18-year-old hunting cattle narrowly escapes a mountain lion's spring, thanks to his loyal dog's fierce counterattack.
- Chamber of Commerce Bounties for Frace Murderers
Business leaders offer $500 for the capture of the man who left James A. Frace dead under a fir tree.
- Newport Hauls a 142-Foot Cedar Out of the Woods for a Fourth of July Flagpole
A volunteer crew fells, floats and drags a giant cedar to the I.W.N. depot grounds, where it will fly Old Glory over town.
- The Unsolved Murder of James A. Frace
A quarrelsome man is found riddled with bullets, leaving behind a confusing trail of clues and a city full of suspects.
- Six Pleasure-Seekers Leap From a Burning Launch Into the Lewis River
A Friday-night outing turned into an hour in neck-deep water before lumbermen built a raft and brought everyone back alive.
- An Apple Expert Bets on Newport’s Benchlands
A Yakima horticulturist tours the Cedar Park orchard tracts and predicts the valley’s apple country is assured.
- Newport's Street Grades Come With a Bill—and a Fight Over Rock
The town council settles with a Spokane contractor, approves extras for five streets, and tables a property owner's damage claim.
- The Great Tacoma Freeze of 1909
A record-breaking cold wave and gale-force winds rattle the city, freezing pipes and sending houseboats adrift.
- Friday Night Fights: Newport's Main Street Turns Into a Boxing Ring
A carnival of brawling broke out last Friday, with two railroad camp workers arrested for holding prize fights on the main street and two others charged with assaulting an old man. The jail could have held only a quarter of the crowd.
- Sixteen Paupers, a Clay-Bed Well, and a Farm Not Fit to Live On
County commissioners tour the county poor farm and find cracked fences, filthy bedding, horses bleeding on barbed wire and water unfit to drink. The old place will be sold, they say — but only if a poor farm is worth having at all.
- Newport's 1909 Boom: New Additions, Orchards and Fifteen Houses at Once
Real-estate agents opened fresh tracts on the edge of town while a land company put thirty men and ten teams to work clearing apple orchards.
- Four Sections Burn Along the Pend Oreille
A week-long blaze near Ruby Creek is finally checked, leaving ranchers, timber and a county bridge in ashes—and one firefighter carried ten miles to safety.