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| 1854 | 1 |
| 1858 | 2 |
| 1859 | 1 |
| 1861 | 4 |
| 1864 | 3 |
| 1865 | 1 |
| 1872 | 2 |
| 1876 | 36 |
| 1877 | 40 |
| 1878 | 7 |
| 1879 | 2 |
| 1880 | 5 |
| 1882 | 6 |
| 1883 | 42 |
| 1884 | 15 |
| 1885 | 21 |
| 1886 | 15 |
| 1887 | 14 |
| 1888 | 12 |
| 1889 | 41 |
| 1890 | 7 |
| 1891 | 41 |
| 1892 | 70 |
| 1893 | 54 |
| 1894 | 44 |
| 1895 | 60 |
| 1897 | 12 |
| 1898 | 24 |
| 1899 | 13 |
| 1900 | 2 |
| 1902 | 2 |
| 1903 | 42 |
| 1904 | 24 |
| 1905 | 12 |
| 1907 | 5 |
| 1908 | 29 |
| 1909 | 37 |
| 1910 | 14 |
| 1911 | 1 |
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| 1914 | 9 |
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| 1916 | 36 |
| 1917 | 18 |
| 1918 | 4 |
| 1922 | 2 |
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| 1924 | 6 |
| 1925 | 5 |
| 1928 | 1 |
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- A Mine, a Mystery Blast, and $20,000 to Find Out What's Down There
The Conquest mine pumps out its flooded lower workings and bets big on a new season of development — but a strange underground explosion nearly knocks the crew off its feet.
- A New Town Held Up in Washington: Sullivan Creek Waits on the Interior Department
The Sullivan Creek townsite is nearly ready for market, delayed because the land fell inside Secretary Ballinger's water-power withdrawal — and a brick plant is already on its way.
- The Reservation Divided: A Land Rush on Yakima Ground
Federal appraisers prepare to open 1.2 million acres of the Yakima Indian Reservation to homesteaders, a transfer North Yakima hopes will bring a stampede of settlers.
- The Kalispel Valley Diking Project
Farmers in the Kalispel Valley seek to protect their land from seasonal flooding through a private financing arrangement, bypassing the need for public bonds.
- Metal Workers Strike Against the Eight-Hour Day Opposition
Strikers in the metal trades enter their sixth month of labor action, defying industry leaders like Harrison Gray Otis who seek to suppress the eight-hour workday.
- The Unstoppable March Toward Women’s Suffrage
A labor newspaper reflects on the sophisticated campaign for the women's vote, arguing that if the home is a woman's sphere, then her voice in government is essential.
- Farmers Take On the Pend Oreille With a Dike — and No Bonds
A railroad contracting firm agrees to build Calispel Diking District No. 1 for warrants instead of cash, giving 6,500 acres of bottomland one season to prove it can beat the high water.
- The Poor Man's Stump Burner: Newport Farmers Pack Kelly's Hall
In 1909, 150 farmers crowded a Newport hall to hear a state expert explain how to clear land by charring stumps—a low-cost method that promised to open Pend Oreille County fields.
- The Boom Days Are Over — Now Comes the Real Mining
Bead Lake Mining's president tours his tunnel, finds ore looking better than ever, and predicts a new era of systematic development for Newport's mineral district.
- The Railroad's Traveling Salesman for the Whole Northwest
A Great Northern exhibition car of grains, grasses and fruit photographs drew hundreds in Newport — and will head east again to sell the Pend Oreille valley to the nation.
- Newport's Boys Wake Up in the Eighth to Even the Series with Spirit Lake
A rain-soaked, three-hour ballgame at the Newport park ends 8 to 5 as an unlikely pitcher named Mooney strikes out three in the ninth.
- The Booster's Case: Why Newport Was Betting on Itself
After a premature boom and a painful readjustment, Newport's paper argued the town's future was assured — citing $200,000 from the Idaho Washington Northern, $140,000 from the power company, and a new Great Northern depot built for a city of ten thousand.
- A Wall of Flame Closes In on Spirit Lake
A long dry spell turns Pend Oreille County's logged-over hills into a tinderbox, and a fire that starts almost inside Spirit Lake's town limits sends mill crews, surveyors and railroad engines scrambling to hold the line.
- The Woods Are Tinder: Fire Crews Battle Blazes Across the Pend Oreille Valley
With the forest dry as tinder, deputy fire wardens, lumber crews and ranchers scramble to contain dozens of small fires — while a landowner's brush burn kills two people near Colville and lands him under arrest.