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16 stories
- The Strychnine Widower: Northport Man on Trial for Poisoning His Insane Wife
George L. Pepoon stands accused of killing the mother of his three children for $1,000 in insurance and a new bride — with a paroled convict as the state's star witness.
- The Most Noted Killer in the West Sits Smoking His Pipe
Convicted of killing a woman and burning her body in a pine-log heap, James F. Logan waits out his appeal in a steel cell — cheerful, confident he'll never hang, and happy to receive the curious.
- The 'Dry' Candidate for Congress
A. E. Veatch, backed by the anti-saloon league, runs on a progressive platform in the Third Congressional District.
- The County Would Keep Her for Life — If It Could Sell Her Land
After 18 years at the Stevens County poor farm, an Indigenous woman named Katherine Martin becomes the object of a bargain between county officials and the Indian department over her allotment.
- The Preacher Who Called Colville a Blind Sow
Rev. George A. Wells used a Sunday sermon to name-and-shame the town's liquor trade, its lax officials, and the 'pigs' who profited — without quite naming names.
- Railroad's Right-of-Way Bill Comes Back at $6,000
A Colville jury rejects a $30,000-an-acre claim from the old Jordan cement plant and hands the Idaho Washington Northern a costly but smaller condemnation verdict.
- A Preacher's Raid, a Dismissed Case, and a $1,500 Revenge Suit
When two Colville ministers swore out a complaint against a saloonkeeper under local option, the court found no evidence — and now the saloonman is suing the preachers for wrecking his reputation.
- A Colville Man Sentenced to Life for His Wife's Murder
George L. Pepoon, convicted of killing his wife Edith, hears a life sentence in Judge Kennan's chambers — then his lawyers file notice of appeal.
- The Courthouse Contract That Took Three Tries
The lowest bid lacked a certified check; the next-lowest contractor balked at its own price; the job finally went to Colville builder Lee Gayman.
- A Jury in Colville Wastes No Time on a Wife Poisoner
George Pepoon showed no more feeling at his murder conviction than he had through the whole trial — the jury reached its verdict in 67 minutes, on a single ballot.
- The Trial of James F. Logan
A murder trial in Colville stalls as the court struggles to find an impartial jury among citizens who have already read the details in the press.
- A Jury Settles the Water for Calispell
Landowners in the Calispell bottoms are awarded damages, clearing the way for a diking district to reclaim about 100 acres from the annual overflow.
- Poisoning Case Waits for a Jury in Stevens County
George L. Pepoon, accused alongside an escaped convict of poisoning his wife, Edith, may not face trial until May because no April jury was drawn.
- Stevens County Bets $1,000 on Its Apples
Spokane's apple-show manager came to Colville with a proposition: a county booth in Spokane and Chicago, a special fruit train hauled as second section of the overland fast mail, and $6 a box waiting in Illinois.
- Booze Still Flowing at the County Seat
Two Marcus men were hauled to Colville for violating local option, one fined $20 — but detectives shadowing Colville saloons couldn't make a single prosecution stick, and liquor was said to be as easy to find as ever.
- Keep Your Eye on Veatch: A Colville Republican Pitched Against the Spokane Machine
With the next U.S. senator likely to hail from Spokane, a Fairfield paper argues the Third District's congressman should come from somewhere else — and boosts A. E. Veatch of Colville as no friend of 'the big fish.'