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| Year | Stories |
|---|---|
| 1907 | 31 |
| 1908 | 304 |
| 1909 | 440 |
| 1910 | 223 |
998 stories
- Detained at Seattle: A Chinese Merchant’s Weeks-Long Fight to Enter
Moy Kee and his wife wait at the Seattle immigration station while officials weigh his right to enter the country; he is finally admitted and heads home to Indiana.
- The Power Company Buys Up Washington Avenue
The Northern Idaho Montana Power Co. assembles frontage at Pine, First and Washington, plans a fireproof substation, and pulls its lines off the main street.
- A Mother Walked Tacoma Handcuffed to Her Daughter
After two alleged kidnap attempts, Edna Reed fastened herself to her 9-year-old with silver-chained handcuffs—and dared the city to separate them.
- A Hotel Register, a Pistol, and a Death Pact in Seattle
A Tacoma couple checked into a Seattle hotel under false names. Hours later, Anna Burke was dead and H. O. Eames was telling police they had come to die together.
- A Revolver at the Fair: Oregon's Superintendent Holds Off the A.-Y.-P. Guards
When exposition officials tried to put a refreshment booth on Oregon's lawn, the Oregon building superintendent met them with a revolver and 35 men in reserve.
- A Forty-Foot Iron Rod Bursts Through the Jurgens Mill Wall
A broken carriage rod sends a piston head and forty feet of heavy iron flying through the mill; workers and a lady visitor escape unhurt.
- A Dangerous Fall at the Calispel Spur
A railroad inspector suffers a broken collarbone after stepping off a train in the dark and falling twenty feet into the river bank.
- A Slot-Machine Row Spills Across the Tracks
Two men working a saloon machine with slugs ended in a street fight, a freight-train escape attempt and $25 fines in Newport's police court.
- 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.
- Two Drunk Loggers Asleep on the Tracks; One Never Woke
Louis Dunn and Cephus Gott, loggers for the Rauch crew, lay down on the Great Northern rails after a night of drinking. A train found them — killing Dunn and maiming Gott. It was the second Rauch man killed by a train in six months.
- The First Death in Metaline
A young mother dies within hours of falling ill, and a brand-new village buries its first resident — by steamer, across the water, to the cemetery at Ione.
- Poisoned Candy in the Streets: Aberdeen's Scare
Chocolates dusted with white powder and gumdrops bored and filled with some unknown substance turned up scattered across Aberdeen's streets — right after a wave of dog poisonings. The candy is headed to Pullman for chemical analysis.
- A Boy Carrying His Little Brother Dies After a Fall on Fence Rails
Fifteen-year-old Stanley Tarbox of Usk stumbled while giving his six-year-old brother a piggyback ride. Days later, an intestinal obstruction killed him on the operating table in Spokane.
- Eight Months Forgotten in the County Jail
Charles K. Steele sat in the Tacoma jail awaiting trial until the evidence, the witness, and finally the prosecutor's memory all vanished — so he pleaded to a lesser charge and walked out in 90 days.
- 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.
- Coroner's Jury Clears Stepson Who Shot His Stepfather
A Burlington youth shoots and kills his stepfather after the older man struck his sister and fired at him first; a jury rules it justifiable homicide.
- The Governor Died Two Days After Taking to His Room — and Never Said Goodbye
Samuel G. Cosgrove, elected to lead Washington in November, died of Bright's disease at a California sanitarium. Olympia draped the capitol in crape, called out the National Guard, and swore in his lieutenant governor before the funeral was over.
- A Railroad Wants Newport's Streets Forever — and One Lawyer Says the Constitution Forbids It
Alva S. Sherlock warns that the Idaho & Washington Northern is asking the town council for a perpetual, irrevocable franchise over 400 feet of Newport's streets — a grant that would outlive the corporation itself, and the state constitution's ban on irrevocable privilege.
- A Posse at the Door: A Frightened Rancher Shoots the Marshal Who Came to Help
Colville's city marshal is gravely wounded before dawn when a rancher, already robbed once that week, fires on the officers he takes for a second gang of highwaymen.
- Fidelity Lumber Says the Mill Will Rise This Summer
A 25-million-foot sawmill across the Pend Oreille, a Great Northern spur, and a cable ferry: Newport's timber future looked certain in 1908.
- A Valley Drowns Every Spring—and One Farmer Wants a Better Dike
A correspondent warns that the Pend Oreille freshet has wrecked $50,000 worth of Calispel Valley crops—and argues the proposed diking districts are too piecemeal to save the basin.
- The River Took the Whole Calispel Crop. Now the Farmers Want a Dike.
After backwater from the Pend Oreille drowned nearly every acre in the Calispel valley — a loss of $50,000 to $75,000 — landowners meet, hire a Spokane lawyer and move to organize a diking district under state law.
- Valley Ranchers Organize to Dike the Pend Oreille: A $40,000 Flood Control District Proposed
About 25 landowners met at Gifford's ranch to sign a petition for a diking district covering nearly 10,000 acres, aiming to protect their fields from the river's annual overflow.
- A Wall of Flame at Newport's Doorstep
Wind-driven fires jump trenches in the Pend Oreille timber country, threatening Scott's Addition and costing ranchers and mills thousands in cordwood and logs.
- Clayton Burned: A Brick-Plant Town Loses Its Whole Business Block
A Tuesday afternoon blaze took Clayton's entire business section on the Spokane Falls & Northern, including the Washington Brick & Lime Co. plant — a $100,000 loss, and another Inland Empire town left to rebuild.