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| Year | Stories |
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| 1907 | 1 |
| 1908 | 11 |
| 1909 | 8 |
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- The Steamer Ruth Ties Up as the Railroad Takes Her Passengers
Owner Woldson orders the Ruth out of service at Newport's Stevens dock, pays off the crew, and sends Capt. Evans looking for a new Columbia River run.
- The New Steamer Ruth Takes Her Maiden Run Down the Pend Oreille
Fitted out at the Transportation Co. dock and steered by a set of 'monkey rudders,' Newport's newest riverboat proves herself on a trial run to Downs' Landing — if only the government inspectors would hurry.
- A Stern-Wheeler for the Pend d'Oreille: Newport Bets on the Metaline Trade
Seven thousand dollars subscribed, a hundred-foot boat drawing two feet of water, and a captain promising to be running ore to Newport by June 1.
- Five Minutes Through Box Canyon
The launch Nancy sets a river record while the Metaline returns with a new boiler and Newport's waterfront hums with new boats and schedules.
- The Tug That Sank at Her Own Moorings
The Defender goes down in ten feet of water off the Pend Oreille landing while low water ties up log barges on the bars and fog strands a sixty-passenger steamer below Boundary Island.
- Ice Brings the River Fleet to a Standstill
A brutal early cold snap froze the Pend Oreille, halting steamboats, forcing mail onto sleighs, and stranding crews and freight.
- A River Pact Collapses, but the Metaline Returns to Service
A signed steamboat connection between the Ruth and the Pend Oreille River Navigation Company fell through within days, even as Newport’s river fleet shifted schedules and put the Metaline back to work.
- Fire in the White Pine: Blaze Runs from Blue Slide Toward Calispel Mountain
Lumber companies rush crews to protect one of the Pend Oreille's finest white-pine districts as a forest fire spreads near Ruby Creek.
- The Steamboat Race That Put Newport on the Clock
The steamer Spokane overtook the Ruth on the Pend Oreille, thrilling passengers and settling a season-long boast among river captains.
- Newport Was Building a Fleet on the Pend d'Oreille
Twenty men rushed the steamer Ione while Captain Lanneau's Ruth took shape and ship carpenters arrived from Portland. Newport, the paper boasted, had more shipbuilding underway than any other town in eastern Washington.
- High Water on the Pend Oreille
Spring runoff threatens Newport's ferry, scatters log rafts and tests the piers at Jurgens boom while boatbuilders race to float the Ruth.
- Fogbound on the Pend d'Oreille: Passengers Rowed Ashore as Steamers Lost the River
Heavy fogs and low water stalled the steamers Metaline and Defender, forcing a nighttime transfer by rowboat and signaling the end of the river season.
- The Captain, the Sleigh, and the Unmarked Railroad Grade
Joe Cusick knew every road into Newport — except the new, unballasted track that threw him into the snow at Third Street.
- When the Ice Broke: Newport's Steamboats Reconnect the Pend Oreille
With the river finally open to Box Canyon, two navigation companies coordinated schedules at Newport, linking trains, mail and lumber camps to the upper Pend Oreille.
- The Ruth Takes Shape for the Wildest Steamboat Ride in America
With her machinery unloaded at Newport, the new steamer Ruth is expected to make her trial trip by early September, hauling Metaline ore and passengers through Box Canyon.
- The Cry That Came Too Late on the Pend Oreille
A deck hand fell from the steamer Ione near Locke Landing while trying to catch a wind-blown parcel. His crew heard the cry but could not reach him in time.
- 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.
- A Wall of Fire Above Tacoma Creek
A lightning-sparked blaze burns 2,000 acres, jumps a three-mile trench and pulls lumber companies, settlers and the state fire warden into a desperate fight.
- Metaline's Mines Are Ready to Roar—If the Railroad Arrives
With the Idaho Washington Northern extending toward Sullivan Creek, Metaline district companies are staffing up, building mills, and betting on a shipping boom.
- The Valley the Kalispel Never Ceded
A federal allotting agent explains how the Kalispel Valley was divided into individual parcels—after much of it had already been treated as public domain and claimed by white homesteaders.