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| Year | Stories |
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| 1908 | 3 |
| 1909 | 4 |
| 1910 | 3 |
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- A Tacoma Pastor Played Detective and Freed a Girl Locked in a Room for Ten Days
Rev. F. H. Groom of the Central Christian Church did the detective work that released a 16-year-old girl from what the paper called 'involuntary white slavery'; her alleged captor, 18-year-old Tony Millioa, sits in the city jail.
- 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.
- 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.
- Dynamite in the Dark: A Great Northern Car Is Blown Apart
A locked dynamite car was opened and detonated near Newport, and detectives suspected disgruntled construction workers. No one had a clue.
- Arson at Cusick: $200 Reward for the Fiend Who Tried to Burn the F.O.A. Hall
Someone piled slabs against the northwest corner of the Cusick hall and set them ablaze before dawn Friday. F. M. White spotted the fire and put it out before the town could burn.
- A Train Robber’s Confession From Wales
A fugitive arrested in Wales admits he and a partner held up a Great Northern passenger near Seattle in 1905—a crime local investigators had blamed on the notorious Bill Miner.
- The Pan Tans: Spokane's Secret Order of Judges, Cops and Councilmen
A police commissioner's confession exposes a sworn club that counted three superior court judges, four councilmen, a deputy prosecutor and a police judge among its members — and the recall petitions start the same week.
- The Fake $10 and the Free Meal: Counterfeiters Busted, Then Turned Loose
Two alleged bogus-money passers are caught at a Newport restaurant — but the federal attorney can't even tell if the bill was counterfeit, so they pay for their suppers and walk.
- The Minister's Daughter and the $300 Check
Winifred Moter — adopted as an infant by Rev. R. C. Moter — is jailed in Spokane on a forgery charge, and Newport weighs its sympathy for the parents against the wreck of a young life.
- 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.