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| Year | Stories |
|---|---|
| 1907 | 5 |
| 1908 | 18 |
| 1909 | 46 |
| 1910 | 14 |
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- Head-On in the Tunnel: A Fatal Collision Beneath Olympia
Two Northern Pacific trains met inside the Olympia tunnel, killing Engineer Warren of Tacoma and wrecking freight cars and tunnel roof.
- A Flag, a Revolver, and a Red-Headed Man: Newport's Strange Tuesday Manhunt
A woman under morphine delusions armed herself with an American flag and a loaded .38, then walked Washington Avenue looking for a red-headed man she meant to kill.
- A Circus Train Wrecked on the Grade Near Newport
A switch engine pushing a loaded boxcar crashed head-on into the Campbell Brothers' circus train between Ione and Grange City, wrecking three cars and killing the show's horses.
- A Crowbar Through the Skull: The Mill Hand Nobody Heard in Time
John Krips, a 30-year-old laborer tearing down the old Spirit Valley mill, was killed instantly when a falling timber drove his own crowbar through his head. His body was shipped home to Minnesota.
- The Planer Started Again, and a Former Town Marshal Paid for It
E. Jenne reaches into an idle machine at the Fidelity planer to clear the side heads. It comes to life under his hands.
- A Disobeyed Siding Order: Great Northern No. 4 Burns at Lind
The Seattle-bound passenger train due through Newport was struck head-on by a Northern Pacific helper engine at Lind, Washington. The engineer and a mail clerk were killed, the equipment burned to the frames, and the road's flood-shut main line was only just reopening.
- Two Locked Bucks, One Shot, and a Northport Hunting Tale
A Northport farmer found two whitetail bucks deadlocked by their antlers—one already killed by the other—and brought their heads to town.
- A Woman Alone on a Timber Claim Is Struck Down by a Hidden Assailant
Jean Chance is left unconscious for ten hours after stones hit her head and shoulder near Camden, and deputies suspect the land dispute behind it.
- An Unknown Assailant, a Blow to the Head, and a Cut Throat in Walla Walla
A company agent was attacked at his letter-press and left unconscious for hours; no suspect was named.
- A Husband Steps Off the Streetcar and Fires
Luke Miley had been separated from his wife for two years. On a Seattle street he spotted her walking with another man and their young son — and shot the man in the head.
- 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.
- The Ione Mill Dam Gave Way, Taking Half a Million Feet of Logs With It
A Tuesday afternoon break at the Panhandle Lumber Co. dam sent a 35-foot head of water through the canyon and delayed the mill for months.
- A Wedding Suit, Three Bullets, and a Fire on Fort Wright
A Polish cabinetmaker from Chicago is found arranged on a Spokane reservation knoll, shot in the head and partly burned—authorities believe someone tried to erase his identity.
- No Way to Head It Off
A forest fire on the west bank of the Pend Oreille has outrun every crew sent against it. It will burn to the river, the reports say, and cover most of the country between Ruby and Blueslide — and when Newport called for men, none could be found.
- The Millionaire Who Came Back: A Wife, Two Husbands and a Double Divorce
Margaret Broderick thought Frank Berwert was murdered. Four years into a new marriage, he appeared at her door—alive, wealthy, and legally still her husband.
- The Last Fuse: A Chewelah Mine Blast Kills One and Injures Another
At the Blue Star mine, Jay Michael was lighting the tenth fuse when the explosion came. Pearl Easterday died of head injuries before he could be brought to help.
- 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 Last Night at the Winston Hotel
A hotel lessee in Satsop was severely burned while attempting to rescue his belongings from a fire that left the town without lodging.
- The Launch Shamrock Caught Fire on the Pend Oreille
A Sunday boat party narrowly escaped when a barge collision ruptured the gasoline tank and ignited the launch. Charlie Flynn steered for shore—then jumped.
- An Axe Slip in the Timber
A lumberjack working a mile and a half from the Clark Saddler camp fell onto his axe, suffering a deep scalp wound and a severe hemorrhage. Dr. Boudwin patched him up, and by Wednesday he was back at camp.
- 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 Thief Pulled From the I.W.N. Train
A sleeping guest is robbed at the Newport Hotel; Marshal Bennett catches one suspect aboard an outgoing train while two alleged accomplices head toward Spirit Lake.
- Twenty-Two Minutes on the Rope: The Slow Death of Richard Quinn
The Everett wife-murderer was hanged at Walla Walla and strangled for more than twenty minutes before he died, begging to be dropped again. From the scaffold he insisted the shooting was an accident.
- 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.
- A $125 Doctorate: Bellingham's Normal School Principal on Trial
Sixteen charges — misapplied funds, incompetence and a mail-order Ph.D. — land the best-known educator in the Northwest before a governor-ordered hearing.