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| Year | Stories |
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| 1907 | 1 |
| 1908 | 27 |
| 1909 | 20 |
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64 stories matching log
- Logging Camps Stir Again After the Panic
After the financial panic froze the woods, camps around Newport are reopening, adding teams, and waiting for snow to move four million feet of logs.
- A Sawmill Manager Killed by a Runaway Log
C. F. Jones, manager of the Chehalis Lumber Company mill at Littell, was crushed at the log pond while helping unload a carload.
- The Worn-Out Tongs That Killed a Newport Log Scaler
James Wall was loading logs for the Panhandle Lumber Co. when a falling log struck him dead. His family’s $50,000 suit against the Idaho & Washington Northern ended with a $5,000 verdict — and a defense that blamed Wall for standing in danger.
- A Broken Canthook, a Crushed Spine: Newport Logger Rushed to Spokane
Samuel McGeelies was loading logs for the Fidelity Lumber Co. when a second-tier log broke loose and struck him; he was taken to St. Luke's Hospital in critical condition.
- Panhandle Logging Camp Reopens, 50 Jobs Return
After a temporary shutdown due to impassable roads, the Panhandle logging camp south of Newport will reopen within ten days, employing about 50 men through the summer under Robert McInnis.
- The River Full of Logs: Newport's Timber Boom Goes Mechanical
From Parker Mountain to Ione the Pend Oreille is choked with logs bound for the mill — and the Panhandle Lumber Co. is trading horses for donkey engines.
- The Hook Slipped: A Scaler Killed Two Miles From Newport
James Wall, 50, was loading logs for the Panhandle Lumber Co. when a heavy log fell and fractured his skull. He lived only five minutes.
- A Log House Lost at Calispel Lake — and No Insurance to Soften It
A Friday-afternoon fire consumed D. LaForce's substantial log home near Calispel Lake so fast that the family saved none of its contents.
- A Truck Tongue Knocks a Logging Contractor Into the Barge
Rufus Williams is badly injured while loading equipment for a Dalkena Lumber Co. log contract, pinned in a barge hold with part of a truck on top of him.
- Newport Crowds a Boomtown Fourth at Spirit Lake
Hundreds of Newport people crossed to Spirit Lake for street sports, prize fights, and a log-rolling contest that sent Joe Cyr home with $25.
- 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.
- Four Million Feet of Logs: The Boom Comes to the Pend d'Oreille
A logging company began driving pilings for a 4-million-foot log boom and a new sawmill on the Pend d'Oreille riverfront.
- A Forest Fire at Tiger Burns 700,000 Feet of Logs and Two Homes
The Panhandle Lumber Company loses a vast pile of cut logs along the track, and two families — including Mrs. Parker and her daughters — watch their homes burn.
- A Woman, a Gate, and a Smoking Log Pile in the Huckleberry Mountains
Two prominent Stevens County farmers and a drifter called 'Tennessee Jack' are jailed after two hunters stumble on charred human bones nine miles east of Cedonia.
- The Pend Oreille Swells Toward a Record Crest
Heavy rains in Montana send drift and broken booms downstream, threatening Newport’s mills and log supply.
- Fifty Jobs and a Logging Camp Pull Newport Out of the Panic
A new McInnis Brothers logging contract south of town gives nearly fifty men six months of work and eases a winter of post-panic unemployment.
- Smallpox Scare Hits Newport
A logging camp worker arrives in town carrying a contagious disease, forcing the city to confront the need for a pest house.
- The Woods Come Back to Life Around Newport
Logging camps and river drives restart, with a million feet coming down the West Branch and Victor Pierson set to run the main-river drive.
- One Landowner's $1,000 Demand Stalls a $200,000 Logging Road
The Panhandle Lumber Co. may abandon its Newport-area logging railroad because a five-acre property owner wants $1,000 in damages and the county won't vacate the old road until a substitute is built.
- 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.
- The Axe Slip That May Have Cost a Newport Boy His Foot
Will Scott, 15, was helping his father at a Jackson wood camp near Penrith when the axe glanced from a log, severing cords and crushing bone in his foot. Dr. Phillips dressed the wound.
- Fourteen Sections of Timber and Twenty Miles of Track
The Panhandle Lumber Co. laid plans for a logging railroad up the Diamond Lake road from the wye west of Newport — six miles this summer, twenty in the end, and maybe a permanent line clear through to Spokane.
- 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 Railroad Wants the County Road — and Newport's Businessmen Sign On
Panhandle Lumber's proposed logging railroad would require the county to vacate a public road up a gulch west of town; practically every businessman in Newport petitions to hand it over.
- Eighty Men, a Night Crew, and a Forest of Logs: Newport's Timber Boom in Full Swing
New rail spurs and new mills put scores of men to work across the Pend Oreille country — until the cold snap and the frozen lake threaten to slow the saws.