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| Year | Stories |
|---|---|
| 1908 | 1 |
| 1909 | 3 |
| 1910 | 3 |
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- 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.
- The Engineer Who Stayed at the Brakes
A Burlington passenger train hit an open switch outside Selah at 30 miles an hour. Engineer William Gordon and fireman Meyers died; the passengers lived because Gordon never let go.
- A Legislature in the Homestretch: Saloons, Gambling and a Fight Over Pledges
With days left in Olympia, Washington lawmakers weigh local option, an anti-racetrack law, a sweeping criminal code and a bill aimed at unions and suffragists.
- The Railroad That Became a Levee
Property owners along the Calispel petition to join Diking District No. 2, where a rail embankment and a concrete culvert will hold back the Pend Oreille and reclaim a swath of farmland.
- A Morning Boat to Metaline — and a Waterfront to Rebuild
The steamer Ione began daily service on the Pend Oreille this week, promising a one-day run to Metaline and Sunday excursions out of Newport, while the falling river exposes wrecked piers, booms and 200 feet of dock.
- The $11,000,000 Hole in Washington's School Fund
A legislative investigating committee charges that land cruisers and timber buyers colluded for decades to strip the state's school trust — and that the loss to Washington's schoolchildren may already be beyond recovery.
- Eight Days, $7 Million in Requests, and a Labor Agenda Left to Die
Washington's 1909 legislature entered its final week with appropriations far outrunning revenue, more than 30 liquor bills pending, and nearly every labor measure quietly sidetracked.