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| Year | Stories |
|---|---|
| 1907 | 4 |
| 1908 | 35 |
| 1909 | 25 |
| 1910 | 13 |
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- Stevens County Sets a Date to Vote the Saloons Out
With the petition deadlines cleared, the county auditor orders a Nov. 9 local-option election — and the dry forces, organized out of Colville, are predicting the small-town saloons are finished.
- A Suitcase Standoff in Newport's Japanese Colony
A worker tried to leave town without settling with his labor boss; the boss seized his suitcase, and a deputy sheriff had to restore the peace.
- Kerosene and a Wind: Bossburg's Business Block Burned to the Ground
An arsonist's midnight fire wiped out nearly the whole business section of Bossburg, leaving only a hardware store and one small shop across the tracks — some $60,000 lost.
- Newport Depositors Keep Their Nerve During the Panic of 1907
When a local bank could not quickly turn loans into cash, Newport customers agreed to accept small payments and a stockholders' guarantee instead of starting a run—a display of confidence the Spokane Review called a model for the nation.
- The Avalanche That Threw a Snowplow Down the Canyon
A slide above Alvin swept a rotary snowplow and engine 200 feet down the mountainside, demolished a snowshed and bridge, and left an Italian laborer missing.
- Kaniksu Forest Lands Opened to Homesteaders
Federal land near Box Canyon and Sullivan Creek is restored to entry, fueling settlement and speculation.
- The Tattooed Stranger in Fifteen Inches of Water
A man is found drowned in a shallow slough near the Little Spokane River. No wallet, no name—only tattoos, a pocket comb, and an old razor blade.
- 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.
- Tacoma Caps the Saloon Trade
Mayor Wright signs an ordinance tying saloon licenses to population—and turns every existing license into a small fortune.
- The Pend d'Oreille Valley Sells Itself as the Next Fruit Country
A Spokane Chronicle report touted Stevens County fruit, $10-an-acre land, and a new railroad from Newport to the Metaline mines—and predicted a land rush.
- Eastern Capital Bets on Newport's Electric Future
Flynn Bros. plan a 600-horsepower plant four times the current size, promising day-and-night power and a magnet for manufacturers.
- Pasco Businesses Plastered With 'Fire the Jap' Stickers
A racist labor campaign targets Japanese workers in every Pasco business house—even the saloons and noodle shops.
- A Valley Drowns Every Spring—and One Farmer Wants a Better Dike
A correspondent warns that the Pend Oreille freshet has wrecked $50,000 worth of Calispel Valley crops—and argues the proposed diking districts are too piecemeal to save the basin.
- The Cave at the End of the Boundary Trail
A 1908 Newport writer follows a blazed trail north of Metaline into a limestone cavern of bath-like basins, a 'Guardian of the Baths' and a music room already being vandalized.
- Dynamite and an Empty Water Tank: Springdale Burns
A noon fire that began in a meat company smokehouse destroyed nearly every store in Springdale, exposing a water system that had been broken for a week.
- A Night in the Timber
A local man survives a freezing night in the woods near Bead Lake after becoming separated from his hunting party.
- The Federal Government Begins Land Allotments for the Calispel Tribe
Clair Hunt arrives in the Calispel Valley to begin the process of partitioning land for the Calispel people, a move following a special act of Congress.
- The First Death in Metaline
A young mother dies within hours of falling ill, and a brand-new village buries its first resident — by steamer, across the water, to the cemetery at Ione.
- Saloon Keepers Challenge Dry Vote, Test Case Heads to Higher Court
After Spokane County townships vote dry, John W. Kritzer of Elk opens his saloon, gets fined $25, and appeals—setting up a legal fight over local option.
- A Civil Engineer's $200,000 Plan to Drain the Calispel Valley
A Newport civil engineer proposes canals, dikes and lock gates to reclaim a lake bed, irrigate the gravel slopes and stop the Pend Oreille from swallowing the valley's farms.
- Calispel Votes Again to Hold Back the Water
Property owners back a diking district 31 to 2, setting up a court survey and a railroad partnership to protect lowland farms from overflow.
- A Community Mourns a Young Father in Tiger
Ardin Olmstead, a 30-year-old resident of Tiger, passes away following a series of strokes, leaving behind a young family.
- An Armed Posse Meets a Railroad Camp Riot
After a crew of Bulgarian laborers turns on their roadmaster at Ruby, Newport sends an armed posse to Usk and jails 56 men.
- A Grain of Strychnine in the Stomach: The Death of Edith Pepoon
Two Portland physicians testing the stomach of a woman who died in a homestead cabin six miles from Northport find more than a fatal dose of poison — and suspicion falls on her husband and another man who, the report alleges, mixed the dose while she played the organ for callers.
- The Justice of the Peace Who Sent Men to the Chain Gang Takes His Turn in It
Former Newport Justice of the Peace Warriner, a fugitive after the grand jury and district court got through with him, is caught by a deputy sheriff and hauled off to serve 150 days at hard labor — ball, chain and a smile.