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| Year | Stories |
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| 1895 | 5 |
| 1908 | 2 |
| 1909 | 3 |
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- Eight Hundred Men, a Tunnel, and a Bridge
The I.W.N. extension put hundreds of laborers to work on grades, bridges and the Blueslide tunnel—while a bridge contractor was hurt by a falling timber.
- University of Washington's New Campus Takes Shape
After years of litigation and labor strikes, the new university building nears completion as landscape work begins on the grounds.
- Five Hundred Men and a Steam Shovel: Newport Becomes a Railroad Town
The Idaho & Washington Northern finally signs Grant Smith Co. to grade the line up the Pend Oreille to Ione — and Newport bets its winter, its wages and its warehouses on the boom.
- UW Chooses Its Future: Law, Medicine, and a Reprieve for the Old Building
A May 1895 regents' meeting set the University of Washington on a course toward professional schools, rejected confusing heating bids, awarded a $17,570 contract, and moved to keep the old campus building.
- Boodle Charges and a Vendetta at the University of Washington
A disgruntled former foreman accuses contractors and regents of corruption in the new state university building, but his allegations are picked apart by those involved.
- Five Tons of Powder, and an Earthquake Scare
A railroad crew's mammoth Sunday blast north of town shook every building in Newport — and convinced half the town the Spokane Chronicle's predicted earthquake had finally arrived.
- The Railroad Pushes Seven Miles North—Dalkena by June 15
Tracklayers, ballast crews, and a stubborn slide: the Idaho Washington Northern extension is racing high water and sharp curves toward Dalkena.
- West Bank Wins the Railroad
Idaho & Washington Northern picks the west side of the Pend Oreille for its Metaline extension, promising Ione by late next year and a boom for the Calispel valley.
- A Legislative Committee Finds the University of Washington Packed, Broke, and Worth Building
After touring the cramped old campus and the rising new grounds between Lake Union and Lake Washington, a joint legislative committee urges bonds, more books, a smaller board of regents, and a dry zone around the university.
- Seattle’s Temple of Learning Rises Between Two Lakes
In 1895, contractors raced to finish a $200,000 campus between Union and Washington lakes—complete with copper finials, a gymnasium and a hillside observatory—before the September opening.