The Outright Grab and Run

Last summer postmaster Hibbs of Lewiston, Idaho skipped town.  He took a large amount of money and hightailed it into British Columbia.

The post office authorities traced the absconding servant to British soil.

The question of extradition arose. ...

In 1879 WB Lockhard arrived in the Village.   He was a lawyer and the agent in charge of registering all federal land sales. 

He assembled a small gathering of believers and they formed an Episcopal church.   By 1880 there existed a small...

On a sparkling Christmas evening in December, 1891 at the beautiful and unique residence of KK Cutter, daughter Miss Laura Grace Cutter wed.   KK Cutter, famous architect, threw open his stunning home known as The Chalet to become the scene...

Other Improvements at Liberty Lake Announced.

The Inland Empire System has proposed building an automobile road from the lake up to the top of Mica Peak, an altitude of 5,200 feet.   The path, if constructed, will wind over the hills by...

The city has a problem.  The main street downtown is crowded with transients.  There are many, many unemployed men and wandering boys.  It is 1934 and the country is in the depths of the Great Depression.

The First Solution

To house the...

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Bonners Ferry Has Many Claim Jumpers

Leaving Kootenai Station in Sandpoint, on the future main line of the Northern Pacific Railroad, six passengers on a cold March 1892 day take refuge in one of Sam Smith’s cold stage coaches – headed...

Dug Up From A Grave On Top Of The Bluff

Strangers Take It At Dawn

Detectives Working On The Case Fail To Get Any Track Of Mysterious Grave Openers

The mysterious action of two men in unearthing a box from the lonely grave...