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Seventh Grade Press

Volume 1, Number 6

Newport Rodeo thrills the crowds

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he Seventh Grade Press is a series of stories written by seventh graders in Ms. Irene Ewing’s class at Sadie Halstead Middle School in Newport. Each student chose a topic of local historical importance, conducted research and interviews and went through a lengthy editing process.

More than 80 students participated and each one will get a ‘by line’ in The Miner Newspapers. This is the sixth week of the project.

Check back for the next several weeks for more on local history. See more on page 12B. If you find that you have something to add, interview candidates the class should talk to, or documents and artifacts you want registered in the local museum, contact the Seventh Grade Class at Sadie Halstead Middle School, in Newport. They have agreed to collect and catalog everything that comes in, and deliver to the museum for archiving.

By Ally Jones

The Newport Rodeo began in 1956 with a parade, a carnival, and entertainment of all sorts.

It has been voted Rodeo of the Year many times by the Pro West Rodeo Association.

Each year this event brings countless families to our little town of Newport, Wash. The roar of the crowd when that final barrel racer wraps around that third barrel and makes a dash for home is something unforgettable!

The Newport Rodeo has one of, if not, the loudest Saturday night crowds in the northwest.

Every year for over 50 years the great men and women of the Newport Rodeo Association have been coming together to create this wonderful event that is fun for the whole family.

As you drive onto the grounds you are automatically greeted by volunteers that happily help you find a place to park and answer any questions you might have.

When you walk up those stairs into the stands you see all of those cowboys and cowgirls warming up their horses and sometimes even catch a few of the ropers doing sliding stops halfway across the arena.

Then you hear the voice of the announcer telling you, “Twenty minutes until showtime!” That’s just enough time to go get me a giant elephant ear and a huckleberry fizz and make it back to my seat.

Then it begins! The rodeo Queens race around the edge of the arena waving and smiling while behind the scenes there are hard working volunteers making it all happen;

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The history of Krogh Ranch

By Ben Krogh

did at the first but only this time in the opposite direction. The third barrel is special though, as this horse nears the end of the turn the crowd bursts out in yelling, screaming, clapping, basically anything that makes noise.

When this happens the horse will usually get an explosion of speed and hustle as fast as they can move to cross those timers in usually just under 16 seconds. That’s pretty fast if you ask me!

When the performance

Imagine spending nearly six months on a boat and then five more months traveling through seven states. That was my great-grandpa John Arnt Krogh’s life for nearly a year.

John left Norway at the age of 19 via New York, Minnesota and Montana, and then homesteaded in the Deer Valley in 1902. He arrived with his wife, Julia, and year old son Harry. Courine, John and Julia’s daughter, was born several years later.

After making his way through multiple states and settling in the Sacheen Lake area, John A. Krogh and wife Julia built a farm near Sacheen Lake. With the help of the Otness family, who homesteaded the Sacheen Lake Resort, the two families built log cabins.

Seventeen years later disaster struck; John’s wife Julia passed away of natural causes. Eleven years passed and another fire took the home they built.

To this day there have been five generations in the Krogh family, since John Arnt Krogh moved here from Bergen, Norway. The first generation was John A. Krogh. He had two kids, Harry and Courine.

Harry married Ruth Robinson in 1931. Ruth was a teacher in Deer Valley Middle School. Ruth and Harry were married for 43 years and had three children, John, Bonnie, and Jim. John, Jim and Bonnie continued the tradition of purchasing land and added over 1000 acres to the Krogh homestead.

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sorting calves into the proper pens, getting all of the bareback riders to the correct horses, but most of all, making sure that the entire crowd is enjoying their time at the rodeo.

In the middle of the performance, instead of having a half time, usually either a clown, drill team, or my favorites, the trick riders, come out and do a short performance.

Whether it be the clown on his mini motorcycle, the drill team with the sparklers on top of their flags, or the trick riders hanging upside down and backwards off their

horses, they will all definitely entertain you.

Nearing the end of the rodeo, we get to barrel racing. This event is probably the most crowd oriented. When that horse sees those barrels something flips a switch in their brain and they know exactly what to do. They are going to run just as fast as they can, go to the first barrel, slow up just a tiny bit then bend as close as they can to that barrel and as they come off of it they get a burst of speed and explode to the second.

When they get there they will repeat what they

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By Mateya Ross

The prohibition hit Pend Oreille County hard, hard liquor that is.

People all over the U.S. wanted alcohol. Pend Oreille County had the privacy of rural mountains with a lot of cover, and that created a way to make big money.

The rough and tough people here loved their alcohol, but it wasn’t much of a problem until prohibition became law. According to “Prohibition” on History. com, the Federal government banned the sale, the production, the importation, and transportation of all alcoholic beverages from 1916 until 1933.

Pend Oreille County was kind of infamous for breaking every single part of that law. The first part of the law, producing alcohol, was big business. A lot of people made their living that way.

Stills were built to distill whiskey deep in the woods of Pend Oreille County because it was easy to get away with. They would pour the whiskey they made in jars, jugs, and buckets, and then transfer it in wagons. The whiskey would be covered by hay.

If policemen stopped the men that were transferring the whiskey, they would search their wagons. They would poke sticks in the hay to see if there was any alcohol under the hay. A lot was moved by trucks, but that was hard because

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the police watched the roads.

The importation and transportation of alcohol was also big business in Pend Oreille County according to Paul Reiber, the author of Bootlegging, in the 1980 Big Smoke. There were people who bought whiskey, transported it illegally just to make money.

They were called rum runners even though they were running whiskey and not rum.

These people would go to Canada, load with booze and return with an illegal load, then hide it, until they could take the whiskey, beer, and moonshine to Spokane where it would be shipped to Seattle.

Paul Reiber wrote a story about

the old whiskey trail. He reported that when he arrived in Metaline Falls in 1922, he found out that one of the people who was bootlegging had a well trained horse to run the booze. The man would ride over the border through the woods up to Salmo, Canada.

Then he would load the horse with liquor and lead the horse to the trail that went over Eldorado Creek. The horse went down the trail all by itself. It was said that if a car went by, the horse would stop and hide in the woods. Eventually the horse came out at Slate Creek on the main road to Metaline Falls.

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Horse shoes protect hooves

By Brooke Marsengill

Once people discovered the utilitarian value of the horse, they then realized the necessity to protect their horse’s feet. People realized the need for horses to be serviceable for anytime we need them. So, they began shoeing horses to protect their feet almost as soon as they domesticated them.

In the Book of Horses it says the first known protection for hoofs is described when people in Asia equipped their horses with some booties made from hides or woven plants. These helped the horses against future injuries that could occur during work or sports.

Horses a big help to early settlers

By Keeta Mitcham

So if you need a helping hand I think you would like to have a companion like a horse. Horses can get the job done a lot faster than we can. Horses were a big help to people in the early days of Pend

Horses were used to help people travel from place to place.

A blacksmith makes horseshoes and puts the shoes on the horses.

In England, horse shoes and coins were cast from the same iron, but the horse shoes were sometimes more valuable. During the Crusades of the 12th century, horseshoes were accepted in lieu of money to pay taxes.

Horses were a huge part for logging in Pend Oreille County and they needed big, heavy shoes to stand a chance against the big rocks and the rough, messy terrain of logging. When they worked in the snow and on the ice, the blacksmiths welded barium cleats to the bottom of the shoes.

A blacksmith makes horseshoes and puts the shoes on the horses. They also forge objects of iron that may be needed for horse drawn vehicles or on the farm.

The blacksmith’s shop was often in the middle of the town because their shop was often one of the first businesses in a town. Their main tools were a hammer, forge, and an anvil.

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Horse shoeing was very important. Without a horse shoe, horses hooves would be badly injured and horses would be lame.

I would love to visit a blacksmith and work with a blacksmith for just a day just to experience what it’s like. It would probably smell like forged metal and sweaty horses, and the horses would probably be sweaty because they will be stirred

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up and nervous to get the shoe fitted.

Horses are wonderful creatures but need the proper care and treatment. I decided to write about horse shoeing because it seemed the most interesting. I got some of my research off of some websites and books. I also talked to my uncle’s farrier who shoes his horse for him.

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The horse walked behind the Metaline Falls Hotel into the barn, and it would wait for the owner to unload him.

All this activity was called bootlegging. The term comes from the cowboys who wore tall boots that came equipped with more space to stash important items somewhere safe and hidden. After the Prohibition most people turned back to their law abiding occupation.

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John graduated from Washington State University in 1959. He became the Pend Oreille County Commissioner for two terms. John, Harry’s son, later married Janice, and had two kids, Todd and Chris.

Todd had four kids, Dylan, Mackenzie, Austin, and Ben. Chris had one child, Ashle, she lived on the farm for most of her life until she graduated for Newport High School.

Two years later she joined the United States Marine Corps. She served two years and when she came home she had a baby girl, Lily.

The Krogh Ranch business centers on 600-700 cattle, which is enough to feed more than 22,000 people. Timber harvesting, livestock and trade has been the reasons the Krogh ranch have prospered for over 100 years. Now nearly 110 years after my family’s farm was founded, it is run by my grandpa, John Krogh. Now, soon, it will be my turn to run The Krogh Ranch.

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ends and the crowd start to head out, you can watch as the volunteers take the signs down from the arena fence and the remaining steers being brought down to the catch pens. The few remaining cowgirls and cowboys start to head off to the trailers or possibly

even a different rodeo.

As you get into your car and begin to head home you replay the wonderful memories that were just created.

The Newport Rodeo has been creating long lasting memories for more than 50 years and encourages you to join them each year for an exciting, family oriented experience.

Oreille County. Horses also make life better and easier for people. They are fun to talk to and they are great friends.

Horses were used to help people travel from place to place. They would pull sleighs in the winter and carriages and wagons in the summer.

Horses would also help move heavy loads like big loads of logs for loggers. When they were doing these jobs, the horses would need a harness to pull.

There are two types of harnesses, ones with a collar and ones with a breast strap. A collar is on a work harness and is for heavy duty work. It is for pulling heavy loads and moving heavy objects like logs or pulling a plow.

Work harness was also needed to pull the big wagons. A light horse harness is used for pulling light vehicles like a carriage or sleigh. The horses that people ride usually do this kind of work, and they can be trained to do both.

You have to know what you are doing to work with big horses in harness. To help turn a horse in harness you say “Gee” to go right, and “Haw” to go left. It helps the horses to know what you mean.

Horses were harnessed together to pull even bigger loads. They used a double tree to attach more than one horse to something or extend out. It is common to hitch two horses together and a team is not too hard to drive.

When you hitch horses together you use cross reins that tug both horses to the right when you pull right, and then the other cross rein tugs to the left on both the horses to move to the left. It gets more complicated and harder to drive when you add more horses.

A four horses hitch is called “four in hand” because you have four horses hitched to the reins in one driver’s hands.

Then when you hitch more they call it sixup, and eightup. Driving more than two horses usually requires a professional driver. Some people can drive a 20 mule hitch. Horses are too spirited to hitch that many together.

It was a lot of work to care for a horse you would have to brush them every day. You would need cover like a barn to keep them dry. You would also need a place to keep all of the equipment like halters, harnesses, saddle, grain and hay. They would also need shoes so you would have to take them to the blacksmith shop a lot. The shoes are shaped like u’s and are put on the bottom of their hooves with horse shoe nails.

The kinds of horses from then and now have changed too. Back before cars they used horses for work and doing jobs. Now we use horses for entertainment and show, for example, rodeos, barrel racing, jumping, and for showing. Also, in early Pend Oreille County most people did not have registered horses like we do now. A horse was worth a lot if it could do the jobs it was needed for. Today a horse is worth more money if it is registered.

The history of Diamond Lake

By Kylee Rowe

Diamond Lake is a beautiful place to live. I should know, I’ve been living here for three years and it is the best place to live. It was this good even “back in the day” so I’ve heard. I interviewed my Grandma who has lived here for a long time. Some people say it was small but they loved it just as much as any other lake. They said that it was lovely.

Diamond Lake wasn’t just beautiful and lovely, it was also very useful. It is still considered navigable waters, meaning you can conduct business on the water and it is controlled by the Coast Guard. I thought that was pretty cool.

It also had log booms, a sawmill, the Diamond Match company cutting wood on it, and there was also a railroad depot. The log booms collected all the floating logs on the water from logging, and

they were loaded onto the railroad cars at the depot on Diamond Lake.

There was also a lot

There was also a lot of fun at Diamond Lake especially in the 60’s. of fun at Diamond Lake especially in the 60’s.

There was a resort called Camp Diamond Resort. I wish we still had that. It sounds like a lot of fun. You could go swimming, go boating, lay on the beach, eat at the restaurant, play the arcade games, and on the weekends, across the road, where there is a barn, they held dances.

Everyone loved being at Diamond Lake.

People came from Newport, Priest River and Spokane. People came from everywhere just to go to Diamond Lake.