G. W. Sutherland
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- Apr 2, 1908A Second Marriage, a Lawsuit, and a Newport Undertaker's CollapseHenry A. Miller's furniture and undertaking business is handed to creditors after family troubles and litigation drain a once-profitable trade.Newport, WA
- Jun 11, 1908A Wagon Road Debt Comes Due at the Ballot BoxStevens County Republicans begin to field a slate, and A. W. McMorran's defense of the Newport-Orient road makes him the local favorite for re-election.Newport, WA
- Aug 13, 1908A Photograph Was Not a Crime: Newport Candidates Beat Back a Newspaper's Bid to Rule Them Off the BallotWhen the Colville Statesman-Index declared two Newport men disqualified for running photo advertisements under the new direct primary law, Dr. G. W. Sutherland wrote the attorney general — and came back with a ruling that the law said no such thing.Newport, WA
- Sep 10, 1908A Town Cut Off by Water: Newport's Bid for a Free FerryBusiness men pack City Hall to demand better ferry service across the Pend Oreille, as the Fidelity Lumber Co. offers to pay half the cost if the town and Bonner County come through.City Hall, Newport, WA
- Sep 24, 1908Passing the Hat for a Ferry—and a 100-Worker MillNewport citizens organize to build a free river ferry, hoping to keep the Fidelity Company's new mill and its payroll on this side of the Pend Oreille.Newport City Hall, Newport, WA
- May 20, 1909Dinner at the Antler: Newport Lobbies Stevens County for Its Own CourthouseThree Stevens County commissioners tour Newport, hear from merchants and lawyers over an evening banquet, and postpone a decision on splitting the county into judicial districts until June.Newport, WA
- Aug 19, 1909A County Deep in Warrants Calls for $200,000 in BondsStevens County commissioners call a September special election to validate debt and issue bonds to redeem current expense warrants, some of which exceeded the constitutional limit.Colville, WA
- Sep 30, 1909A 25-Year Grip on Ione’s WaterOver a rival’s protest, Stevens County commissioners handed the Ione Water & Light Co. a quarter-century franchise to lay water mains through town—with a clause letting Ione buy the system out if it ever incorporated.Ione, WA
- Jan 20, 1910The Birth of IoneStevens County commissioners officially certify the incorporation of the town of Ione following a successful local election.Ione, WA
- Jun 30, 1910The Railroad Wants the County Road — and Newport's Businessmen Sign OnPanhandle Lumber's proposed logging railroad would require the county to vacate a public road up a gulch west of town; practically every businessman in Newport petitions to hand it over.Newport, WA