Judge Carey
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- Oct 31, 1907Legal Battle Stalls Inland Empire Railroad ExpansionA Spokane legal team secures a restraining order against the Inland Empire Railroad, marking a pivotal moment in the infrastructure dispute.Colville, WA
- Nov 22, 1907A Railroad Wins the Right to Run—and a Neighbor Says It Cost Him 60%A judge suspended an injunction against the Idaho Washington Northern Railway, clearing freight service into Newport as a property owner blamed the new tracks for wiping out most of his land's value.Newport, WA
- Jan 2, 1908One Hundred Arrests, Three Hundred Dollars: Newport's Year in the Police CourtThe city marshal's 1907 tally — drunks, burglars and a jailbreak by a notorious horse thief nabbed on a Washington Avenue street corner.Newport, WA
- Mar 5, 1908The Fourth Street Merchant Who Lost Everything Wants His Freedom BackHenry Murphy built a thriving general store on Fourth Street; a conviction for attempted criminal assault took the business, the money and four years of his life. Now friends are asking the judge and prosecutor who tried him to bring him home from Walla Walla.Newport, WA
- Jul 9, 1908A Judgeship Fight and the Spirit of the Primary LawA Democratic editor accuses two local politicians of scheming to defeat the nonpartisan primary and warns that voters are onto their "underground methods."Northport, WA
- Jul 16, 1908A Lumber Case Becomes a Political Weapon Against Judge CareyOpponents whispered that the judge reversed a jury in secret. A witness says the ruling came in open court before 200 people.Colville, WA
- Sep 3, 1908The Judge, the Primary, and the Socialist ScareA Newport lawyer begs Stevens County voters to put judicial fitness above party—then a Chewelah paper warns that Socialists could capture the superior court.Newport, WA
- Sep 10, 1908Newport Votes: Counting the 1908 Primary Until 8 A.M.Returns trickle in from 40 of 52 precincts as Newport's 200 ballots take all night to count — 160 Republican, 30 Democratic, 10 Socialist, with many Democrats simply voting the other party's ticket.Newport, WA
- Oct 22, 1908The Prosecutor's Record: 'Arrest on Suspicion, Investigate Afterwards'A Stevens County election fight turns on the county's criminal docket — who jailed innocent men, and who got his convictions.Colville, WA
- May 13, 1909The Marked Five-Dollar Bill That Unmasked a 'Good Citizen'A trusted expressman caught by a trap bill confessed to a March safe robbery — and a man his friends thought beyond reproach was sentenced to up to fourteen years.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
- May 27, 1909Judge Carey Rules for the Silver-Lead Company in Metaline Claim FightA Stevens County court decision turned on whether assessment work had been done on valuable lead claims in 1905—and the mining district was watching.Metaline, WA
- Aug 5, 1909The High Court Kills Newport's Court District, and Eastern Stevens County Is Told to Go It AloneWashington's Supreme Court struck down the law that let Superior Court sit outside county seats, wiping out Newport's new judicial district and sending local litigants back down the road to Colville — unless the county itself can be split in two.Newport, WA
- Jan 27, 1910The First Death Sentence in Stevens CountyAfter a murder conviction for the killing of his housekeeper, William Frederick Jahns faces the gallows in a landmark legal case for the region.Bissell, WA
- Mar 17, 1910A Jury Settles the Water for CalispellLandowners in the Calispell bottoms are awarded damages, clearing the way for a diking district to reclaim about 100 acres from the annual overflow.Colville, WA
- Feb 22, 1917Court House Construction Dispute Nears Legal LimboA procedural error by the bench keeps former county commissioners out of jail while the county's infrastructure project remains deadlocked.Prosser, WA