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104 stories
- The Saloon Men Had a Precinct Map
A liquor-dealers' lodge in Stevens County picked its candidates and funded paid workers at every precinct—openly—in 1908.
- Stevens County Sets a Date to Vote the Saloons Out
With the petition deadlines cleared, the county auditor orders a Nov. 9 local-option election — and the dry forces, organized out of Colville, are predicting the small-town saloons are finished.
- The 'Dry' Candidate for Congress
A. E. Veatch, backed by the anti-saloon league, runs on a progressive platform in the Third Congressional District.
- The County Would Keep Her for Life — If It Could Sell Her Land
After 18 years at the Stevens County poor farm, an Indigenous woman named Katherine Martin becomes the object of a bargain between county officials and the Indian department over her allotment.
- The Mountain That Spilled a Flood
An eyewitness watches a mysterious, cataclysmic burst of water tear through a mountain ravine near Colville, obliterating trees and tracks.
- The Preacher Who Called Colville a Blind Sow
Rev. George A. Wells used a Sunday sermon to name-and-shame the town's liquor trade, its lax officials, and the 'pigs' who profited — without quite naming names.
- Metaline Had No Telephone — and Newport Was Ready to Take the Deal
A veteran line builder asks Colville to back a countywide telephone company. If Colville hesitates, the paper notes, Newport will gladly step in.
- The Gold Rush That Was Coming for the Colville Reservation
A Spokane prospector returns from the northern mineral belt with news of rich rock—and a prediction that the Indians will not long keep their land.
- Railroad's Right-of-Way Bill Comes Back at $6,000
A Colville jury rejects a $30,000-an-acre claim from the old Jordan cement plant and hands the Idaho Washington Northern a costly but smaller condemnation verdict.
- A Preacher's Raid, a Dismissed Case, and a $1,500 Revenge Suit
When two Colville ministers swore out a complaint against a saloonkeeper under local option, the court found no evidence — and now the saloonman is suing the preachers for wrecking his reputation.
- Washington Asked Congress for $34,500 to Finish Carving Up the Colville Reservation
An 1894 dispatch from the capital details the surveying and allotment machinery behind opening the northern Colville Reservation to settlement — right down to the promise that the cost would be repaid 'from the proceeds of the lands when sold.'
- The Chinook Chief's Grandson Who Was Shipwrecked in Japan
Ranald McDonald — son of a Hudson's Bay trader and Chief Comcomly's daughter — died on the Colville reservation after a life that carried him from Astoria to a Japanese prison and back to the mouth of the Columbia.
- The Battle for the Stevens County Seat
Colville fights to remain the seat of government as the county commissioners attempt to move it to Kettle Falls.
- Who Gets the Reservation When the Indians Are Allotted
Eastern Washington settlers cheer the survey of the Colville reservation, expecting homesteads — but President Cleveland's message warns the surplus land may not be thrown open at all, and the paper has a barb for the waiters.
- A Posse at the Door: A Frightened Rancher Shoots the Marshal Who Came to Help
Colville's city marshal is gravely wounded before dawn when a rancher, already robbed once that week, fires on the officers he takes for a second gang of highwaymen.
- The Dry Vote Is Blocked by 74 Missing Signatures
A Stevens County judge sides with a saloonkeeper and halts a countywide local-option election—but Newport and three other towns still vote Sept. 7.
- A County Deep in Warrants Calls for $200,000 in Bonds
Stevens 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.
- A Colville Man Sentenced to Life for His Wife's Murder
George L. Pepoon, convicted of killing his wife Edith, hears a life sentence in Judge Kennan's chambers — then his lawyers file notice of appeal.
- Smallpox in the Jury Box: Court Shut Down by a Newport Man's Illness
A five-day lumber trial in Colville collapses when George Perkins is diagnosed with smallpox, sending jurors home and raising fears the disease will spread across Stevens County.
- Temperance Forces Move to Vote Stevens County Dry
Local-option workers in Colville petition for a September election that could close saloons across the county and set off a dry campaign across Eastern Washington.
- The Price of Malpractice
Supreme Court rules against doctor for surgical materials left in patient.
- A 'Non-Partisan' Judgeship Descends Into Mud, Ink and a Socialist Wildcard
Stevens County's race for superior judge turns into open personal warfare between newspaper offices, while a Socialist candidate from Northport quietly builds what his rivals fear is an 800-vote bloc.
- Colville's Newspaper War Moves to the Post Office
The Reveille won't print the Examiner publisher's name, the Statesman-Index says the Examiner is losing $40 a week, and the postmaster has refused its second-class mailing status.
- The Old Log Jail That Outlived Two Colvilles Sells for $25
The county's first jail—built in old Colville, moved to the new townsite, and finally replaced—is auctioned off and will be hauled to a farm.
- The Dairyman Who Waited at the Jail Door for the Jury
Jurors touring Colville's new county prison met a freshly convicted man, Dan Elgie of Onion Creek, who called every man on his panel by name and told him exactly what he thought.