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- Colville Boosters Redrew the Map, and the Taxpayers Paid for the Surveys
Northport cries foul after County Surveyor Clare Hunt moves the Newport–Metaline–Orient road off its original line, leaving a direct-route town side-tracked — and several thousand dollars spent on surveys that produced no road at all.
- Tension and Violence at the Colville Reservation
Settlers at Colville petition for military intervention following reports of burned hay fields and armed conflict with local Indigenous people.
- The President vs. His Party
An editorial analysis of Teddy Roosevelt's late-term defiance of Republican 'moneyed interests' and his flirtation with Democratic policy.
- The Prosecutor's Parting Shot at Stevens County's Saloons
In his final annual report, Stevens County Prosecuting Attorney J.A. Rochford counted nine penitentiary convictions, warned of pending rape cases, and told the governor the saloon trade was responsible for most crime.
- The Winter War Blueprint: An 1858 Campaign to Subdue the Tribes
A field letter from the Indian war in Oregon and Washington urges the Army to occupy the Colville Valley, cut off Indigenous trade, and expel missionaries and Hudson’s Bay Company employees.