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| Year | Stories |
|---|---|
| 1854 | 6 |
| 1858 | 2 |
| 1859 | 7 |
| 1860 | 6 |
| 1861 | 8 |
| 1862 | 12 |
| 1863 | 27 |
| 1864 | 5 |
| 1865 | 3 |
| 1871 | 2 |
| 1872 | 38 |
| 1876 | 250 |
| 1877 | 207 |
| 1878 | 123 |
| 1879 | 15 |
| 1880 | 58 |
| 1882 | 52 |
| 1883 | 273 |
| 1884 | 142 |
| 1885 | 221 |
| 1886 | 106 |
| 1887 | 130 |
| 1888 | 130 |
| 1889 | 332 |
| 1890 | 61 |
| 1891 | 298 |
| 1892 | 693 |
| 1893 | 641 |
| 1894 | 602 |
| 1895 | 778 |
| 1896 | 1 |
| 1897 | 32 |
| 1898 | 72 |
| 1899 | 127 |
| 1900 | 39 |
| 1902 | 13 |
| 1903 | 467 |
| 1904 | 277 |
| 1905 | 22 |
| 1907 | 17 |
| 1908 | 120 |
| 1909 | 394 |
| 1910 | 103 |
| 1911 | 32 |
| 1912 | 14 |
| 1914 | 80 |
| 1915 | 88 |
| 1916 | 157 |
| 1917 | 87 |
| 1918 | 14 |
| 1919 | 2 |
| 1920 | 1 |
| 1922 | 4 |
| 1923 | 55 |
| 1924 | 49 |
| 1925 | 22 |
| 1928 | 7 |
| 1929 | 7 |
17 stories matching year
- City Water Profits Set to Retire Debt
Colville’s public water utility expects to pay off its infrastructure bonds in just four years as user fees hit a record high.
- The Launch of the Colville Examiner
A newly formed publishing cooperative pledges to keep printing local and challenge the status quo in Stevens County.
- The Maid of Honour, Nine Years Later
Anna Peterson stood at Myron Spath's first wedding. Now she came to Newport to marry the groom herself — and he failed to arrive.
- Two Caucuses, One Town, and a Fight Over Water
A planned Citizens' Independent caucus split into rival meetings, producing two tickets and a resolution that candidates oppose the town's pending water-rights purchase.
- Two Caucuses, One Name, and a New Newport Party
After rival caucuses claimed the same ballot name, Newport's People's Progressive Party met at Judge D. R. Lusher's office and nominated a full municipal ticket for December.
- A Mining Boom Bites at the Metalines
New concentrators, a wagon road, a rich strike and a $1.5 million company put Newport at the center of a swelling lead-and-silver rush.
- The Railroad Platting a Town: Fifty Acres Become Fourteen Blocks
The Blackwell road surveys the Jaynes tract west of Newport into city lots, moves its headquarters into a new Spirit Lake depot, and promises two trains a day to Spokane by New Year's.
- Newport's Water-Land Lease Fight Heads to the Voters
Ahead of the Dec. 3, 1907, municipal election, the Citizens' Independent Party asks whether the city should spend public money to defend a controversial 99-year lease on the Carter water land.
- The Great Buggy Heist of Stevens County
Ten horse-drawn rigs were stolen in Spokane and scattered across the countryside, leading to a swift manhunt near Addy.
- Local Marble Works Stakes a Claim
A local stone business proves that Stevens County granite and marble can compete with regional giants.
- The Senatorial Fray in Stevens County
A power struggle between Leviathan politicians Levi Ankeny and Wesley Jones splits the local party faithful in Colville.
- The Price of Tacoma’s Water
As Tacoma looks toward the Green River gravity system, Mayor Wright tallies the high cost of the existing well-water infrastructure.
- Two Shots, a Cold River, and a Flask of Rat Poison
Frederick Angle fired twice at his wife, jumped in the river, and then drank Rough on Rats with a friend who did not survive it. The stomach pump arrived, in the paper's words, 'unfortunately' too soon.
- A Land-Fraud Prosecutor Warns the Homestead Loophole Is Closing
Fresh from prosecuting land fraud, F. M. Goodwin opens a Spokane law office and predicts Congress will tighten the Timber and Stone Act and the homestead commutation loophole.
- A $35,000 Sternwheeler Will Turn the Pend d'Oreille Into Newport's Excursion Stage
A luxurious new tow-and-excursion boat, built in Portland and shipped knocked down to Newport, promised river trips, towing power, and free advertising for the valley.
- Newport Gets a Railroad Office—and a Deadline for Freight
The Idaho & Washington Northern set freight dates, opened a local office, and promised mail and passenger service—while a right-of-way suit headed to court.
- Newport's $300 City Hall Was a Secondhand Newspaper Office
The council accepted the Idaho Washington Northern's offer of the old Miner building, then appointed a committee to move it to Washington Avenue for use as fire apparatus storage, council chambers and police court.