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- Vigilante Justice Threatened Amid Rural Chicken Raids
Farmers are fed up with rampant chicken theft and are warning that the next thief might be met with lead.
- Two Telephone Companies Race to Wire the Pend Oreille Valley
Newport expected telephone connection to Metaline and the Calispel country in 1908, with two companies promising to build the line.
- A Judgeship Fight and the Spirit of the Primary Law
A Democratic editor accuses two local politicians of scheming to defeat the nonpartisan primary and warns that voters are onto their "underground methods."
- A Judicial Candidate's Newport Speech Turns Into a Personal Attack
George A. Allen came to the Opera House to talk primary law. He spent the evening savaging Judge D.H. Carey instead—before a crowd of about 14.
- 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.
- Summer Days and Wild Claims on Orcas Island
A pair of Lynden men report on their six-week wilderness camp, navigating smokey skies and the quiet rhythms of the San Juan Islands.
- Is Newport in Washington or Idaho? Surveyors Head North to Redraw the Line
A government party leaves Lewiston to retrace the Washington–Idaho boundary, and Newport may learn before election day which state it really belongs to.
- After the Mill Burned, the Neighbors Got Their Day in Court
A Spokane judge orders White Pine Lumber to pay four homeowners for a 1905 fire, while the company's failed suit against Great Northern leaves perjury charges in its wake.
- A Stern-Wheeler for the Pend d'Oreille: Newport Bets on the Metaline Trade
Seven thousand dollars subscribed, a hundred-foot boat drawing two feet of water, and a captain promising to be running ore to Newport by June 1.
- While Newport Stalled, Colville Planned a Stage Line to Capture the Metaline Trade
A proposed telephone franchise had been sitting before Newport’s council for five months. In Colville, businessmen were already organizing a tri-weekly stage route to the Metaline mines and post offices.
- Newport's Railroad Franchise Went Through in a Single Night
In May 1908, the Commercial Club packed the council meeting and Newport's leaders voted without dissent to hand the Idaho & Washington Northern its franchise, betting the town's future on rail and industry.
- Fidelity Lumber Says the Mill Will Rise This Summer
A 25-million-foot sawmill across the Pend Oreille, a Great Northern spur, and a cable ferry: Newport's timber future looked certain in 1908.
- Another Railroad Rumor, Another Promise That Newport Will Be a Railroad Town
A Northern Pacific engineer says the Burlington wants its own line from Sandpoint through Newport to Chewelah, Conconully and Rockport — and the Miner is already dreaming of division-point shops.
- Stevens County's First Prohibition Convention Vows to 'Kill the Saloon' for Good
Reformers from Newport and across Stevens County met in Colville, organized a permanent Prohibition party, and asked commissioners to stop licensing saloons outside town limits.
- Passing the Hat for a Ferry—and a 100-Worker Mill
Newport 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.
- The Washington–Idaho Line Was Never Quite Where Everyone Thought It Was
A congressional committee moving to re-mark the boundary publishes a surveyor general's confession: the 1873 line zigzagged as much as a degree and a half off course, was measured with link chains, and stopped short when the crew quit to save their own lives.
- The Nancy Comes to the Pend d'Oreille
A fast gasoline launch purchased in Portland will run daily between Metaline and Newport, promising same-day connections to Spokane.
- Three Wires Over the Pend Oreille
Newport's phone company suspends steel wire across the river to the Fidelity mill, clearing steamboat stacks by 50 feet.
- A Midnight Council Fight Over Rails, Rubbish and Residency
Newport's council spent a long May evening weighing a railroad franchise, ordering alleys cleaned, and questioning whether one of its own members actually lived in town.
- Found Dead in the Cabin at Downs' Landing
A well-known Pend Oreille River pioneer dies of carbolic acid, leaving a sleeping lumberjack, a neighbor who discovered the body, and a brother who insisted it was an accident.
- A Railroad Wants Newport's Streets Forever — and One Lawyer Says the Constitution Forbids It
Alva S. Sherlock warns that the Idaho & Washington Northern is asking the town council for a perpetual, irrevocable franchise over 400 feet of Newport's streets — a grant that would outlive the corporation itself, and the state constitution's ban on irrevocable privilege.
- The Chambermaid Who Foiled a Newport Crime Spree
Two well-dressed thieves from Butte stole pants and shirts from local merchants—then a rooming-house maid overheard their plan to rob a saloon bartender.
- Northport Wants to Know Who Moved Its Road
A legislative road award to Northport was rerouted through Colville, and the Northport Republican lays the blame on a surveyor's report and county commissioners.
- The Railroad Wanted the Streets. The Nagles Wanted Compensation.
Newport's council granted the Idaho & Washington Northern a franchise through Second and Third streets while Philip and Mary Nagle warned it would damage their property. A letter from M. M. Sammons also pressed the railroad to donate ten acres for a public park.
- A Tie Vote Leaves Newport's Telephone Franchise Hanging
The old council adjourns sine die after deadlocking on a telephone ordinance; the new mayor and marshal take office amid a 154-name petition.