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- A Farmer's Quarter-Mile Wall Against the Pend Oreille
After losing $3,000 in crops, John Davas built a dike near Dalkena high enough to turn back the spring flood—and stout enough to protect his neighbors.
- Two Newport Homes Burn as Volunteers Fight Without Enough Hose
A lightning-sparked fire destroyed the Seeley house and spread to the Montzheimer home, exposing the town’s thin fire protection.
- The Peril of the Open Road
A hit-and-run driver on the Guide Meridian road destroys a buggy and attempts to hide their identity.
- The Constable, the Warrant, and the Empty Jail Cell
A Newport constable accused of beating a man badly enough to send him to a Spokane hospital is himself wanted by the sheriff — and nowhere to be found.
- 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.
- A Mild Smallpox Case Was Enough to Bar Old Town Pupils From School
One patient recovering at the Newport Hotel and one suspected case in quarantine lead the school board to suspend every old-town child — though, as patrons point out, none of them had been exposed.
- The Land Along Chamokane Creek Was About to Change Hands
Stevens County commissioners back a plan to open ten sections of the Spokane Indian Reservation to homesteaders who 'cannot afford to buy better land.'
- High Water on the Pend Oreille
Spring runoff threatens Newport's ferry, scatters log rafts and tests the piers at Jurgens boom while boatbuilders race to float the Ruth.
- “This Ends Everything Between Us”: A Spokane Hotel Room, a Revolver, and Two Children
Mark McCiammy shot his wife twice and turned the gun on himself in a downtown Spokane hotel. She survived twelve hours — long enough to ask that she not be buried beside him.
- The Valley That Wanted the Railroad Bad Enough to Move It
Calispel Valley landowners planned to meet Idaho & Washington Northern officials at Spirit Lake to argue that the new line should run up the west side of the Pend d’Oreille, not the east.
- The Judge, the Ballot, and the $2,000 Reprieve
A losing judicial candidate tried to force Stevens County to reprint every ballot. A Tuesday court ruling stopped him—and spared the treasury a costly last-minute scramble.
- A Lumber Company Gives the Catholics a Block—With a One-Year Deadline
The Panhandle Lumber Co. deeds a logged-over city block at Warren and First to the Jesuit society, provided it is used for a church and a building rises within a year.
- The Survey That Stalled Because the Homesteaders Weren’t Local Enough
A federal commissioner refused to order a Pend d’Oreille township survey after examiners questioned whether the applicants actually lived on the land.
- The Assessor Followed the Law. Then the County Lawyer Sued — and the Taxpayers Got the Bill.
A Stevens County feud over exempting mortgages and county warrants from taxation turns into a straight-up election threat, reprinted from the Colville Statesman-Index.
- Five Hundred Men and a Steam Shovel: Newport Becomes a Railroad Town
The Idaho & Washington Northern finally signs Grant Smith Co. to grade the line up the Pend Oreille to Ione — and Newport bets its winter, its wages and its warehouses on the boom.
- Newport Council Digs In Against Electric Company's Meter Rates
A 25-year steam-heating franchise request collides with a fight over streetlight bills and what the town can afford.