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| 1854 | 3 |
| 1859 | 5 |
| 1860 | 3 |
| 1861 | 10 |
| 1862 | 4 |
| 1863 | 3 |
| 1865 | 1 |
| 1871 | 1 |
| 1872 | 11 |
| 1876 | 33 |
| 1877 | 26 |
| 1878 | 16 |
| 1879 | 3 |
| 1880 | 11 |
| 1882 | 3 |
| 1883 | 38 |
| 1884 | 29 |
| 1885 | 29 |
| 1886 | 19 |
| 1887 | 19 |
| 1888 | 15 |
| 1889 | 68 |
| 1890 | 11 |
| 1891 | 50 |
| 1892 | 89 |
| 1893 | 81 |
| 1894 | 86 |
| 1895 | 112 |
| 1897 | 3 |
| 1898 | 6 |
| 1899 | 14 |
| 1900 | 1 |
| 1902 | 6 |
| 1903 | 36 |
| 1904 | 30 |
| 1905 | 2 |
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| 1908 | 10 |
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| 1910 | 14 |
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10 stories matching exist
- Tacoma Caps the Saloon Trade
Mayor Wright signs an ordinance tying saloon licenses to population—and turns every existing license into a small fortune.
- A Smear, a Denial, and the Sheriff's Race
Stevens County Republicans disavowed a circular attacking the Democratic sheriff candidate—and insisted their own man, T. J. Turk, had nothing to do with it.
- 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.
- A Wagon Road Debt Comes Due at the Ballot Box
Stevens County Republicans begin to field a slate, and A. W. McMorran's defense of the Newport-Orient road makes him the local favorite for re-election.
- Saloonkeepers Try to Clean Up Their Own Trade Before the Prohibitionists Do
Newport liquor men joined a new county lodge at Colville, pledging to purge minors, drunkards and dance halls from the business—and asking for “fair treatment” in return.
- Selling the Pend Oreille Valley as an Agricultural Eden
A booster’s tour of bench land, clover, and bumper potato crops—and why the railroad and Spokane cream market changed everything.
- The Original Miners: How Native Americans Discovered the Metaline's Lead Riches
Long before white prospectors staked claims, Indigenous people mined lead in the Metaline region to make bullets and slugs—and their ancient workings still dot the landscape.
- 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.
- An Engineer Bets Newport Could Rival Spokane
A Spokane mining engineer reports on the Bead Lake and Conquest claims, arguing that capital, a concentrator and a five-mile rail spur could turn a dormant district into Newport’s future.
- A Valley Drowns Every Spring—and One Farmer Wants a Better Dike
A correspondent warns that the Pend Oreille freshet has wrecked $50,000 worth of Calispel Valley crops—and argues the proposed diking districts are too piecemeal to save the basin.