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- The Electric Company Cut His Lights—Now It’s Due in Court
Dr. Phillips says Northern Electric refused to restore service at his office despite his offer to pay the ordinance rate. A Colville judge will hear the case Sept. 21.
- Newport Left in the Dark as Town Council and Electric Company Deadlock
A standoff between the town council and Northern Electric leaves Newport without streetlights, prompting fears of crime and a possible new franchise.
- Newport Wakes Up to Daylight Electricity
A Spokane conference clears the way for daytime electric power in Newport, with the local mill’s refuse as fuel and cheaper water power on the horizon.
- Tragedy at the Lynden Light Plant
A dedicated engineer is killed while volunteering his time to maintain local machinery.
- A Packed Council Chamber, a Railroad Franchise, and a Fight Over Public Streets
Newport's city council meeting drew a standing-room crowd as aldermen tangled over an Idaho Washington Northern street-vacation request, a conflict-of-interest accusation, saloon licenses, and an electric-light contract.
- A 13-Year-Old Stole $7. He Got Five Years in Reform School.
A Springdale meat cutter's missing change led to a child's five-year sentence — a window into early-1900s juvenile justice.
- 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.
- Power Cut: Newport Planing Mill Shuts Down in Contract Fight with Electric Company
The Coulter & Button planing mill went idle last week after Northern Electric refused to supply power, alleging a broken contract over February electricity.
- Two Local Engineers Buy Newport's Darkened Light Plant
After a broken crank shaft left the town in darkness, the Flynn brothers purchased the Northern Electric Co. and promised 24-hour service.
- The Nancy Came to Town on a Sled—and Ended Up Keel-Up in the Riverbank
Newport's finest new motor launch was meant to link the town with Metaline. Then the unloading crew lost control on an icy grade and sent $300 worth of brass, oak, and electric lights over the bank.
- A Palace on Rails Arrives in Newport
Idaho Washington Northern's new Pullman coaches—steam-heated, electric-lit and brass-trimmed—began service out of Newport, promising a new through line to Spokane.
- A Mill Town Gets a Recreation Hall—and a Makeover
The Consolidated Lumber Co. builds a reading room and ball alleys to keep its married workers—and remakes a shack town along the Great Northern.
- Two Neighbors Decide to Build Their Own Road to Town
Farmers of the Calispel valley and two men along the route plan a new road that skips the Bobier hill grade and shaves two miles off the haul to Newport — if the town will chip in.
- 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.
- Twenty-Four Miles of Missing Road Between the Mines and the Smelter
Citizens of Northport, Orient and Metaline pay for their own survey, then head to Olympia to ask the legislature for a wagon road that would tie Metaline's ore to a smelter — and Metaline to Newport.
- The Cry That Came Too Late on the Pend Oreille
A deck hand fell from the steamer Ione near Locke Landing while trying to catch a wind-blown parcel. His crew heard the cry but could not reach him in time.
- A Steamboat Arrives by Rail: Newport's New River Excursion Queen
A $35,000 steamer, built in Portland and shipped knocked-down by rail, would run daily excursions from Newport to Box Canyon.
- Newport Votes: Counting the 1908 Primary Until 8 A.M.
Returns trickle in from 40 of 52 precincts as Newport's 200 ballots take all night to count — 160 Republican, 30 Democratic, 10 Socialist, with many Democrats simply voting the other party's ticket.
- Eighty Men, a Night Crew, and a Forest of Logs: Newport's Timber Boom in Full Swing
New rail spurs and new mills put scores of men to work across the Pend Oreille country — until the cold snap and the frozen lake threaten to slow the saws.
- The Apple Pool That Beat the Wholesale Buyers
Two years in, a Wenatchee growers' co-operative had moved 300 carloads of fruit and sold 101 cars of apples to the highest bidder in the East — and one orchardist a mile and a half from town cleared $18,544.80.
- Fifty Jobs and a Logging Camp Pull Newport Out of the Panic
A new McInnis Brothers logging contract south of town gives nearly fifty men six months of work and eases a winter of post-panic unemployment.
- 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.
- Fifteen Years, Rate Caps and a Free Phone: Newport Bargains With the Telephone Company
The city council cut a proposed 35-year franchise down to 15, capped rates at $1.50 for a two-party line, demanded a free city phone and reserved wire space on every pole.
- 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.
- A Dollar for Three Children: Newport Officers Rescue the Zink Children
After their mother’s death, Maggie, Ruth and Clarence Zink were found underfed and living among loggers; a Spokane children’s home and a Christmas box intervened.