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| 1854 | 10 |
| 1858 | 2 |
| 1859 | 3 |
| 1860 | 1 |
| 1861 | 12 |
| 1862 | 6 |
| 1863 | 2 |
| 1864 | 2 |
| 1872 | 8 |
| 1876 | 40 |
| 1877 | 28 |
| 1878 | 26 |
| 1880 | 8 |
| 1882 | 4 |
| 1883 | 52 |
| 1884 | 35 |
| 1885 | 37 |
| 1886 | 41 |
| 1887 | 39 |
| 1888 | 31 |
| 1889 | 73 |
| 1890 | 16 |
| 1891 | 86 |
| 1892 | 162 |
| 1893 | 180 |
| 1894 | 168 |
| 1895 | 244 |
| 1897 | 7 |
| 1898 | 20 |
| 1899 | 35 |
| 1900 | 6 |
| 1902 | 1 |
| 1903 | 69 |
| 1904 | 81 |
| 1905 | 7 |
| 1907 | 4 |
| 1908 | 21 |
| 1909 | 97 |
| 1910 | 34 |
| 1911 | 9 |
| 1912 | 4 |
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| 1916 | 42 |
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| 1928 | 2 |
| 1929 | 4 |
21 stories matching represent
- 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.
- Twenty Thousand Acres vs. the River: Calispel Valley Takes Its Case to Congress
Farmers around Usk and Cusick organize a diking district and send a committee to Spokane to beg a rivers-and-harbors congressman for a dredge, a dike, and a federal appropriation.
- Newport Crowds a Boomtown Fourth at Spirit Lake
Hundreds of Newport people crossed to Spirit Lake for street sports, prize fights, and a log-rolling contest that sent Joe Cyr home with $25.
- Newport's Riverfront Changed Hands in a Single $25,000 Deal
C. P. Lindsley, president of Panhandle Lumber and the Pend d'Oreille River Navigation Company, bought 300 acres of timberland plus riverfront lots from Wm. Vane—and a steamboat company took a new name.
- Newport Telegraphers Brace for a Strike Over the Nine-Hour Day
With Newport as headquarters for the Great Northern grievance committee, operators await a national conference that will decide whether the new federal nine-hour law is applied—or fought.
- The Spokane Tribe's Bargain: Timber Revenue for a Forest Reserve
At the agency in Miles, tribal members agreed to set aside unallotted mountain land as a forest reserve and to open Walker's Prairie to homesteaders—if the government paid $5 an acre.
- The Newport Hardware Man Who Went Through Johnstown — and Kept the River Mud to Prove It
In his store window, E. E. Reid displays a gilded St. George torn from a clock and a rocking chair pulled from the 1889 Johnstown flood — silt still hardened in the crevices — and jokes that he is still selling hardware because the flood only went through him, not over him.
- 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 County Seat Crowd Had Already Picked Its Winners
Colville's paper publishes the Republican slate for 1908, and Newport notices that the west side of Stevens County is once again after everything in sight.
- The Railroad That Was Promised Finally Gets Its Money
$2.5 million in bonds are sold for the Idaho & Washington Northern extension to Metaline, and right-of-way agents find landowners ready to welcome a line expected to reach Ione by late 1909.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- Overnight Line at the Courthouse as Washington’s New Primary Law Meets Its First Test
Candidates camped outside the Stevens County auditor’s office to file for office—and Newport-area races split three ways before the votes were even cast.
- A 'Non-Partisan' Judgeship Descends Into Mud, Ink and a Socialist Wildcard
Stevens County's race for superior judge turns into open personal warfare between newspaper offices, while a Socialist candidate from Northport quietly builds what his rivals fear is an 800-vote bloc.
- 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.
- Five Million Apples and a Telegraph From Roosevelt
In December 1908, Spokane promised 80,000 square feet of fruit, international prizes and a presidential telegraph—all to crown itself the apple capital of the world.
- An English Syndicate Bets $100,000 on Stevens County Lead and Silver
A Chicago mining journal tours the Metaline district, where companies are sinking shafts, building tramways and waiting on a railroad to turn lead and silver claims into a boom.
- Two Hundred Spokane Boosters Ride the New Line Into Newport — and Get a Sleigh Ride
President F. Blackwell of the Idaho & Washington Northern brought nearly 200 Spokane business and railroad men over his brand-new road to Newport, where the band, the Commercial Club and five sleighs were waiting to sell them on the town.
- Newport Gets a Direct Express Line — and Three Trains a Day to Spokane
The Idaho Washington Northern opened express offices, accepted two 119-ton freight engines, and promised three through trains a day to Spokane.