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- Ranchers Compete for Railroad: West Side Landowners Offer Free Right-of-Way
At a packed meeting at the Locke schoolhouse, 25 property owners strategized to bring the Idaho & Washington Northern Railroad to their side of the river, offering free timberland right-of-way and cheap meadow prices.
- A Hundred Ranchers Tried to Steer the Railroad Down Their Side of the River
Property owners from the Calispel valley packed a Cusick meeting to lobby the Idaho Washington Northern for a west-side route—offering cheap right-of-way and a pile of guaranteed tonnage.
- 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 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.
- A Freight Train Chases Three Horses Into Newport
One of Ed G. Harris's horses is struck near Hardscrabble, then driven miles into town by an eastbound freight before City Marshal Jenne puts the injured animal down.
- A Spokane Syndicate Files on Four Stevens County Lakes
Ex-Mayor Floyd Daggett claimed 5,000 cubic feet of water from Fan, Trout, Horseshoe and Diamond lakes—prompting Newport-area residents to ask why local water should flow to Spokane.
- Two Gun Mishaps in One Week Leave Newport Men Wounded
A hunter swapping rifles and a 10-year-old boy with a .22 both shot themselves in the foot. Both were brought to Newport for treatment.
- 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.
- The Steamboat That Played Tow Truck at Blueslide
When a touring car couldn't climb one of the worst grades in the district, Captain Stewart rigged a tackle to the steamer Spokane and hauled it up.
- A Spokane Syndicate’s Apple Orchard Dream at Marshall’s Lake
Col. J. E. Lindsay and backers planned a four-mile irrigation ditch and 640 acres of fruit trees five miles north of Newport, betting that water rights could transform the valley.
- A Close Call at the Buffalo Shingle Mill
A mill worker is lucky to keep his arm after a terrifying accident with a shingle saw.
- A Railroad Asks Newport to Vacate Streets—and Promises to Give Them Back
The Idaho & Washington Northern offered a written pledge to reopen any street or alley on 30 days’ notice as the council weighed a deal for new freight yards.
- 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.
- The Ladies Turned Out: Newport's Women Decided the School Election
A hotly contested school board race drew 220 voters in Newport — and about 125 of them were women, who carried the day for Long and Lusher.
- The Town That Owned Nothing: Metaline's Squatters Fight Two Companies for Their Own Ground
Fifty residents of an unsurveyed Pend Oreille River mining camp petition the Spokane land office for a federal townsite — after a silver-lead company and a cement-clay claimant both tried to patent the ground out from under their homes.
- The Transit Case That Made the County Pay
A Stevens County surveyor ordered the tool he needed; commissioners refused the bill. The state Supreme Court said the county was liable.
- The Shingle Mill Accident That Shook Lynden
After a local mill worker suffered a permanent injury, the community and an official inspector weigh in on industrial safety.
- The Horror in Happy Valley
A husband confesses to murdering his wife and burying her remains under the roots of a stump, only to be discovered months later after tending to the site.
- 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.
- The Unstoppable Shingle Mill
How a local landmark on Fish Trap Creek turned out 121,000 shingles in a single day.
- Smallpox in the Jury Box: Court Shut Down by a Newport Man's Illness
A five-day lumber trial in Colville collapses when George Perkins is diagnosed with smallpox, sending jurors home and raising fears the disease will spread across Stevens County.
- The Captain, the Sleigh, and the Unmarked Railroad Grade
Joe Cusick knew every road into Newport — except the new, unballasted track that threw him into the snow at Third Street.
- West Bank Wins the Railroad
Idaho & Washington Northern picks the west side of the Pend Oreille for its Metaline extension, promising Ione by late next year and a boom for the Calispel valley.
- 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.
- New Steel, New Docks, and a Railroad That Won't Say Which Side of the River
Crews are relaying 102 miles of Great Northern track through Newport and building a freight dock that lets a train meet a steamboat — while the town waits to learn whether the Idaho & Washington Northern will run up the Washington or the Idaho bank. One west-side rancher is so sure he has ordered ten cars of wood.