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| 1854 | 2 |
| 1858 | 1 |
| 1859 | 3 |
| 1860 | 1 |
| 1861 | 7 |
| 1862 | 4 |
| 1863 | 12 |
| 1864 | 3 |
| 1865 | 1 |
| 1872 | 8 |
| 1876 | 60 |
| 1877 | 52 |
| 1878 | 22 |
| 1879 | 2 |
| 1880 | 13 |
| 1882 | 12 |
| 1883 | 67 |
| 1884 | 41 |
| 1885 | 51 |
| 1886 | 23 |
| 1887 | 29 |
| 1888 | 61 |
| 1889 | 129 |
| 1890 | 14 |
| 1891 | 100 |
| 1892 | 217 |
| 1893 | 192 |
| 1894 | 224 |
| 1895 | 300 |
| 1897 | 4 |
| 1898 | 15 |
| 1899 | 42 |
| 1900 | 6 |
| 1902 | 2 |
| 1903 | 85 |
| 1904 | 67 |
| 1905 | 4 |
| 1907 | 4 |
| 1908 | 26 |
| 1909 | 68 |
| 1910 | 19 |
| 1911 | 4 |
| 1912 | 2 |
| 1914 | 18 |
| 1915 | 20 |
| 1916 | 41 |
| 1917 | 20 |
| 1918 | 1 |
| 1920 | 1 |
| 1922 | 1 |
| 1923 | 9 |
| 1924 | 7 |
| 1925 | 4 |
| 1928 | 2 |
| 1929 | 4 |
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- Colville's Newspaper War Moves to the Post Office
The Reveille won't print the Examiner publisher's name, the Statesman-Index says the Examiner is losing $40 a week, and the postmaster has refused its second-class mailing status.
- A Second Marriage, a Lawsuit, and a Newport Undertaker's Collapse
Henry A. Miller's furniture and undertaking business is handed to creditors after family troubles and litigation drain a once-profitable trade.
- The Railroad Wanted the Streets. The Nagles Wanted Compensation.
Newport's council granted the Idaho & Washington Northern a franchise through Second and Third streets while Philip and Mary Nagle warned it would damage their property. A letter from M. M. Sammons also pressed the railroad to donate ten acres for a public park.
- Newport Bets $12,000 on a Concrete Hotel — and a Street of New Homes
A three-story, thirty-room hotel at Washington and Second leads a summer building rush that will remake several Newport blocks.
- 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.'
- The Eight-Hour Law Comes to the Depot — One Operator Hired, One Clerk Cut
The railroad averts a telegraphers' strike by yielding to the new federal hours law, assigning a second operator to Newport — then quietly trimming its clerical payroll to pay for him.
- The Smelter Fires Up Again, and a Town Exhales
A second furnace roars to life at Northport's smelter on Thanksgiving week, the payroll swells — and a manager's quiet trip to the Orient mines hints that more stacks may follow.
- A Posse at the Door: A Frightened Rancher Shoots the Marshal Who Came to Help
Colville's city marshal is gravely wounded before dawn when a rancher, already robbed once that week, fires on the officers he takes for a second gang of highwaymen.
- The First Rugby Match in Lynden
Facing a heavier, more experienced team from Blaine, Lynden's high school squad played their first-ever rugby game with grit and determination.
- 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.
- The Councilman Who Lived Across the State Line
A lawyer’s residency challenge nearly voided a railroad franchise—and forced Councilman Eckerson to offer his resignation.
- Newport Residents Band Together to Establish Public Library
A group of civic-minded citizens incorporates a library association, elects trustees, and seeks city hall space for a free public library.
- Newport's Schools Open to a Crowd—and a Growth Chart
With 211 pupils enrolled on the first day and 250 expected, Newport reads its own boom in the school register, five years after a single teacher taught about 30 children.
- Sixty Houses in One Season
Newport's 1908 ledger of construction: sixty residences raised or under way, a three-story hotel foundation at Washington and Second, and a lumber mill going up across the river.
- 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 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.
- The Pend d'Oreille Valley Sells Itself as the Next Fruit Country
A Spokane Chronicle report touted Stevens County fruit, $10-an-acre land, and a new railroad from Newport to the Metaline mines—and predicted a land rush.
- 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.
- The Mayor Won't Sign, the Railroad Can't Build, and a Saloonkeeper Sues the Town
Newport's council spends a long evening tangled in street vacations for the Idaho & Washington Northern, unsafe crossings, a disputed plat of survey monuments — and trades a lawsuit for a liquor license.
- 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.
- Newport Bets on the Railroad
The Idaho & Washington Northern will break ground on a brick passenger station next week, with a freight depot and $75,000 in yard improvements close behind.
- 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 Rancher Found on the Riverbank—and a Family That Suspected Murder
Thomas Johnston was found dead near Blueslide in December 1908. A justice's inquest blamed exposure; his relatives demanded a second look, and a postmortem found no broken neck.
- The Minister's Daughter and the $300 Check
Winifred Moter — adopted as an infant by Rev. R. C. Moter — is jailed in Spokane on a forgery charge, and Newport weighs its sympathy for the parents against the wreck of a young life.
- 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.