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| 1854 | 2 |
| 1858 | 2 |
| 1859 | 1 |
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| 1861 | 8 |
| 1862 | 10 |
| 1863 | 3 |
| 1871 | 1 |
| 1872 | 5 |
| 1876 | 54 |
| 1877 | 51 |
| 1878 | 51 |
| 1879 | 5 |
| 1880 | 11 |
| 1882 | 6 |
| 1883 | 74 |
| 1884 | 33 |
| 1885 | 26 |
| 1886 | 18 |
| 1887 | 18 |
| 1888 | 16 |
| 1889 | 59 |
| 1890 | 16 |
| 1891 | 71 |
| 1892 | 87 |
| 1893 | 69 |
| 1894 | 83 |
| 1895 | 130 |
| 1897 | 7 |
| 1898 | 26 |
| 1899 | 9 |
| 1900 | 1 |
| 1902 | 1 |
| 1903 | 58 |
| 1904 | 49 |
| 1905 | 6 |
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| 1908 | 57 |
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| 1910 | 29 |
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- A $6,500 Bet That Ione Would Boom
A Newport businessman buys a quarter-section as railroad talk sends ranch prices climbing around Ione.
- Clayton Burned: A Brick-Plant Town Loses Its Whole Business Block
A Tuesday afternoon blaze took Clayton's entire business section on the Spokane Falls & Northern, including the Washington Brick & Lime Co. plant — a $100,000 loss, and another Inland Empire town left to rebuild.
- 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.'
- 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.
- 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 Lumber Company Gives the Catholics a Block—With a One-Year Deadline
The Panhandle Lumber Co. deeds a logged-over city block at Warren and First to the Jesuit society, provided it is used for a church and a building rises within a year.
- Frozen Ground Crushes a Railroad Worker
A steam-shovel man on the Idaho & Washington Northern is struck by a collapsing bank of frozen gravel and brought to Newport with a broken nose and severe bruises.
- The Woods Come Back to Life Around Newport
Logging camps and river drives restart, with a million feet coming down the West Branch and Victor Pierson set to run the main-river drive.
- 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.
- The Great Nooksack Potlatch
Hundreds gather near Lynden for a traditional gift-giving feast and solemn reburial of ancestors.
- A Wall of Fire Above Tacoma Creek
A lightning-sparked blaze burns 2,000 acres, jumps a three-mile trench and pulls lumber companies, settlers and the state fire warden into a desperate fight.
- A Tie Vote Leaves Newport's Telephone Franchise Hanging
The old council adjourns sine die after deadlocking on a telephone ordinance; the new mayor and marshal take office amid a 154-name petition.
- The County That Wanted to Make Its Own Cement
The man who found immense cement deposits near Cement in 1901 is organizing a local company to build a 300-barrel mill—and promising cheaper cement for Stevens County.
- A Sawmill, a Ditch and a Vision of Orchard Land at Marshall Lake
Col. X. E. Linsley brings machinery to Newport and starts the first irrigation project of its kind in the district.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- Springdale Burned. The Reformer Didn’t Miss an Issue.
A fire swept away Springdale’s entire business district and wiped out its newspaper office. Editor Burrows still published an account of the blaze and promised a new press.
- The Valley That Wanted the Railroad Bad Enough to Move It
Calispel Valley landowners planned to meet Idaho & Washington Northern officials at Spirit Lake to argue that the new line should run up the west side of the Pend d’Oreille, not the east.
- The $15,000 Orchard Gamble on Newport's South Bench
An Iowa-backed land company buys a donkey engine, clears stumps and lays out Cedar Park lots, betting Newport's bench land can become fruit country.
- A Wall of Flame at Newport's Doorstep
Wind-driven fires jump trenches in the Pend Oreille timber country, threatening Scott's Addition and costing ranchers and mills thousands in cordwood and logs.