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| Year | Stories |
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| 1859 | 6 |
| 1860 | 2 |
| 1861 | 4 |
| 1862 | 6 |
| 1863 | 2 |
| 1864 | 3 |
| 1865 | 1 |
| 1871 | 1 |
| 1872 | 14 |
| 1876 | 57 |
| 1877 | 68 |
| 1878 | 69 |
| 1879 | 3 |
| 1880 | 20 |
| 1882 | 6 |
| 1883 | 19 |
| 1884 | 24 |
| 1885 | 32 |
| 1886 | 17 |
| 1887 | 22 |
| 1888 | 37 |
| 1889 | 85 |
| 1890 | 6 |
| 1891 | 71 |
| 1892 | 79 |
| 1893 | 75 |
| 1894 | 98 |
| 1895 | 180 |
| 1897 | 2 |
| 1898 | 6 |
| 1899 | 24 |
| 1900 | 5 |
| 1902 | 4 |
| 1903 | 63 |
| 1904 | 30 |
| 1905 | 3 |
| 1907 | 3 |
| 1908 | 20 |
| 1909 | 47 |
| 1910 | 16 |
| 1911 | 3 |
| 1912 | 2 |
| 1914 | 13 |
| 1915 | 6 |
| 1916 | 14 |
| 1917 | 11 |
| 1918 | 1 |
| 1922 | 1 |
| 1923 | 2 |
| 1924 | 2 |
| 1925 | 1 |
| 1928 | 2 |
| 1929 | 2 |
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- 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 Electric Company Said It Couldn't Power the Mill. Newport Said It Had Better.
When Northern Electric refused to supply power to the Pend d'Oreille River Lumber Company's planing mill, the town council declared the franchise violated and ordered service restored—or else forfeiture.
- Legislator Faces Expulsion Over Scandal
Fresh from a victory in the Forty-Seventh District, E. B. Palmer faces a legislative inquiry that could end his term before it begins.
- 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.
- 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.
- A Hunting-Camp Quarrel Ends With an Axe and a Jail Term
John Potter struck O. E. Talbot at Happy Camp on Sullivan Creek, then pleaded guilty to assault and was sent to the county jail at Colville.
- A $50,000 Concentrator Heads Down the Pend d'Oreille
Machinery for a 200-ton ore concentrator is bound for Metaline, shipped through Newport and floated downriver on a homemade lumber raft.
- The Battle for the Ballot in Lynden
Citizens gathered at the town hall to organize the 'Majority Rule' ticket, pledging to let the public decide the future of the local saloon trade.
- After a Lifetime at the Inn, Anna Quick Hands Over the Keys
A Spokane hotel man leases the Newport Hotel for a year as its founder — who opened a house in Old Town before the Great Northern ever arrived — retires for a well-earned rest.
- 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.
- 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.
- Newport Merchants Agree to Close at 6:30 — and Fine Themselves $50 If They Don’t
In 1908, local shopkeepers signed a pact to shorten business hours, hoping clerks and owners alike could finally take part in public life. Violators owed $50 to the Commercial Club.
- 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.
- One Hundred Arrests, Three Hundred Dollars: Newport's Year in the Police Court
The city marshal's 1907 tally — drunks, burglars and a jailbreak by a notorious horse thief nabbed on a Washington Avenue street corner.
- 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.
- 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.
- The Prosecutor's Record: 'Arrest on Suspicion, Investigate Afterwards'
A Stevens County election fight turns on the county's criminal docket — who jailed innocent men, and who got his convictions.
- 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.
- The Cave at the End of the Boundary Trail
A 1908 Newport writer follows a blazed trail north of Metaline into a limestone cavern of bath-like basins, a 'Guardian of the Baths' and a music room already being vandalized.
- 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.