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| 1854 | 3 |
| 1858 | 2 |
| 1859 | 4 |
| 1861 | 4 |
| 1862 | 5 |
| 1863 | 2 |
| 1864 | 2 |
| 1871 | 1 |
| 1872 | 15 |
| 1876 | 50 |
| 1877 | 50 |
| 1878 | 19 |
| 1880 | 8 |
| 1882 | 14 |
| 1883 | 49 |
| 1884 | 20 |
| 1885 | 46 |
| 1886 | 24 |
| 1887 | 31 |
| 1888 | 30 |
| 1889 | 80 |
| 1890 | 14 |
| 1891 | 73 |
| 1892 | 132 |
| 1893 | 78 |
| 1894 | 166 |
| 1895 | 222 |
| 1896 | 2 |
| 1897 | 7 |
| 1898 | 31 |
| 1899 | 32 |
| 1900 | 5 |
| 1902 | 8 |
| 1903 | 35 |
| 1904 | 36 |
| 1905 | 2 |
| 1907 | 1 |
| 1908 | 20 |
| 1909 | 49 |
| 1910 | 11 |
| 1911 | 5 |
| 1912 | 2 |
| 1914 | 11 |
| 1915 | 10 |
| 1916 | 11 |
| 1917 | 11 |
| 1923 | 2 |
| 1924 | 3 |
| 1928 | 1 |
| 1929 | 1 |
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- An Infernal Machine on the Editor's Step
Someone left a dynamite bomb at the office of the Springdale Reformer. It was spotted before the mechanism could be tripped — and Editor Burrows shrugged it off as a joker's prank.
- A Town Strikes Oil—or a Prankster Strikes First
A well inside Chewelah's city limits began oozing oil, setting off excitement—though one report blamed practical jokers who may have doped the well overnight.
- Lynden Mourns a Civil War Veteran
The town pays its final respects to Captain Jarhos O'Neil, a soldier and community leader.
- 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 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.
- The Ruth Takes Shape for the Wildest Steamboat Ride in America
With her machinery unloaded at Newport, the new steamer Ruth is expected to make her trial trip by early September, hauling Metaline ore and passengers through Box Canyon.
- The Nooksack Trek: A Local Expedition to Glacier
A group of Lynden men recount their journey into the Cascade foothills to scout for coal and game.
- A Judicial Candidate Finds Apathy at Kelly's Hall — and Waste in County Offices
John B. Slater came to Newport to explain the new primary law. Few showed up, but he still had a warning about deputies doing the work while elected officials collected the pay.
- 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.
- A City Divided Over Its Water: Newport's Council Fights Over the Carter Springs Warrants
A taxpayer lawsuit over warrants for Carter Springs split Newport's council, with the mayor warning the city could not afford a $30,000 water plant.
- The Wood Contractor Who Left Newport Holding the Sack
Ninian Jackson quit the Pend Oreille owing roughly $3,000 to merchants in Newport and Tweedie — and with a hundred cords of another man's wood in his wake.
- The Pend Oreille Swells Toward a Record Crest
Heavy rains in Montana send drift and broken booms downstream, threatening Newport’s mills and log supply.
- Five Minutes Through Box Canyon
The launch Nancy sets a river record while the Metaline returns with a new boiler and Newport's waterfront hums with new boats and schedules.
- Found Dead in the Cabin at Downs' Landing
A well-known Pend Oreille River pioneer dies of carbolic acid, leaving a sleeping lumberjack, a neighbor who discovered the body, and a brother who insisted it was an accident.
- A Civil Engineer's $200,000 Plan to Drain the Calispel Valley
A Newport civil engineer proposes canals, dikes and lock gates to reclaim a lake bed, irrigate the gravel slopes and stop the Pend Oreille from swallowing the valley's farms.
- Copper, Silver, and a Close Call: Newport's Mining District Heats Up
Promising strikes at the Bornite and Last Chance mines draw new capital and extra shifts—but a hoist accident leaves one miner badly hurt.
- 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.
- A Photograph Was Not a Crime: Newport Candidates Beat Back a Newspaper's Bid to Rule Them Off the Ballot
When the Colville Statesman-Index declared two Newport men disqualified for running photo advertisements under the new direct primary law, Dr. G. W. Sutherland wrote the attorney general — and came back with a ruling that the law said no such thing.
- 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.
- 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.