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- 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.
- 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.
- A Hundred Feet of Great Northern Trestle Slips Toward the River
Wet, frozen clay undermines the fill east of Newport, forcing railroad crews to wait for a pile driver before they can rebuild.
- The Railroad Comes Down the River: Metaline Line to Run by Summer
With the financing closed and the election safely out of the way, the Idaho & Washington Northern will start building south from Newport this month — and Newport merchants are already counting the payroll.
- The River Froze Shut and Left a Steamboat Stranded at Cusick
An ice gorge on the Pend d'Oreille backs the water up two feet, maroons the ferry 200 feet from shore, and idles every river hand in Newport while the steamer Newport waits for open water.
- Overnight Line at the Courthouse as Washington’s New Primary Law Meets Its First Test
Candidates camped outside the Stevens County auditor’s office to file for office—and Newport-area races split three ways before the votes were even cast.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- The Dredge Gappa Bites Into the Pend Oreille
After years of waiting, a Seattle contractor's steam dredge finally starts cutting a federal channel just below Boundary Island — and Newport's steamboat men begin to talk about a river that never runs dry.
- An English Syndicate Bets $100,000 on Stevens County Lead and Silver
A Chicago mining journal tours the Metaline district, where companies are sinking shafts, building tramways and waiting on a railroad to turn lead and silver claims into a boom.
- Two Hundred Spokane Boosters Ride the New Line Into Newport — and Get a Sleigh Ride
President F. Blackwell of the Idaho & Washington Northern brought nearly 200 Spokane business and railroad men over his brand-new road to Newport, where the band, the Commercial Club and five sleighs were waiting to sell them on the town.
- The Banker Who Steered Newport Through the Panic of 1907
G. S. Thomas founded Newport's first bank, helped bring the city its water system, and died after guiding the institution through the financial stringency of November 1907.