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| 1854 | 6 |
| 1858 | 4 |
| 1859 | 3 |
| 1861 | 5 |
| 1862 | 12 |
| 1863 | 2 |
| 1864 | 3 |
| 1865 | 1 |
| 1871 | 1 |
| 1872 | 7 |
| 1876 | 43 |
| 1877 | 37 |
| 1878 | 22 |
| 1879 | 1 |
| 1880 | 7 |
| 1882 | 4 |
| 1883 | 37 |
| 1884 | 16 |
| 1885 | 30 |
| 1886 | 20 |
| 1887 | 20 |
| 1888 | 17 |
| 1889 | 62 |
| 1890 | 7 |
| 1891 | 44 |
| 1892 | 106 |
| 1893 | 89 |
| 1894 | 84 |
| 1895 | 100 |
| 1897 | 11 |
| 1898 | 23 |
| 1899 | 30 |
| 1900 | 4 |
| 1902 | 3 |
| 1903 | 48 |
| 1904 | 34 |
| 1905 | 6 |
| 1907 | 1 |
| 1908 | 15 |
| 1909 | 38 |
| 1910 | 13 |
| 1911 | 6 |
| 1912 | 2 |
| 1914 | 18 |
| 1915 | 25 |
| 1916 | 27 |
| 1917 | 14 |
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| 1922 | 1 |
| 1923 | 5 |
| 1924 | 9 |
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| 1928 | 1 |
| 1929 | 1 |
15 stories matching warn
- A Warning Ignored, a Blast That Broke Four Ribs
A Great Northern worker was badly injured near Newport when a heavy blast threw a rock into his chest, despite warnings to move.
- A Neighbor's Warning From Deer Valley
A drunk husband beat his wife until neighbors pulled him off. She swallowed poison and nearly died. The Miner printed the warning without a name — just a promise that he would be 'taken in hand.'
- Newport Bought Its Fire Hydrants — Then Never Had Them Installed
The town paid for fire plugs in September, but the council never ordered the water company to set them. Now the work can't be done until spring — and the paper is warning that the town may pay for the delay.
- 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 Judgeship Fight and the Spirit of the Primary Law
A Democratic editor accuses two local politicians of scheming to defeat the nonpartisan primary and warns that voters are onto their "underground methods."
- The Socialists Came to Stevens County With a Straight-Ticket Warning
A complete Socialist slate and a four-way judge's race had county politicos doing arithmetic before the September primary.
- 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.
- 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 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.
- A Mother with a Rifle: Newport Woman Shoots Intruder Who Broke In
Mrs. O. F. Allen, alone with seven children on a ranch east of Newport, fought off a drunken man who forced his way into the house and shot him twice before the constable could be summoned.
- The Kaniksu’s 1908 Fire Season: 40 Blazes, $3,569 Spent, and a Warning in the Young Timber
Federal rangers and local crews kept the Kaniksu National Forest from another Alispel-scale conflagration, but the season still burned 700 acres and cost an estimated $15,000 in damaged reproduction.
- 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 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.
- The Judge, the Primary, and the Socialist Scare
A Newport lawyer begs Stevens County voters to put judicial fitness above party—then a Chewelah paper warns that Socialists could capture the superior court.
- 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.