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| Year | Stories |
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| 1854 | 5 |
| 1858 | 6 |
| 1859 | 5 |
| 1860 | 8 |
| 1861 | 12 |
| 1862 | 10 |
| 1863 | 6 |
| 1864 | 8 |
| 1865 | 3 |
| 1871 | 4 |
| 1872 | 31 |
| 1876 | 112 |
| 1877 | 95 |
| 1878 | 65 |
| 1879 | 10 |
| 1880 | 29 |
| 1882 | 10 |
| 1883 | 129 |
| 1884 | 56 |
| 1885 | 85 |
| 1886 | 49 |
| 1887 | 59 |
| 1888 | 53 |
| 1889 | 199 |
| 1890 | 32 |
| 1891 | 128 |
| 1892 | 337 |
| 1893 | 300 |
| 1894 | 284 |
| 1895 | 310 |
| 1897 | 16 |
| 1898 | 40 |
| 1899 | 76 |
| 1900 | 15 |
| 1902 | 7 |
| 1903 | 178 |
| 1904 | 112 |
| 1905 | 14 |
| 1907 | 15 |
| 1908 | 93 |
| 1909 | 267 |
| 1910 | 76 |
| 1911 | 18 |
| 1912 | 5 |
| 1914 | 57 |
| 1915 | 63 |
| 1916 | 100 |
| 1917 | 69 |
| 1918 | 11 |
| 1919 | 2 |
| 1922 | 5 |
| 1923 | 42 |
| 1924 | 30 |
| 1925 | 18 |
| 1929 | 3 |
93 stories matching week
- Rails, Mail and a New Depot: Newport's Railroad Week
Crews start the Idaho & Washington Northern depot while a new mail contract promises daily service and earlier Spokane mail.
- The Shafting Took His Clothes, Not His Life
Ralph K. Kennedy was caught in the mill shafting at Dalkena, stripped and badly bruised before the machinery could be stopped. Weeks later he came home from a Spokane hospital calling himself lucky.
- 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.
- Newport to Metaline: The Steamboat Fleet vs. the Stagecoach
When Colville boasted a new tri-weekly stage line, Newport answered with daily steamer service, six Great Northern trains, and a reminder of who really controlled the east end.
- Power Cut: Newport Planing Mill Shuts Down in Contract Fight with Electric Company
The Coulter & Button planing mill went idle last week after Northern Electric refused to supply power, alleging a broken contract over February electricity.
- 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.
- While Newport Stalled, Colville Planned a Stage Line to Capture the Metaline Trade
A proposed telephone franchise had been sitting before Newport’s council for five months. In Colville, businessmen were already organizing a tri-weekly stage route to the Metaline mines and post offices.
- Summer Days and Wild Claims on Orcas Island
A pair of Lynden men report on their six-week wilderness camp, navigating smokey skies and the quiet rhythms of the San Juan Islands.
- Two Gun Mishaps in One Week Leave Newport Men Wounded
A hunter swapping rifles and a 10-year-old boy with a .22 both shot themselves in the foot. Both were brought to Newport for treatment.
- Rangers Hold a Kaniksu Forest Fire to Forty Acres
Two rangers and a hired crew keep a West Branch blaze from spreading through the national forest.
- 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 New Apostolic Church Splits from Original Congregation
Following an internal disagreement, a large group of members has organized a separate Apostolic church in Lynden.
- The Silver-Lead Company Bets on Metaline
Ore assays, new concentrators, and a bunkhouse point to a mining camp shaking off its slow start—and Newport money is buying in.
- Eighty Men, a Night Crew, and a Forest of Logs: Newport's Timber Boom in Full Swing
New rail spurs and new mills put scores of men to work across the Pend Oreille country — until the cold snap and the frozen lake threaten to slow the saws.
- The Constable, the Warrant, and the Empty Jail Cell
A Newport constable accused of beating a man badly enough to send him to a Spokane hospital is himself wanted by the sheriff — and nowhere to be found.
- Lynden Goes Dry
In a notable outlier for Whatcom County, Lynden voters decide to ban alcohol, prompting a pledge from the council to enforce the new temperance measures.
- 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.'
- Dynamite and an Empty Water Tank: Springdale Burns
A noon fire that began in a meat company smokehouse destroyed nearly every store in Springdale, exposing a water system that had been broken for a week.
- The Tug That Sank at Her Own Moorings
The Defender goes down in ten feet of water off the Pend Oreille landing while low water ties up log barges on the bars and fog strands a sixty-passenger steamer below Boundary Island.
- The Riverfront Gets Rearranged for the Railroad
Houses are moved, cedar poles shifted, and the Idaho & Washington Northern prepares to start its loop through Newport’s old riverfront.
- Two Ranches, One Buyer, and a Railroad Rumor Near Ione
A single buyer pays nearly $20,000 for adjoining Ione ranches—then says she plans a dairy farm. Locals suspect the railroad is the real buyer.
- A Tiger Family's Home Burns to the Ground Weeks Before Winter
Jesse Shepherd was away when fire took his house; his wife escaped with the children but not a single household good, and cold weather was already on the doorstep.
- The Ione Is Coming: Newport Builds the River's Largest Excursion Steamer
Material arrives for a 135-foot, 400-passenger steamer as Pend d'Oreille River travel booms and promoters dream of tourists.
- Newport Gets a Direct Express Line — and Three Trains a Day to Spokane
The Idaho Washington Northern opened express offices, accepted two 119-ton freight engines, and promised three through trains a day to Spokane.
- The Candidate Nobody Came to Hear
George A. Allen ran against the corporations and the whiskey trust, but his Newport campaign meeting was called off for lack of interest.