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| Year | Stories |
|---|---|
| 1907 | 31 |
| 1908 | 304 |
| 1909 | 440 |
| 1910 | 223 |
998 stories
- The Washington–Idaho Line Was Never Quite Where Everyone Thought It Was
A congressional committee moving to re-mark the boundary publishes a surveyor general's confession: the 1873 line zigzagged as much as a degree and a half off course, was measured with link chains, and stopped short when the crew quit to save their own lives.
- Northport Wants to Know Who Moved Its Road
A legislative road award to Northport was rerouted through Colville, and the Northport Republican lays the blame on a surveyor's report and county commissioners.
- The Rails Come to Newport: Yards, Depots, and a Town Betting Its Future on the I. & W. N.
Railroad brass walk the ground for new yards, surveyors push down-river, a depot rises, and the town council is asked for a franchise — as high water stalls the Great Northern bridge at Albeni Falls.
- County Printing Contract Sparks Legal Fight
Stevens County commissioners award the county printing contract to the Colville Examiner, but a rival paper sues, alleging the process was unfair.
- 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.
- 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.
- West Bank Wins the Railroad
Idaho & Washington Northern picks the west side of the Pend Oreille for its Metaline extension, promising Ione by late next year and a boom for the Calispel valley.
- A Minister's Daughter Confesses to Forgery—and Promises a Tell-All Book
Winifred Moter, now Mrs. A. G. Daniels, waived examination on a $300 check charge and was bound over to superior court, while her father, a Newport minister, was expected to arrange bail.
- Olympia Moves to Outlaw the Insanity Defense — and Gag the Press on Murders
With the 1909 session half gone, Washington's legislature advances local option and an anti-racetrack gambling bill, while a sweeping new criminal code would strip juries of the insanity plea and bar newspapers from covering homicides before trial.
- The Newport Barber Who Faced a Manslaughter Charge in Seattle
Frank Poquette, once a familiar South Side shopkeeper, is on trial for a saloon altercation that left a man named King dead.
- A Father’s Ax, a Lodged Tree, and a Boy’s Death in the Woods
Seventeen-year-old Charles H. Day was killed near Chewelah while cutting railroad ties with his father when an ax glanced off a lodged tree and severed an artery behind his knee.
- A Legislature in the Homestretch: Saloons, Gambling and a Fight Over Pledges
With days left in Olympia, Washington lawmakers weigh local option, an anti-racetrack law, a sweeping criminal code and a bill aimed at unions and suffragists.
- Spokane Wins Freight-Rate Fight Against the Railroads
The Interstate Commerce Commission orders cuts from Chicago and St. Paul, a victory that promised cheaper goods and a broader home market for Newport and the Inland Empire.
- Eight Days, $7 Million in Requests, and a Labor Agenda Left to Die
Washington's 1909 legislature entered its final week with appropriations far outrunning revenue, more than 30 liquor bills pending, and nearly every labor measure quietly sidetracked.
- The Map That Wasn’t Evidence May Reopen a State Boundary Fight
Washington’s special attorney says the Supreme Court relied on a colored map never introduced in the Oregon-Washington boundary case.
- The 1909 Legislature Went Home With a $10 Million Tab and an Unfinished Scandal
Washington's eleventh session adjourned with record spending, a sweeping new criminal code, a local-option liquor law, an equal-suffrage referendum — and an insurance investigation the House only agreed to after the acting governor threatened to drag them back.
- A Fifty-Year Franchise for All-Night Power
Officials from the Northern Idaho and Montana Electric Light and Power Co. toured Newport, sketched a town-wide distribution system, and asked the city council for a half-century franchise.
- A Lumberman, a Ransom Plot, and a Jailhouse Betrayal
Donald Boyd is convicted of kidnapping Seattle lumberman Patrick McCoy, as a convicted accomplice’s courtroom gambit exposes a plan to seize wealthy Skagit County men.
- Newport Offers Its Town Hall to Win a Court of Its Own
A petition to split Stevens County into judicial districts asks the county commissioners to hold court in Newport—with the town promising free rooms, offices, and a jail.
- Judge Carey Rules for the Silver-Lead Company in Metaline Claim Fight
A Stevens County court decision turned on whether assessment work had been done on valuable lead claims in 1905—and the mining district was watching.
- Newport Wins a Court District—Now It Needs the Judge's Signature
Stevens County commissioners vote to split the county in two and name Newport as the eastern district's court town, contingent on Judge D. H. Carey's approval and a promised city hall.
- 150 Jobs Waiting at the River: Fidelity Mill Set to Open Across from Newport
With 15 million feet of logs in the boom, the Fidelity Lumber Co. races toward a July 10 start and a two-shift payroll for about 150 men.
- Temperance Leagues Launch County-Wide Fight to Make Stevens County Dry
Two hundred delegates pack a Colville church, form the Stevens County Local Option League, and plot a precinct-by-precinct petition drive to force a special election on liquor sales.
- Newport Would Vote Itself Wet or Dry
A local-option petition with 80 signatures forced a September 7 election to decide whether saloons could operate in Newport—and Idaho's border loomed over the fight.
- A Jury Walks the Ditches: Chewelah’s Drainage War Ends
After weeks of testimony and a field inspection, a jury ruled that draining the Colville Valley would harm no one—clearing the way for the Chewelah district and weakening objections elsewhere.