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| Year | Stories |
|---|---|
| 1907 | 31 |
| 1908 | 304 |
| 1909 | 440 |
| 1910 | 223 |
998 stories
- Walla Walla Students Burn Their Fired Principal in Effigy Downtown
After the school board ignored every recommendation and deposed high school principal E. J. Klemme without warning, pupils took to the main street Friday night with a straw man and a match.
- The Planer Started Again, and a Former Town Marshal Paid for It
E. Jenne reaches into an idle machine at the Fidelity planer to clear the side heads. It comes to life under his hands.
- A Ledge of Bismuth: Deer Park's Tungsten King Assays Rich
Miners drifting into the Tungsten King hit an eight-foot ledge assaying $1,100 a ton in bismuth, with silver and gold besides.
- Newport Refuses a Firetrap Home for the Movies
A corrugated-iron picture show proposed beside the Antler Hotel is turned down inside the fire limits, while tent shows draw the council's ire.
- 3,000 Acres of Reservation Land Pulled Off the Market — for a Town
The Secretary of the Interior withdraws nearly 3,000 acres at the meeting of the Columbia and Okanogan rivers, deciding farmland is not the best use for ground inside the Colville Indian Reservation.
- Dinner at the Antler: Newport Lobbies Stevens County for Its Own Courthouse
Three Stevens County commissioners tour Newport, hear from merchants and lawyers over an evening banquet, and postpone a decision on splitting the county into judicial districts until June.
- Lumber Mill Roars Back to Life as Moeser-Remly Builds New Planer Plant
The old Eagle mill site hums with activity as a full crew runs the sawmill and crews break ground on a modern planer, promising Newport a new distributing hub for lumber and building supplies.
- An Eight-Foot Seam of Coal Turns Up on a Pend Oreille County Ranch
The 'coal strike' on the Dieder place near Dalkena is bigger than first reported — eight feet wide instead of three — and Newport is already dreaming of a mine, a spur, cheaper fuel and a new town tributary to its own.
- 2,200 Men, a Steel Bridge and a Tunnel: The Railroad Eats the Valley
The Idaho & Washington Northern's Metaline extension is three-quarters graded out of Ione, the bridge north of Newport is spanned, and tracklayers expect to reach Dalkena by mid-June.
- Friday Night Fights: Newport's Main Street Turns Into a Boxing Ring
A carnival of brawling broke out last Friday, with two railroad camp workers arrested for holding prize fights on the main street and two others charged with assaulting an old man. The jail could have held only a quarter of the crowd.
- The Railroad Pushes Seven Miles North—Dalkena by June 15
Tracklayers, ballast crews, and a stubborn slide: the Idaho Washington Northern extension is racing high water and sharp curves toward Dalkena.
- Newport Voters Reject School Addition, 139 to 30
With classrooms filling and no fireproof building in sight, District No. 115 voted down an addition—leaving the board to rent rooms around town.
- The Day Newport Showed Off: Fourth of July, 1909
A rain-threatened holiday still drew crowds for an industrial parade, patriotic speeches, baseball, log-rolling and a dance—without a single arrest.
- A Sister's Blood Saves a Brother in Early Transfusion
After a pleurisy operation leaves George Moore hemorrhaging in Tacoma, doctors perform a direct blood transfusion from his sister, binding her wrist to his arm in a desperate bid to save his life.
- A New Church on the Hill—and a Promise of School and Hospital
St. Anthony’s Catholic Church was dedicated on July 18, 1909, drawing Catholics and Protestants alike to a new frame house of worship at First and Warren.
- Newport Money Builds a Water System for a Brand-New Town
Newport investors incorporated the Ione Water Power Co. to pipe Cedar Creek water into Ione, a private utility bet on a townsite still being born.
- Saws Mangle a Mill Worker's Arm at Newport's New Fidelity Mill
Charles Storms was rushed to town after his left arm was caught in the edger at the new Fidelity mill, losing heavy blood before he could get medical help.
- The Piano Contracts That Were Really $400 IOUs
A traveling salesman for a Hartline piano house was bound over after Whitman County farmers signed what they thought were storage agreements.
- A Homesteader’s Cattle, a Neighbor’s Feed, and Sick Children
A LeClerc Creek homesteader says a neighbor poisoned his cattle, then his children fell ill after drinking the milk.
- Over the Side of the Ferry Dock
A horse balks at the free ferry landing and takes the buggy — and Mrs. Edith Olson — ten feet down toward the water. She rolled clear with bruises and a smashed rig.
- A Nickelodeon Exposed a Wife's Secret
A Seattle man at a five-cent theater recognized his supposedly visiting wife—and another man—in a moving picture of San Francisco, setting off a divorce suit.
- Sixty-Five Sign for a Town; Sixteen Try to Take Their Names Back
A petition to incorporate Marcus as a fourth-class town meets a remonstrance: signers want their names stricken, attorneys argue over voter qualifications, and the county board takes the matter under advisement.
- The Justice of the Peace Who Sent Men to the Chain Gang Takes His Turn in It
Former Newport Justice of the Peace Warriner, a fugitive after the grand jury and district court got through with him, is caught by a deputy sheriff and hauled off to serve 150 days at hard labor — ball, chain and a smile.
- The Cook Who Robbed the Till—and Then Fled to Canada
Newport restaurant man James Warren spent eight months in jail before a plea deal, because the only witness had vanished into British Columbia.
- The Flying Coupling: Engineer Shanno Chases Down a Runaway Locomotive
When a detached engine tears toward Ellensburg, a quick-thinking engineer uncouples his own locomotive and catches the runaway on the fly.