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| Year | Stories |
|---|---|
| 1907 | 31 |
| 1908 | 304 |
| 1909 | 440 |
| 1910 | 223 |
998 stories
- The Minister’s Daughter and the Forged Bond
A Newport minister’s teenage daughter is jailed for forgery, released on bond, briefly missing from court, and sentenced to Walla Walla—while her father fights to recover his $1,000.
- Three Chicago Banks Vouch for the Company Buying Newport's Power
As the Northern Electric Co. takes a 60-year franchise on local water power and electric light, the Miner prints its references — and a Chicago bond man cheerfully describes the firm 'invading your territory.'
- A Tree, a Right of Way, and a Man From Ontario
A hired hand clearing the Idaho & Washington Northern grade is crushed by a falling tree; his body comes home to Newport for burial before the long ride back to Walkerton.
- An Apple Expert Bets on Newport’s Benchlands
A Yakima horticulturist tours the Cedar Park orchard tracts and predicts the valley’s apple country is assured.
- A Snowbound Road That Would End at Newport's Doorstep
State Road No. 2 — a $25,000 legislative appropriation — is about to go to bid, but contractors must first wait for the Calispel Mountains to thaw before they can walk the line.
- The New Penal Code Left the Red Lights Burning
Washington's 1909 criminal code accidentally protected brothels from local crackdowns, and Northport's city fathers could only watch the glare.
- Seattle Builds a World's Fair on the University's Front Lawn
A month before the gates open, the Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition is nearly finished — and when it closes, seven buildings and a $300,000 auditorium stay behind for the University of Washington.
- Newport Takes the Railroad to Task
When the Great Northern left the town with a rickety depot and a single unsafe crossing, Newport summoned the state Railway Commission — and won a promise of a new station.
- Usk Sells Its First Lots as a New Town Rises on the Pend Oreille
Promoters unload $8,000 in lots on opening day as Newport businesses buy in; a lumber yard, bank, telephone line and hotel follow.
- The Stakes That Hold a Town Together
A county surveyor re-marks Newport's original corners on Washington Avenue, untangling property lines and unblocking a hotel project.
- The River Was Losing to the Railroad, and the Engineers Knew It
A federal board in Washington, D.C. has turned thumbs down on improving the Pend Oreille for navigation — and Newport has three weeks to argue otherwise.
- The 1825 Millstones That Fed the Oregon Country Headed for Seattle
A Stevens County man sent the Hudson's Bay Company's oldest Pacific Coast millstones to the Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition, where they joined the state historical exhibit.
- Sandpoint Cougars Humiliate Newport, Forcing a Team Shake-Up
The Sandpoint ball team arrived with a brass band and 200 rooters, then routed Newport in a game so error-filled that Newport's manager let players go and reorganized the team.
- Newport Paves the Way: Council Awards $9,841 Street Grading Contract
Fife Bros. of Spokane wins the bid to grade Spokane, Warren, Third, Scott and Fourth streets, while the council also takes up water rates, liquor licenses and street lighting.
- A Ditch, a Dam and the Fight to Keep Calispel Dry
Diking District No. 2 commissioners weigh an engineer's plan to divert the Calispel River above the falls and block Pend Oreille backwater with a dam.
- Metaline Residents Fight Spokane Speculators for Their Townsite
A land-office contest in Spokane could cancel rival claims and clear the way for a government townsite at Metaline.
- Denver Bond House Walks Away From Stevens County's $219,500 Debt
A Colorado bidder refused the county's funding bonds after winning them — so the board turned around and handed the whole issue to the State of Washington.
- A Town Builds Its Own Ferry to Reach the New Mill
Citizens and the Fidelity Lumber Co. raised about $1,000 to link Newport with the company's new plant and open the far bank to ranchers; Bonner County now runs it free.
- The Fidelity Mill Goes Night-and-Day, and a Free Ferry Fills With Workers
Newport's new Fidelity sawmill reached 60,000 feet a day, started a night shift, and put about 100 men to work—while a free ferry brought mill hands and ranchers into town.
- Knockout Drops and a Beating in the Lumber Yards
Two railroad men lost a week's wages in two nights behind Newport's main street — one drugged in a saloon, one knocked down and stripped of his new mackinaw.
- Newport Votes on Whether the Saloons Stay
With 254 voters registered and temperance workers canvassing the streets, Newport prepares for a close local-option election that could shut down licensed saloons.
- A County Divided: Newport’s Bid for the County Seat
A Colville editor mocks the east-west county division scheme, but dry-vote fallout and Newport’s county-seat ambitions expose real fault lines across Stevens County.
- The Women's Vote Gets Its Own Newspaper
Washington's Equal Suffrage Association launches 'Votes for Women,' a monthly that will follow the cause from Seattle to the far corners of the earth.
- A Mile-Long Dike Was Too Much for One Farm
A commissioner's private flood-control plan collapsed under the price of a mile-long, 14-foot levee, sending contractors home and pushing the fight to a public diking district and the superior court.
- The Man Behind Newport's Electric Lights
A Chicago utility magnate's company invests $100,000 to bring electric power to Newport, promising modern service at fair rates.