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| Year | Stories |
|---|---|
| 1907 | 4 |
| 1908 | 10 |
| 1909 | 11 |
| 1910 | 5 |
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- 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 Disobeyed Siding Order: Great Northern No. 4 Burns at Lind
The Seattle-bound passenger train due through Newport was struck head-on by a Northern Pacific helper engine at Lind, Washington. The engineer and a mail clerk were killed, the equipment burned to the frames, and the road's flood-shut main line was only just reopening.
- 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.
- A Stolen Switch in the Fog: Seattle Streetcar Crash Injures Forty
Two speeding cars met on a single-track trestle above the tide flats; dozens of women and children were hurt, and the motorman who tried to steal the switch was among the severely injured.
- The Cemetery Crisis in Walla Walla
A growing city faces a grim reality as its burial grounds reach capacity and legal disputes stall expansion.
- 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.
- The Fake Postal Inspector Who Robbed the Great Northern — and Got Away With Less Than $5
A bogus federal inspector bound two mail clerks, rifled registered pouches, and slipped off the Oriental Limited at Spokane, leaving Newport authorities to piece together a brazen, almost profitless heist.
- The Cook's Revenge: A Hotel Burglary in Newport
Left unpaid when the diner's lessee skipped town, a former Newport Hotel cook allegedly stole the hotel's dishes and utensils—until a watchful neighbor tipped off the constable.
- The Great Northern's Bad-Luck Stop: Freight Wreck at Elk
A through eastbound freight slammed into the caboose of a local train at Elk, smashing six cars and tying up traffic for hours—just the latest wreck at a town with a reputation.
- A $50,000 Concentrator Heads Down the Pend d'Oreille
Machinery for a 200-ton ore concentrator is bound for Metaline, shipped through Newport and floated downriver on a homemade lumber raft.
- A Stolen Rig, a Suspicious Liveryman, and a One-to-Ten-Year Sentence
James Thompson hired a rig in Colville, drove it to Addy, and tried to sell it—then found himself before two judges in a single day.
- The Eccentric Engineer Who Vanished on His Honeymoon Comes Back
H. L. Russell, the self-styled "Lord" who laid the Idaho & Washington Northern's line into Newport, deserted his bride in Chicago a year and a half ago — now he has reappeared, bound for Metaline.
- Railroad Operator Arrested for Money Order Forgery
After stealing blank money orders from the Western Express Co. in Usk, a railroad operator was apprehended in a Newport saloon.
- 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.
- The River Full of Logs: Newport's Timber Boom Goes Mechanical
From Parker Mountain to Ione the Pend Oreille is choked with logs bound for the mill — and the Panhandle Lumber Co. is trading horses for donkey engines.
- Eleven Carloads of Cedar Poles Roll Out of Newport in a Single Day
220 tons of poles bound for Ohio and points east — the biggest day's shipment ever to leave the station — as Newport cements its claim as the cedar pole capital of the region.
- The Bornite Mine Comes Alive
After months of reticence, officers of the Bornite company say their tunnel has hit a three-foot ledge averaging $35 a ton, and a carload of ore is bound for Tacoma.
- Two Shots, a Cold River, and a Flask of Rat Poison
Frederick Angle fired twice at his wife, jumped in the river, and then drank Rough on Rats with a friend who did not survive it. The stomach pump arrived, in the paper's words, 'unfortunately' too soon.
- One Hundred Arrests, Three Hundred Dollars: Newport's Year in the Police Court
The city marshal's 1907 tally — drunks, burglars and a jailbreak by a notorious horse thief nabbed on a Washington Avenue street corner.
- 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.
- Two Caucuses, One Town, and a Fight Over Water
A planned Citizens' Independent caucus split into rival meetings, producing two tickets and a resolution that candidates oppose the town's pending water-rights purchase.
- A Steamboat Arrives by Rail: Newport's New River Excursion Queen
A $35,000 steamer, built in Portland and shipped knocked-down by rail, would run daily excursions from Newport to Box Canyon.
- Steel on the Grade: The I.W.N. Pushes North From Usk
Twelve carloads of steel arrived in Newport this week as the Idaho & Washington Northern extension resumed tracklaying, with a new station open at Usk and a tunnel still to finish at Blueslide.
- The Valley Wants Out: East Stevens County Pushes to Split From Colville
Fed up with distant county government, Newport and Ione business leaders organize to carve a new county out of eastern Stevens County — and they're willing to let Newport hold the temporary courthouse, for now.
- 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.