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| Year | Stories |
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| 1907 | 2 |
| 1908 | 7 |
| 1909 | 2 |
| 1910 | 1 |
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- The Land Along Chamokane Creek Was About to Change Hands
Stevens County commissioners back a plan to open ten sections of the Spokane Indian Reservation to homesteaders who 'cannot afford to buy better land.'
- Newport Depositors Keep Their Nerve During the Panic of 1907
When a local bank could not quickly turn loans into cash, Newport customers agreed to accept small payments and a stockholders' guarantee instead of starting a run—a display of confidence the Spokane Review called a model for the nation.
- 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.
- Two Neighbors Decide to Build Their Own Road to Town
Farmers of the Calispel valley and two men along the route plan a new road that skips the Bobier hill grade and shaves two miles off the haul to Newport — if the town will chip in.
- The Road to Prosperity Is Still a Sea of Mud
A Calispel Valley correspondent presses Newport to fix the Bobier Hill grade, widen the wagon roads, and treat farmers as more than an afterthought.
- Twenty-Four Miles of Missing Road Between the Mines and the Smelter
Citizens of Northport, Orient and Metaline pay for their own survey, then head to Olympia to ask the legislature for a wagon road that would tie Metaline's ore to a smelter — and Metaline to Newport.
- The Anti-Saloon League Plots Its Hottest Campaign
Bert P. Doty of the Anti-Saloon League of Washington lays out a three-part legislative push — county option, shipping restrictions, and the power to shut down breweries — and predicts the fight of 1910 will be the hottest in state history.
- The Last Steamboat Ties Up as the Railroad Reaches Metaline
With the Idaho Washington Northern extension complete, the Pend Oreille River's freight and passenger boats went out of service — ending an era that old-timers remembered as romantic and hard-won.
- Ten Thousand Pamphlets and a Depot Deferred to Spring
Newport's boosters open a showroom on Third Street, print the best advertising booklet in the territory — and then agree to stop nagging the Great Northern about a station.
- An Engineer Bets Newport Could Rival Spokane
A Spokane mining engineer reports on the Bead Lake and Conquest claims, arguing that capital, a concentrator and a five-mile rail spur could turn a dormant district into Newport’s future.
- 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.
- 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.