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| Year | Stories |
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| 1907 | 4 |
| 1908 | 7 |
| 1909 | 9 |
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- An Axe Slip in the Timber
A lumberjack working a mile and a half from the Clark Saddler camp fell onto his axe, suffering a deep scalp wound and a severe hemorrhage. Dr. Boudwin patched him up, and by Wednesday he was back at camp.
- Six Pleasure-Seekers Leap From a Burning Launch Into the Lewis River
A Friday-night outing turned into an hour in neck-deep water before lumbermen built a raft and brought everyone back alive.
- Dredging the Pend Oreille for Steamboats
A Seattle contractor will put a centrifugal-pump dredge below Boundary Island, aiming for a 70-foot channel six feet deep so river boats can stop creeping over the bars.
- The Mail-Order Bride Who Chose Another Man
Katherine Glad traveled west to marry a Northport farmer, but a chance meeting with Gus Maki changed everything.
- The Trout Fry Went to Colville. East Stevens Anglers Paid for Them.
County commissioners stocked western streams with hatchery trout, leaving fishermen on the east side of Stevens County to raise their own money—and resent the license fees they already paid.
- A Pioneer Businessman Bet on an Opera House at Third and Union
W. S. Whitney bought adjoining lots and planned a two-story cement block with shops below and a dance hall and opera house above.
- 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.
- Is Newport in Washington or Idaho? Surveyors Head North to Redraw the Line
A government party leaves Lewiston to retrace the Washington–Idaho boundary, and Newport may learn before election day which state it really belongs to.
- The $5 Billion Plan to Remake the Arid West
At the National Irrigation Congress in Spokane, Interior Secretary Ballinger and Chief Forester Pinchot squared off over whether public bonds or private capital should reclaim the West.
- 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.
- A Railroad Wins the Right to Run—and a Neighbor Says It Cost Him 60%
A judge suspended an injunction against the Idaho Washington Northern Railway, clearing freight service into Newport as a property owner blamed the new tracks for wiping out most of his land's value.
- 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.
- Two Men Crushed in a Railroad Cut — and Fifteen Walked Off the Job
A 35-foot construction cut collapsed at Gilbert Brandt's camp opposite LeClerc Creek, killing Otto Blad and Gus Nelson and injuring two others.
- 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 Morning Mine Cuts Into a 60-Foot Ledge of Galena
A company announcement claims the largest body of galena ore yet found in the Northwest, and the Metaline district suddenly has proof that its mineral wealth runs deep.
- The Road Newport Was Promised—and the Colville Detour That Ate It
State Road No. 3 was supposed to run from Newport through Metaline and Northport to Orient. Instead, Newport’s share of the money went to surveys and improvements near Colville, leaving the lower river country with nothing but promises.
- 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.
- Passing the Hat for a Ferry—and a 100-Worker Mill
Newport citizens organize to build a free river ferry, hoping to keep the Fidelity Company's new mill and its payroll on this side of the Pend Oreille.
- The Power Station That Bet on Newport’s Future
A Chicago engineer brings plans for a fireproof power station at Washington and Pine—and a 30-mile line meant to electrify Newport’s future.
- A County Deep in Warrants Calls for $200,000 in Bonds
Stevens County commissioners call a September special election to validate debt and issue bonds to redeem current expense warrants, some of which exceeded the constitutional limit.