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| Year | Stories |
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| 1907 | 3 |
| 1908 | 15 |
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- Railroad Money Buys the Ground for Ione
Deeds filed at Colville show the Idaho & Washington Northern’s investment company assembling the old Stecker ranch and nearby tracts for a brand-new townsite on the Pend Oreille.
- A Spokane Syndicate Files on Four Stevens County Lakes
Ex-Mayor Floyd Daggett claimed 5,000 cubic feet of water from Fan, Trout, Horseshoe and Diamond lakes—prompting Newport-area residents to ask why local water should flow to Spokane.
- The Great Pend Oreille Water Grab
A massive water rights filing for the Pend Oreille River has sparked intense debate over the feasibility of diverting water to the Quincy flats.
- The Yakima Reservation Will Be Opened — But Not to Everyone, and Not Yet
A land commissioner's letter says 1,200 grazing homesteads will be thrown open, all irrigable land will be allotted to Indians, and no filings will be taken until after January 1, 1911.
- Newport Would Vote Itself Wet or Dry
A local-option petition with 80 signatures forced a September 7 election to decide whether saloons could operate in Newport—and Idaho's border loomed over the fight.
- A Colville Man Sentenced to Life for His Wife's Murder
George L. Pepoon, convicted of killing his wife Edith, hears a life sentence in Judge Kennan's chambers — then his lawyers file notice of appeal.
- Forest Service Challenged Homesteaders in the LeClerc Creek Timberlands
Thirteen claimants faced a March 19 hearing over whether their Pend Oreille River homesteads were homes or timber grabs.
- Two Caucuses, One Name, and a New Newport Party
After rival caucuses claimed the same ballot name, Newport's People's Progressive Party met at Judge D. R. Lusher's office and nominated a full municipal ticket for December.
- Overnight Line at the Courthouse as Washington’s New Primary Law Meets Its First Test
Candidates camped outside the Stevens County auditor’s office to file for office—and Newport-area races split three ways before the votes were even cast.
- Great Northern Refuses to Pay the Salary Loan Sharks
The railroad tells a Spokane court that an employee's wage assignment is usury, setting up a test case over predatory lending.
- The Man Who Built Meyers Falls
A 76-year-old Stevens County pioneer who filed the water right, built the flouring mill and helped open the Colville valley dies at home — and the county's paper of record can find nothing dishonorable to say about him.
- The Day the Trains Ran Dry
A property dispute in Ephrata leaves Great Northern locomotives stranded without water.
- Washington’s Insurance Commissioner Fights Impeachment With 60 Pages and a Statute of Limitations
J. H. Schively answers all 26 articles with denials, jurisdictional objections, and a request to bar 17 senators — then points the blame at his predecessor.
- A Conviction, a Quick Marriage, and a Town's License Protest
E. T. Montgomery was convicted of criminal intimacy with his stepdaughter and released on bail. When his new wife kept running the hotel and saloon at Elk, residents asked Spokane County to deny the license.
- A One-Man Supreme Court: Olympia Weighs 500 Cases and 16-Hour Reading Days
A legislative investigation hears that Washington’s high court has misstated facts and been crushed by its workload — with one justice sometimes reading an entire case alone.
- 321,000 Acres Near Yakima Thrown Open to Settlers
The Interior Department restores a huge block of North Yakima district land to the public domain, with settlement allowed after November 9 and entry after December 9.
- The Lake, the Dam, and the Claims: A Calispel Water Fight
Calispel Valley ranchers say a Weeks claim misrepresents their land as a swampy lake—and omits the Rod and Gun Club dam that raised the water.
- Local Option Petition Secures Enough Signatures
Proponents of the anti-saloon movement in Newport have gathered sufficient signatures to force a local option election on the sale of liquor.
- Newport Will Vote on Going Dry
A Baptist church meeting launches a petition drive to put local option before Newport's 210 electors on September 7, 1909.
- The Battle for the Calispel Valley
Landowners face a major legal fight as the Calispel diking district moves to reclaim thousands of acres of submerged land.
- One Thousand Parcels, One Deadline: the County Races the Clock on Tax-Title Land
A new state law gave landowners exactly one year to challenge old tax foreclosures. On the day it expired, the suits landed in the Stevens County courthouse all at once.
- Clark County's Country Districts Will Vote the Saloon Up or Down
A local-option petition puts license-or-no-license on the November ballot outside the incorporated towns—where only Battle Ground has a saloon.
- The Saloon Fight Moves to Court: Petition Signatures Challenged
A Valley saloonkeeper tries to block Pend Oreille County’s local-option election, claiming the petition lacks enough valid voters and that many signatures are not genuine.
- The Map That Wasn’t Evidence May Reopen a State Boundary Fight
Washington’s special attorney says the Supreme Court relied on a colored map never introduced in the Oregon-Washington boundary case.
- A Confessed Accomplice Turns on the Man Who Ordered Two Killings
In Aberdeen, J. K. Klingenberg admits he killed Charles Hadberg on William Gohl's command — and blames Gohl for a second murder whose body was never found.