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| Year | Stories |
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| 1908 | 16 |
| 1909 | 22 |
| 1910 | 8 |
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- The Railroad Is a Trespasser on My River Front
J.R. Patterson advertised his ranch and his grievance: a contractor clearing right-of-way without permission while the railroad still owed a condemnation judgment.
- Spokane Digs a Street Beneath Its Streets
The Spokane Inland Railway breaks ground on a four-thousand-foot concrete tunnel under Front Avenue, with two underground stations and a three-year timeline.
- The Fastest Mail Train on Earth Passed Through Newport This Week
The Great Northern's new Chicago-to-Seattle mail train cut 12 hours off the coast run, and Newport got a front-row seat to the record.
- He Chose the Saw
Caught in the feed rolls of a Seattle mill, O. Lepper saw only one way out — and fed his own arm into the blade.
- Gold Under the Lawns: A Sewer Dig Strikes It Rich in Spokane
City workmen excavating a sewer in a fashionable Spokane neighborhood turn up ore assaying over $2,000 a ton — and neighbors start talking about sinking shafts in their front yards.
- A Power Station to Light Newport
The Northern Idaho & Montana Power Co. is building a $15,000 fireproof office and substation at Washington and Pine, promising 24-hour electric service within ninety days.
- A 3 A.M. Saloon Fire Puts a Whole Block in Peril
Smoke seeping from the basement of A. L. Ries's Eagle saloon roused the Dunlap Hotel and threatened an entire frame row on Washington Avenue — and renewed Newport's long push for a real fire company.
- A Revolver at the Fair: Oregon's Superintendent Holds Off the A.-Y.-P. Guards
When exposition officials tried to put a refreshment booth on Oregon's lawn, the Oregon building superintendent met them with a revolver and 35 men in reserve.
- Tracks Laid in the Night, and the Storekeeper Wins
A Spokane injunction against the Idaho & Washington Northern — won by H. M. Lund over trains smoking out his Fourth Street store — is upheld by the state supreme court, with 30 days for the railroad to settle or stop running.
- Northwest Fruit Growers Plan a Unified Front
Orchardists across Washington, Oregon, Idaho, and Montana seek to organize a regional union to challenge Eastern market dominance and manage local pests.
- Gunfire and a Moral Cleanup in Cusick
A whiskey-fueled crowd shot out the windows and back bar at Joe Cusick's saloon; the town's 'better element' answered by ordering 'lewd women' to leave.
- A Farmer's Quarter-Mile Wall Against the Pend Oreille
After losing $3,000 in crops, John Davas built a dike near Dalkena high enough to turn back the spring flood—and stout enough to protect his neighbors.
- The Railroad That Laid Tracks Through a Burned Schoolyard
After a forest fire burned School District 135's schoolhouse near Blueslide, the Idaho & Washington Northern laid track over the ashes without condemning the right-of-way. The district is still trying to get paid.
- Newport City Council Faces Financial Crisis
With only $130 in monthly tax revenue and $3,000 in outstanding warrants, the newly seated council struggles to keep the town afloat.
- A Bank Buys the Corner — and Newport's Frontage Keeps Climbing
The Security State Bank pays around $4,000 for the McMorran corner at Washington Avenue and Third, planning a brick building and proving that inside business property here only goes up.
- The Old Log Jail That Outlived Two Colvilles Sells for $25
The county's first jail—built in old Colville, moved to the new townsite, and finally replaced—is auctioned off and will be hauled to a farm.
- A Late-June Flood Chases Newport’s Riverfront
The Pend Oreille kept rising after mid-June, drowning grain in the Calispel Valley and tearing planks from the Lumbermen’s Transportation docks.
- Newport's Riverfront Changed Hands in a Single $25,000 Deal
C. P. Lindsley, president of Panhandle Lumber and the Pend d'Oreille River Navigation Company, bought 300 acres of timberland plus riverfront lots from Wm. Vane—and a steamboat company took a new name.
- A Spokane Syndicate’s Apple Orchard Dream at Marshall’s Lake
Col. J. E. Lindsay and backers planned a four-mile irrigation ditch and 640 acres of fruit trees five miles north of Newport, betting that water rights could transform the valley.
- He Fired a Salute—and Killed His Best Friend
Sam Kay was trying to greet J. McGraw before a hunting trip when a revolver shot struck McGraw in the stomach. Kay is in custody while the Stevens County coroner investigates.
- A Locked Furniture Store and a Mattress Fire in Colville
Citizens broke in to haul out furniture while smoke filled the upper floors of M. C. Kelly's store; the blaze was stopped, but the damage outpaced the insurance.
- A Slot-Machine Row Spills Across the Tracks
Two men working a saloon machine with slugs ended in a street fight, a freight-train escape attempt and $25 fines in Newport's police court.
- The Most Noted Killer in the West Sits Smoking His Pipe
Convicted of killing a woman and burning her body in a pine-log heap, James F. Logan waits out his appeal in a steel cell — cheerful, confident he'll never hang, and happy to receive the curious.
- After the Fires, Newport's Young Businessmen Build a Fire Department
A city-hall meeting called by the Commercial Club elects Charles Luce chief and signs more than twenty volunteers, answering a season of business-district fires.
- 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.