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| Year | Stories |
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| 1908 | 13 |
| 1909 | 21 |
| 1910 | 10 |
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- Ione Drew Its New Town Limits—and Left the Bridge Bill Outside
Incorporation planners included the boarding houses and shoreline but excluded objecting landowners, partly to avoid making the new town pay for a Big Muddy crossing.
- A Jury Walks the Ditches: Chewelah’s Drainage War Ends
After weeks of testimony and a field inspection, a jury ruled that draining the Colville Valley would harm no one—clearing the way for the Chewelah district and weakening objections elsewhere.
- A Midnight Council Fight Over Rails, Rubbish and Residency
Newport's council spent a long May evening weighing a railroad franchise, ordering alleys cleaned, and questioning whether one of its own members actually lived in town.
- Sixty-Five Sign for a Town; Sixteen Try to Take Their Names Back
A petition to incorporate Marcus as a fourth-class town meets a remonstrance: signers want their names stricken, attorneys argue over voter qualifications, and the county board takes the matter under advisement.
- The County Would Keep Her for Life — If It Could Sell Her Land
After 18 years at the Stevens County poor farm, an Indigenous woman named Katherine Martin becomes the object of a bargain between county officials and the Indian department over her allotment.
- Ione Wants to Incorporate — Unless the Sawmill Has to Join
Residents pushed for town incorporation, but the Panhandle Lumber Co. and neighboring landowners balked at being included; the saloon question hovered over the whole fight.
- Labor Unions Launch Political Offensive
Organized labor in Washington State pivots from the picket line to the ballot box, targeting the state legislature.
- To Pay for the Ditches, the Yakamas Were Asked to Sell Their Land
A former lease clerk canvasses the reservation, urging allotment holders to part with acreage so the government will finish the Wapato irrigation works.
- Newport Refuses a Firetrap Home for the Movies
A corrugated-iron picture show proposed beside the Antler Hotel is turned down inside the fire limits, while tent shows draw the council's ire.
- A Seattle Improvement Company Tried to Dispossess a Black Homeowner—He Cited the Constitution
S. H. Stone bought a lot in a 'high-class' residence addition. When white neighbors objected, the company moved to undo the sale—and his lawyer answered with the U.S. Constitution.
- A Spokane Gun Club Tried to Shoot Down Three Homesteaders on Calispel Lake — and Lost
The Calispel Valley Gun Club fought Carlton Finley and the Desart family all the way to the General Land Office over lakefront claims. The homesteaders won every point.
- The Drys Won Newport. Then They Built a Machine to Keep It.
A new Municipal League aims to protect the local-option victory—and the city hires counsel as opponents challenge the election in court.
- Government to Build School for Pend Oreille Indians as Settlers Push for Removal
A new school is planned for Indigenous families opposite Cusick, but the report reveals settler pressure to move them off prime hay lands and allot the land instead.
- 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.
- Federal Land Grab Ends in Washington
Four million acres of national forest land are set to be returned to public entry, marking a shift away from restrictive forestry policies.
- The Furs That Arrived as Nineteen Old Magazines
A Seattle shipper's $1,920 box of furs was rifled in transit and stuffed with back issues of Everybody's — and the state supreme court says the fine print on the freight receipt is all he gets.
- 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.
- The Grange Movement Sweeps Stevens County
State organizers are rapidly establishing local chapters to advocate for rural interests, good roads, and political reform.
- Washington's First Impeachment Trial Is Losing Its Charges to a Comma
Insurance Commissioner J. H. Schively's Senate trial drops twenty-six counts down toward half of them on a technicality, while the sixty-day legislative clock runs out Saturday at midnight.
- The Pan Tans: Spokane's Secret Order of Judges, Cops and Councilmen
A police commissioner's confession exposes a sworn club that counted three superior court judges, four councilmen, a deputy prosecutor and a police judge among its members — and the recall petitions start the same week.
- One Landowner's $1,000 Demand Stalls a $200,000 Logging Road
The Panhandle Lumber Co. may abandon its Newport-area logging railroad because a five-acre property owner wants $1,000 in damages and the county won't vacate the old road until a substitute is built.
- $10,000 for a Road, and Not a Shovel of Dirt Turned
A $10,000 appropriation for a Newport-to-Columbia road vanished into surveys and clerical work, The Miner charged, leaving Stevens County without a graded mile to show for it.
- Council Balks at Nearly $15,000 in Street Bids
Newport's council opened proposals for crosswalks and three street grades, then sent the whole package to committee after the low bids gave them sticker shock.
- Stevens County Sets a Date to Vote the Saloons Out
With the petition deadlines cleared, the county auditor orders a Nov. 9 local-option election — and the dry forces, organized out of Colville, are predicting the small-town saloons are finished.
- 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.