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| Year | Stories |
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| 1907 | 1 |
| 1908 | 4 |
| 1909 | 7 |
| 1910 | 2 |
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- The Attorney General Says Near-Beer Is Still Beer
Ruling on a Lewis County saloon closes the loophole that let 'temperance' drinks flow in dry towns: if it has any alcohol in it and you drink it, Olympia says it's liquor.
- 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.
- The Dry Vote Is Blocked by 74 Missing Signatures
A Stevens County judge sides with a saloonkeeper and halts a countywide local-option election—but Newport and three other towns still vote Sept. 7.
- Two Drunks, a Jailbreak, and a Marshal Who Came Back
A rowdy Fourth-week in Newport: 21 arrests for drunkenness in June, a lumberjack hauled off the Spokane train, and two Blanchard men who nearly battered their way out of jail.
- The County Seat Crowd Had Already Picked Its Winners
Colville's paper publishes the Republican slate for 1908, and Newport notices that the west side of Stevens County is once again after everything in sight.
- 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 Cry That Came Too Late on the Pend Oreille
A deck hand fell from the steamer Ione near Locke Landing while trying to catch a wind-blown parcel. His crew heard the cry but could not reach him in time.
- Two Tickets, One Town, and the Question of Who Can Run a Treasury
With the saloon fight settled by local option, Newport's December 7 municipal election turns on competence: bank cashier F. C. Krause against former Wisconsin mayor M. Fox, with both parties pledging to enforce the dry law and straighten out the town's tangled finances.
- The County Seat Squabble That Could Sink a New County
Newport's neighbors eye a break from the west side, but The Miner warns that internal rivalries over Usk, Ione, and Metaline could scuttle the whole effort.
- When the Ice Broke: Newport's Steamboats Reconnect the Pend Oreille
With the river finally open to Box Canyon, two navigation companies coordinated schedules at Newport, linking trains, mail and lumber camps to the upper Pend Oreille.
- Newport's Water-Land Lease Fight Heads to the Voters
Ahead of the Dec. 3, 1907, municipal election, the Citizens' Independent Party asks whether the city should spend public money to defend a controversial 99-year lease on the Carter water land.
- A Photograph Was Not a Crime: Newport Candidates Beat Back a Newspaper's Bid to Rule Them Off the Ballot
When the Colville Statesman-Index declared two Newport men disqualified for running photo advertisements under the new direct primary law, Dr. G. W. Sutherland wrote the attorney general — and came back with a ruling that the law said no such thing.
- The Last-Week Jam in Olympia: Liquor, Primaries and a Budget Nobody Counted
With the 60-day session expiring, Washington's lawmakers settle local option, rewrite the primary ballot, kill the initiative and abandon the joint budget committee — leaving taxpayers to foot a three-mill levy.
- Olympia Moves to Outlaw the Insanity Defense — and Gag the Press on Murders
With the 1909 session half gone, Washington's legislature advances local option and an anti-racetrack gambling bill, while a sweeping new criminal code would strip juries of the insanity plea and bar newspapers from covering homicides before trial.