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| Year | Stories |
|---|---|
| 1907 | 3 |
| 1908 | 23 |
| 1909 | 22 |
| 1910 | 8 |
56 stories matching spring
- Newport Bought Its Fire Hydrants — Then Never Had Them Installed
The town paid for fire plugs in September, but the council never ordered the water company to set them. Now the work can't be done until spring — and the paper is warning that the town may pay for the delay.
- A Dog Wallowed in a Spring. Then Northport Struck Gold.
A ranch dog's muddy wallow exposed flake gold, touched off a Black Canyon claim rush, and gave Stevens County one of its strangest mining origin stories.
- A City Divided Over Its Water: Newport's Council Fights Over the Carter Springs Warrants
A taxpayer lawsuit over warrants for Carter Springs split Newport's council, with the mayor warning the city could not afford a $30,000 water plant.
- Newport Faces $1,600 Suit Over Carter Springs Warrants
A disputed municipal water purchase returns to court after the town council failed to appear in an earlier hearing on the warrants' validity.
- 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.
- Newport Nearly Drank Itself Dry
A dry month and a heavy hand with the sprinkling can brought the town to the edge of a water famine. The water company has more than doubled the flow from its springs and is digging a reservoir to catch what was running to waste.
- Cattle Dog Saves Teen from Cougar Attack Near Spokane
An 18-year-old hunting cattle narrowly escapes a mountain lion's spring, thanks to his loyal dog's fierce counterattack.
- Help Wanted: The Railroad Boom Outran the Workforce
Crews at Sullivan Creek and Box Canyon needed hundreds more men as clay, springs, and slides slowed the Inland Empire's rail-and-dam boom.
- Newport’s Financial Crisis
Local banks refuse to honor city warrants, sparking a standoff between the town council and local saloon owners.
- The Day the Trains Ran Dry
A property dispute in Ephrata leaves Great Northern locomotives stranded without water.
- Sixty Houses in One Season
Newport's 1908 ledger of construction: sixty residences raised or under way, a three-story hotel foundation at Washington and Second, and a lumber mill going up across the river.
- The Railroad Platting a Town: Fifty Acres Become Fourteen Blocks
The Blackwell road surveys the Jaynes tract west of Newport into city lots, moves its headquarters into a new Spirit Lake depot, and promises two trains a day to Spokane by New Year's.
- A New Town Called Cady Rises with 37 Lots—and a Saloon
Engineer Fleming platted Cady a quarter-mile from Blueslide, where a hotel, store and saloon are already rising—and more saloons are expected by spring.
- Powering the Mines: $100,000 Plant Planned at Meyers Falls
Railway and power company officials secure lease for entire water power, promising 1,000 horsepower to mines and a major new plant.
- Newport’s Great Northern Depot Upgrade
Railroad officials confirm a $20,000 investment in a new station to accommodate the town's booming shipping industry.
- A Civil Engineer's $200,000 Plan to Drain the Calispel Valley
A Newport civil engineer proposes canals, dikes and lock gates to reclaim a lake bed, irrigate the gravel slopes and stop the Pend Oreille from swallowing the valley's farms.
- The Avalanche That Threw a Snowplow Down the Canyon
A slide above Alvin swept a rotary snowplow and engine 200 feet down the mountainside, demolished a snowshed and bridge, and left an Italian laborer missing.
- The Cook Who Robbed the Till—and Then Fled to Canada
Newport restaurant man James Warren spent eight months in jail before a plea deal, because the only witness had vanished into British Columbia.
- Outside Capital Plans a Log Hotel at Sullivan Lake
A new $10,000 resort company wants to turn the lake into a base for fishermen, hunters and tourists — with a 20-room hotel, tent camps and a trail to the Metaline caves.
- Flooded Out, Then Taxed: Assessor Asks Relief for the Calispel Farmers
High water wiped out the grain fields of the Calispel valley this spring. The county assessor says the survivors should not have to pay for land that gave them nothing.
- The New Penal Code Left the Red Lights Burning
Washington's 1909 criminal code accidentally protected brothels from local crackdowns, and Northport's city fathers could only watch the glare.
- Thirty-Five Timber Claims Slip Away in LeClerc Basin
Federal land office rules against settlers whose white-pine homesteads are worth thousands; appeals go to the secretary of the interior.
- Nine Residents, Then None: Wolf’s Landing Goes Bust
A Newport correspondent reports that Wolf’s Landing has lost every resident, its steamboats no longer whistle, and even the real-estate men have fled to Newport. A lone police chief will watch the deserted village this winter.
- High Water on the Pend Oreille
Spring runoff threatens Newport's ferry, scatters log rafts and tests the piers at Jurgens boom while boatbuilders race to float the Ruth.
- Fifty Jobs and a Logging Camp Pull Newport Out of the Panic
A new McInnis Brothers logging contract south of town gives nearly fifty men six months of work and eases a winter of post-panic unemployment.