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| Year | Stories |
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| 1907 | 4 |
| 1908 | 19 |
| 1909 | 17 |
| 1910 | 3 |
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- Sandpoint Cougars Humiliate Newport, Forcing a Team Shake-Up
The Sandpoint ball team arrived with a brass band and 200 rooters, then routed Newport in a game so error-filled that Newport's manager let players go and reorganized the team.
- The Concentrator That Never Pounded
A $20,000 mining mill stood ready to turn mountains of lead ore into profit, but a $250 judgment, a $16,000 mortgage and a boardroom feud left Metaline waiting for a boom that never came.
- A Tiger Family's Home Burns to the Ground Weeks Before Winter
Jesse Shepherd was away when fire took his house; his wife escaped with the children but not a single household good, and cold weather was already on the doorstep.
- The Road to Prosperity Is Still a Sea of Mud
A Calispel Valley correspondent presses Newport to fix the Bobier Hill grade, widen the wagon roads, and treat farmers as more than an afterthought.
- The Woods Come Back to Life Around Newport
Logging camps and river drives restart, with a million feet coming down the West Branch and Victor Pierson set to run the main-river drive.
- Spokane Police Storm an IWW Street Meeting, Jailing 19 Organizers
A squad of ten officers broke up a free-speech rally by the Industrial Workers of the World in downtown Spokane, arresting 19 and leaving six already serving time with $100 fines.
- No Telephone, No Alarm: A House Gone Before the Department Knew
Fred Stewart's home south of the Great Northern tracks burned to the ground at noon on a Wednesday. The neighbours could not save a thing, a daughter barely escaped, and $40 in cash went up with the walls.
- Sixteen Paupers, a Clay-Bed Well, and a Farm Not Fit to Live On
County commissioners tour the county poor farm and find cracked fences, filthy bedding, horses bleeding on barbed wire and water unfit to drink. The old place will be sold, they say — but only if a poor farm is worth having at all.
- 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.
- 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.
- The Railroad Comes Down the River: Metaline Line to Run by Summer
With the financing closed and the election safely out of the way, the Idaho & Washington Northern will start building south from Newport this month — and Newport merchants are already counting the payroll.
- 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.
- The Socialists Came to Stevens County With a Straight-Ticket Warning
A complete Socialist slate and a four-way judge's race had county politicos doing arithmetic before the September primary.
- A Special Session Becomes an Impeachment Court
Washington lawmakers returned to Olympia to try Insurance Commissioner Schively, with the accused demanding that more than a dozen senators be disqualified as biased judges.
- Friday Night Fights: Newport's Main Street Turns Into a Boxing Ring
A carnival of brawling broke out last Friday, with two railroad camp workers arrested for holding prize fights on the main street and two others charged with assaulting an old man. The jail could have held only a quarter of the crowd.
- The Boom That Wasn't: 350 Workers Stranded in Newport
As the Idaho & Washington Northern extension stalled, contractors shipped in men before camps were ready; saloons fed and sheltered the stranded workforce.
- 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 Land-Fraud Prosecutor Warns the Homestead Loophole Is Closing
Fresh from prosecuting land fraud, F. M. Goodwin opens a Spokane law office and predicts Congress will tighten the Timber and Stone Act and the homestead commutation loophole.
- The Man Who Went to Canada to Make a Fortune in Wheat — and Came Back Broke
A local settler sold everything, hauled his plows and harvester north, and paid duty twice for the privilege of staring at an empty prairie. The lesson: the acres of diamonds were at home all along.
- The Old Folks' Day and the Empty Pew
Newport's Methodist congregation honored its elders with lined-out hymns and a shared meal—then buried an invited guest before the day was over.
- Newport Goes Dry on December 7 — and the Town Has to Refund the Saloons' Licenses
Local option, voted in September, shuts every saloon on the Washington side of the river next Tuesday. The council will borrow against the treasury to hand back about $900 in unearned license money, and warns bootleggers that blind pigs will be dealt with severely. Drinkers need only cross to Idaho.
- Fired Railroad Workers Were Paid in Paper—So Their Lawyer Sued
After the Idaho Washington Northern let go 26 men, it handed them orders for time certificates instead of cash. Newport's courts became the battleground.
- 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 Anti-Saloon League Plots Its Hottest Campaign
Bert P. Doty of the Anti-Saloon League of Washington lays out a three-part legislative push — county option, shipping restrictions, and the power to shut down breweries — and predicts the fight of 1910 will be the hottest in state history.
- Miles Poindexter Takes On the Party Bosses
The Third District congressman launches a U.S. Senate campaign in Spokane, promising to break the grip of Cannon and Aldrich and return the Republican Party to its voters.