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| Year | Stories |
|---|---|
| 1907 | 13 |
| 1908 | 83 |
| 1909 | 127 |
| 1910 | 46 |
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- The Lake, the Dam, and the Claims: A Calispel Water Fight
Calispel Valley ranchers say a Weeks claim misrepresents their land as a swampy lake—and omits the Rod and Gun Club dam that raised the water.
- Rails, Mail and a New Depot: Newport's Railroad Week
Crews start the Idaho & Washington Northern depot while a new mail contract promises daily service and earlier Spokane mail.
- The Shafting Took His Clothes, Not His Life
Ralph K. Kennedy was caught in the mill shafting at Dalkena, stripped and badly bruised before the machinery could be stopped. Weeks later he came home from a Spokane hospital calling himself lucky.
- Colville's Newspaper War Moves to the Post Office
The Reveille won't print the Examiner publisher's name, the Statesman-Index says the Examiner is losing $40 a week, and the postmaster has refused its second-class mailing status.
- Newport to Metaline: The Steamboat Fleet vs. the Stagecoach
When Colville boasted a new tri-weekly stage line, Newport answered with daily steamer service, six Great Northern trains, and a reminder of who really controlled the east end.
- Detained at Seattle: A Chinese Merchant’s Weeks-Long Fight to Enter
Moy Kee and his wife wait at the Seattle immigration station while officials weigh his right to enter the country; he is finally admitted and heads home to Indiana.
- Woman Admits to Fraud, Past Life Investigated
Winnie Moter Daniels pleaded guilty to obtaining money under false pretenses in Judge Hinkle's court last week. Sentencing was delayed while authorities look into her background.
- Third Break in Two Weeks: A Prisoner Simply Walks Off the County Farm
A Newport man jailed for refusing to pay his poll tax slipped his shackles and disappeared into the hills, handing the county's chain-gang overseer his third escape in a fortnight.
- Billy Sunday Leaves Spokane with a $10,000 Thank Offering
After six weeks of revival meetings, the evangelist said a gentler goodbye to 9,000 people—and left behind 5,666 professed converts.
- Power Cut: Newport Planing Mill Shuts Down in Contract Fight with Electric Company
The Coulter & Button planing mill went idle last week after Northern Electric refused to supply power, alleging a broken contract over February electricity.
- 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.
- The Stakes That Hold a Town Together
A county surveyor re-marks Newport's original corners on Washington Avenue, untangling property lines and unblocking a hotel project.
- A Town Under Quarantine
Ten diphtheria cases, closed schools and churches, and a council backing its health officer as Newport tries to stop the outbreak.
- While Newport Stalled, Colville Planned a Stage Line to Capture the Metaline Trade
A proposed telephone franchise had been sitting before Newport’s council for five months. In Colville, businessmen were already organizing a tri-weekly stage route to the Metaline mines and post offices.
- She Dreamed of a Murder Before the Body Came Out of the River
A Montesano boarding-house worker told police she saw William Kittrell's death in a dream two weeks before he vanished — and his body was pulled from the Chehalis with robbery suspected.
- A Lake, Not a Farm: Homesteaders Fought Over Calispell’s Swampy Shore
A Spokane sportsman’s club contests Calispell Lake homestead claims, arguing the land is water, not farmland—and more claims may follow.
- The Riverside Bar's Final Night
After a series of ownership changes and a police attachment, the Riverside bar is stripped of its stock and shuttered for good.
- Two Gun Mishaps in One Week Leave Newport Men Wounded
A hunter swapping rifles and a 10-year-old boy with a .22 both shot themselves in the foot. Both were brought to Newport for treatment.
- Steel on the Grade: The I.W.N. Pushes North From Usk
Twelve carloads of steel arrived in Newport this week as the Idaho & Washington Northern extension resumed tracklaying, with a new station open at Usk and a tunnel still to finish at Blueslide.
- 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.
- Fogbound on the Pend d'Oreille: Passengers Rowed Ashore as Steamers Lost the River
Heavy fogs and low water stalled the steamers Metaline and Defender, forcing a nighttime transfer by rowboat and signaling the end of the river season.
- The River Was Losing to the Railroad, and the Engineers Knew It
A federal board in Washington, D.C. has turned thumbs down on improving the Pend Oreille for navigation — and Newport has three weeks to argue otherwise.
- Railroad's Right-of-Way Bill Comes Back at $6,000
A Colville jury rejects a $30,000-an-acre claim from the old Jordan cement plant and hands the Idaho Washington Northern a costly but smaller condemnation verdict.
- The Would-Be Holdup Man Who Left a Debt Behind in Sandpoint
A Newport saloon shooting killed the gang's ringleader. In Sandpoint, neighbors remembered Robert Hackworth as a family man who stuck a friend with a $300 note.
- 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.