Nothing appears to have been done towards putting the township organization into effect.
A second effort was made to organize the territory in question into a civil township the following year. C. R. J ewell, J. A. Johnson, Thomas A. Morrison, Frank F. Saunders, Charles Moffat, Charles Lundgren, John Brown, R. McKinnen, John T. Kerr, Holida Henrickson, Frank Oelson, F. N. Hendrickson, Nathan Colby, Robert Griffin, P. Steinberg, S. A. Moffat, I. Grismer, N. E. Oppigaar, George Filzt, E. N. Hoggy, Blair Beveey, D. Jewell, G. W. Jewell, F. Jewell, G. H. Merwib, T. Springstead and John McKinnen. After the granting of the second petition the organizers of this township seem to have neglected to proceed with their organization. It was four years later, in fact, before a third and final attempt was made to organize the territory in question into a civil township. The tax duplicate of 1870 gives the taxpayers in Newton township as Henry Van Arman, Esther Gillman and Charles A. Giliman.