100 years ago in Spokane: Police chase ‘girl delinquent’ through downtown

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100 years ago

Lillian Orth, a “girl delinquent,” escaped from the juvenile detention center and lived as a “hobo” around a campfire for several days near Marshall.

Lillian had only two apples to eat, and she soon became hungry and cold. So she made her way back into Spokane and attempted to buy shoes and clothing on credit. The store clerk called police, who arrived and re-arrested her after “an exciting chase in the downtown district.”

From the smelter beat: The Spokane Chamber of Commerce launched a campaign to support Kellogg as the location for the proposed Bunker Hill and Sullivan smelter.

Spokane had previously been eliminated as a candidate for the giant smelter, so the chamber was uniting in an effort to “assist Bunker Hill officials in securing concessions from the railway companies that will enable them to build the reduction works at Kellogg.”

“The location of the smelter at Kellogg means more to the mining industry of the Northwest than anything that has been suggested since the first discovery in the region,” a member of the chamber said. “Kellogg is in the very heart of the Coeur d’Alenes, easily accessible from a number of the new districts that are being opened, and Spokane citizens should do everything in their power to get the smelter located there.”

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(From the Associated Press)

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