100 years ago in Spokane: Despite U.S. entry into World War I, Gonzaga’s enrollment stays stable

Gonzaga University was inaugurating a regular military drill course, and was promised the services of a U.S. Army officer to “drill the boys,” said Father J.M. Brogan, the Gonzaga president.

He said that he was getting prices on “appropriate costumes for the boys.”

Brogan said that, despite war conditions, he expected a fall enrollment as large as the previous year. The university already had received many applications.

From the recruiting beat: The state of Washington already had exceeded its quota of regular army enlistments, which had been set at 2,283. However, more men were needed and there “will be no let-down of recruiting activities here.”

From the wildfire beat: A 50-acre forest fire was raging on the north side of Indian Canyon.

At one point, near the waterfall, the fire jumped the canyon and started some blazes on the south side.

This was mostly park land. An old shack belonging to the park board burned down, and officials feared that the park board stables were doomed.

The fire was caused by “campers’ carelessness.”