100 Years Ago in Marshall: Raid turns up 100 pints of moonshine

Deputies raided a still near Marshall, just southwest of Spokane, and came back with 100 pints of moonshine.

“We will send out trucks for the remainder of the material today,” the sheriff said. “There were three stoves, a still and five barrels of mash, all ready for operations.”

The still was capable of making about 25 gallons of moonshine a day.

Two men and a woman were apprehended. The two men were being held in jail.

The woman told officers that she played no part in operating the still except to “keep the cows from eating the mash,” so the sheriff said he will let the prosecutor decide what to do with her.

From the dam beat: Three noted Japanese engineers were in Spokane to inspect Washington Water Power Co.’s dams and power plants at Little Falls and Long Lake.

Heiji Tachikawa and two other civil engineers were helping develop a new dam and power plant in Japan, intended to serve Tokyo and nearby industrial areas.

The engineers said they were impressed with Washington Water Power’s operations and that “hydroelectric power is rapidly being developed in Japan, where there are many rivers that afford possibilities of this kind.”

They also inspected the transmission lines running into Spokane.

On this day

(From Associated Press)

1911: Yale University history professor Hiram Bingham III found Machu Picchu, in Peru.

1969: The Apollo 11 astronauts — two of whom had been the first men to set foot on the moon — splashed down safely in the Pacific.