Jim Kershner’s this day in history

From our archives, 100 years ago

Mrs. M. Nutting of Spokane Bridge proved to be the area’s premier predator hunter. 

She arrived at the county auditor’s office with the first wildcat (bobcat) pelt of the year and collected a $5 bounty.

She had already “bagged many coyotes” and she said she was “on the trail of a cougar and will bring his pelt here for bounty within a few days.”

From the opium beat: An opium den was raided in Spokane’s Trent Alley district and 22 Chinese and Japanese immigrants were under arrest.

Police confiscated a “high-priced opium outfit,” including a pipe, lamp and mixing needles, along with some gambling paraphernalia.

From the divorce beat: The charges and countercharges flew in a bitter Cheney divorce case. A stepson told the court his stepmother often paraded around in a “filmy gown” and told “vile stories.”

The stepmother, in turn, testified that her stepson once brought a girlfriend home, took her around back, and “gave her a bath.” He denied doing any such thing.

Also on this date

(From the Associated Press)

1972: Apollo 17’s lunar module landed on the moon with astronauts Eugene Cernan and Harrison Schmitt aboard; during three extravehicular activities (EVAs), they became the last two men to date to step onto the lunar surface.