Jim Kershner’s this day in history

From our archives, 100 years ago

Ella Leaf, 18, one of the young people who took a notorious “joy ride” across the state, received a sentence of six months for vagrancy, a catch-all charge of the day.

The sentence was suspended on the girl’s promise not to leave her home after 8 p.m. unless accompanied by an adult member of the family.

She told the judge that she had been “taunted at home” ever since her indiscretion. Her father told the court that his daughter was “hard to manage.”

The two boys in the case, Floyd King and Howard Beaton, 19, were sentenced to three months each on charges of giving liquor to a minor. They gave Ella a glass of beer at some time during the joy ride. Their sentences were not suspended.

From the mountaineering beat: Judge E.H. Sullivan, 65, was warned by physicians that because of his age he should avoid strenuous exercise. He proceeded to ignore them and climb Mica Peak and Mount Spokane in the same week.

On the Mount Spokane climb, he and attorney A.M. Craven hiked on foot from Colbert and spent the night in the open on the slopes of the mountain. The next day they reached the summit and “the view proved magnificent,” though it “was somewhat obscured by smoke.”

Judge Sullivan said he felt fine and “expects to live at least 120 years.”