100 years ago in Spokane: Two killed in car wreck

Two Javanese sugar plantation owners, Tan Sick Poo and P.J. Jut, died when their big Pierce Arrow car flew over an embankment on the Sunset Highway and overturned.

They were on a cross-country auto trip from San Francisco to New York and had just entered Spokane when the accident occurred.

The driver, Poo, failed to negotiate a sharp curve and crossed a 16-foot embankment, trapping the two men beneath the car.

A third man in the car – Darrell Roo, a chauffeur hired in San Francisco – was sitting in the front passenger seat. He jumped or was thrown out of the car when it started over the embankment and was unhurt.

“I told Poo I thought he was driving too fast, not knowing the roads, but I guess he didn’t understand me,” said the chauffeur. “If I had been driving, the accident probably wouldn’t have happened.”

Roo said Poo apparently had trouble reaching the brakes when he tried to slow down for the turn.

From the moonshine beat: Mrs. Irene Glahe was given a light sentence – 15 days in jail – after police found two stills in her house.

The judge gave her the minimum sentence because she had two children, ages 2 and 4.

She told the court that she resorted to moonshine because her ex-husband, the “well-known wrestler” Frank Glahe, had failed to provide for the children as ordered.