The area’s lakes and rivers claimed seven victims, but at least one was actually the victim of foul play.

A “neighborly moonshine industry” was producing more than 20 gallons of “cawn likker” (corn liquor) in northeast Spokane, until police raided it.

One local statistic showed exactly how fast the auto had become the county’s predominant method of transportation.

Mike Foley, alleged booze runner, was facing trial in federal court – but not for bootlegging.

Spokane police received confidential tips the Ku Klux Klan was organizing in Spokane and had already recruited 100 men.

Police raided the women’s section of the Spokane City Jail and “made a big haul of tobacco, cigarettes, matches” and even a small amount of “hop” (cocaine) and some hypodermic needles.

A 3-year-old boy toddled into the Spokane police headquarters. There, he answered every query with two words: “Teddy bear!”

A vital labor issue was being debated in Olympia: the minimum wage for women working in hotels, lodging houses and restaurants.

Spokane police arrested William “Fat Patterson” Houser in connection with the murder of Spokane taxi driver Lee Slater.

In a harbinger of the region’s energy future, a federal board was appointed to investigate “potential water power at points on the Columbia, Kootenai and Snake rivers.”

A movie crew attempting to film a canoe trip lost all of the cameras and film – and nearly their lives – when their vessels capsized in the Clark Fork River near Thompson Falls, Montana.

A dozen fires were raging in the Deer Park area north of Spokane and the area fire warden laid the blame directly on the Great Northern Railway.

Forest fires raged near Priest River and “all available employees of the Humbird Lumber Co.” were engaged in fighting the fires.

The small town of Milan, just east of Deer Park, was almost entirely destroyed by a wildfire caused by a discarded cigarette.

Police with a search warrant entered a lodging house in Hillyard and found three valuable paintings, stolen from an amusement complex in San Francisco.

Judge Robert S. Kelley of Wardner died in an explosion on a mining claim on Big Creek.

Spokane’s Black community was alarmed over fears that the Ku Klux Klan was secretly organizing locally.

A gun-toting robber crept on to the Gonzaga University campus, walked into a building, confronted Brother M. McDermott in a hallway and said, “Hands up, quick! Hand out what money you got!”

Patients from all over the region were flocking to the office of Dr. L.L. Stevens for radium treatment.