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.

By Jim Kershner

Spokane’s two top fireworks retailers reported that their sales were “the best we’ve had in ten years.”

Today’s sweltering Northwest residents may be astonished at this headline, from The Spokesman-Review on July 3, 1921: SNOW AND COLD VISIT THE NORTHWEST – Coeur d’Alenes, Walla Walla, Montana Shivering.”

More than 2,500 boxing fans jammed Monroe Street to hear the blow-by-blow accounts of the Jack Dempsey-Georges Carpentier heavyweight championship fight, courtesy of the Spokane Daily Chronicle.

Smallwood Goff and James Woodson filed suit against a North Monroe Street drugstore for refusing them service based on race.

The county prosecutor implied that he was having second thoughts about a trial for Anna Corbin, widow of Spokane rail tycoon D.C. Corbin, on arson charges.

A banner headline proclaimed, “Lilge Found ‘Not Guilty.’ ”

Louis Lilge, accused of first-degree arson, told the court that a search for a lost camera in Indian Canyon furnished widow Anna Corbin the chance to profess her love to him, Lilge testified in their joint trial.