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A Spokane informant says a patient at the Medical Lake asylum died after a third-story fall—and that no coroner’s inquiry followed. Old employees, meanwhile, were being pushed out.
“Strange that in this day and age any one man is given such absolute power and authority that no investigation of his methods are necessary.”
New reports allege political corruption and financial mismanagement within state institutions.
“It is not generally known that this money goes to a knot of Republican politicians known as the State Printing Company.”
On the Columbia plateau near Spokane lies a strange saline lake with no inlet and no outlet — credited with curing rheumatism, foaming like soap in the wind, and home to an axolotl that fooled the naturalists.
“He barely missed being drowned, and expected the wetting to make worse his already stiffened joints, but to his surprise and delight next day he was better.”
A biennial report highlights the Medical Lake institution's agricultural successes and its surprisingly high recovery rates.
“This completely refutes the reports circulated by certain irresponsible persons that the water supply of the hospital was impure.”
A young farmer in Medical Lake ends his life in the unfinished house he was building for his bride-to-be after she marries another.
“Young Sprague purchased ten acres of land and began construction of a house for his soon-to-be wife, but ere it was finished the bride stole away and wedded Depeney.”
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