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- The Spokane 'Monte Cristo' Swindles the City
A charismatic stranger dazzled Spokane with tales of gold and a lavish lifestyle, only to leave town with $10,000 in worthless checks.
- The Spokane Baseball Mutiny
When two ballplayers demanded early payment fearing the league was going bust, the team left them behind in the dust.
- The Farmers' Alliance Insurance Swindle
A political organization's insurance arm leaves Palouse farmers in financial ruin while the leadership lines their own pockets.
- The Hollow Stump Swindle
A Spokane farmer learns the hard way that promises of quick riches found in a forest stump usually lead to empty pockets.
- A Schoolteacher's Last Note: 'God Knows I Am Not the Cause of This'
Rosa Baumberger, 24, came to Spokane from the Metaline schoolhouse and died by her own hand in a hotel room, leaving a note that insisted on her innocence and a friend who begged the papers not to stain her name.
- Billy Sunday Leaves Spokane with a $10,000 Thank Offering
After six weeks of revival meetings, the evangelist said a gentler goodbye to 9,000 people—and left behind 5,666 professed converts.
- The Spokane Judge Who Dozed on the Bench — and Admitted Using Morphine
A legislative committee closes its impeachment inquiry into Superior Judge Arthur, while his defenders explain that the sleeping was simply 'a restful position' brought on by neuralgia.
- Cigarettes Ignite a Spokane Lumber Yard
A blaze in the Falls City Lumber Company yard leaves a homeowner and a company with thousands in losses.
- The Woman Who Swore on Dynamite: A Spokane Courtroom Shock
In a rare moment of courtroom gravity, a female defendant in Spokane was asked to place her hand on dynamite instead of the Bible for her oath—leaving the room in profound silence.
- Spokane Newspaper Monopoly Consolidates
A brutal newspaper war ends as the Morning Spokesman is absorbed by the Morning Review, leaving 50 people out of work.
- Tragedy at the Spokane Mill Company
A fire sparked by a hot journal in the Spokane Mill Company plant leaves workers dead and families grieving.
- The Double Life of a Spokane Bigamist
A Spokane man's two wives discover his deception and team up to secure legal separation in a striking courtroom turn.
- Spokane Police Storm an IWW Street Meeting, Jailing 19 Organizers
A squad of ten officers broke up a free-speech rally by the Industrial Workers of the World in downtown Spokane, arresting 19 and leaving six already serving time with $100 fines.
- Federal Troops Ordered to Clear Colville Reservation
Tensions mount on the Colville Indian Reservation as the Secretary of War orders troops to remove settlers trespassing on tribal lands.
- A Deadly Shift in the Great Northern Yards
A newly hired switchman dies after slipping under the wheels of an engine in Spokane, leaving behind a grieving family.
- The Con Man Who Conned a Town
Before he was caught, a master swindler known as 'Gen. Ward' charmed the elite of Spokane Falls and eloped with a banker's daughter.
- The Dramatic End of a Vaudeville Romance
A former Seattle physician is left in public despair after his wife, a 'Canadian songbird,' ends their marriage for a life in a variety show.
- The Elusive Dr. Pillsbury Caught in Spokane
A notorious swindler wanted for crimes across Washington and Idaho faces a legal battle over his extradition.
- Spokane Cuts Itself a New County — and Expects the Courthouse
The Territorial legislature carves a new county out of Spokane, placing Spokane Falls near its center. The town is 'exceedingly happy,' and already counting on the county seat, the land office, and the records that come with them.
- Faith vs. Regulation: The Methodist Church Debate
Bishop J.W. Hamilton discusses the possibility of amending strict church prohibitions against dancing, card playing, and theater attendance at the upcoming general conference.
- The Last Reservations: Yakima and Colville Lands Slated for Settlement
A federal land superintendent announces that the Yakima and Colville Indian reservations will be opened to settlers next year, with the Colville opening expected in 1911.
- She Came to Spokane Looking for Work and Died in the YWCA Rest Room
Mrs. Warren W. Orr left her 60-year-old husband in a lumber camp near Marcus and travelled to the city to find a job. On Sunday afternoon her seven-year-old boy held onto her skirts while she took morphine.
- The Heartbreak of the China Valley
A young blacksmith’s quiet life in the valley is shattered when his sweetheart, Octavia, leaves for the mills of Lewiston and returns with a husband.
- The Tin-Can Alarm Clock Prank That Sent a Spokane Sleeper Racing Downtown at 1:30 A.M.
A prominent citizen rigged a string-and-tin-can wake-up call with the night watchman. Local pranksters pulled the string first—and he dressed and ran for a train that wasn't leaving.
- A Homesteader's Last Walk Home
Frederick W. Hoyt left Spokane with a bottle in his pocket, took a shortcut across his field, and was found frozen in the snow by his young son.