A Violent Brawl Over a 'Too Muchly' Married Man

Saturday afternoon the denizens of Howard street were treated to a matinee that had not been previously advertised. Two squaws became involved in a heated dispute in front of Lawson Bros'. store, on Main street, over the possession of the affections of a brave who was 'too muchly' married. The arguments were carried on in the musical language of the Spokanes. In the midst of the discussion, one of the females managed to say something a little more tart than the other, and the insulted maid laid her nimble fingers into the center of the physiognomy of the other. They went at it rough and tumble. A powerful buck who had been standing by enjoying the wordy war stepped in to suspend hostilities. One of the women, perhaps realizing suddenly that he was unworthy of her love, hauled off and leaned him one alongside the jaw. The blow stung the Indian to the quick, and he was about to retaliate when bystanders prevented him. The man was crazy mad. He walked into Lawson's store, cocked his revolver, and started out after the woman who had moved over to the Fife building. Going up to her he drew his gun, but the weapon was discharged into the window of the side of Fife's building, fortunately doing no harm. Marshal Hyde and several white men disarmed the fellow, but he was so powerful that it required the utmost exertions to hold him. The case was heard by Justice Whitman, but as it was a family affair the judge did not seem to make himself very prominent.