The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1910-03-13

THE FIRST HoUs
here was the Odd Fellows. That
lodge was instituted here on April
26, 1880, and it's members occupied
a little low half-story hall above
a store in building owned by j. N.
Glover on Front avenue between
Howard and Stevens street.
sPOkANE's EARLIEST FIRE;
BUCKET BRIGADE.
Three years later, along about
the 18th of January, 1883, Spokane
had it's first disastrous fire. 1t
started in Goldsmith & Moore's
store and it was bad one. We
had no fire fighting apparatus nor
water system, but everybody turned
out in bucket brigade to save the
town. 1t was % below zero that
night and the mill pond at the Can
non G. Warner mill was frozen over
with about foot of ice. We had
to carry water for blocks and be-
fore we got the fire under control
the stores of Charles Carson, r. w.
Forrest, the Morris confectionery
shop and DR.. Gandy's drug store
were consumed. Even then we had
to blow up a couple of buildings to
check it.
cHINAMEN PILLAGE STRICKEN
DISTRICT. IT,
"The Cinnamon about the} town
stole us blind that night. Down at
my own house, they threw our
trunks, clothes and furniture into
the street to save as much of it
as possible and when we, went to
get them again nothing but the fur
niture was left. All suspected the
Cinnamon right away and the
tOwnspeople formed into two COM
panies to raid the Chinese resorts.
Lain Gillian was captain of the
company l joined and we all went
to a Chinese laundry down at the
foot of Stevens street, while the
other party searched the Chinese
quarters a little further up the
stream. 1t was a tricky bunch of
"Chinks" and Gillian went through
the place once and found nothing,
but on a second search in which l
Joined him we found a Celestial
feigning sickness on cot and on
routing him out found my bed
blankets, and under his cot we To-
Gated a lot of other plumber. Most
of the stuff was never located.
CELESTIALS "JEWED" JUDGE
DOWN ON FINE.
"Well. that was great case in
court. The Cinnamon who could
talk little English denied their
guilt throughout and finally laid all
blame on a couple of poor critters
who couldn't utter a syllable of
Anglo Saxon. Judge Written, who
was the first man on the bench
here, tried them and assessed a
fine of 500 and costs. They plead
ed poverty and kept "jewing" the
magistrate down until they finally
got off with $40 and costs.
BRIDGE BUILT IN THREE SEC.
TlONs ACROSS RIVER.
"Spokane's first bridge was in
three sections. r. w. Forrest up to
this time had run ferry across the
river right about where the Divis-
ion street bridge is now, but all
went in together and got enough
lumber to build a pretty fair bridge.
1t started at the foot of Howard
street and extended across to the
island where the Echo mill is now
built, from there 1t stretched across
to Havermale island, then across to
the north side.
INDIAN SCARED SHEEP; WAS
KILLED IN cALIBoOsE.
IAN Indian got filled up with
'firewater' one day shortly after
that bridge was completed and,
wrapped in his blankets, he took a
stand at the north end Of the struc,
ture. Dan Drumheller car ne along
with herd of sheep and tried to
drive them across, but every time
he would approach, that polluted
redskin opened up his varicolored
blankets and let out a whoop that
sent the sheep scampering away in
fright. he uiu IL ScVcTdi LtueS De-
fore E. B. Hyde, the city marshal,
came to the rescue and dragged the
Indian off to the caliboose. That
was little structure made out of
two by skies. where the Auditorium
building now stands. IA
Hyde chained him up to the wall
and left him there for the might,
but the next morning he found his
prisoner lying dead and horribly
mutilated from a charge of shot.
Somebody had gone there in the
dead of night. placed lighted
candle in the little barred window
at one end and, with the muzzle Of
a gun thrust through from the op-
posite side of the caliboose, he shot
the captive to death. The murderer
was never captured, and no arrests
were ever made.
BOB KNOX, BAD MAN, CAP
TURED BY HEATH.
ooh, We had so,Ne pretty bad
men. some Of them reds and some
of them whites. around here in
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