Good old days - Jan. 13, 2011

8 years ago, January 15, 1886

Make a note of it, that plowing was done in Whitman County this winter up to the 29th of December.

Last Saturday afternoon as the west bound train on the Palouse branch was passing Washtucna Lake, a coyote started to run across the ice. Mr. Mauritz, a stock grower, saw the animal and fired at it. The ball glanced and bounded on the ice across the lake and struck a Chinaman, half a mile away, in the left shoulder, inflicting an ugly though not dangerous wound. The Chinaman was a section hand and was at once taken on the train to Walla Walla where his wound was dr...