Good old days

8 years ago

The Commoner

March 28, 1890

The Spokane Falls Spokesman, in speaking of Oakesdale says, “The farmers’ alliance plays an important factor in the economy of this section. They have a large stock of implements in their new location at Henkle & McCoy’s old store, where almost constantly men can be seen examining and making selections.”

The state legislature, which has been a monumental disgrace from the first, put a cap-sheaf upon its ignominious antics when one of the members of the House, Brown of Spokane, and Sergeant-at-Arms Ehman, engaged in a rough and tumble fight in the capit...