Whitman County Gazette - Serving Whitman County since 1877

125 Years Ago

From the Colfax Gazette, August 6,1897

A BOLD BAD MAN

Wm. Huber Emulating the Career of Jack Cade.

Whitman county has had a visitation from a modern Jack Cade during the past week, and late advices say Constable Oliver Sparks of Tekoa, and C.M. Lee of Seltice, were up on his trail in the Idaho mountains, with every prospect of bringing him back and checking his romantic career as a highwayman.

Wm. Hubert, a South Carolina youth, arrived in Oakesdale last week, and made his home at Mrs. Anderson's boarding house. He quickly ingratiated himself with his fellow boarders who felt...