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Good Ol' Days

Series: Good Old Days | Story 24

8 Years Ago

From the Colfax Gazette, Friday, November 19, 1897

Three Palouse Youths of Tender Years in Trouble

In the female department of the county jail three youths of tender years lie awaiting the action of the court. They were brought down from Palouse Sunday by Constable Callison. On the night of November 5 the store of the W.S. Willis Co. Was entered through a broken window and a quantity of canned salmon, sardines and other eatables stolen. Three nights later the house of Heistand & Warner was entered in the same manner. Here the cash register was smashed and $14 in cash taken. On th...

 

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