Serving Whitman County since 1877
Serving Whitman County since 1877
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The decision to write approximately $200,000 off Whitman County’s books was delayed Tuesday by county commissioners. The county’s general ledger shows, at last account, $206,000 more invested than can be proven by bank statements. Commissioners are planning to erase that sum from the county’s cash reserves in order to have a zero balance budget to bring into new accounting software. They thought that decision had to be made Tuesday. Maribeth Becker, commissioners’ clerk, had a resolution drawn up for their consideration. They held off, though,...
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8 years ago, January 22, 1886 Thursday afternoon Ed. Crane, living down the Palouse in the Matlock region, came into town and surrendered himself to the authorities, stating he had, in self-defense, killed a man named Evans with whom he had an altercation. Coroner Pattison will hold an inquest over the remains today. The Palouse Soap Co., whose works are at Steptoe, commenced operations this week. The product will be in the market in a few days. A truck team belonging to James Jones indulged in a lively runaway last Saturday, at the...
BACK IN SEPTEMBER 1970, someone telephoned the Centralia Daily Chronicle and warned that U.S. Sen. Henry M. “Scoop” Jackson was going to be shot during a public appearance that night in Centralia. Word was swiftly passed along to Jackson, who was in Aberdeen at the time, and to the State Patrol. Two troopers joined his entourage there and went with him to the next stop in Elma. The way one of his staffers put it, “By the time we pulled up in Elma at the grade school it looked like an armed camp. There were six patrol cars in the parking lot....
Two related meningitis cases have been reported at WSU this fall, prompting university health officials to call for all students to get a vaccination. The recommendation came after the hospitalization in early December of a 19-year-old male diagnosed with meningitis. This most recent case of the illness was preceded earlier in the fall by a case of meningococcal pneumonia of the same strain. “What connected these two cases was that the meningococcus serotype identified in the pneumonia case was subsequently identified as the same serotype invol...
