100 years ago in Spokane: ‘Restaurant Man’ missing; Fraud proceedings continue

The hunt for Andy Anderson, “one of the most famous restaurant men in town”, who had mysteriously disappeared two days earlier, was on.

When he was last seen he was closing the Inland Restaurant on Main Avenue late at night. He was supposed to be back at the restaurant at 6am the next day but never showed up. When the police searched the hotel room where he was staying, they found no trace of him.

His friends said he had no plans to leave town and they feared he might have been a victim of foul play.

However, the police learned that he “had been thinking about domestic issues for some time”.

From the test run: A witness in the Jay Hough fraud case confirmed Hough’s case that his business partner, John B. Milholland, was a violent bully.

An acquaintance of both men said he had to intervene in a fight between Milholland and Hough one day.

“What the hell are you doing here?” Milholland is said to have told him. “I’m going to kill Hough. I want to cut his throat and if you intervene I’ll cut yours too. “

Also beat from the yard: Half a dozen prominent Spokane people, including a senator and several “society matrons”, were about to testify in a robbery process that was just begun in Spokane.

On trial were three members of the notorious South Hill robber gang who searched fancy homes while their owners were in California for the winter.

The selection of the jury continued.