100 years ago in Spokane: The local prohibition chief on leave was arrested for being “highly intoxicated”.

SS Murphy, chief of the Spokane Federal Office for the Enforcement of Prohibitions, went out roaring drunk after being temporarily fired from his job.

Spokane police found him “highly intoxicated” downtown. When they took him to headquarters, he gave his name as John Smith. However, the police recognized him as the main interdiction agent in the region and put him in jail under his real name. They noticed that he was carrying his weapon at the time.

Murphy, along with the other agents at the Prohibition Office, had been released for a 40-day period that morning because the federal government ran out of money to pay them. They were waiting for a new appropriation by Congress that would not take place for at least six weeks.

Beat out the weather: Heavy rains hit the region, causing the death of Prime Minister Glanville, who drowned in the flooded basement of his drugstore in Grangeville, Idaho.

A cloudburst descended on the city, sending water four feet down Main Street. Glanville’s basement filled with water so quickly that he could not escape.

The storm caused massive damage to businesses and homes in Grangeville and all of Upper Clearwater Country. Tribal members reported that the Clearwater River was the highest they had seen in 20 years.

That day

(From the Associated Press)

1915: Lassen Peak Volcano in Northern California exploded and devastated nearby areas, but did not cause any deaths.