| Summary: | Indians used to use waters of lake for curing disease and named it Medical Lake. - Historical quarterly tells origin of titles around Spokane. - That the waters of Medical lake were believed by the Indians to be a cure for rheumatism led, in all probability, to the naming of the lake, is the theory advanced in a recent issue of the Washington Historical Quarterly, in which a history of the origin of Washington geographical names is given. Andrew Lefevre is counted the first settler at Medical lake, one authority giving the date as 1859 and another as 1872, while a later-named authority gives a sketch of Stanley Hallett, saying that he settled there in 1877 and gave the name to the town.
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