Adams County news. [volume] (Ritzville, Wash.) 1898-1906, 1898-12-28
WASHINGTON,

Okanogan county mas an area OF 3U,UUO
square miles of fruit, grain and mining
territory.
There are nearly 200 students in Whit
man college, including those of the con-
servatory.
A depot building will be erected at
Ritzville during next summer and will
be fitted with all modern conveniences.
The government telegraph office at
| Pysht will be removed next month to
Twin rivers and there located perman-
emily.
The office of the state dairy commission
has been moved to Seattle. Commissioner
Mcdonald has already established his
headquarters.
The Kettle river stage line will soon
inaugurate daily stage service between
Greenwood and Cascade, taking in the
new town Of Niagara.
The glee and mandolin clubs of the
Washington agricultural college gave
their third annual entertainment in the
college auditorium last week before q
large audience.
The club will start on its tour of the
state during the first week in January.
Right.of-way deeds from the following
persons to the Snake River Valley Rail.
road Company have been filed for record
in Walla Walla: William Yeend and
wife, $50; Joseph DAWN ct al, $3.50; Hip.
polyte DAWN and wife, 500.
Supt. E. B. Hyde, of the forestry re-
serve, has been instructed from Wash
ington City to remove his headquarters
from Spokane to Everett. The depart
ment believes that the service will be the
better rendered from western Washing.
ton.
A bulletin on "Alkali Soils" is soon To
be issued from the division of agricultural
soils of the state agricultural college. This
bulletin is of special interest to irrigated
sections of the state. All persons desiring
the same should send their names at once
to Prof. Elton Fulmer, Pullman, Wash.
Another trial will be made this year to
have state wagon road established and
constructed from Lyle, in Klickitat coun
ty, to some point in Clarke county, via
Stevenson. A bill ordering this road cop.
structed was passed at the last session Of
the legislature, but was vetoed BY. Sow
Rogers. ~
The board of control of the Spokane
fruit fair in anticipation of next seasons
exhibit has let contract for the max.
ing Of big circus tent. 1t will be loo
feet wide by $50 feet long; an entrance
tent so feet wide by $50 feet long; an
annex tent 60 by l2O feet in size. The en-.
tire contract including poles and ropes
will cost $4,l00.
AS a result of the November examina.
tions for teachers in the various counties
of the state All certificates have been
issued from the state superintendent
office out Of q total Of 652 applicants. Oh
the All certificates issued, 1874 were upon
examination, l3 were renewals, "a issued
upon normal diplomas, life diplomas and
state certificates.
The Gale tract, lying on the south bank
of the Puyallup river, next to the Indian
reservation line, has been sold on mort
gage execution to A. M. Gale, the mort.
gagee. This land was taken up by Gale
years ago, and sold by him to the Tacoma
Land Company in 1889 for $4,000. A
mortgage Of $4,000 was given as part Of
the consideration, and the land now goes
back to the original owner.
Il J. d. Miller and son have been spend
ing week at Kettle Falls, looking owe,
the Lower Columbia river valley as far ai
Fort Spokane, with view Of removing
one Of their Kootenai river boats for us,
In the spring. They say large trade car
! be furnished from the surrounding farm
ing country and the new mines down tn,
river.