Adams County news. [volume] (Ritzville, Wash.) 1898-1906, 1898-06-29
NEWS OF THE NORTHWEST
ITEMS FROM THREE STATES.
President of the Nez Perez Tribe
Dead-Large Check Closes Fa-
nous Mining Case-New Bonds in
Demand-ScaIe in Fruit Trees.

unioniZe all carpenter shops IN that city
j. w. Batcheller has named new vari-
ETY. of strawberries the Admiral Dewey
On Tuesday the BakerBoyer bank of
Walla Walla had calls amounting to $780,
600 for war bonds.
The ordinance to prohibit cows running
at large in Port Townsend was defeated
in the council by tie vote.
Rev. G. w. Morrison, pastor of the
United Presbyterian church of Oakesdale
will preach his farewell sermon Sunday
morning. He has been transferred to
Northern India.
Fruit Inspector Chew reports finding
many trees infested with tine scale in
Walla Walla county
A respectable young woman of Walla
Walla was assaulted on the street at 2
o'clock Tuesday morning. Two men at
tackled her, but she managed to break
away from them. She was going to call
a doctor for her sister, who had been
taken i'll.
A telegram received from Senator Will
son by United States Marshal Lie an
nounces that the general appropriation
bill carries with it an allowance of $4,000
for repairs on the United States peniten-
tiary on McNeil's island.
John Powell, formerly school clerk OF
Mount Vernon, has been held for trial in
$500 bail for raising school warrant
from 81 80 to $9i 80. In default OF
bonds he went to Jail Powell was ar
rested in Michigan.
The long talkedof road from Grants
Pass to the Galice creek mines will prob.
ably be an accomplished fact before long.
The citizens of Grants Pass have contrib
uted sufficient funds, so that, with some
assistance from the county court, the
thoroughfare can be constructed. 1t will
prove of much advantage.
After the ball game in Seattle Sunday
while standing on street corner talking
to friend, Umpire NIclnerny was as
saulted by well-dressed man, who had
been drinking, and was evidently angry
over the result of the game. Mr.. McIn-
erny defended himself vigorously, and had
a shade the best of the argument No ar
rests were made.
Phil Dressler and Ray Wheaton were
riding in a lumber wagon across the Will
son creek bridge at Willapa one day last
week, when the stringers broke, and the
wagon and horses were precipitated into
the water. One horse escaped, but the
other was drowned. Drissler and Wheat
on escaped with slight bruises. The wagon
IaI
Cured.
Contracts are being made for this sea-
sons hop crop around North Yakima, at
o. and 81 cents. Only few in the val
ley have as yet made any contracts. louis
Lachmund has recently contracted with
bales of '9S hops, and with Swamp Miller
of the same place for $50 bales at 10
cents, it is reported.
Squirrels are bad west of Tekoa The
farmers are resorting to all kinds of meth
DDS to get rid of them. Summer fallow-
ing drove the little pests into the winter
wheat and they have multiplied rapidly.
A safe way to get rid of them is to
poison some wheat in the early spring
and place it at the holes. All other meth
DDS appear to be unsatisfactory as well
as expensive.
One span of the railroad bridge across
the Clearwater at Kendrick, has been laid
and the piers made ready for others.
c. o. Watkins and 7. C. Hensel, well
known reservation farmers, were in Lew
iston soliciting funds to aid in building
a new road over the reservation to Sol
der Meadows on Craig mountain. The
proposed road will run to the Goodnight
farm, near the head of Tammany Hol-
low, across the Sweetwater creek to the
Meadows.
Henry Owens, the freighter, escaped the
destruction of his entire outfit and load
of freight through the breaking of 20
gallon can of sulphuric acid the other day
while en- route from Lewiston to Grange
vile. He discovered smoke issuing from
the wagon and by hard work saved the
team and wagon from destruction.
James Swensen, an old citizen of Gen
tile valley, was found dead in his wagon
near Georgetown, Bear Lake county. He
had started to mill in his usual good
health. A traveller met his team with the
driver apparently asleep, but when he
stopped to awaken him, discovered that
he was dead. Mr.. Swensen was rs years
old
Judge Mayhem held court in chambers
ct Murray last week, and made perma-
lent the temporary injunction granted
! short time ago restraining the county
.oasurer from paying the semi-annual
interest due July on the bonded debt of
shoshone county. 1t is supposed that the
next move will be an action on the part
of the bondholders to compel the payment
of interest, which will bring up the case
on its merits in the district court.
E. C. Payne, with a crew of nine men,
left Sand Point on the steamer Hustler
for Priest River, taking along a consider
able amount of camp equipage. Mr.
Payne and crew will spend the summer
between Pend d'Oreille river and Priest
lake in the work of appnising such por-
tons of the Northern Pacific timber lands
as are surveyed and accepted. With this
work completed the valuable timber on
these lands will be available.
Charles P. Ean has been appointed to
a generalship in the army. General Egan