Adams County news. [volume] (Ritzville, Wash.) 1898-1906, 1898-08-03
IDAHO.

The crop outlook all over Idaho county
is the finest ever known.
Miss Effie E. Plummer, the nominee for
school superintendent of LAtah county
on the populist ticket, is perhaps the first
lady in Idaho nominated in regular con-
vention for county Office.
The athletic association Of Sand Point
has Just obtained a new lease of its club
room for six months and elected new Of
ficers. The club is in a flourishing con-
dition.
The North Fork Indians are returning
from their annual festivities at Lapwai.
The city council of Kendrick is figuring
on purchasing about 1000 feet Of hose for
fire protection. The water works will
soon be completed and II fire plugs have
been put in so that immediate action will
be taken to have adequate fire protection.
The Southern Idaho Fruit Growers As
sociation met in Boise the other day. The
new freight rates were read as follows:
One dollar per hundred on green fruit to
Chicago, 90 cents to all Missouri river
points, and IS cents to Denver. 1t was
stated that the Union Pacific offered to
furnish refrigerator cars free.
William Grimes of Clark's Fork lost his
team of horses, harness, wagon and load
OF lumber by the horses becoming unman-
ageable while crossing the stream on a
ferry and backing off the boat. The lum-
Der drifted to point below, but every
thing else was lost.
d. w. Snider, charged with having
broken into the postofiice at Montpelier,
was bound over to the United States
grand jury, his bond being fixed at $500.
Messrs. Vollmer, wilkins and Piper
have arranged to erect at Spalding in the
near future storage and forwarding
house on a spur track running to the
river. The building will be l00x30O feet,
and will accommodate both steamboat and
railroad traffic.
A. j. Macnab of Salmon City, has re-
ceived telegram stating that his son
James had received his commission as
second Lieutenant, and was assigned to the
Twenty third regiment, United States in
fantry, under General Coppinger, depart
ment of the west.
The board Of pardons has granted a
pardon to William Franks, who was sent
to the penitentiary from Owyhee county
for seven years in 1904, under conviction
on the charge of assault with intent to
commit murder. The pardon will take
effect on August 2. Allowing for his good
time Franks had but nine months to serve.
The supreme court has denied the Pc
tition for a rehearing in the case Of Jack
Davis Diamond Field Jack) under SEN
tence to hang in Cassia county for the
murder OF Cummings and Wilson, the
sheep herders. With this decision Davis
last hope, so far as the courts Of Idaho
are concerned, vanishes. The Board Of
pardons is the only power between him
and the hangman, unless an appeal should
be taken to the United States supreme
court, which is not likely.
The report of the superintendent Of the
Idaho asylum for the insane to Governor
Steunenberg for the quarter ending July
Is makes a favorable showing, and re-
fleets credit on the state administration.
The cost Of the care and treatment per
patient per day was 43 IA cents. This
covers the cost Of provisions, fuel, cloth
ing, bedding, new furniture as needed, re-
pairs to buildings, medicines and services
Of all those engaged in the service Of the
asylum in any way, including the
amounts paid to the directors