Adams County news. [volume] (Ritzville, Wash.) 1898-1906, 1898-06-08
THE NORTHWEST IN BRIEF
GLANCE OVER THREE STATES.
Many of the Heaviest Wool Growers
Are Having Their Crops Secured
at Home-Shipment of Mules for
the Recommendations Here and
There.

the ment-ltems mere IN"
There.
Vineland is to have a $4,000 school
building
Snow is four feet deep in the Mount
Baker district.
'ood Ignite coal has been found in the
KlNkitat pass.
Ex-confederates took part in Memorial
services at ColfaX.
A company of volunteers has been or
gained at Goldendale.
Stephen Bloomfield died last week neal
Pomeroy, aged SS years.
McGregor Brothers are taking l5,OOt
sheep from Colfax to the Occur d'Alent
reservation for the summer.
lie Roi stock is offered at $685. and thu
minority is trying to unload before thu
new managers take charge.
The English syndicate controls more
than half of the lie Roi mining stock, 81
the recent sale cannot be defeated.
The young corporal of Company F wht
refused to enlist at Camp Rogers was
hanged in effigy on his return to Dayton
Six warrants just called by the city
treasurer at Cheney have run so long thai
the interest amounts to two-thirds of thu
principal.
Grace seminary in Centralia will prob
ably be opened soon. 1t has been CLOSED
two years. The building is owned by thu
Baptists and cost $4,000.
Many of the heaviest woolgrowers O.
the state are having their crops secured
at home. They are storing it until thu
fall, in anticipation of higher prices
The organization of a company of vol
uRteers is proceeding rapidly in North
port, under the direction of Capt. A. G
Ferrandini. The company will be known
as the Stevens county volunteers.
Leonard Gould, l6-year old boy, ant
three companions were horse racing
through the streets of Spokane the othel
evening, when young Gould was thrown
to the ground. The horse ridden by on,
of the others boys stepped on his head
crushing the life out of him instantly.
Negotiations, which may in very
short time lead to the consolidation ant
sale of all the street car lines in Seattle
are in progress and may be closed up a
any time. The capitalists who are inter
ested in what is known as the Traction
company, of Tacoma, are said to be be
hind the deal.
The formal dedication of the Whitman
monument occurred at Wailatpu, Mem
orial day. Rev. f. NJ. Condit delivered
the dedicatory address. DIR. Myron Eelli
and President Penrose of Whitman col
lege made short addresses. Over 200 PEG
pie from Walla Walla and vicinity wit
messed the ceremonies.
The Olympia committee, appointed te
present flag to the cruiser Olympia, ha:
been advised from Washington that the
navy department will not object to the
gift. However, it is recommended that
the presentation be deferred until the
cruiser visits Olympia, which will be al
the close of the war.
At Ilwaco, joker hoisted the Spanish
flag over the Stars and Stripes on the
flagpole of a prominent store, and before
the proprietor knew what was going on
an angry mob entered his place and
threatened all manner of punish ment
The situation was soon explained and the
matter adjusted by hauling down the vel
low offender.
H. f. Burnett, arrested in Spokane on a
charge of murder committed in California
20 years ago, was well known in Colfax
where he worked two months as brake
man on the Colfax- Moscow freight train
Burnett boarded with j. o. Housekeeper
while there, and Mr.. Housekeeper speaks
in the very highest terms of him. He
went by the name of Ed Burnett at Col
fax.
The last chance for a new trial for
Charles Creams, who was convicted in
Tacoma of numbering a half breed woman
named Celia Hansen, has expired. After
being found guilty he was sentenced to
twenty years in the penitentiary. 1t was
expected his attorneys would apply for a
rehearing within the specified time, which
has now expired. This was not done and
the prosecution has applied for the CON-
mitment of the prisoner.
Montana.
Ranch hands get $35 month in the
valleys.
The Deer Lodge penitentiary is now
lighted by electricity.
Only six per cent of Montana's first call
for troops was rejected.
Sheep owners are confident of a fair
crop of lambs and big yield of wool.
William Jackson, one of the surviving
scouts connected with Reno's forces at
the massacre of the Little Big Horn in
1876, was in Great Falls the other day
from Helena, on his way to the Blackfeet
reservation. He is accompanied by Cross
Guns, chief of the Blackfeet Indian police.
"Dutch Harry" one of the best known
old timers in western Montana, has Joined
the outfit of packers that is preparing to
leave for st. Louis. There are several
Others whose applications have been ac-
copied. Fred Morrill, has been offered a
position by wire and will probably ac-
cept the offer if satisfactory arrangements
can be made.
John S. Warn, of Alpine, contemplates
building a fiat boat about September l
at Judith landing and sailing down the
old Missouri river to Omaha to attend the
great fair; he will take eight tons of
rich ore from the Blue Jay, Copper Crown
Dixon and Ella. These leads are his prop
erty and of his own discovery; he mill
take the ore to the Omaha smelter for