Adams County news. [volume] (Ritzville, Wash.) 1898-1906, 1898-04-20
NEWS Of TIE NORTHWEST
wAsH1NGToN,1DAHo MONTANA
Cattle Owners Giving More Attention
to the Improvement of Their
Herds-New Telephone Line in
Idaho-Montana Men Who Wish
to Go to War-News of NeighbOrs
who Are In the KiOndike Coun-
try.

Asotin county cattle owners are giving
more attention to improving their herd
than they have ever before.
Sunnyside farmers, in Yakima county
are all busy with their spring work, ant
quite number are preparing to sow larg'
areas Of alfalfa.
Farming is well advanced in the Bick
elton country and some are about don't
seeding. Sheep. camps report good lamb
ing this spring.
The organization of company OF vol
unteers has been completed in New
Whatcom by the mastering of 80 mem
bers, SO Of whom are sons of veterans.
Cargo shipments of lumber from
Gray's Harbor during the month Of
March were: Hoquiam, IL cargoes, 1853,
600 feet; Aberdeen, cargoes, 2,l75,OOC
feet; Cosmopolis, cargoes, 2,02O,OOC
feet; total, S,748,0O0 feet.
Treasurer Huntley Of Centralia has just
issued his quarterly report. The city has
$3O,875.44 in warrants outstanding and
$4,000 in bonds sold for the purchase oi
the electric light plant two years since
This is the entire debt Of the city
amounting to $43,675.44.
Six healthy, husky, energetic Salvation
Army officers will leave Spokane May 4
for the Klondike. They 60 on a relief
expedition, but one not like those that
have preceded it and failed. Theirs is to
carry the gospel to the people of the Yu-
en-; their mission to relieve and lessen as
far as possible the evil influences of a
wild frontier life.
Fees were collected by Clarke county
officers during March and turned into the
treasury as follows: Auditor, $234.25
clerk, $l30O5. One hundred and ten in
str,iments were recorded by the county
auditor during the month, as follows:
Deeds, patents, bonds for deeds, ETC., 60;
mortgages, liens, etc, 80; mortgage satis-
factions, 9; miscellaneous, IA.
There were rs deaths in Seattle last
month, number larger than has ever
before been recorded in any one month,
except in March. 1891, when there were
SO Deaths 1t is also important to note
that ls people succumbed to pneumonia
alone. Seventy-one cases of infectious
diseases were reported, as follows: Diph-
iberia, Is; scarlet fever, IL; measles, "a;
typhoid fever, a; whooping cough, 7.
Thomas IL. Cavanaugh, formerly sur
veyor general of Washington, now at De-
troit, Mich. has written a letter which
has been filed with the president tender
ing his services in the event of war with
Spain. General Cavanaugh desires an ap,
pointment as captain and assistant quar-
termaster. At present the president and
the war department are giving no heed
to the very numerous offers from all
over the country of those who desire to
be officers in the coming struggle, for
peace will be hoped for until the last
hour.
Jesse Kerns, being of mechincal turn
Of mind, has conceived a plan to capture
the willy sea otter. In the shop of n. s.
Sorenson, in Hoquiam, he has built a
uniuqe craft 1t is in the form of big
log, "a feet long, with both ends tapering
down to one foot. 1t bulges out in the
middle, large enough for man to stand
up, for the purpose of shooting the otter.
In the center is also a propelling and
steering apparatus.
The lumber industry in Tacoma is
thriving. The mills are humming, filling
orders from the east and locally for car
building material, and orders from coast
wise and foreign ports for general mate
rial. The building of thousands of rail-
road cars throughout the country has
created a very strong demand for the fir
L. H., in, NV
instances accepted contracts for heavy or,
ders from various roads.
Plans have been accepted for $4,000
theater at Lewiston
A telephone line from st. Anthony to
Dubois will in all probability become a
materialized fact in the near future.
The plans and specifications for the
Aw Episcopal church at Boise are about
completed.
Elaborate preparations are being made
at Albion for the organization of an ar
illery company under the direction Of
Colonel r. s. Wood and others.
Early Friday morning fire destroyed
Pages hotel at Wardner with its con-
tents. A man supposed to have been John
Gallagher lost his life in the flames. The
loss is estimated at $35y 900, insurance S.
600.
Judge Stewart at Caldwell has sen.
fenced Joseph Sprawl to two years in the
penitentiary. Sprawl was indicted sew
eral years ago for stealing a valise from
q train at Payette, but he escaped and
was not apprehended until recently.
Very important developments are TAX
ing place in upper Boise, where the Twin
Springs Placer Company and the Upper
Boise Hydraulic Company have been put.
ting in large plants for working the high
bars marking the old channel of the
stream.
Notwithstanding several thousand nab
bits were destroyed in the vicinity OF Al
bion during the winter, the foothills
northeast of town seem TO have few
thousand left, says the Times
DR.. ]. d. Puckett has left Boise fol
Runnells, Iowa, where he is organizing Q
. colony for settlement on the Payette riv
er, near Emmett. All the necessary de
tails for the reclamation Of the land un
der the Carey act have been arranged ant
work on the proposed irrigation system
will begin this summer.
John K Clark. who left Kendncl
March II for Dawson City, is thought u
have persisted in the avalanche on Chill
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