Adams County news. [volume] (Ritzville, Wash.) 1898-1906, 1898-02-16

served as county commissioner OF Old Al
turas county for the years 1872 and 1873,
and had as his associates the late Hon.
d. b. Ethel and Hon. William Malally.
Mr.. Markey was universally respected
wherever known.
Work has begun on the Methodist
church building at Liberty, Mont.
A plan is on foot to secure the exten-
sion of the railroad from Dorsey to White
Sulphur Springs.
The total amount Of warrants, principal
and interest, redeemed by the state treas
urer of Idaho during January, was $67,.
692.55. OF these $50,3S494 were general
fund warrants
Auditor Scott has been issuing war
mnts to the amount of $4l59.4l, with in
terest from August 8, 1893, to Bingham
county. This is Bannock county's pro-
portion of the old Bingham county debt
to old Alturas county.
During 1897 Latah county warrants
were redeemed as follows: General
county fund, $l7S7.66; road fund, $4,-
95335; bridge fund. $l272.7S; school fund,
$35, 1856; hospital fund, $I10O; current
expense fund, $3O,l2s.7s; bond interest
fund, Sl6O4.40; total, $77,772.63.
From statistics prepared for the rail
way company it is learned that the pro-
duction of wheat in the Genesee valley
for 1897 is estimated to have been $780,
600 bushels. OF this amount over 435,-
900 bushels have been shipped. The bal
ance is in the warehouses and in the
hands of the farmers.
A letter has been received at Lewiston
from Senator Shoup stating that the
treasury drafts for the next semiannual
Indian payment would reach the agency
about February 20. The amount disburs-
ed at that time will be $l80,0O0.
Two bull elk were seen within the town
limits of Sheridan the other day. 1t is
supposed that they came from the direc-
tion of Virginia City.
A Lake basin wool grower says the
winter thus far has been the best for
stock of all kinds since the memorable
open winter of 1856. He reports the
ranges in his section entirely free from
snow and says the sheep are in splendid
condition. Unless there should be some
unprecedented cold weather and heavy
snowstorms followed by chinook and
then more cold weather to crust the snow,
the range losses this winter will be light.
Ernest Kimmel had a miraculous es.
cape from death the other day. He was
at work in the big raise in the Broadwa-
ter mine at Neihart, when a slab of rock
weighing over half a ton, fell upon him
without warning, from the roof. He was
crushed to the floor oil the tunnel, but
the rock fell in such manner that its
full weight did not rest upon him. A
fellow workman, Jerry Keegan, came to
his assistance at once and pried the rock
up enough to release Kimmel. 1t was
found that his left shoulder was broken,
and he is now in the hospital.
Thomas Welch, half-breed Indian,
who was convicted of murder in the Sec
ond degree in Custer count, has been TAX
ell to the state penitentiary, where he
will serve 20-year term. Welch was
associated with George F. Geddes in the
murder of Winnie Brown, a young Tongue
river rancher. Brown was killed by a
colored man named Dixon, who had been
urged to make away with him by Geddes
and Mrs. Geddes. At the time of the
shooting Geddes was in Chicago, but he
was arrested for completely, tried last
month and found guilty of murder in the
second degree, and sentenced to 90 years
in the penitentiary. Geddes is the son
of a wealthy New Yorker. who is prom
inently connected with the Chicago, Mil
Maukee & St Panl road .