Adams County news. [volume] (Ritzville, Wash.) 1898-1906, 1898-07-27
NORTHWEST MINOR NEWS
DOINGS IN THREE STATES.
Fruit and Hny Crops Large-De-
Montana COunties-The AppOr-
tiOnment of Idaho school Money
Looking for "a Missing Father.

A series of open air meetings is being
held under the auspices of the various
city churches for the benefit of the large
number OF men gathered at Ritzville in
the quest of employment.
| Farmers near Crandall are busy NOW
ing red top and timothy hay. There is
inot a very large acreage to cut at present.
Later on there will be heavy crop OF
red top and low land grass, equal to last
season.
Blaines school census this year makes
an excellent showing over last year. The
number of children of school age has in.
creased from 30 last year to 403. The
attendance last year in number of days
was 1900 and increased this year to
20 700.
The fruit crop in the orchards at Han
sens Ferry will he a large one. Farmers
along the river are pretty well through
haying. The yield per acre was about
three tons, and in few instances reached
over this.
The peaches are ripening so fast on
Purdy Fint's Parker Bottom ranch in
the Yakima valley that he cannot obtain
enough pickers to place them in shipping
boxes before they are too ripe, and in
consequence he is giving away ripe
peaches by the wagon load to less fortun.
ate friends and neighbors.
l.. II. Jansen has returned to EllenS-
burg from his old home in Kansas, where
he was summoned TO assist in a search
for his father, who disappeared early IN
December His search was unsuccessful
and it is the general opinion that his
father met foul play, AS he had $1,000
on his person when last seen and was in
the company of three strangers, presum-
ably land buyers
There has never been a time in the his.
tory of the Gray's Harbor country when
there was greater demand for lLborrr,
than now. The big jctty is short of men,
logging camps want them and Is. +. Teu'
pleton needs a crew OF dykers, all situi.
tions paying good wages, which shows
the country is moving as never before in
substantial manner. The stores are
doubling up their stocks and working
nights and Sundays to meet the demands.
Dr. ID. A. Smith, who put in a salmon
curing plant at Duckabush last year, will
enlarge the factory and engage in the
business more extensively. He took the
output OF the plant TO South Dakota last
winter and had no trouble in disposius
OF it at handsome profit. The doctor
is a native of Scotland, where he acquired
the knowledge necessary for the proper
curing of salmon, and now that the eN'
pertinent has proven successful he intends
going into it on a larger scale.
Practically all the warrants included
in the last call by the state treasurer
have been presented for payment, and no
new forgerics of warrants by George u.
Evans, exdeputy state auditor, have been
! discovered. All those included in this
call were known to be in the hands OF
various parties in Spokane, Seattle, Ia
coma and Portland, and were figured in
as forgerics when the matter was first
made public. The total amount of these
warrants thus far presented is 5000,
| $1,000 of which were paid by the treas
urer, but il is probable that more are
yet alloat
Sheep men estimate that there are over
100000 sheep in Blaine county.
The assessed valuation Of railroad prop.
erty in Idaho Falls has been reduced from
$4,000 TO $4,000 by the county board Of
equalization.
Heavy fruit traffic on the lower Snake
river has begun and the Steamer Almota
makes about 20 landings now on the trip
to liparia.
William 4. Hodgman Of HALEY and
Colonel n. j. Sharp of Challis have been
appointed as receiver and register Of the
HALEY land office.
Cottonwood will soon have a 80. barrel
-four mill. Mr. j. B. Crawford of Palouse
is putting in the plant, which will have
the latest improved machinery. Com
pleted the mill will cost about $4,000.
Montpelier-It is said that 10000
squirrel tails have been counted over at
the court house as a result of this year s
slaughter of these pests. The bounties
will amount to $500.
The Standpoint Mercantile Company
has boom of cedar logs at the mouth
Of Mill creek which contains 2y000, 600
feet. 1t is the largest boom ever seen
on lake Pend d'Oreille.
There seems TO be scarcity of laboring
men in St. Anthony at the present time.
Every body who wants work is busy and
it i. almost impossible to hire either me
chanics or laboring men.
The apportionment of state school
money re- entity made by State Superin-
tendent Anderson is as follows: Ada
county, $l57l.22; Bannock, $l70I.l4;
Bear Lake, $780, 60; Bingham, sl6s3.l6; !;
Blaine, $sl6O9; Boise, $is8.36; Canyon,
$I29456; Bassia, $4,000; Custer,
$25244; Elmore, $324.22; Fremont,
s240l 20; Idaho, $020.s0; Kootenai,
Sl252.sO; Latah, $2S7822; Lemhi,
$477.92; Lincoln. $322.55; Nez Perce,
$l5S3.9sj Oneida, $22ls.50; 0wyhee,
s36s.30; Shoshonc, $s76.9G; Washington,
$045.9s. Total, $25,026.G3.
The United States weather bureau eli.
mate and crop report from Moscow says
the rains were Of inestimable benefit 10
dry land crops, which had been greatly
in need Of moisture, but interfered ma
terially with haying. Much Of the cut
crop was damaged, and the standing nay
was badly lodged in many places. In
the extreme southeastern section the
rainfall was comparatively light and the
drought has been only partly relieved.
Grain Is for the most part in excellent