Adams County news. [volume] (Ritzville, Wash.) 1898-1906, 1898-07-06
NEWS OF THE NORTHWEST
ITEMS FROM THREE STATES
A Missionary DrOwned-Severe
FrOsts Around MOscOw-A Mys-
teriOus Murder in SpOkane-A
Round House Observation-Disclosures
ry Crop Good This Year.

Round House Observation-Disclosures
ry Crop Good This Year.
A waterspout struck the vicinity OF
Mission, in Kittitas county, few days
ago, striking near the residence of A. s.
Burbanks. The path visited by the storm
was torn up badly, and boulders weighing
as much as ton and half were tossed
about as if they were mere pebbles.
A large colony of Dunkards has just
reached the Yakima valley. The people
are from Pennsylvania, Nebraska and Da-
kota, where there are strong settlements
of Dunkards, and they are going to the
Yakima valley with the plan to build up
a strong settlement there.
Fire destroyed the round house of the
Central Washington railway at Coulee
City last week, together with engine No.
697. When discovered it had gained such
Roadway that all efforts to extinguish the
flames were unavailing. There having
been no fire around the building, the
opinion is that it was of incendiary origin.
The stockholders of the First National
bank of Waitsburg have resolved to go
into voluntary liquidation, and the local
stockholders with Levi Ankeny OF Walla
Walla have organized the Merchants
Bank of Waitsburg, with capital of
$25, 900, all subscribed and paid in. This
change was made for the reason that the
National bank with its capital of $4,000,
and thereby heavy taxes and other ex-
penses, has been an Improbable institu-
ton. The officers of the new bank will
probably remain the same as in the old
organization.
The last issue of the Colfax Gazette con-
tanned an interview with Sheriff Sims in
which the latter states he has discovered
positive evidence against Dakota Slim
which would prove him guilty of the MUIR
der of Orville Hayden. Two of the wit
nesses who would give this evidence, the
sheriff says, are in the Philippine islands
and two more in Alaska. A. M. Craven,
who defended "Slim," says he has equally
positive evidence that "Slim" was in an
other part of the world when the murder
was committed, but three of his witnesses
are, unfortunately, with Andree in his
balloon excursion to the north pole and
two others are in Cuba, but he will try
and have them here by the time the sher-
iff secures his witnesses from Manila and
Klondike.
Cheney is not famous for fish stories,
but here is one related by H. HI. Hubbard.
Last Friday he, in company with Clarence
Martin, +. p Fellows and others, tried a
novel method of catching fish in a small
pond. near Tyler. The outlet had dried
up, leaving great many pickerel en-
trapped in the pond, which was an acre OF
two in extent and perhaps three feet deep
at the deepest point. They were polling a
small raft along. The water being muddy,
the fish were unable to see, and in endeav-
oring to escape from the noise made by
the raft would jump out of the water,
light on the raft and become an easy prey
to the fishermen. In this manner one hun
bred or more pickerel about foot in
length were caught in a few moments.
The object of State Fish Commissioner
Titles visit to Dayton was to look up the
feasibility of establishing a fish hatchery
in Columbia County, probably on the up
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Enlistment of hatchery near the nat
ural Matching grounds. 1t is now the
practice to get the fish into pond nets and
hold them until ripe for spawn. Although
fairly successful, tnis plan is not satisfac-
tory. A hatchery is needed at the nat
ural spawning grounds, and if sufficient
number of fish can be obtained hatchery
will be established on the Tukanon this
season. The cost of such an enterprise
will be between five and six thousand dol
lars. Quite a force of men will be EN-
| ployed, twelve men being required to
handle 100000 spawn.
The almost nude body of young man
was found in the loft of small barn in
the eastern part of Spokane last Wednes-
day. 1t was in an advanced stage of de-
composition. The body plainly indicated
that murder had been committed, the
head having been crushed in with an iron
pin that lay near the body. From the
story told by Mrs. Ii. +. Mitchell, upon
whose premises the barn stood, it would
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