Adams County news. [volume] (Ritzville, Wash.) 1898-1906, 1898-02-23
THE NORTHWEST IN BRIEF
NEWS ITEMS OF THREE STATES.
Wheat Shipments From Tacoma
to LewistOn-MOney Distributed
Among the Crow Indians in Mon
tans-A Glance All Around.

A lodge OF Knights OF Labor has been
organized in Colfax, with Is members.
There are six evaporating plan now
in operation in Whatcom.
The Fairhaven salmon cannery is to
double its capacity.
About $50 bales OF hops are still in
growers hands in Lewis county. Few, ii
any, new yards have been planted.
The city council of Seattle has declared
| forfeited the Frost street cable franchise,
the company having failed to run cars
according to the terms of its franchise.
Whatcom county commissioners have
! let the contract for the Blaine.Ferndale
road. II calls for the construction of
seven miles of road at cost of over $l3,.
600.
There were 27 actions for divorce com
menced in the superior court OF Clarke
county during the year 1897, all of which
We're granted. This il a fair record, when
it is considered that there were 236 mar
riages in the county during the year.
There is little likelihood of an ice fam.
inc in North Yakima during the sum
mer. II is estima ted that probably 25OO
tons OF ice were put up during the sea
son.
The customs receipts at Everett for 1897
were 1880. The largest month was Dc.
tober, with $l6.26S, and the smallest was
August, with $73s. January, 1903, is
larger than any month in 1897, and more
than three times as large as the CORES.
ponding month of last year.
The socialists in the vicinity of Palouse
are active and in Latah county, Idaho,
Just across the state line from Palouse,
meetings are being held in all the school
houses and organizations of the social
democracy are being made in every pre-.
cinct.
Work has been resumed on the railroad
extension at Aberdeen, a settlement hay
| ing been reached with the city regarding
street crossings. Timber and piles are be.
ing cnt for the bridge across the Wish
kah. The site for the new depot, near the
Pacific hotel, is about filled in.
With the constantly increasing crimn-
al business in Stevens county the county
Jail has grown TO be altogether too small
for the accommodation Of the prisoners,
who now number eight. There are only
two iron cells and two wooden cells. be-
| sides the main room. The county com
missiOners will be called on at the next
session TO enlarge the structure. The old
court house has also fallen far short of
the demands Of the county, and an old
| brick building has been rented by the
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conda Tor the Yukon.
The report OF the state recorder oi
bmnds shows l3.Ooo now OF record ioVV
having been filed In 1897. Many are dead
and the recorder recommends That steps
be taken to secure them by other STOCK
growers.
The university building commission mas
awarded the contract Tor the construction
OF the new university building at MIS-
soula to George Dildine' his bid beng
1879. The contract for the plumbing
and the heating and ventilating plant was
awarded to the Missoula Mercantile Com
pany for $500.
Antoine and William Trottier have
been arrested at Fort Benton on com
plant charging them with having Illegally
obtained the state bounty on wolf skins.
The complaint was sworn out by Harry
Lund, the stock inspector and detective.
The Trottiers have presented 1876 hides
for punching, swearing that the animals
were killed within the limits Of Choteau
county II is believed by the detective
that they were killed outside OF the eonn'