Adams County news. [volume] (Ritzville, Wash.) 1898-1906, 1898-04-13
NOTES OF THE NORTHWEST
IDAHO, WASHINGTON, MONTANA
Slight Injury to Fruit and Grain in
the Inlnnd Empire--Work Begun
on a Ditch on the AsOtin-Rc-
trenchment of City Expenses at
HeIena-survey of the Birch
Creek Canal.


la is dead.
Cowlitz county has IA shingle and six
saw mills.
Eastern families are settling in Puyal.
lup at the rate of one and more per day
More are coming largely from Michigan
and Wisconsin.
The money order business of the Che
halls postoilice is growing. II is nearly
twice AS heavy now AS when Mr. Lillpop
took the Office. 1t amounts TO from Sl700
to $4,000 week. Mr.. Lillpop says he
thinks it will soon average $1,000 a week
the year around.
Wheat receipts at Tacoma for March
have amounted to $50 cars, according to
Inspector Wright's report for the month,
The total receipts to date, since Septem-
ber |, amount to 96l6 cars, or 7,269,60S
bushels. 1t is estimated that about 81
100000 bushels will yet be shipped before
the season closes.
Word has been received at Vancouver
of the death at Dyea of Sergeant Major
Kelly of the Fourteenth infantry. He
lied on the evening Of March 10 of cere-
brospinal meningitis, after an illness of
only three days. A letter from Dyea says
that he was strong, robust and healthy
up to the hour of being taken with the
disease.
At meeting of the board of directors
of the Y. NJ. C. A. at New Whateom a
few nights ago it was decided to employ
a secretary to take complete charge Of the
institution for one month and see if it
could not be put on substantial enough
basis to pay the running expenses of the
building.
For the past two weeks, or ever since
the heavy frost passed over the country,
there has been general cry among GER
tain few that the fruit crop Of the Inland
Empire was ruined by the frost. and that
even the fall sown wheat was badly dam.
aged. Several of the prominent commits
sion houses of Spokane, who have CORE
spondents in all of the tributary districts,
have taken the trouble to thoroughly in
vestigate the matter, and their finding is
that not only is the fruit crop not mate
utihd2tas but titt iif Et'tiph'
the frost was more of help than hin;
drance.
John p. Anderson, more familiarly
"Peto" Anderson, one of the Puget sound
pioneers, died the other day at the home
OF his daughter, Mrs. Lee Rogers in Ar.
lington. Mr.. Anderson was an old steam
boat captain on the sound, and served a
term several years ago as surveyor of Sno-
homish county. He was one of the path
finders of that county, being familiar with
every square mile OF its territory, and for
seveml years has followed timber cruising
and private surveying. He leaves quite a
large family of children, all grown, his
wife having died several years ago. He
was about 6l years old.
William Jones of Walla Walla, one Of
the heaviest grain operators in the Inland
Empire, was in Tacoma the other day and
in conversation with a reporter said;
There is little to say concerning the
wheat situation except that the winter
wheat crop has come through in fine
shape. We shall have an increased area
it NIftt va w VI AZ lVt tNht WV
last year. There is considerable grain yet
unsold, and some Of the large holders who
have been very bullish since early last
season are still carrying their wheat al
though the price is now about 10 cents, as
compared with so cents last fall'
Idaho.
A racing meeting is to be held at Weis-
er beginning June /.
The q. S. l.. Railway Co. has just paid
$4,000 delinquent taxes into the Blaine
county treasury, as the result Of recent
court decision.
The Lewiston Light and Power Com
pany has commenced work on the CON
struction of ditch on Asotin creek. The
ditch will supply power for their new
plant, which will be in operation July l..
The site of the power plant is 10 miles
from Lewiston, in the state Of Washing
ton.
There is great stir in business circles
at Idaho Falls, and the people there are
anticipating the best season in long
time. A great many buildings are being
put up and others are in contemplation
The recent inAux>of people into the sur.
rounding country has been large and the
tide Of settlement continues unabated.
At Agatha, about eight miles above the
mouth of the Potlatch, there is a market
ing place for the farmers of the Cotton
wood district. and about eight miles fur.
ther up is the Big canyon, through which
entrance is made to Cold Springs prairie.
At this point, on the extension of the road
up this canyon, will be a stimulus to the
growing Of wheat in that section. Already
several grain companies have had their
agents along the river, looking for loca-
tions for warehouses;. and as soon as work
is started on the road that will be built
up the river, the work OF building ware
houses will commence.
There is small band Of Indians living
in Payette county, near the mouth Of Dry
Buck, about a score in all They have
been there IL or IL years. Two Of them
are Snake River Indians, and the rest are
supposed 10 be Nez Perces. just why
they located at that isolated point is not
known. The Indians themselves will not
explain the matter, but the supposition IL
that their settling there was result Of
some feud. Two OF them named Charlie,
father and son, each had an eye punched
out by the tribe, supposedly for refusing
to go ON the warpath at the time Of the
Joseph outbreak. The elder Charlie died