Adams County news. [volume] (Ritzville, Wash.) 1898-1906, 1898-03-16
THE NEWS OF THREE STATES
GENERAL BUSINESS POINTERS.
Columbia River Flshermen Receive
Better Prices Than for Several
Years-Idaho stockmen Becoming
Apprehensive on the Subject of
Grass-Items From All Around.


A carload oi goats was shipped INTO
Montesano from Portland the other day,
and the ANIMALS Will be put on ranch
near mere TO help clear OIL the land.
south bend business house IS getting
ready to ship 6OOo gallons OF fresh Wash
hgton oysters to Klondike. They will
pack them IN hve-gallon cans and freeze
them soiid. The oysters Will come from
Wiilapa harbor, Oyster bay and Samish.
fuoilc improvements now proposed in
seattle, exclusive OF the construction OF
the CEDAR river water system, aggregate
III cstimated cost almost $2oo,oOo.
Inc aetioh OF the board OF Stevens
county commissioners IN raising the sa-
loon license from $500 to 5000 is causing
considerable comment.
columbia river fish buyers have become
involved IN rate raising contest as
result OF which the salmon market on the
iower river eNhioits decidedly bullish ten
dencies, and the few fishermen who are at
WORK are receiving oetter prices Tor theif
eatches thah at any previous time IN sew
eraI years.
FRANKLIN Z. Purdy, one OF the Oldest
pioneers OF Mason county,'who has resided
Oh the Skokomish river nearly halt
century, IS dead. lie had been In falling
health Tor TWO years. lie represented the
county IN several territorial legislatures,
and was one ni the charter members OF
the Union Clty Masonic lodge, under
whose auspices he Will be buried Sunday.
Inc hrst gun Tor the defense OF Puget
SOUND mas arrived at Marrowstone Point,
where the United states foftifications are
III course OF construction. Inc gun VIII
De placed IN position as speedily az pos
sible. The gun Is OF lo-inch callber and
IL ~ stated that ahother gun Will arrive
III io DAYS
lhe Indications are favom bic Tor live
~ time IN Cowhtz county. Inc outlook
Tor shingles Will put IN operation all OF
the nine shingle mills at Castle Rock, Sill.
yer Lake and ostrander. In fact, all ex.
eept TWO or three are already gong mli
time, and by the first OF next month
these wiii be IN opemtion too.
information has been received to the ef-
iect that Fort townsend VIII DC reoccu'
pied by soldiers within the next six weeks.
Captain w. w. Robinson, assistant quar-
termaster, U. y. A., has arrived and is
engaged inspecting the post and nothing
needed repairs. short time before the
post was vacated, three years ago. fire
destroyed the large mess hall, and the
erection OF another will be begun at once.
Lawrence Lyons, an old resident OF Van
eouver, died at his home IN this city the
other day. MIR. Lyons was S2 years OF
age "ho went W S~rhe county IN ,o's'
and came to America in ls49. He en-.
listed in the artillery service from New
York in the same year. and served 10
years. participating in Indian wars In
Florida. and later in Oregon. In 1859 he
entered the service of the United States
in the ouarterma ster's department at Van.
co,ver ba ,racks and hold this nositior nm.
Ill incapacitated by age. since which time
he has lived A retired life.
Hon. Charles Henry Aver. Judge of the
superior court of Tburston county. whose
death occurred at his home in OLYMPIA.
Wednesday nipht. was born ON a farm
near the historic town of Saybrook. Conn.
Anr;l Of 1899 the third member Of the
family of five children of Edwin Aver.
His bovbood davs were passed on the
farm and in the educational institutions
of the vicinity. and at the ape of 20 he
graduated from savbrook institute The
newt wear he entered the law denartment
of ynle where he graduated in 1894. In
las5 vounp Aver settled /, Olymnia
where he onened law office
Two men who set out from Williston,
North Dakota, short time ago, intend.
ing to reach the Klondike, gave up the
trip at Fort Benton and are now engaged
there building boat in which to foat
down the Missouri river to point nearer
home.
Charles Koenig, who left Anaconda
about two years ago for Mexico. has re-
turned from Vera Cruz. Mr.. Koenig has
been dealing in horses and cattle, making
shipments from Kansas and Texas to the
interior of Mexico, and has become SO
thoroughly adapted to the customs of the
southern country that he will return and
make Mexico his home. He left the city
in company with Chas. King, who has a
coffee plantation near Vera Cruz, and who