Adams County news. [volume] (Ritzville, Wash.) 1898-1906, 1899-10-11
OO|NGS THROUGH THE WEEK
NEWS OF THE WORLD IN BRIEF
Complete Review of the Events for
the Past Week In This and Foreign
Lands-sum marised From the Lat
est Dispatches.

Laurier states positively that SO far
no offer has been made by Canada to
| send troops to South Africa.
Colonel Harry c. Kessler, OF the First
Montana volunteers, will come home a
brigadier general.
The Mallory steamer Leona was burn.
ed and sunk at her wharf In East river
Saturday. The cargo consisted of to-
baco and 5000 bales of cotton, and val.
ued at s2500e0 to 100000, is a total
loss, and the boat is little better than
wreck
The Croker Estate Company, which
Is composed Of the heirs of the late
Chas. Crocker, has made q gift to the
employees of the Southern Pacific rail.
road Of the Crocker homestead at Sac.
ramento, to be used as a hospital.
Gen. Otis has informed the war de-
partment of the arrival at Manila of the
transport Athenian with a detachment
of the Third Cavalry and horses. There
were no casualties on the voyage.
Forty men employed at Cramps, rep
resenting various trades, today Joined
the striking employees of that company
There is likelyhood Of a serious wat
er famine in Honolulu If rains do not
come soon. The water in the Nauna-
nu reservoirs is lower than 1t has been
for years
1t is announced in st. Paul that the
Great Northern is figuring on the build.
Ing of Its air line between st. Paul and
the Canadian boundary at once. The
information comes from contractors
who have been asked to furnish estI.
mates.
An epidemic of small pox has brok.
en- out on Orcas island to the terror of
the Inhabitants, and with the result of
completely stopping communication
Herewith.
Orders have been issued sending the
Forty-sixth and Thlrty-ninth regiments
OF volunteers-to Vancouver barracks as
quickly as possible. The Forty-sixth
was recruited at Fort Crook, Neb., and
the Thirty-ninth at South Farmingham,
Mass.
The United States CONSUL at Daw-
of state that W. H. Sutton, who died at
Dawson City last spring. has been iden-
titled by photograph furnished by the
attorneys of the young mans family,
who live in Minnesota.
The transports City of Para, Zealan-
dia, and Valencia have sailed for Man
lila with the Twenty-ninth regiment
and large number of recruits from
San Francisco.
The war department has written to
the governor of Idaho informing him
that the state authorities must make
to control the Couer
d'Alene mining situation, as 1t is deslr.
as soon as possible.
Captain Bodfish. OF the steam @haler
Beluga, who has Just returned to San
Francisco from the Artic. reports that
some kind OF consumption is epidemic
among the Indians.
The big steel ship. Edward Sewell,
just launched from the yard Of ler
builders. Arthur Sewell & Company.
Bath, Me-, Is the ninth one of the feet
built by the Sewells and is the fourth
steel vessel constructed by the firm.
A logger going up to camp on the
Shelton Southwestern railroad one day
last week, threw his blankets off and
they rolled under the wheels, ditching
a number of cars. Now Superinten-
dent Kneeland's fiat has gone forth |
stopping everybody from riding on the
train. even to the logging-camp moguls.
The immense log raft which left Sc
attle few weeks ago in tow OF the
steamer Czarina, and which was lost
off the coast and found few days ago
off Port Hartford, was towed into San
Francisco not much the worst for wear
and practically intact.
Visitors to the Spokane Exposition
this year are more than pleased with
the entire affair. II is an exposition In
every sense OF the word and no longer
could be called fruit fair. All the de-
partments are well represented. and
there is no room to spare anywhere. |
The music and the vaudeville attract |
ions make the program very fine. Ev.
cry one is pleased with the treatment
given visitors by the people of Spokane,
and by the management of the exposi-
ton.
When the transport Pennsylvania
arrives with the First Washington.
volunteers they will be given royal
reception by the Red Cross association |
assisted by the citizens executive ccm-
mittee. Through the generosity of The
executive committee the steamer Caro-
line has been placed at the disposal OF
the Red Cross association and will be
kept in readiness for duty at Jackson
street wharf.