Adams County news. [volume] (Ritzville, Wash.) 1898-1906, 1899-01-25
WASHINGTON.

Whitman county has $99,044 cash in its
treasury.
A non treating club has been organized
in Wenatchee.
State warrants are now quoted at 81 per
cent premium.
A pickle factory is new industry re-
Gently established at Spokane.
The Tacoma council has reduced the
food supply of city prisoners to two meals
a day.
As result of the extreme cold spell at
Colville two cases of freezing are re-
ported.
The grip is prevalent among the Col
vile Indians, and many deaths are re-
ported.
Minnie Henfel has been appointed post
mistress at Gold Basin, on the Everett &
Monte Cristo railway, in place of Mrs.
Katie Moffatt.
A. j. Symes, now in the Colfax jail, is
condemned to nineteen years in the pen.
itentiary. This sentence has been con-
firmed by the supreme court.
DR.. Henry Wells Dewey has been re-
elected president of the Pierce County
Medical Society. The society has so
members, gain of IL during 1898.
Deputy Auditor Burnham, of Spokane
county, has computed that the delinquent
taxes of the Northwestern & Pacific Hy-
potheekbank amount to $79,04l.90.
Frank Mentally, found dead on ranch
near Edgewood, is believed to have been
poisoned by drinking water from well
into which poisoned rats had fallen.
The inaugural message of Mayor Rein.
hart, of Olympia, recommending repudia.
ton of certain city indebtedness, has had
the effect of defeating several proposed
real estate deals.
A boy named Delano, living at Meeker,
was playing With gun and cartridges,
when one of the latter exploded and frag-
ments of it hit him in the face, causing
the loss of one eye.
On January 10th the state land COM
missioner sold the timber on forty acres
of land in Skagit county for $3.50; also
eighty acres in Thurston county, one
mile from Olympia, for $l,l5O.
An Everett dentist is said to have en-
ployed professional hypnotist to assist
him while extracting tooth from a
young lady residing at Florence, and that
after the operation the young lady
claimed to have experienced no pain.
Father Chiniquy, a celebrated Catholic
ex-priest, died Jan. 10th at Ottawa, Ont.
Father Chiniquy took an active part in
the organization of the A. P. A., and is
said to be responsible for the story that
the Catholics connived at the assassina.
ton of Lincoln.
The collection of fines from the gam
blers and immoral women of Spokane for
the month of December netted the city
81 $3.50. This is one of the heaviest col
lections in the history of the city, being
only $22 less than October, 1898, the
record month.
Eric Freder, who had been under treat
ment at Rossland, entered coupe Sun
day evening, Jan. 18th, at Spokane, and
asked to be driven to hotel. When the
vehicle arrived at the hotel Freder was
dead. He had left Rossland to take a
train for Harrison, Idaho, to attend the
funeral of friend.
A dispatch was received at Walla Wal
la announcing the death of Allen Carlyle,
a member of Company I, First Washing
ton Volunteers, now stationed at Manila.
His death was caused by typhoid fever,
and he was i'll but a snort time. This is
the first time Company has been called
on to mourn since entering the service.
Young Carlyle was twenty years old.