Adams County news. [volume] (Ritzville, Wash.) 1898-1906, 1899-05-17
WASHINGTON.

Davenport is having small building
boom.
Spring races will be held in Cheney
in May.
The State Bar Association will meet
at Tacoma in July.
Northport will expend $4,000 in build
| ing new sidewalks.
Many homesteaders are taking up
land in Franklin county.
Oakesdale is overrun with tramps
and professional beggars
Several new business houses have re-
Gently opened up in Elma.
Lincoln county is to have a new
town to be known as GRANVILLE.
School enrolment at Hoquiam Is
! 470, compared with 800 year ago.
Farmers are drilling wells near Wal
la Walla and striking good flows of wa
ter.
The Port Townsend city council has
levied poll-tax of 81 per head on male
inhabitants.
Out of 100000 acres of land In Che
halls county only $1,000 acres are un-
der cultivation.
There is much danger of high water
in the Skagit river from melting SHOWS
in the mountains.
Asotin is to have an electric light
plant and is talking of establishing a
telephone exchange.
Matters are being pushed with re-
spect to the establishment of the Sedro-
Woolley telephone exchange.
Old fields of alfalfa in Yakima valley
have been in many cases winter killed,
and are now being reseeded
Herbert S. Huson. deputy customs
collector at Tacoma, has rendered his
resignation to Collector Huestis.
A. Stimson has started his ferry
across the Columbia river three miles
below the mouth of the Spokane.
The annual meeting of the Wash
ington State Red Cross Society will
be held in Tacoma May 23, "a and %.
Early garden vegetables such as po-
tatoes, beans, ETC., were cut to the
ground by the recent frosts in Pa
louise.
move is on foot for q railroad and
sawmill enterprise at Centralia, that,
if completed, will be of real benefit to
the town.
About As men are employed on two
vessels building at Hoquiam, and labor
ers for the mills and camps are said
to be scarce.
The building of a bicycle path be-
tween Mt. Vernon and La Conner is be-
ing much discussed among wheelmen
in the two towns.
The townsite of Priest River has
been located as placer ground, and as
sessment work has begun, amid con-
siderable excitement.
A movement has been started in Ia
come to erect a monument in Wright
Park to the memory of the soldiers
of the First Washington regiment who
have fallen In the Philippines.
Reports TO State Commissioner Bak-
er indicate that Yakima county will
have only half crop of peaches, while
the apricots are all killed. In Walla
Walla there will be light crop all
around
The big electric plant installed by
Robert Morrill,, at Northport, is now
completed, and as soon as few minor
portions of the machinery reach there,
which will be within week. the full
plant will be put in operation.
During the SESSION of the Tacoma
city council the other evening. J. A.
James, councilman-at-large presented
resolution proposing fitting recep-
tion to the Washington volunteer sol.
diers when they shall have returned
from the Philippines.
Henry Carr. who has resided on old
Dominion mountain, near Colville, for
a number OF years, was stricken with
paralysis recently. Mr.. Carr is an in
teresting figure by reason OF his hav-
ing Travelled extensively In darkest
Africa, under II. NJ. Stanley. Carr was
In Stanley's expedition when Stanley
discovered Livingstone.