Adams County news. [volume] (Ritzville, Wash.) 1898-1906, 1899-11-29
NEWS Of The NORTHWEST.
MISCELLANEOUS News 1FEMs.
A Review From the States of Wash
ington. Idaho, Montana and Ore
aOn-News of the Past Week
Boiled Down to Suit Our Busy
Readers.
WASHINGTON.

conultioH lndn at present.
On account of bad weather at Repub-
lie freighting is almost suspended.
Seventeen-year-old John Bechtel, a
Colville boy, is in Jail and admits he is
a horse thief.
Governor Rogers says he has not Of
fered a regiment as reported in a Sc
attic newspaper.
Seattle Pr. excursionists are under
investigation by an Alaska grand jury
for taking totem pole last summer.
The Kettle river is above high water
mark for this season of the year. Two
spans of the Helphrey bridge have gone
out.
Last week Leslie Belt, son of ex-
mayor of Spokane, was in jail for strik-
ing woman. He was refused bail by
the chief of police.
Three new school buildings are to
be begun in the spring at Spokane
Seventy-five thousand dollars is to be
expended on new sites.
The revised estimated 1899 pack Of
Puget Sound salmon places the number
of cases at 1850, as against a total
of 5000 cases for 1898.
State Treasurer Young has issued a
call on the general fund for warrants
from Nos. 47,616 to 1885 inclusive.
Total amount of call $114,004. The call
natures Dec. 4, 1899.
Arthur Huey of Walla Walla is miss
ing. He is young man 16 years old,
five feet one inch in height, has dark
hair, brown eyes, full, round face, and
walks with slight limp.
The brick walls of Science hall at
Pullman, the last of the two new COL
lege buildings are up, and the roof and
cornice are being put on. The brick
work on the walls is completed.
A literary and social cooperative
club is being organized in Tacoma for
the study of municipal affairs and So
cial intercourse, non-political and nom
sectarian in every sense of the word.
The Spokane jobbers will unite. An
organization has been formed already.
Twenty-four merchants already inter-
ested in the association. A. w. Doland
is president and r. c. Dillingham; Sec
rotary.
The price of wheat in the local mar
kets of Colville remains at $1.25 per
hundred, and eggs command cash
price of SIS cents per dozen, and it
seems impossible to get poultry at any
price.
The seventh annual meeting of the
Washington State Dairymen's Associa-
ton will be held at North Yakima. De-
cember rs, 20 and 80. This organiza-
ton is the strongest and most active
one Of any on the Pacific coast, and
at the annual meetings there is always
large attendance.
Information comes by private
sources from Waterville that the Col
vile Indian reservation will be thrown
open for homestead settlement about
the end of January, 1900. AS Water
vile is the headquarters Of the United
States register of lands for that dis
trict it is more than probable that the
information comes from some official
source.
Two carloads of apples were shipped
to Helena, Mont, last week by Lee R.
Carlton, Of Kendrick.
Troop A, of the First cavalry, has
left Wardner. They are en- route to
Fort Robinson, Nebraska.
The girls dormitory at the normal at
Lewiston has been completed. 1t will
accommodate 36 students.
James Glendenning, superintendent
Of the Idaho forest reserves, will make
his winter headquarters in Spokane.
The Big Buffalo mine locator got a
gun play year ago at Grangeville.
Fall sown grain is looking fine at
Cottonwood. The farmers are busy
blowing. The ground is in fine con-
ditiOn, and the weather pleasant.
The supreme court upholds the SUI
perior court in displacing the men in
Office in Shoshone county, when the
Bunker Hill mill was blown up.
The store Of the A. d. & M. company,
at Gibbonsville, was held up recently
by two men and several hundred dol
lars secured at the point of a revolver
Ex-Governor Mcconnell admires Nor
mons, but says Roberts is not fair
type and thinks it ill-advised for re-
ligious bodies to attempt to influence
congress.
The Bull Pen doors are to be opened
and the "a men held at Wardner are
to be set free on December /. The par
Gle system is part of the plan for their
deliyerapCe.