Adams County news. [volume] (Ritzville, Wash.) 1898-1906, 1899-02-08
WASHINGTON.

Snohomish Is overrun with tramps.
The schools of Colfax are in a flourish
ing condition.
Whooping cough has made its appear
ance at Ellensburg.
Counterfeit dollars dated 1885 are being
circulated in Spokane.
The Walla Walla police have run all
the hobos out of town lately.
Claude Riggs of North Yakima pos
years old.
The total school enrolment of Everett
is 1883, an increase of fifty-three over
that of one year ago.
John Berg, well known saloon man Of
Roslyn, dropped dead on Wednesday
while climbing hill.
On February Kettle Falls will vote
on the proposition to levy special tax
of $1,000 for water purposes.
The prizes of the late poultry show at
Colfax have all been delivered. the ex.
penses paid and final reckoning Of ac-
counts made.
The Palouse farmers last season put all
their spare ground into wheat raising.
Now there is shortage of all kinds of
farm products.
A boy who gave his name as Carl Usen-
gunner was caught passing counterfeit
nickels in different slot machines at Wal.
la Walla recently.
The permanent school fund of Wash
ington will soon be increased to $lO,400
by the sale of timber land in Lewis,
Clarke and Chehalis counties.
State Treasurer c. w. Young is the
heaviest stockholder in the Peoples Ad.
vocate, a populist paper on which fore
closure proceedings have been instituted
by the Second National bank of Colfax.
A boy named McGonigle was picked up
in an insensible condition near North
Yakima the other day. He had been
thrown from his horse and had either
fallen on his head or had been kicked by
the animal.
The experts appointed by the North
Yakima city council TO look into the ru-
mored shortage in City Treasurer Pres
sey's accounts, have thus far discovered
the shortage to be about $1,000, but it is
claimed that the whole shortage is $4,000.
A decree of foreclosure was entered In
the superior court recently in the suit
of the State Trust company, Of New York,
representing the bondholders, against the
big drydock at Quartermaster harbor. The
decree is for s203,4S5. The property will
be sold March IS.
With the credits already due for service
in the jails and penitentiary and with
good behavior throughout, Al. Symes,
condemned recently to serve his aen-
tence of eighteen years for killing Lon
Conlee, will be entitled to discharge from
prison at the end of ten years.
The sudden change in the weather was
welcomed by the Walla Walla fruit grow.
ers. The unusually warm weather Of the
past week had caused the fruit trees 10
begin to bud, but they had nc. reached
that stage where they could be easily nj
ped by a subsequent cold snap.
The supreme court has affirmed
Judgment of the superior court of tn
ton county in the case of the stat
John Cronin, appellant, Cronin, Id i
who shot one Antonio Ferran, a.
ago last Christmas, and was sent
to twenty years Imprisonment. Peiin
A sad accident occurred at Mc1es III
Monday morning. Freddie Gagen,
panied by his two little sisters, wed
ing the lake on their way TO schof R
die was rowing and the oar slipFv
he was thrown out Of the boat. "
pened in the middle of the lakf
fore help could reach him be w,
ed He was the son Of, Mr4E
J, George Gagen, and about nine
TIE body is in about forty feet {
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