Adams County news. [volume] (Ritzville, Wash.) 1898-1906, 1899-06-07
RITZvILLE, WASHINGTON, JUNE z, 1899.
WASHINGTON.

During the past two weeks 1000 cat
tie have been shipped from Pomeroy.
Recently when the steamer Camano
was ON her upper trip, pipe burst
and scalded the fireman Charles Miles.
d. L. Crowder. an attorney of North
Yakima, had his leg broken in a runa-
way recently and his knee seriously
injured.
P. B. Cornwall has interested HIM
self in flax culture in Whatcom coun-
ty, and will endeavor to have extensive
experiments made.
Postmaster Ewart has received not
ice from the postmaster general that
the Colfax Office has been advanced
from the third to the second class.
Contracts for the sale of the 1899
hop crop are being made by Eastern
buyers with Puyallup Valley growers.
The price runs up to 1914 cents per
pound.
Twenty-eight cities and towns in
Whitman county show an assessed val
uation of $1,610,06O, of which $780,
629 is on lots and $913,4 on improve
ments.
e. R. Rollins, a rancher at Quilcene,
twenty-eight miles from Port Town
send, was crushed to death by a tree
falling upon mm. He leaves a wife
and child.
The Tacoma Land Company has paid
into the Pierce county treasury $780,
| 900 taxes on the property recently bid
in at the receivers sale Of the COM
| pany's assets.
Eltweed Pomeroy, national president
| of the Direct Legislation League, and
| one of the most ardent workers for
the movement, will visit Puget Sound
early this month.
The geological survey under e. A.
Murlin, who recently arrived from
Washington, has pitched camp near
Ellensburgh, preparatory to beginning
the seasons work.
While working at Mine No. 2, at
Roslyn, Wash, Thos. Ray. a miner,
received some very serious internal in
juries, from which he will probably
die, by fall of rock.
Work on the Port Angeles Eastern
railway is progressing satisfactorily.
The Van Norman Company Is rapidly
| Transforming the water front into a
typical railroad street.
A new relief corps has been form.
ed in Seattle to look after the welfare
of the soldier boys now In Manila.
The name of the new organization isc
the Forston Relief Corps.
Probably no city on the coast has
been more directly changed by the re-
turn of prosperity than Aberdeen. In
less than two years 1t has more than
doubled its population which now mum.
bers over $500.
The prune crop in Thurston county
will be almost a total failure, owing to
the cold, backward spring. Strawber.
ries and cherries are slightly damaged
by frost, Apples and pears still show
good prospects.
Tanner, acting commissioner OF In.
dian affairs, has informed Assessor
| Hill of Pierce county, that Puyallup
reservation lands bought under con.
tract are still government land and
not subject to taxation.
The postoffice has been advised by
the war department of the final aban.
donment OF old Fort Spokane and the
removal Of all the effects to the new
fort. Mail for the troops should here.
after be addressed to Spokane. In
stead of Miles. Wash, as heretofore.
! Edward A. Turner, who with M. v.
B. Stacey, opened the first exclusively
real estate business In Seattle is dead
Mr.. Turner was native Of st. George
| Me. He was printer by trade and a
| short time after his arrival in Seattle
commenced the publication of a small
| daily newspaper called the Tribune.
The publication was absorbed by the
Intelligencer in 1879.
Spokane Industrial Exposition" !"
which was formerly the Spokane
Fruit Fair" has begun active opera
tions for large exhibit this fall, and
at recent meeting of the board elect
ed the following officers: Charles e.
Virden. auditor; John L. Smith, gen.
eral superintendent of all departments
except the mineral department; John
| II. Featherston, superintendent of the
mineral department. This annual ex.
hibit is assuming greater proportions
than ever this year.
A sad drowning occurred at Wick.
ersham. Myrtle Demar, a 14-year-old
girl was on a raft Of shingle bolts on
the mill pond when suddenly the raft
parted and the girl was precipitated
into the water. Her father, Gus Demar,
seeing her predicament rushed to her
assistance, but lost his life in his eff.
orts to save his daughter. Both were
drowned in sight Of some men on shore
who were unable to lend assistance
The drowning occurred near Anderson
& Nelson's mill. The bodies were sent
to Lowell, Wash, where the family for
merly resided.
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