Adams County news. [volume] (Ritzville, Wash.) 1898-1906, 1899-05-24
WASHINGTON.

construction.
Everett merchants will organize a
mining exchange.
Miss Winnie Holmes, of Kent, was
drowned in the sound last week.
Twenty men are at work on the gun
emplacements at Admiralty head.
Forest Grove Rod & Gun Club has
been organized with Is members.
Three new churches are being built
at Granite Falls, Snohomish county.
Two telephone companies are build
ing lines from Spokane 10 Republic.
Tim McClare killed a large Ameri-
can eagle near Boisfort the other day.
In Chehalis school district the teach
ers' wages have been increased 10 per
cent.
The new $4,000 school house propo.
sition in North Yakima was defeated
by "a majority.
Jack Ker, a Washington pioneer,
aged 72 years, died last week in Yak
ina City Of dropsy.
Arrangements are being made to
send colony of Whitman county far
iutES W IOWtT SdillOTuld.
A 10-year-old son of A. J. Prater, in
Chehalis, fell off the Doernbecher
boom in the Chehalis river last week
and was drowned.
In the Walia Walla land office for the
month Of April, 544S1s acres of land
were entered on and final proof was
made on 1910 acres.
Fire completely destroyed the resi-
dence of o. NJ. Sparks at Tekoa, with
its contents. The loss is between $2500
and $4,000, with but S1400 insurance.
Joe Tulip, a fisherman who has
made Seattle his home for many years,
was run over and killed by a Colum-
bia G Puget Sound railway engine last
week.
The little 2-year-old daughter of FL
mer Luce and wife, Of Antoine, while
crossing foot bridge over the creek
near their residence, fell in and was
drowned last week.
Clallam county is getting its share
of the homeseekers. The Angeles pa
pers report the arrival last week of a
total Of over 100 persons, part of 100
families to arrive from Erie, Pa.
Mary Milton, a variety actress, and
Joe Dunn, her husband, have been ar
rested for completely in the robbery of
$4,000 worth of silks from the Hohens
child store at Tacoma, last December.
Recently John Hengren, prominent
rancher living near Spangle, was held
N Main CT ran in Gnanula htf
men unknown to him and relieved of
SIS, all the money he had on his person
at the time.
State Commissioner f. A. Mcdonald
announces that the state pure food law
covers not only all articles of food, but
also articles of drink. He proposes
that the drinking population of Wash.
ington shall have the genuine stuff.
The new telephone. line between Har-
rington and Mohler is in operation.
The line extends from Harrington to
Hon. J. F. Green's California ranch,
and on to Mohler. 1t is a private en-
terprise, and was put up by Mr.. Green
and the Yarwood brothers.
The state. fair commissioners have
been notified by Hon. Levi Ankeny that
he will give $50 as special premium
for the best results from sugar heets
grown in the Yakima valley, d. c. Cor
bin having offered to build beet sugar
refinery here should the results JUS.
tify 1t.
The building boom still continues in
Republic; there is no apparent letup.
There are still few business houses
under way, but the bulk of the build
ings are small and cheap affairs. The
street grades having been established,
some OF the buildings erected last year
are being lowered to conform to the
grade. Street grading has not been
completed. That portion of Clark ave-
nue. belonging to the Clark Townsite
company is still unfinished, but the
story has gone out that as soon as Sur
veyor J. C. Ralston returns the work
will be prosecuted vigorously.