Adams County news. [volume] (Ritzville, Wash.) 1898-1906, 1899-10-04
RITzvILLE, WASHINGTON OCTOBER
THE NORTHWEST,


Fruit driving is becoming quite bus
iness in Asotin county.
The high school at Vancouver B. C..
has taken up the first year of univer
sity work under affiliation arrange
ments with McGill university.
The appearance of mackerel in Bel
lingham bay is ascribed to the fact thai
q few millions of young mackerel were
several years ago placed in California
waters, and some OF them have come ur
the coast aad entered Puget sound.
All the salmon trout that are being
caught this year In Hood river are
large. Fishermen say this Is an indl
cation that these fish are not going to
be SO plentiful hereafter unless some.
thing is done to replenish the stream
with spawn and give them protection.
The whitefish are starting on their
annual pilgrimage up the streams, and
are being taken by thousands and salt.
ed away for the winter, says the Kalls.
pei lnterLake.
The Ellensburg Capital reports an ex.
@Hosy sch aNhhauu nay.
The new fish hatchery at Wenatchee
on the Columbia river is ready for op.
Grafton.
Men are in great demand to work In
harvest aud every day farmers come to
town looking for more men.
The woods near Murray, Idaho. are
reported TO be full of bear, and those
who are tond of that kind OF sport
can get all they want of IT within a
mile of town.
Cougars visited the pasture of Mr..
karr. of HoQuiam. and killed two
calves.
Three Everett boys have enlisted in
the Forty.fiith regiment and will go to
Manila
Bert Brown. the La Grande youth
who eloped with a l4-year-old girl, has
been arrested on that account and com.
mitted to jail in default OF $500 bail.
Incendiaries set fire to and burned to
the grouni the church Of the United
Brethren, about eighteen miles north
Of Lyle. 1t is said the parties are known
and will be arrested.
John koTn, who formerly lived at
Oak Point, committed suicide at Adri.
ance, o. He answered q matrimonial
became enamored of his
and killed himself when
she refused him.
A man named Reed, who carries the
mail from Mount Idaho TO Buffalo
Hump. was knocked down and robbed
last week near Adams Camp. He was
carried into camp by parties who found
The Atlin Globe says buried giac
Ter has been discovered on Boulder
creek. covered with eight feet of SOIL
in which large-sized trees are growing
The Ice has been cut through to depth
Of FIVE feet. but no one knows how much
thicker 1t Is.
Owen Marion, of Upper Sumas, was
by an insane man while In his
hay field. He was stabbed with q pitch
fork and knocked from his wagon. the
wheels of which ran over him. His as.
sailant, William Moyes, is at large. and
is said to be heading for his old home
In Michigan.
A young woman named Minnie Davis
has been arrested at Davenport. charg
ed with infantlcide. She arrived there
about two months before from the east
In company with her brother. Her con.
dition was noticed and commented up
on, and afterwards the child's body was
found in "A closet. The doctors said II
was born alive.
A 12-year-old son Of Mr.. and Mrs. w.
@. Gillespie. OF Moses Coulee. was acci-
shot with rifle and killed
during the course Of target match.
On the Great Northern railroad from
Glasgow to Kalispell, In the construc.
tion work that has been done this sum
mer six steam shovels were kept CON
stantly ut work all the season, and a
total of $4,000 cubic yards Of dirt were
removed.