Adams County news. [volume] (Ritzville, Wash.) 1898-1906, 1900-01-03
GENERAL NORTHWESTN EMS
BRIEFLY TOLD IN NOTES.
An Interesting Collection of Items
From the Four Northwest State.
of u miscellaneous Nature Gath
cred the Past Week.
WARRINGTON.

An old peoples home has been opened
in Spokane.
Governor Rogers will be asked to call
q special session.
The present winter is the mildest In
Spokane's history.
Dayton is worked up over the appear.
ance Of smallpox.
Spokane grocers sign agreement to
obey pure food law.
Spokane merchants report all records
broken In holiday trade.
Clallan county Is ON cash basis for
the first time In many years.
Smallpox has broken out among the
indians on the Colville reserve.
The Courier-Press Office, Dayton
paper was gutted by fire last week.
The Manila bell at Waitsburg will
be hung in the Academy at that town.
Dairymen of the state held we'll at
tended convention at North Yakima.
One of the strongest known in the
history of Wenatchee valley, blew last
week.
Helen Gorkow has been named to
manage the New York Brewery at Spo-
kane.
The Sedro-Woolley telephone ex-
change now has over 70 instruments
connected up.
Hatton, Adams county and Addy,
Stevens county, have been made money
order Offices.
Surveys are completed to supply
Spokane valley farms with plenty of
water from the lakes.
The four steel tanks at the Puget
Sound FIGURING Mills, for the storage
Of wheat has been completed.
Unknown persons attempted to poIs.
On II. J. Bicknell. a prominent fruit
grower of Parker. Yakima county.
1t Is reported that Gen. John M. Ba-
con Of Vancouver. is preparing to plant
large orchard of French Walnuts.
The government ordinance depart
ment Is furnishing the forts located on
Puget Sound with some very heavy
guns.
During the past two months What.
com county treasurer, V. A. Roderer.
has collected $421 ,93l.69 in county
taxes.
Anderson Wait. Junior. the son of
Anderson Wait, Senior, founder OF the
towns Of Waitsburg. Dayton and Elber-
ton, Ia dead.
The town of Leavenworth on the
Great Northern railroad, Is quaran.
tined against smallpox. A fireman
has broken out with the disase.
BY five years OF experiment 1t has
been demonstrated that proper culti-
walton increases the weight OF the Pu.
get Sound oyster 80 to SO per cent.
King county commissioners have de-
clded to put the county prisoners to
work on the roads. favoring the inau.
guration OF the chain-gang system.
No county In the state has made the
record In the way Of convlcting crimi.
nails during the past IL months that
Walla Walla county has, considering
population.
Remains Of Edison butcher were
found In his room at Spokane last week
cause OF death unknown. but thought
to have been due to natural causes.
His widow at Tacoma.
A fraternal order Of Spanish war vet
erans will soon be formed In Spokane.
Nearly every state In the Union has al.
ready formed or is now organizing or
ders Of similar nature.
Two robbers boarded street car In
Seattle and the passengers drew their
guns. Stranger on the front end
dropped robber. A passenger on the
inside was shot by the other desperaro.
Martin Everette. In Jail at Kamloops,
b. c., seeks redress for an alleged alb
duction. and sheriffs up In Ferry coun.
ty are to be arrested. as Secretary Of
state Hay takes hand in Everetts be-
half.
Representatives Of twenty OF the
leading logging firms of this state met
In Seattle and made an all around ad.
vance in the price Of logs. entering into
an agreement to maintain the new
schedule or shut down.
The Carbon Hill Coal Company gave
$500 to each widow and 500 to each
child Of a miner killed In the explosion
of December 9th. Mothers dependant
upon lost sons for support were treat
ed on the same basis as widows. This
donation Of the company represents a
total Of about $4,000. Relief contrs.
buttons from other sources will amount
to similar sum.
The postofice at Fort Hall has been
discontinued.
Wilford o. Ridges has been commits
stoned postmasted at Fairview.
The teachers Of Idaho selected Noun
tain Home as the next place Of meet
ing.
A star service has been established
from Murphy. by Sinker. to oreana, II
miles and return.
The wardner Industrial Union is TAX
ing active steps to urge the congress
sional investigation Of the Wardner
riots on April 20 last.
School district No. ., Shoshone coun-
ty, has been the happy recipient OF a
12x20 foot flag. gift from State Audi.
tor Sinclair.
The members OF the Athletic Associ-
alton OF the university at Moscow are
preparing to give their annual enter.
tainment January IL.
The Lewiston city council after a
spirited session passed q resolution In