Adams County news. [volume] (Ritzville, Wash.) 1898-1906, 1900-09-12
GENERAL NORTHWEST NEWS
BRIEFLY TOLD IN NOTES.
An Interesting Collection of Items
From the Four Northwest States
Of . Miscellaneous Nature Gath
cred the Past Week.
WASHINGTON.


Public schools have opened for the
fall term all over the state.
The next session of state insurance
commissioners will be in Seattle.
Seattle's assay office will rank next
to New York in amount of deposits.
William Skyhock, one of Garfield
county's pioneer farmers, is dead.
Gen. Baden-Powells nephew of Jane
son raid fame, was in Seattle last week.
Four hundred Spokane people went
to Portland on the excursion last week.
Wenatchee fruits will lbe feature at
the Spokane Industrial Exposition this
year.
About 700 of Seattle's citizens took
the trip on the Elks' excursion to Port
land.
The Seattle business mems excursion
to North Yakima will be a great com.
mercial event.
Auditor J. B. Gehr of the state peni.
tentiary, has rendered his resignation
to Governor Rogers.
A circus employe was killed last
week. His body was found on the rail
road track near Kent.
Twelve cars loaded with eight hun.
dred excursionists went from Tacoma
to Portland last week.
1t was thirty thousand dollar fire
loss to Shaw-Wells Implement company
of Spokane last week.
The state fair has not been declared
off by the commission and all reports
to that effect are untrue.
The cannery at Cosmopolis reports
that fish are extremely scarce and that
but few traps will be put in.
Mrs. Aaron Wood, for many years
a missionary in South America, died
at Port Townsend, aged SO years.
Final orders to the troops at Fort
Wright, Spokane, to leave, have been
received. They will leave Sept. 16.
The trial trip OF the battleship Wis
consin will not be made in Puget sound.
The navy department was so disposed.
Farmers in the Columbia valley have
their threshing nearly done, and the
yield and quality OF both oats and
wheat are below the average.
An old Indian chief, known as Ah-le,
was murdered by Indian Johnnie, at
Relief, in the extreme eastern part of
Yakima county, Sunday night.
The lockwood Creamery Company,
recently incorporated. has purchased
the local station of the Spokane Hazel
wood Company in North Yakima.
Il. e. Paddock, of Pennington, has
begun the erection of a building 40x60
feet, which will be used for packing
and storing fruits and vegetables.
Last week the Cedar Home Lum.
bering Company's shingle mill near Ce-
dar Home. was destroyed by fire. Loss
was $4,000, with an insurance of $500.
Prune shipments have about ceased
for this year from North Yakima The
sales have been very satisfactory to all
concerned. About so carloads have
gone to the eastern or western markets.
A fatal accident occurred three miles
west Of Pullman when W. f. Colgrove,
a farm laborer, was thrown from his
wagon by a runaway team. He was
thrown on his head and his skull frac.
tured.
The Point Wilson fertilization works
have been completed and all Of the en-
ployes have been discharged. The
gun mounting will lrequire from eight
to ten months. The fort has been
christened Fort Warden.
At Puyallup, the Valley Fair Asso-
citation Is making final preparations for
the first annual fair to be held at Puy-
allup October 4, and 6. The premium
lists have been published and are now
In process of distribution.
The Labor Day celebration at Spo-
kane was a great success financially
and otherwise. Senator George Tur-
ner, Congressman Jones and Cushman,
J. M. Frink, republican candidate for
governor, and F. C. Robertson, demo-
cratic candidate for congress, delivered
speeches.
Harvest is well advanced In the vicln-
ity of Palouse and grain Is coming at
a lively rate. nearly onehalf of the crop
being now In the warehouses here.
Fully 80 per cent of the crop is cut
and about 65 per cent threshed, and
threshing is being rushed as rapidly
as possible.