Adams County news. [volume] (Ritzville, Wash.) 1898-1906, 1900-07-11
NEWS Of THE NORTHWEST
MISCELLANEOUS NEWS ITEMS
4 Review From the States of WASH
ington, Idaho, Montana and Ore
G0n-News of the Past Week
Boiled Down.
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WASHINGTON.
There isn't locality in eastern
Washington where there is poor crop
Of wheat.
Senator Turner has appointed as al.
ternate to West Point Leo P. Quinn of
Spokane, the son Of Attorney P. F.
Quinn.
The celebration at Ritzville the
Fourth was participated in by good
crowd from the country, Lind and 9TH
er towns.
The contract for a new combination
bridge over Union Flat creek, at Leach
vile. four miles from Cotton, for SITS,
has been let.
Around Walla Walla harvest has al
ready begun, and the yield will aver
age at least 40 bushels, with many
fields going 60.
The first annual shooting tourna-
ment of the Walla Walla Gun club last
week was a great success, and prizes
amounting to $500 were paid.
There Is reason to believe that the
census will show that there are 1000
inhabitants on the North half Of the
reservation within the limits of Ferry
county.
From the Palouse all reports are en-.
couraging. The fall grain is far
enough along to commence haying, and
the harvest will at least be a month
earlier than last year.
The feasibility of an electric rail-
road from Spokane through the Spo-
kane and Colville Indian reservations
to connection with the Spokane Falls
& Northern has been recently pointed
out.
The increasing business Of the Spo-
kane postoffice has made an addition to
its force imperative, and four new men
will be put at work October 1. Three
of the men will be carriers and one will
act as clerk.
Wagons have been abandoned on the
Wilson-Kettle Falls stage line and Con-
cord coaches substituted. Travel over
the road is increasing rapidly. The
incoming passengers more than double
the outgoing.
Jay Lynch, agent Of the Yakima In.
dian reservation, has issued orders pro-
hibiting the keeping Of characters
once ordered off the reservation in the
employ of persons doing business there.
A strict enforcement of the law Is to
be made.
Perhaps the biggest outlook for the
Inland Empire in crops in comparison
with average years is in fruit. Three
and four carloads a day are already
shipped by Spokane merchants, and
this will increase as the season ad-
vances.
Barley and oats, according to the
best reports, are going to compare at
least favorably with average years,
though In some localities the barley
heads are short, and consequently will
not give as good a yield as was at first
expected.
Henry Yeomans, the Spokane boy
who has made record for himself in
collegiate work at Harvard, has recent.
ly returned from his alma mater to
spend his vacation. He returns In the
fall to take up his duties as assistant
professor of history in that institution.
The managers of Spokane's exposi-
tion have adopted scale of prices for
admission that should prove much
more satisfactory to the public than
any arrangements made In former
years. The price for general admis-
sion will be Is cents; the added charge
of 10 cents for seats will be cheerfully
paid.
Fred Brown, the stock dealer Of Col.
fax, has returned from Seattle and
brings an interesting story Of bunch
Of Whitman county steers which he
fed at Colfax last winter and In March
shipped to Seattle, where they were
sold. On his last trip Mr.. Brown met
the man to whom he sold the cattle.
The latter had just returned from Daw.
son City. where he took the steers, 60
ing by boat to Skagway and thence
across the mountains to the end Of the
railroad, and then driven over the ice
and lakes and rivers to Dawson. At
Dawson the cattle were sold at 35 cents
per pound, the so head being sold for
$500 per head. the remaining Is bring
ing $3.50 each. It cost only SITS per
head to take the cattle to Dawson.