Adams County news. [volume] (Ritzville, Wash.) 1898-1906, 1900-01-31
GENERAL NORTHWEST NEWS
BRIEFLY TOLD IN NOTES.
An Interesting Collection of Items
From the Foar Northwest States
of q Miscellaneous Nature Gath
cred the Past Week.
WARRINGTON.

SeCLlOu DO 10 neF alreauy extensive
parks.
Whitman County horticultural AS.
sociation. Garfield, Feb. /.
Whitman County Poultry and Pet
Stock Association. Colfax. Feb. 7-l0.
Nearly every branch of business at
Republic seems to be well represented.
The erection Of salmon cannery In
Port Townsend Is now an assured fact.
The commissioners of Ferry county
have decided to rlgidly enforce quar-
entine against all Indians.
The Mid-Winter Graduation of Spo-
kane's High School class exercises
were held last week.
There are contracts for over 100
spars to be taken out of the timber near
Elma the coming season.
At the Cheney Normal school last
week four students finished five-year
course and received diplomas.
An unknown man. cheaply but fash.
lily dressed. was shot and killed in the
suburbs of Seattle last week.
Peter Sutter, farmer living Is
miles southeast OF Pomeroy. commit.
ted suicide by cutting his throat.
No more smallpox has been reported
in Colville vicinity. and the one case
six miles In the country Is reported be-
yond danger.
Wilbur Terrence. D farmer living
near Diamond, was thrown from load
OF lumber and sustained severe con.
cussion of the brain.
The collier, Miami. belonging to the
Pacific Coast Company. was totally
wrecked on a reef near Oyster Bay, on
the east shore of Vancouver island.
Mrs. Katherine Wyman. wife of DR..
II. NJ. Wyman, of Kettle Falls, died
from the effects OF a dose of morphine
evidently taken with suicidal intent.
Powder did not thaw SO a lighted
candle under It caused an explosion
near Myers Falls. Osborn Upper was
painfully. cut about the head and pos
sibly blinded. Nick Beigle was also
injured.
The efforts Of the Retail Grocers As
ISOLATION to secure the aid of the job
bers in a boycott of the cut-rate gro
GERS at Spokane. that would stop price
cutting, has resulted in numerous COM
plicati0ns.
Captain Henry Tailor, engineer in
charge Of government improvements
on the Sound has already begun to ac-
cumulate material for the new fortifi-
cations at the entrance to the Port Or.
hard naval yard.
Adjutant General Fox was surprised
to learn that the bodies of Washing
toms dead heroes had arrived at San
Francisco from the Philippines, as he
had received no Official notification Of
their removal for shipment.
Goddard whipped Dan Eagan of Mon.
tana at Davenport The contest was
fast and furious from the start, but the
Montana boxer was hit frequently and
was knocked down twice. Eagans
second threw up the sponge.
The date OF the next oratorical con-
test at Whitman College has been set
for March 16th. twenty-five dollars
in prizes has been offered by Mrs. Les
ter Wilson to the successful contestants
On an alder tree on high blum, near
the mouth Of North river. in this state,
Surveyor Vickery has found the follow.
ing inscription: ~. 8. Survey Camp.
No. IA, December 10, 1885," This IL the
date of the first survey Of Pacific county
I. had been cut In tree and grown ov-
er.
Austin Corbin has won the Daven-
port cup for the best pen Of birds In the