Adams County news. [volume] (Ritzville, Wash.) 1898-1906, 1900-08-22
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. .

Everett Is to have retail grocers'
association.
Garfield county will vote on a $40 900
court house proposition.
Japan has already taken more lum.
did during the whole Of 1899.
The increase of lumber shipments
to Hawaii this year, as compared with
1899, amounts to 26 per cent
Centralia's new lawn tennis club Is
prospering under the presidency of DR..
+. C. Lewis. The club has IS members
Wallula, on the Columbia river, ship
ped the first ripe peaches in the state,
says a correspondent of the Pasco
News-Recorder.
From all over the valley reports con.
tinue to come in saying the potato crop
will not be near up to the average, says
the Ellensburg Capital.
During all of 1899 Mexico used 7,249,-
$40 feet of lumber from this state, and
during the first half of 1900 the con-
sumption was 7,057,204 feet.
During the first six months of 1900
the exports of Washington lumber to
the Philippines amounted to SO per
cent of the exports during all of last
year.
Mrs. F. E. Woodwork, the wife of a
locomotive fireman, shot herself
through the heart. and Mrs. Mary Rich
ards, widow, took poison, in Portland
recently.
Fire caused havoc among the saw
and shingle mills of this state during
the last month, no less than twenty
fires being noted, the total loss amount
ing to 100000.
To persons from counties not so
densely populated, the recent institute
1t Pullman would have certainly been
surprise, from the fact that the en-
rollment was more than $50 for the ses-
sion.
The American District Telegraph Co.
has been organized in Spokane. They
will do a general messenger business,
also may engage in electrical construc-
| tion, and act as agents for firms and
individuals.
A new company Is forming in Spo.
kane to extend the telephone lines that
center in Spokane. Are going into
the Okanogan and will string wires
to the new mining towns OF that prom.
ising district.
Thursday, August 23, Is the date
fixed for the annual outing and picnic
of the Spokane Retail Grocers' Asso-
citation, and as previously announced,
Occur d'Aene City Is the place where
the festivities will be held.
Republic has the prospect OF having
good water system by the close of the
year. The Republic company has
been granted franchise for SO years
to supply water to the people of the
town and for fire purposes.
The interior department Is making
efforts to give the widest publicity to
the laws against forest fires to the end
that campers and hunters and others
will be careful to start no blaze that
will destroy valuable standing timber
The body Of Joseph M. Olsen was
found in the hold of the ship Isaac
Reed. anchored In the stream near the
coal bunkers, recently, by the watch
man of the vessel. Olsen's neck was
l
broken and he had sustained other in
juries which indicated death by fall
The state board Of land commission
ers has approved the sale of timber on
school land in section SO, township 28
NORTH range s east, 800 acres to the
Snohomish Logging company for $3106
and 140 acres in Spokane county to II.
B. Wadsworth for $500, in section SO,
township 20 north. range 43 east.
Last fall new wheat known as the
Arcadian was introduced into this
country and a considerable acreage
sown. This Is now being harvested
and threshed and the results have been
disappointing to nearly all who have
tried It, The yield is not nearly so
good as other varieties OF wheat and
the grain skaters so badly that it is
Improbable. From all districts where
the wheat has been tried the same re-
ports are heard.