Adams County news. [volume] (Ritzville, Wash.) 1898-1906, 1900-02-28
round ABOUT R|TzV|LLE.
HAPPENINGS IN CITY AND COUNTY
Personal Paragraphs and Interesting
News Notes of Both Local and
General Importance.-The Events
If a Week TerseIy Told.
81 know not what the truth may be-;
I'll tell it as twas told to me-"

Ed. Binford of Fletcher, registere
at the Hotel Ritzville Tuesday.
Hon. 0. R. Holcomb and c. L. Hol
comb spent several days in Spokane
this week.
Ed Shepard, Griffith farmer, ac
companied by his wife, was visiting ir
the county seat yesterday.
J. WsGoody koontz and wife arrived
home Thursday morning from Topeka
Kansas, after visiting there since Nov
18th last.
w. HI. Moudy and Thos. Fitzpatrick
came up from Lind and attended the
Order of Washington blowout Mon
day evening.
DIR. f. r. Burroughs. made PROBES
sional trip last Sunday to Rattlesnake
fiat to attend son OF M. Elmer
Helme who is i'll.
The Toll Gate Inn Co. is an attrac-
ton which will appear at the opera
house March 10. 1t is a comedy ro-
nance OF colonial days and has made
an eastern success.
Edward Colwell of Fletcher, an old
pioneer farmer in that part of the
county, came up Thursday to pay his
taxes, but it being a legal holiday
found the treasurers office closed.
Geo. j. Allen, who has been clerk
ing in the Pacific hotel for some time,
accepted position with the Buchan-
an-Lambert Co., and left in their pri-
vate car last Thursday afternoon.
jacob HI. Hess, VIM. IL. Pittman
and Michael Malott, recent arrivals
from Connellsburg, Pennsylvania,
were up from Lind yesterday, where
they have located on government land.
James M. Kennedy OF Washtucna, a
highly respected stock farmer and a
California 49er, was Monday night
sojourner in our burg, the guest oil
Mr.. and Mrs. w. r. Cunningham Jr.
Samuel Hutchinson, the seven foot
four inch sycamore of lower Grab
creek and ex-city marshal, came up
Monday from his big stock ranch, 60
miles west on the Douglas county
line.
w. III. Mead OF st. Paul, cousin OF
o. II. Greene, stopped off Monday
while on his way to Ashland, Ore,
where he expects to locate as he has
very fiattering reports of that section
of country.
j. w. Smith and family have moved
to Pilot Rock, Ore, where they will
reside in future on a farm which the
gentleman thinks will be more con-
genial to him than the dray business
in this city.
HI. w. Saunders, a well known and
much respected citizen OF our county,
who has been visiting his old stamp
ing grounds in Kansas for the past
four months, returned last Friday
looking as well as ever.
Frank York, clerk OF school district
No. 43, accompanied by the directors
thereof, were in Tuesday perfecting
arrangements to advertise for bids on
a $500 bond issue for the purpose OF
building school house,.
We inadvertently reported in our
last issue that Mr. Jacob Rosenoff was
one OF the purchasers of Mr.. w. L.
Olmstead's interest in the Ritzyille
Drug store but now find the statement
to be incorrect as the gentleman has
no part in the business
Conrad Miller, Young farmer OF
this county, while in town Saturday
trading with merchants, experienced
lively little runaway. His team be-
came frightened while standing in the
street and clipped the air-at high
rate OF speed until stopped, running
about mile in the homeward direc-
tion. No serious damage.
Miss Maggie Mcyean, young lady
recently from Michigan and neice Of
r. P. Smith, came up from her new
ranch on Central flats last Friday on
a shopping trip. In addition to her
homestead she has purchased $50 acres
Of railroad land (which she will i'm
prove at once. Miss McVean is well
pleased with the country and her
health has greatly improved.
d. III. Harrison, iormerlyan attorney
OF this city, but now at Newport, Ida
no, has accepted position as trans
portation agent for the Cape Nome
Mining and Trading Co route. Their
steamer will carry 900 passengers and
and 1000 tons OF freight. Mr. Harrison
is an old timer on the Pacific coast
aud a man with much oonaral 4evrer.