Adams County news. [volume] (Ritzville, Wash.) 1898-1906, 1900-05-16
GENERAL NORTHWEST NEWS
BRIEFLY TOLD IN NOTES.
An Interesting Collection of Items
From the Four Northwest States
OF "a miscellaneous Nature Gath
cred the Past Week.
WASHINGTON.

WASHINGTON.
There have been 1892 bicycle licenses
issued in Spokane.
The New Whatcom Creamery made
6o00 pounds of butter In April.
Present prospects indicate q bounti-
full crop of wheat In Adams county.
A. p. Cahill Of Dayton. has just had
published handsome map of Colum-
bia county.
The New Whatcom Blade reports
that the B. B. l. mill is cutting about
225, 1000 feet of lumber in the 24-hour
run.
The Seattle team won from Whitman
College everything but the bicycle
races in their recent contest. There
was a large attendance.
All the logging camps about Aber-
deem are running full time and with
excellent demand. Prices are $3.50
for fir and $3.50 for spruce.
The monthly report Of the building
inspector of Seattle for April shows
total valuation of new buildings Of
SS90,165. There was total of 761
permits for new buildings.
The moral wave which occasionally
floats over this country has again Wis
tied Colfax.
Centralia reports that drive of 5000
cords of shingle bolts Is coming down
the Newaukum and Chehalis rivers to
the Centralia Shingle Company. 1t is
the largest drive ever made there.
T. w. Barry, conductor on the Nor
thern Pacific railway, was caught be-
tween two coal cars recently and so
badly crushed that he died while being
taken to Tacoma
The prune growers around North
Yakima have found that majority of
those visited are favorable to the or
ganization of local cured fruit asso-
citation on lines similar to those of the
Oregon growers.
A woman In mans clothing was ar
rested at Davenport on q charge of
horse stealing. She was caught with
her husband, Ed. Grant. He pleaded
with the officers to let his wife 60, but
the couple were put In jail.
At the state congress Of anti-saloon
workers, to be held in Seattle June s
and 6, under the auspices Of the Wash
ington Anti-Saloon League, an inter-
collegiate gold and silver medal con.
test" will be held on Wednesday even
ing. June 6.
Hon. J. r. Edmiston died at his
home in Dayton last week. He was
cne Of the best known and ablest law.
yers In eastern Washington, and had
been active in politics during most of
his life. He was president Of the board
Of regents of the Pullman agricultural
college.
A. Krentz exhibited In Oakesdale
some fine specimens of bronze grass,
raised on his ranch, some two miles
north OF that city. The seed was sown
in the fall Of 1899 and has attained the
remarkable growth of three feet, and
Is now heading. The growth Is heavy
and thick and the yield will be remark.
ably large.
The North Yakima city council has
formally received the two parks COM
pieted by the Northern Pacific Rail-
way company, and placed men in
charge to water and care for them. 1t
Is the purpose to have a band stand
n the northern park and induce the
city musicians to organize a band to
occupy the stand on stated occasions.
Treasurer Windus reports the total
income Of Whitman county for the
month Of April to have been 3S.7S9.27,
and the total income since January /
to be the respectable amount Of s211,-
974.93. The disbursements for the
month Of April amounted to $23.452.6l,
and the total expenditures Of the coun-
ty since the first of January are s72.-
3i5.39-only 35 per cent. of the total
receipts.
Wool is coming into the warehouse
at North Yakima for storage at rapid
pace. Buyers have congregated from
various sections for the usual sales.
The fact that the American Woolen
Mills Co. will discriminate against
wool that has been dipped in lime does
not seem to worry the growers. 1t is
we'll known that lime-dipped wool ia
injured to the value of about per
cent, but even that deduction gives the
wool growers good margin, II wool sells
for 12h cents or more per pound.