Adams County news. [volume] (Ritzville, Wash.) 1898-1906, 1900-05-09
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| A great deal Of street work has beer
done In Waitsburg during the pas
week.
The early closing movement has o
last gained control of the busines.
houses Of Walla Walla.
E. G. Bellows of this state has beer
nominated by the president to be con
sui general at Yokohama.
Hagerty and Johnson. who had
Cape Nome project. are wanted b!
many investors at Spokane.
Edward Cochran of Waitsburg, 10 ar
ranging to remove his distillery from
Its location to Walla Walla.
The Union Smelter Manufacturins
Company Of st. Louis offers to estah
lish smelter in Spokane II the enter
prise is assisted by Spokane capital.
Last week Whitman college defeated
the Walla Walla team in one of the
most remarkable games of baseball
ever played on the Whitman campus
While suffering from a 1T Of de
spondency because his affections were
not returned. Charley Lawrence, an
1S-year-old youth. committed suicide
at Davenport.
In a quarrel over money matters last
Thursday. Thomas Murphy. Q gang
foreman, shot Frank Driscoll, q laborer,
three times with q small revolver.
Murphy escaped.
Whitman was the winner in the inter.
collegiate oratorical contest and also won
baseball game. William Worthington's
Grafton on Genius of the Great Bmanci-
patton took first prize.
Some masked highwaymen on board
east-bound freight No. 108 last week
robbed five men and threw them from
the train. Three unknown men are
In the hospital at North Yakima, So
verely injured.
Prof. H. e. Mcbride, formerly one
OF the North Yakima school superin-
tendents, has leased the farm and fruit
orchard of M. C. Dickson at Fruitvale
and is engaged In the fancy poultry
and pet stock business.
Apricot trees have shed their bios
SONS In the Palouse and the fruit 10
already being formed. Many Of the
cherry trees have dropped their bios
SONS and nothing but late killing
frost can prevent an enormous crop of
all varieties of fruit grown in this To-
cality.
The best sale Of wheat reported at
Walla Walla In several weeks occurred
last week when Ernest Dunning-
ton sold 10000 sacks Of bluestem at Al
cents on board the cars. Huntington
Bros. sold in the same deal $500 sacks
Of bluestem at A cents. The bulk of
the grain Is old crop.
William Warnstaff, an aged farmer
living near Princeton, Idaho, 15 miles
east Of Palouse. was killed In myster.
ious manner last week. His body was
found lying face downward In the road
on Halter creek. Life had been extinct
several hours. Examination showed
that the skull had been fractured over
one eye and q cash was cut through
the scalp. The old man had been rid.
Ing a young horse, and 1t 10 supposed
he dismounted and the horse kicked
him.
w. H. Coombs. one of the most
prominent farmers In Lincoln county.
living about o mile from Harrington.
met a violent death last week. Mr..
Coombs started to lead colt and horse
to pasture. He tied the rope attached
to the horses collar to his left arm
and held the colt with another rope in
his right hand. In some manner the
animals became frightened and dashed
across the field, dragging Mr.. Coombs
after them. He was dragged along the
ground until his head struck stump.
crushing the skull. He never regained
consciousness, dying two hours later.