Adams County news. [volume] (Ritzville, Wash.) 1898-1906, 1900-12-12
WASHINGTON.

The large fiume at Tumwater is fin.
ished
A clam canning factory will be es.
tablished at Port Townsend.
The Walla Walla council Is consid
ering the advisability of a fire alarm
system.
The Seattle Chamber OF Commerce
viii increase its membership to 500.
Two rural mail deliveries will be es-
tablished out Of Walla Walla within 20
days.
A large deposit Of fire clay has been
discovered near Brennan Station,
Whatcom county.
The Tacoma chamber of commerce is
having a bill framed for promoting
economy in county offices.
The Washington mill Of Walla Walla
county has transferred its property to
w. G. Cordiner for $4,000.
A sailor named Louis Larson was
dangerously wounded with razor in a
saloon row in Aberdeen last Tuesday.
The latest thing in the way of sensa-
tions at Seattle Is the proposed new
paper by Leigh S. /. Hunt. former own
er of the Post-Intelligencer.
e. E. Beard of New Whatcom has in
stalled rug factory. He uses the
moss which grows in large quantities
on Washington timber lands.
A salmon hatchery will be built in
the near future on the Big Klickitat
river, AZ, miles from its confluence
with the Columbia, at Lyle.
The matter Of the improvement of
the Stuck and White river valleys is
still burning question among the
farmers OF both of those fertile valleys.
Frank Alexander, sentenced to ten
years from Whitman county for burg
larry in 1897, has been pardoned by
Governor Rogers and has been released
from the penItentlary.
Governor Rogers has been requested
by the president of the National Live
stock association to appoint three dele
gates to attend the fourth annual con-
yention which meets in Salt Lake City,
January Is.
Palouse Is making strenuous efforts
to secure the location OF the straw
board factory which officials of the
Northern Pacific railroad are seeking
to locate In one OF the towns along It's
line, and has strong hopes Of being the
favored town.
Lumbermen along the Palouse river
have finished cutting timber for next
seasons run, and the logging camps
| along the river east Of that place are
being deserted, the men having COM
pleted their work and are now seeking
winter quarters In the towns.
A report comes from Olympia to the
effect that Governor Rogers Is about to
pardon Mrs. Mary Pyle, who. with her
son. was sentenced to life imprison-
ment for burning a hotel in Walla
| Walla 13 years ago, when man lost
his life in the conflagration. Mrs. Pyle
Is now over 80 years Of age and Is dy-
ing.
Many farmers In the Tekoa vicinity
have done considerable fall plowing.
The uplands have been in good condi-
tion all fall. The indications are that
next spring will witness the sowing of
a large acreage OF wheat In that section
Of the Palouse country. Some Of the
farmers near town are preparing for
the creamery soon to be built there by
purchasing more cows
John J. Miller, a prominent farmer
and livestock man of the Snake river
district, has sold to e. M. King Of Spo-
kane GIT head OF sheep for $40 per
head. The sheep are all 2-year-old
wethers and are an exceptionally fine
lot. They go to Spokane and Seattle.
This Is considered one OF the best sales
OF the season and Mr.. Miller makes a
handsome profit from the flock OF
sheep. He still has 1900 head of sheep
and many cattle on his 200 acre farm