Adams County news. [volume] (Ritzville, Wash.) 1898-1906, 1900-01-10
GENERAL NORTHWEST NEWS
BRIEFLY TOLD IN NOTES.
An Interesting Collection of Items
From the Four Northwest States
Of q Miscellaneous Nature Gath
cred the Past Week.
WARRINGTON.

over 10000 volumes.
The receipts Of the Everett postoffice
for 1899 were $10,920.52
The lumber mills are unable to sup
ply Spokane's requirements.
The fruit growers of the state will
assemble at Tacoma January 16.
The mysterious disappearance of
Frank M. Clapp Is still q problem.
There are six suspected cases of
smallpox at the isloation hospital.
Osteopaths can practice In this state
without holding a state certificate.
The Stanford football team defeated
the All-Seattle players in Seattle by a
score Of % to 0.
The Spokane subscription list for the
Beers is growing rapidly, having al
ready reached $1,000.
Smallpox is reported In the vicinity
OF Alto station on the o. R. & N. line a
few miles from Waitsburg.
The merchants of Walla Walla have
decided to close their places of busi-
ness at 6 o'clock In the evening.
President Graves expects an attend.
ance of 1000 at the state university
with the beginning Of the new century.
The department OF physics and elec,
trlcal engineering at the University Of
Washington shows a most marked ad
vance.
immigration during 1883 into King.
Skagit, Snohomish and Whatcom coun.
ties has been heavier than at any pre-
viOus period.
A gigantic fund Of nearly $25.040 has
already been raised by the liquor men
in Spokane for carrying on the fight
against the saloon closing law.
The total monthly pay roll Of Ia
coma for 1898 was s207,793, and the
number of men employed In the 227 in
dustrial establishments was 44S3.
All the overhead trunk lines in the
telephone service throughout the busi-
ness part of Spokane have been aban-
doned, and now the buried wires will
be used exclusively.
During the IL months Of the year
ending November 20. the receipts at the
King county treasurer's Office amounted
10 1885, 1917. The disbursements
we're $1,343, ,405.96, and the. expenses,
$20,900.
Frank Bassendorf, the returned
Klondiker, who was found in Tacoma,
was prominent in Genesee county, New
York, and his friends there are not
ready to accept the accident theory to
account for his death.
An effort Is to be made by the Wash.
ington volunteers to have a reunion
and suitable anniversary celebration OF
the outbreak OF the Filipino war on
February 4, 1899, when the first real
engagement In which Washington reg.
iment was under FIRE occurred.
News Of the governments intention
to fortify at once the entrance to Port
Orchard, across the sound from Seat
tie, where is located the navy yard and
one OF the finest dry docks in the Unit
ed States, was received here today.
Construction work will be commenced
not later than Feb. 1.
The total value Of the 597 ,000 900 feet
of lumber shipped out Of Washington
during the eleven months ending with
the close of November was $6,270. 900,
and of the 1892. 1000. 900 shingles. 81
4s5, 900, with $611,OO0 worth of lath,
making a total value OF $l1 100000 In
the product Of the immense forests
which was shipped by ship and rail to
foreign consumers.
The department OF agriculture has
received large number OF cuttings
from superior hop plants grown in Bo-
hsmia, celebrated the world over for
their wonderful aroma, and flavor.
These cuttings will be distributed
among the hop growers throughout the
United States, and northwest growers
desiring to give them trial, would do
we'll to send In applications immediate
ly.
The condition OF the national banks
OF the state OF Washington. at the close
Of business December 2, as reported to
the comptroller of the currency, shows
the average reserve to have been 1880
per cent against 43.73 per cent on Sep
tember z, loans and discounts increase
from $9,431, ,O55 to $11.224,445; stocks
and securities. from s1.437,619 to 81
5e6.325; gold coin. decrease from ST.
5l4,404 to s2,345.344; total specie, from
s2.7s7. $50 to $2.621.761; individual de-
posits. Increase from ls.702,972 to $751;
774,s3s
OREGON.
Articles of incorporation for an Ore
eon Railway up the Grande Ronde riv-
er.
Mr.. Lowell will not run again for the
judgeship OF sixth judicial district Of
Oregon.
The total number OF FIRE alarms turn
edin In Portland during the past year
was 286.
A number OF Pendleton merchants
have agreed to close their stores at 6
O'Clock o. m.
The police department OF Astoria Is
a money maker and for years past has
been self-sustaining.
There is $6s,229.72 In the county
treasury to tine credit OF the 81 school
districts In Multnomah county.
8. w. Downing. superintendent Of
the Clackamas hatchery, states that he
now has 2,760,000 salmon fry punted.
About 1900 Union county horses