Adams County news. [volume] (Ritzville, Wash.) 1898-1906, 1900-04-25

own business.
Hon. d. Buchanan hands us the fol-.
lowing clipping for publication, which
is taken from the Lacrosse Republi-
can: A bushel Of corn may do con-
siderable in the way OF a hoe cake or
as feed for the American porker, but a
Kentucky newspaper which knows all
about the cereal and its chief product,
gives suggestive analysis: From a
bushel the distiller gets four gallons
of whisky, which retails at SIG so
The farmer gets ............ .25
The government gets. ... 4 40
The railroad gets. L 90
The manufactures gets. -. 49,. 4 90
The drayman gets ...... Is
The retailer gets ..... TOO
The consumer gets ........... drunk
The vile gets ......... hunger
The children get. ....... rags
The politician gets ........ Office
Mr.. o. H. Greene met with serious
and painful accident Sunday morning
on the square in front of the Adams
County Bank. In company with his
little daughter Lucille he was driving
in the street when without any warn
ing a front wheel of the carriage came
off, frightening the horse which began
running and lunging about, soon
throwing the occupants out ON the
hard gavelled payment, breaking the
gentleman's right ankle and two lower
bones of the limb. DR.. F. X. Bur
\ roughs reduced the fracture immediate
ly and the patient is doing well. For
'tunately the little lady landed on terra
firma without injury. N. H. Greene
and Mrs. Matte Martin of Spokane,
father and sister respectively, arrived
on Sunday evenings train.
The Missouri committee of
the Western Passenger Association
held its annual meeting at the Brown
Palace hotel in Denver, April 18th.
A surprise was sprung on the com
mittee at the morning session by Cen
eral Passenger Agent Sebastian, OF the
Rock Island. Beginning about June
20, the Rock Island will run four ex-
cursions from Chicago, st. Louis, Kan
sas City and Omaha to Colorado COM
mon points, making rate of one fare
plus 80 for the round trip and return
limit of October 3lst on the tickets.
These excursions will be run as special
Excursion trains and about the same
dates return excursions will be run
from Denver, Colorado Springs and
Pueblo to the Eastern points, the
same rate prevailing, thus enabling
Colorado people desiring to do so to
make tourist trips East during the
summer, with the same advantages
granted Eastern tourists who come
West.
/ Mr.. Herbert 9. Gregg, deputy Unit
led States internal revenue collector,
was in the city last week looking after
the stamp law. In this connection
we publish the following from WASH
ington, d. c., which is OF interest to
people in general: "The commissioner
of internal revenue has received a
number OF inquiries from registers OF
deed, clerks OF courts and Others ask.
ing whether they would be justified in
recording deeds, etc, which are sent
to them unstamped. They represent
that deeds are often received from the
parties who cannot conveniently pro-
cure stamps, asking that they be affix-
ed by the recorder. The commissioner
answers in the negative and in his
reply states that the grantcr or person
4 who makes or issues the instrument
should affix and cancel the stamp. II
be omits to do so he incurs penalty
OF not more than $l00. II, however,
the omission is inadvertent, he may
present the instrumental the collector
within a year from the date Of issue.
pay the stamp tax and present the
instrument for post stamping. The
commissioner advises that when an
unstamped instrument for record be
| received it be returned to be stamped
charging for postage and time occu.
pied in the correspondence made
necessary by the omission OF the stamp