Adams County news. [volume] (Ritzville, Wash.) 1898-1906, 1900-02-21
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.

| Inc saloons at Deer Park are closed
A chess club has been organized al
Ellensburg.
A lodge of Elks has been instituted
at Fairhaven.
A grocers' union has been organized
at Tacoma.
Spokane wheelmen have formed Q
new association.
Royce goes to Jail and is held with
out bail on charge of murder
The big Touring mill burned neal
Ellensburg involves a loss of 1000
Burlington. Skagit county. is now
connected with Anacortes by telephone
The building permits issued at Sc
attic for January this year numbered
141.
Spokane's new city directory shows
10 per cent. gain in population in that
| city.
The price on state grain bags has
been raised by the board of audit and
| control.
Jim Hill is certain to build bran ch
line to Republic this spring, railroad
men say.
Four counterfeiters getting ready to
do business were captured in Spokane
last week.
The city council of Everett donates
$4,000 to purchase a site for a new
lumber mill.
You can't compel vaccination, but
school boards can prevent children at.
tending school.
The Walla Walla poultry show was
successful and exhibits were better
than expected.
One of the leading features of the
State University work now is the mill.
tary department.
State Chemist Fulmer of the Pull
man Agricultural College is touring the
state for the purpose Of inspecting the
various fertilizers sold on the markets
An individual masquerading under
the name of w. T. Perkins seems to
have inaugurated a system of forgery
throughout the towns in the Big Bend
country.
The 3-year-old daughter of Mr.. and
Mrs. Henry Saucer, living three miles
south Of Colville city, died from the
effects of a solution Of concentrated
lye, which the child drank.
Five carloads of 3 and 4-year-old
oysters will ne brought from the At.
lantic coast, mostly from Long Island
sound, and planted In three or four
locations on Puget sound to be selected.
Thomas w. Eglin OF North Yakima
has come into possession Of a valuable
farm In the Ahtanum part of the old
Catholic mission place. through a de-
cision OF the secretary ousting Willis
Smith.
Petitions have been circulated freely
among stock men, ranchers and mer.
chants, which were universally signed
and sent to our representatives at
Washington praying them to oppose
the Foster grazing bill.
The Wenatchee Development Com.
pany has made Chelan county present
of lots Is, 16, II and 18 in block 20 OF
the townsite. This includes the gift
Of the large brick building located on
the property as long as the structure
shall be used for court house purposes.
Orchards are beginning to show the
effect OF the stringent state laws re-
garding infection, and according to the
statement Of the Pierce county inspec-
tor there is this year less disease and
fewer infected trees being shipped into
the country than during any previous
year.
Stuck river farmers have a plan
which may result in practical assist
ance to the overflowed sections Of the
valley and in reclaiming thousands of
dollars worth of rich farming land
which Is now useless or threatened
with destruction. 1t is to organize a
drainage district under the 8 ate law
and make such improvements In the
river channel as the county or federal
governments are unable to undertake.