Adams County news. [volume] (Ritzville, Wash.) 1898-1906, 1901-04-17

and who fired the shots that killed
Fitzgerald, was badly wounded, being
shot three times. Two male and two
gang were arrested and diamonds and
other booty worth from $4,000 to $4,000
recovered. The persons under arrest
are Edward Wright, wounded; Robert
Wilcox and his wife, Jennie; ]. B.
Wright, brother of the murderer, and
woman said to be his wife. All are
from Chicago.
On Cottonwood creek, in Umatilla
county, Oregon, about eight miles from
Walla Walla, the body of dead man
| lying face downward on the bank of
the stream was found.
According to dispatch to the Lon
don Daily Express from Amsterdam,
cabled to the Associated Press, the
Dutch police recently got wind of con-
templated attempts on the life Of Mr..
Kruger. 1t is quite likely the report
to which L'Estafette gives currency is
traceable to a similar source.
At Walla Walla, Wash, Richard
Rorke was stabbed while accompanying
Mrs. Christopher Long to her home at
| $40 Chase avenue. They were within
short distance Of the house when Mr..
Long suddenly confronted them. Rorke
Immediately relinquished his compan-
ions arm and started to run. Long
overlook him and drove the blade of a
four-inch knife into his back. Long
withdrew the weapon and returned to
his home. Rorke may die.
Mrs. Carrie Nation is to be given an
opportunity to conduct western mu-
nicipality in accordance with her idea
of what a community should be. Off
cials at Medicine Lodge, Kan, plan to
have the aggressive temperance advo-
cate assume charge of the town and run
it for a week, beginning May 1. If
the plan works all right Medicine
Lodge will continue in the new way,
but II not, Mrs. Nation is to quit her
reign and leave the town.
The steamer Dalton, with crowd of
400 excursionists on board, took fire
Sunday afternoon while returning to
Seattle from the Puget sound naval
station at Bremerton. Flames were
seen issuing from the boiler room and
spread rapidly to the hurricane deck.
The passengers were terror stricken,
but the coolness of Captain Thomas
and his men restored composure and
the flames we're readily extinguished.
Several women tainted, but no one was
hurt. The damage to the steamer Is
about $500, fully covered by insurance.
At Evansville, ILL.,. the bringing back
to life of Mrs. Sally Allen at hospital
by injection into her veins of normal
salt solution is being widely comment
| ed on by physicians in that section of
| the country. The solution was nothing
| more than q teaspoOnful of common
salt dissolved in a pint of water. Mrs.
| Allen is improving and the chances
Of recovery are greatly in her favor.
Mrs. Allen has long suffered with abb
dominal trouble and physicians decid-
ed on an operation as last resort to
save her life. She was taken to a sani-
tarium on Friday night, mad when the
operation was finally completed three
physicians examined the womans pulse
anu hti utdus tcopiia
tory glands failed to perform their
functions. Nitro glycerine, strychnine
and other stimulants used to revive the
hearts action were brought into use.
but failed. AS last resort DR.. Rich
stein opened a vein in the woman's arm
and injected pint of normal salt solu-
tion. He was rewarded in few min
hx, hn
open her eyes. In few seconds more
she raised her head and asked for
something to eat. While the power Of
salt to bring back dead to life has been
commented on by the medical journals
OF the country. few practitioners have
had the hardihood to risk chances Of
failure In giving 1t trial. DR.. Rich
stein is probably the first physician in
the west to make the test.