Adams County news. [volume] (Ritzville, Wash.) 1898-1906, 1901-11-20
WASHINGTON NEWS.

fdlTnaNen mas organized lax ray
| ers league.
The paramount issue will be high or
low saloon license
The first rest room to be established
| in Walla Walla has been opened.
Jacob Hager who had lived at Med
ical Lake for 20 years died recently.
Prescott is to have a large depart
ment building, whose construction has
| started.
Richard Buchanan, awaiting trial
| for arson, has escaped from the Lewis
county jail.
The city tax levy Of Seattle for the
coming year is to be II mills in the old
city limits and ten mills in the new.
President Penrose will invite Presl.
dent Charles W. Elliot of Harvard to
visit Whitman college on his trip west
According to Warden Catron of the
State penitentiary. there has been no
discrimination in the distribution of
gram sacks.
Oscar Jacobson, first mate of the
steamer Capitol City plying between
Seattle and Olympia, was shot, per-
haps fatally.
Seattle and Tacoma hotel proprietors
have taken the preliminary steps to
organize the Washington State Hotel
keepers Association.
Sira Carman, one of the pioneer
physicians in Seattle, was committed
to the Western Washington Hospital
for the insane last week.
Great interest is being taken III the
campaign for the Davenport election
to be held December 3, when two coun-
cilmen and a mayor will be elected.
Spokane shippers who were recently
interviewed expressed their grave con-
Germ at the gigantic railway monopoly
| which has recently been organized.
Work on the capitol annex has not
progressed as rapidly recently as here
tofore, but it is certain not to be- de-
layed to any appreciable extent from
now on.
A body was found on the water front
| at Seattle in a bad state OF decompo-
sition. which is believed to be that OF
j. M. Gussinger, who fell off the Yesler
| dock last month.
w. Abbot Lewis, the absconding
| Spokane attorney, is again in custody
Ills second flight to avoid standing
,rial on criminal charge was inter
rupted at Denver, Col
The recent SHOWS on the mountains
have driven the deer to lower ground
and sportsmen report good success.
| Deer are said to be more plentiful this
| year than for n number of years past
Terrence j. Mooney, the big Phila-
delphia eX-policeman member OF the
3Oth battery, with Il penchant for as
saulting women, and self confessed bad
man. has left Fort Walla Walla and it
Is presumed he has deserted.
Il. f. Benson, manager of the Yakima
Land and Cattle company, has purcnas-
ed ranch of 5000 acres in the Rattle.
snake country and proposes stocking II
with Hereford cattle. The McAlpne
herd OF 100 head has been purchased
at Kiona and additions Will be made
from the east The plan Is TO seed the
farm to grass and care for the stock the
same as Is done in the central states.
II. Ferguson Sastro, alias Henry Fer.
gnson, was found guilty OF piracy and
theft He admitted that during the
past five years he had smuggled 5000
pounds OF opium, valued at $4,000,
which he delivered at Tacoma, from
which point the contraband stun was
taken to Portland.
Silas Smith, marshall of the town OF
Cosmopolis, was recently shot and in.
stantly killed by an insane contrac
tor named W. j. You're. G. Fenwick,
deputy constable was also shot In the
abdomen by You're and fatally wound
ed. You're was shot in the arm and had
his skull fractured by a blow from
Fenwlcks six-shooter after the latter
had been shot. He may die. You're
has been In an insane asylum, but had
been discharged as cured.