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Adams County news. [volume] (Ritzville, Wash.) 1898-1906, 1901-05-08
The annual school election occurs

| The annual school election occurs
next Saturday. Besides a new clerk
there will be one director chosen for q
three year term to succeed VIM. Sny-
per whose term ends. Mr.. Snyder has
proved very capable and faithful
member and will be urged to accept
the position again. As the ladies
take a hand in the election it is ex-
pected that the vote will be large and
much interest manifested. Read the
official notice in this issue.
Rev. Gentry Rushing OF Spokane,
is in town today the guest of w. G.
Reeder and is looking for location.
He bears the reputation of being an
eloquen: and entertaining speaker.
Warren Schoonover, Mrs. and Miss
Unsoeld and Miss LoIise Kiel OF
Odessa, spent Sunday in town, Mrs.
Unsoeld being the guest of Mrs. H. f.
Gritman.
Orno Strong OF Spokane, main push
OF the new West Coast Trade, was a
jolly visitor Saturday, renewing sub.
scriptions for that valuable periodical.
B. L. Sutton has received the ap.
pointment for the Home Fire and
Marine Insurance Co. Look out for
him as he will soon pass your way.
Mrs. Hedrick and daughter Maud
of the Hotel Ritzville are both feeling
indisposed and have been confined to
their rooms for the past week.
No school is more necessary to
children than patience, because either
the will must be broken in childhood
or the heart in old age.
J. Otis Robinson was over Monday
from his ranch near Dragon Springs,
where prospectors for oil are visiting
that section OF country.
The material for another new
dwelling is now within the enclosure
on the Pat McGrath residence property.
Adams County news. [volume] (Ritzville, Wash.) 1898-1906, 1901-05-08
Band Concert.

An open air concert will be given
by the Ritzvilie band Saturday even.
ing commencing at 8 o'clock sharp.
Adams County news. [volume] (Ritzville, Wash.) 1898-1906, 1901-05-08

The Gilbert Hunt Company OF
Walla Walla, through their agent w.
B. Mack have secured location on
the east side OF the railroad tracks ad-
joining the Tacoma Grain Co.'S. ware
house where they are erecting build
ing to accommodate one OF their Double
Side Hitch Beited Horse Power
Threshing Outfits for 1901 which is a
revelation to threshers, there being
absolutely nothing like it on the mar
ket. This machine has now been
shipped here together with a 36 inch
cylinder separator ordered by Dewald
Bros. The company will keep a full
outfit OH exhibition during the season
and also a full line OF repairs and
diapers which will be taken care OF by
Mr.. Philip Grub. Mr.. Mack invites
all interested in threshing machinery
to call next Saturday when he expects
Mr.. Hunt to be present.
The First National Bank has
money to loan on improved real estate
in Adams and Lincoln counties
whether deed or held on railroad con-
tract. We make loans on lowest
terms, with or without commission,
light expenses, no delays. Cores
pondence solicited.
President Mckinley and party will
be at Spokane May Goth. and 9th
on these dates the Northern Pacific
will sell excursion tickets at $2.6 60 for
the round trip, good going either the
26th. or the 9th, and returnin 6 the
2Sth.
The Ritzville Hardware Co. has
now enrOute the following: One car
OF Hodge headers, one car Of Rushford
and Winona wagons, one car of bar
bed wire, one car OF bar iron.
The Ritzville Hardware Co. have
just received carload of Henney
buggies and carload of Woodmanse
windmills.
Farm loans made at low rates OF in.
terest and on best tems offered al
Pioneer State Bank. Give US cal
when such is desired.
Money to loan on improved farms
at low rates OF interest.-Dorman
Bros.
Unlimiued money at lowest rates
to loan on improved land.-O. r. Hol
comb.
The Leon reporter., 1901-01-03
MANY coNvlcrs pAKoLED.
Governor Shaw Releases Sixteen Fro
the Penitent ntilries.

Governor Shaw Releases Sixteen From
the Penitentiaries.
Des Moines, Dec. Ex-Governor
Shaw released sixteen convicts on
parole the day preceding Christmas.
Six were released from Fort Madi-
son on condition of good behavior
and ten were let out of Anamosa.
He declined to give the names Of
those released, holding that to an
nounce the names of the men let
out Of prison, inasmuch as they
were released on condition of good
behavior and are supposed to be
seeking 6-iead better lives and
earn right liyings, would be detri-
mental to them. w. S. Richards,
pardon secretary in the executive
Office at the state house made
special trip to Anamosa and Fort
Madison to look after the paroles.
He says he is convinced in each case
the parole was deserved. Mr.. Rich
ards, in speaking of the scenes
when several of the men were in
formed of the clemency of the gov
ernor, describing them as affecting
In the extreme.
The Leon reporter., 1901-01-03
BRITISH MUCH WORRIED.
Goers Working Further South Than q
Year Arn.

Year Ago.
London, Dec. 27.-The paucity and
obscurity of the dispatches from
South Africa give rise to renewed
anxiety. Apparently the disturbed
area of Cape Colony extends further
south than it did last December, and
Lord Kitchener does not appear to
have had much success as yet in
driving back the inv ders.
The war office had eeeivcd no news
last evening of the reported capture
of yeomenry near Britstown.
Burgersdorp dispatch has mys-
terious reference to unfortunate mis-
taking of the enemy for Brabant's
Horse, which resulted in the sound
ing of cease fire." and enabled the
Beers to occupy all the commanding
positions, the British retiring from a
difficult predicament.
General Clements success against
the Beers in the Magaliesberg region
is also doubtful, the last dispatch
reporting that it was considered ad-
visable not to force the Beers from
their positions"
The British press continues in the
main optimistic, but the condition of
affairs brings home the enormous
difficulties that will face Lord Kitch-
ener in patrolling and policing such
vast tracts of territory even when
the Beers shall be finally subdued.
The Daily Mail. which makes a
strong appeal to the government to
"face the facts and send Lord Kitch-
ener more troops" says:
"There is real risk in being lulled
to sleep by carefully censored mes
sages."
The Leon reporter., 1901-01-03
DREYFus SETS PARIS Ar1RE.
Writes . Letter Demanding a RetrIal
of Hia Case.


Writes . Letter Demanding RetrIal
of His Case.
New York, Dec. ga dispatch to
the World from Paris says:
The letter from Dreyfus to Premier
Waldeck-Rousseau demanding a new
hearing has set Paris ablaze with ex-
citement.
The nationalists will hold a secret
conclave to decide upon what action
to take in view of the threatened re-
vival of this celebrated affair."" which
will not down."
The impression prevails that Drey-
fus is now in this city. Some usually
we'll informed persons insist that his
letter TO the premier was carefully
prepared after consultation with var
ious distinguished men, one of them
being especially conspicuous.
Dreyfus' letter was provoked by
Henri Rochefort's assertion in the In
transigeant that Dreyfus sent to En-
peror William in 1894 document
stolen from the German embassy in
Paris, which document constituted di-
rect evidence off, the crime "for
which," the ex-captain writes, ST have
been twice condemned unjustly."
The World correspondent has inter-
viewed several leaders in the senate
and chamber. They simply expressed
satisfaction at Dreyfus' dignifed de-
nunciation of Rochefort's statement
and said they expect that an investi-
cation will be granted.
The Leon reporter., 1901-01-03
FOR BUILDING AT AMEs.
Executive Council Apprcpriates for

Executive Council Appearances for .
New Structure.
Des Moines, Dec. 21.-The eNecu-
tive council has made an appropria-
tion of $4,000 out of the providential
contingent fund for the erection of
temporary building at AInes and
heating it. President Beardshear
and members of the board of trus-
tees appeared before the council,
with rough draft of the plans for
the temporary structure as prepared
by State Architect Liebbe, and with
the councils approval.
slight notifications the plans met
the councils approval.
The building will contain ten
rooms for recitation purposes 1t
will be one story high, covered with
a fiat roof, sealed within and covered
with rough lumber on the outside.
The cost of the building itself will
be between $4,000 and $4,000 but the
council decided to provide enough in
addition to pay for heating. The
$4,000 appropriation covers both the
cost of erection of building and put
ting in the hea6ing apparatus.
The appropriation of $4,000 is in
addition to the appropriation of
$500 made short time ago for re-
pairing the main building and of
$1,000 for assistance in starting the
botanical laboratory.
The Leon reporter., 1901-01-03
HE PROPOSES TO FIGHT.
Gen. Colville Demands Trial by Court
Martial.

Martial.
London, Dec. 31.-Major General Sir
Henry Colville, whose resignation has
been demanded by the war Office, but
who refused to resign and came to
England from Gibraltar, arriving at
Plymouth Saturday to demand a
trial by court martial to establish
the responsibility for the yeomanry
disaster at Lindley last May, has
made counter-strike at the war
Office in 3,OO0-word statement
which he has given to the press.
He says he has come home to de-
mand free inquiry and does not
intend to be made scapegoat for
the sake of the staff. He AYERS that
the Lindley, disaster could never have
happened lad he been informed of
Lord Roberts intentions. The pri-
mary cause of the surrender, he
says, was the insufficient informa,
tion given by the headquarters
staff to Colonel Spragge and himself,
He sets out the facts and blames
and he declines to eccept the blame,
others. General Colville and his in-
fiuential friends, in and out of the
army are thus beginning CAM
paign against the new secretary of
state for war, Mr.. William St. John
Broderick, Lord Roberts and General
Kitchener. 1t is expected to be
fought out with some ferocity in
parliament.
The Leon reporter., 1901-01-03
NEWS in GENERAL
OPERATIONS IN TRANsvAA1.
Bosrs Continue to Keep Kitchensr's
Mania Ruav. Et9gtff i4iA

Beers Continue to Keep Kitchensr's
Mems Busy.
London, Dec. 2S.-The following dis
patch from General Kitchener was re-
ceived from Pretoria:
Yesterday two hundred Beers at
tackled small police post near Boks-
burg. The police gallantly drove
them off before reinforcements from
johannesburg arrived. The Beers
damaged the mining machinery in the
neighborhood.
1.-The Beers attacked Utrecht at 2
off.
"The Beers held up a train three
miles west of Pan and were driven
off.
THE eastern force of Beers in
Cape Colony was headed yesterday
and driven in the direction Of Nenter-
stad.
".rhe western force is still being
driven north through Strydenburg."
London, Dec 2s.-The latest dis
patches from South Africa show that
Lord Kitchener has succeeded in
holding the invading Beers in check.
But he has not yet been successful
in expelling them from Cape Colony,
while small commanders continue to
display astonishing bearing and acti-
witty over an immensely wide field.
1t is questionable whether his proc
lamation will have much effect until
General De Wet has been captured.
The Beers are likely to regard it
cs a sign of weakness and to have
a wholesome dread of De Vets ven
geance if any surrender.
The proclamation is approved by
the party at home that favors con-
ciliatory terms to the Beers.
The Leon reporter., 1901-01-03
The NEWS IN IOWA
CURE roR ruBEnouLosrs

Trsatmsnt for This Dread Disease Said
to Have Been Found.
Des Moines, Dec. 2s.-A sensation
aothing short of profound was caus-
cd at the meeting last night at the
Still College of Osteopathy of the os-
teopaths of Iowa when DIR. William
West, young osteopath of Center
Vile, Iowa, read paper in which he
gave in detail new and, it is assert
ed, o successful treatment for tuber-
culosis.
DR.. Vests paper, which was sci
entific and technical, dealt with the
treatment and results of the care
Of ten patients whom he has treated
since last June, each one of whom
was restored to health.
In q word, the treatment hinges
on knowledge of the Importance
of the functions of the spleen and
the making use Of splenatic vibra-
tions. DR.. West demonstrates before
death the blood forming functions
of the spleen by vibrating the spleen
and throwing into the blood stream
the phagocytes which prey on the
bacteria of tuberculosis. Further
more in his treatment he aims to
correct organic diseases of the ali
mentary tract and give to the diseas-
ed lungs the support of healthy
organs.
Added to this is the auxiliary
treatment, in which the greatest at
tention is paid to diet, pure air, sun
shine, quietude and freedom from
emotional excesses, The diet insist
ed upon consists largely Of fats, pro-
teids and carbohydrates.
The Leon reporter., 1901-01-03

0svernor Refuses TO Answer Ter Cen.
tempt OF Court, s9s

0oYorn0f Refuses to AnsWoE Ter Gene
tempt Of Court
Detroit, Mich, Dec. 31.-Governor
Pingree, who was summoned to ap-
pear before the Ingham county cir.
cult court Saturday to answer to the
charge of contempt, as the result OF
IN interview in which he attacked
the court and prosecuting attorney,
has refused to answer the summons.
He sent the following telegram to
the court:
"As executive of the state Of Mich
igan and representing one of the
three independent, equal and co-or-
dinate divisions of the power of the
government, am constrained (mean-
ing no disrespect to the judicial de-
partment) to deny the authority of
the judiciary in the premises.
"Were /, as chief executive OF this
state, disposed to recognize the au-
thority of the judicial department on
this particular occasion the official
duties pressing upon me in the clos
ing hours of my administration would
not permit of my giving the matter
attention.
(signed) "H. S. Pingree."
Lansing, Mich, Dec. 31.-When the
contempt case against Governor Pin.
gree was called by Judge Wisner the
Judge read Governor Pingree's tele.
gram and said he did not understand
that the case was against the gov,
ernor, but against Hazen S. Pingree,
the individual. Judge Wisner said he
had no disposition to interfere with
the duties of the governor, and there
fore would continue the case until
January 9. In default of the gov
ernor's appearance at that time an
attachment to compel his attendance
will issue.
The Leon reporter., 1901-01-03
LErRosY IS sPREAD1Na,l
No Loss Than 10000 Victims Of
Disease In Phtlippines.

No Loss Than 10000 Victims oi
Disease In Philippines
Washington, Dec. 2S.-An ap
report to General Macarthur
view of the civil affairs of the Fn
pines for the past fiscal year Civ
some rather startling facts regardin]
the introduction and prevalence OF
leprosy in the islands.
According to tie estimates of the
Franciscan fathers, says Major Guy
l.. Edie, the writer of the report,
there are no less than 10000 lepers
in the archipelago, the major portion
of these being in the Viscayas. Lep-
rosy was introduced in 1888, when
the emperor of Japan sent a ship
with $50 lepers on board to the Phil
lppines as present to be cared foY'
by the Catholic priests.
Thus the seed was planted, and a.
no practical methods ever were
adopted to eradicate the disease, or
prevent its spread, it has taken firm
root. A house to house inspection
begun last January found more thar
a hundred lepers concealed in dwell.
ings. These were sent to San Lazard
hospital in Manila, but many otherd
escaped into the surrounding couns
try. A commission is now engaged IN
the work of selecting suitable island
or islands for the purpose Of isolatr
ing all lepers in the archipelago.
The Leon reporter., 1901-01-03
K1DNAPEKs THREATEN cuDAHY.
Must Withdraw Offer Of Reward or
Another Child will BE stolen.

Must Withdraw Offer of Reward or
Another Child will BE stolen.
Omaha, Neb., Dec. 31.-E. A. Cuda-
by, the millionaire packer, has re-
ceiyed second communication from
the men who kidnapped his son. This
time, as formerly, the letter con-
tains a threat, which says in sub
stance that unless he withdraws his
offer of $4,000 reward for the ar
rest and conviction of each of the
three bandits they will kidnap
another of his children.
The letter refers to the failure OF
the police to get anything like tam
gible clew as to the identity of the
kidnapers, SCOTS at the idea of Pat
Groves being one of them, mem
tions the ease with which the ''first
job was pulled off," and concludes
by saying that if Mr.. Cudahy is as
wise as he showed himself in the
first instance, he will comply with
the request and withdraw the re-.
wards at once.
The letter is written with pen
and ink on the same kind of yellow
paper as the first, and evidently by
the same person. 1t was found by
a servant of the Cudahy household
early on the morning of Thursday
December ~.
Mr.. Cudahy says he has not with.
drawn the reward, nor will he do so.
The reward offeredstands as origin
ally announced.
The Leon reporter., 1901-01-03
PUSHING PH1LIPPINE CAMPA1aN
Fortieth Infantry Making Things Lively
In Mindanao.

Manila, Dec. 29.-A pushing cam
paign has been carried on by the
Fortieth infantry during December,
IN Northern Mindanao. The town OF
Jiminez was captured, as was also
the insurgent stronghold in the
mountains further inland. The coast
town of Langarin was captured by
a detachment Of a hundred troops
who scattered the enemy in that vici-
nifty, killing and capturing several. A
portion of the. troops engaged have
returned to. Cagayan and joined in
the campaign which Brigadier Cen
eral Kobbe is personally prosecuting.
General McArthur's proclamation
is resulting in many arrests of alleg-
ed insurrectionists In Manila and vi
cinity, few of those taken into Gus
tody being prominent. One prisoner
was shot dead and another wounded
in attempting to escape.
The Leon reporter., 1901-01-03
rAHn HAND HAD ans NERVE.
Was Msds Social Lion 1t the Chicar.
Fat Stock show

Was Made Social Lion It the Chicare
Fat Stock show.
Ottumwa, Dec. est has developed
that the officers and buyers at the fat
stock show at Chicago recently were
taken in" by farm hand from Mel
rose, in this state, and that while he
did not commit any crime, his acts
show that he has unexampled nerve
and an unlimited amount of gall"
The young man without cent of
capital other than SIS he borrowed
from L. ID. Remley of Melrosc prior
to starting, made his way, to Chicago,
and on going to the stock show soon
became one of the liveliest and most
interesting of bidders. 1t is reported
that he had number of choice ami
mails knocked down to him at fancj
prices, and that the total amount of
his purchases was somewhere in the
$4,000 neighborhood.
Being such lively fellow and such
an apparent good judge of fine stock,
and besides good financier, he was
written up in the Chicago papers and
wined and dined and banqueted by
the stockmen. He returned to Mel
rose i'll parlor car, making no pay
ments on his purchases, and of course
all the deals We're declared off. Max
we'll could not keep the secret to him
self and it leaked out.
The Leon reporter., 1901-01-03
SCORES OF LIVES ARELOST
Appalling Result Of a Storm on the
English Channel. 4

London, Dec. s1.-The Russian
bark, Kings County, Captain Karl
son, from Bristol, December 9, for
Darien, has RETURNED to Cardiff
with rigging and bows damaged and
other injuries suffered by colliding
with a vessel supposed to- be the
Italian bark Zeehro, Captain Patur-
10, from Bristol, December 10, for
Mobile. The Zefro is ashore at Gle
vcdon on the river Severn. Her
crew was taken off by the life boat.
The British ship King Edward,
Captain Rhode, from Antwerp De-
cember 16, for San Francisco, has
anchored in the Downs, with loss of
tails and man washed overheard.
She reported having been driven
back from Falmouth by heavy
weather.
Holyhead, Dec. 31.-The bodies OF
twenty members OF the crew of the
British bark, Primrose Hill, Captain
Wilson, from Liverpool for Vancou.
YER, which went on the rocks three
miles off South Stack during the
gale and broke up, have been wash
ed ashore.
Paris, Dec. s1.-Advices from the
ports say that Saturdays gale ragged
with extreme violence and that a
humber of fishing smacks and coast
irg vessels have been wrecked. Nine
fish boats have been stranded near
Dunkirk and three of them will
prove total wrecks. Their crews
were seen clinging to the rigging
but the majority of them were be-
ycnd reach of the rockets. A life
boat gal1antly rescued many of the
fishermen, but ten of them perish
ed.
A brig was totally lost on the sa-
bles de Lonnes. OF her crew, four
men were drowned and two reached
the beach by clinging to boats, but
before the onlookers could seize
them they were swept back and
sank.
The fishing smack Esperanto
foundered off Treport and three
fishermen were lost.
A pilot boat belonging to Havre
has been lost with two men.
The Leon reporter., 1901-01-03
Chicago physicians nave recently had

Chicago physicians have recently had
the opportunity Of examining several
persons who were treated for consump-
tion by the nitrogen compression
method first promulgated by DR.. ]. B.
Murphy at the congress OF physicians
In Denver several years ago. The
method consists in injecting nitrogen
gas into the pleural cavity, the theory
being that the pressure of the gas COM
presses the lung, enabling it to take a
rest and permitting the unhindered
cure of any disease affecting it.. DR..
Augustus Lemke, who presented the
cases shown in Chicago, made no
claim that he had effected cure. but
he said: 1.-THE symptoms of tubercu-
losis, which were pronounced in these
cases when they applied for treatment,
have all disappeared. The fever and
coughing have ceased, and the patients
have slept and eaten we'll. They have
all gained in weight and show no evil
6lence Of disease"
The Leon reporter., 1901-01-03
Found His Home Haunt.d.

Marcus, Dec. 27.-William Mitchell
of this place and sexton of the Mar
Gus and Amherst cemetery believes
his home to be haunted. About two
months ago Mrs. Mitchell took sick
and suddenly died, leaving Mr.. Mitch
ell with three children. Within few
days after her death he and his chill
dren departed for Des Moines, where
he hoped to find employment and
make his future home. Not doing
so, he returned here. Upon retiring
at his former home here he allowed
the lamp to burn, which was his Gus
tom; upon entering the bed it was
extinguished by some unknown cause.
Thinking nothing of this, he relit it,
and no sooner had he turned around
when again it was blown out. He re-
peated this operation several times,
but each time with the same result.
Being frightened, he Immediately left
the house and says he never will go
there again.
The Leon reporter., 1901-01-03

The City Club Of New York has is
sued two small pamphlets which are
useful to New Workers and suggestive
to residents of other cities. One is a
brief index to the city charter, the
other brief summary, in chronology
cal order, of the various events pre-
scribed by the charter to occur during
the year. 1t thus comprises list of
the official acts Of the whole city gov
ernment, and from it one can learn the
precise duties Of any and all officials.
The ordinary citizen often realizes his
ignorance of the local government, and
his consequent inability either to fulfill
ois civic duties properly or to derive all
che benefit he might from the operation
Of the government. These little PAM
phlets are designed to meet his need.
The Leon reporter., 1901-01-03
TEST CASE is ARRANGED.
Plan to Get ut yaNtity of the Titus
Amend neut,

Plan to Get ut yalidity of the 1itus
Amend n,ent.
Des Moines, Dec. 2S.-The complete
details of the program for testing
the validity of the Titus amendment
for biennial election have been made
known. Through the medium Of this
plan, which was devised by Attorney
General Relmley, i.nd which has the
endorsement of Senator Charles w.
Mullan, the attorney general-elect
and of Senator Titus, the author oil
the amendment, it is expected de,
cision will be Forthcoming from tho
supreme count before the close of the
January term, the ninth day of Feb
ruary.
The case will be begun at Wash
ington, Washington county, in the
Sixth judicial district, with Judge A.
II. Dewey on the bench. Marsh w
Bailey, the county attorney-elect OF
Washington county, will bring action
in quo warranto against the present
incumbent of the office, S. w. Brook,
hart. Both of the men are republi.
cans and personal friends and the
suit will be entirely an amicable one.